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Bittensor testnet · netuid 566 · invitation pilot

Mine with an API key, not a GPU.

Everyframe miners serve real video-generation jobs from a small, attested machine. Your miner runs inside an Intel TDX confidential VM on Phala Cloud, calls a video provider with your own key, and hands back a signed receipt that binds the job to the exact bytes it produced.

566
testnet netuid
$0.058/ h
tdx.small compute
37
model contracts
0
GPUs required
How it worksThe trust boundary: coordinator → attested worker → provider → signed receipt. RequirementsWhat you need before you ask for an invitation. Install everycliInstall the miner CLI and verify the release checksum. Deploy your minerinit → doctor → deploy → activate → resume. RewardsEpoch value cap-and-burn: how work becomes weight. Models & targetsThe fixed contracts and their USD reward targets.

#Where things stand

What is real today:

  • A Phala Intel TDX worker has completed paid renders end to end with verified attestation, signed receipts and sandboxed decoding of the output video.
  • Independent testnet miners have received testnet alpha in the expected ratio for accepted work (2 jobs : 1 job → 2 : 1).
  • everycli gives approved miners a guided, fail-closed lifecycle: deploy, activate, resume, update, stop, reconcile.
  • The public dashboard at subnet.everyframe.studio shows network state, activity, the model catalogue and the reward mechanism.

What is deliberately not there yet: permissionless enrolment, automatic payouts, mainnet. Everyframe Studio production traffic still runs directly against providers; routing to miners is enabled per pilot window.

#The five-minute picture

  1. Get invited. Register your own hotkey on testnet 566, prove you control it, and receive a signed invitation plus a miner token from the operator.
  2. Install everycli on Linux or macOS with Node 22 and put your Phala and Fal keys in a mode-600 file.
  3. Deploy a tdx.small confidential VM on Phala Cloud with one command. It boots a digest-pinned worker image and starts with a disabled placeholder provider key.
  4. Get admitted. The coordinator verifies the TEE quote against the approved measurements. Then activate releases your provider key into the enclave and resume opens you for work.
  5. Serve jobs. Assigned jobs arrive encrypted, your worker renders through the provider, and a signed receipt turns accepted work into reward weight at the end of each epoch.

#Costs you pay

ItemWho bills youTypical figure
Phala tdx.small CVM (1 vCPU / 2 GiB)Phala Cloud≈ $0.058 per compute-hour, storage extra (20 GB at $0.000139/GB-hour)
Video generationFal, on your FAL_KEY$0.20 – $5.69 per fixed clip, depending on model
Testnet registrationBittensor testnet0.0005 test TAO at last check

Hosting keeps billing while you wait for admission and there is no automatic shutdown. everycli miner stop drains and shuts the VM down but never deletes it; a stopped VM may still incur storage charges.

#Get in touch

Invitations are issued by the Everyframe operator after hotkey ownership is verified. Open a thread on the Everyframe GitHub or reach the team through everyframe.studio. Send only your hotkey SS58 and a fresh signed challenge — never a seed, coldkey or private key.

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