Building a Subnet
On this page you will learn how to start building a subnet.
Now that you know the basic concepts of the Checker network, it is time to start building. Here is a small recipe for getting started but you can obviously go about this in any way you choose.
Checker Subnet PoC Recipe
- Choose a DePIN network (https://coinmarketcap.com/view/depin/) or any other Web3 Network.
- Build a client (what we call a checker) to sample the functionality of the network’s nodes. Example functionality can include retrievability, availability, bandwidth, uptime, compute, geolocation.
- Find an API or data set that contains a list of the nodes in the Network and how to dial them. e.g. an IP address for each one.
- Create a set of sample tasks from the network’s chain state.
- Perform these sample tasks against a set of nodes in the network. N.B. It is important to test the nodes themselves and not some trusted API gateway that sits in front of the network. Often these gateways disguise what is actually happening behind the scenes.
- Create data around how successful the network is at fulfilling your requests and how successful individual nodes are in fulfilling your requests with them. Record this data to create scores and metrics on the chosen DePIN network.
- Aggregate this data to create scores and metrics on each node in the network.
- Create visualizations of the data
What’s more you font need to just look at DePIN networks. Any network that we can gather intelligence about is worth checking. Here are some more example and ideas for Checker subnets.
Web3 Storage Networks: Retrievability, Latency, Availability, Uptime, Geolocation, Bandwidth
RPC providers: Availability, Latency, Uptime
DePINs: Retrievability, Latency, Availability, Uptime, Geolocation, Bandwidth, Proof of data accuracy
Domains / Websites: Uptime, Uptime by country, Page Speed Analysis, Outage Monitoring
Internet: Internet Outage Monitoring, Web app outages, CDN outages, CDN performance
You can check out the next page for existing Checker subnets from PoC phase to production.
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