What is muxnet?

This repo is a starter template for building on Bittensor, a blockchain network that rewards people for contributing useful digital work like AI outputs or data. Instead of starting from scratch, you get a pre-built foundation with the boilerplate already handled, so you can focus on designing the specific incentive system you want to create. Bittensor is organized into "subnets," each one a self-contained marketplace where miners produce value and validators check that the value is genuine. Together they reach agreement on who deserves to earn TAO, the network's token. This template gives you the three core files you need: one defining how miners and validators talk to each other, one controlling how miners respond to requests, and one controlling how validators score the results. You edit these files to define your own custom logic. A founder or team wanting to create a new decentralized marketplace would use this. For example, one existing subnet built on this template rewards participants for text prompting, essentially an incentivized AI chat service. Another handles translation. You might use it to build a marketplace for scraping web data, generating images, or any task where you want to incentivize contributors with token rewards. The project is notable for how much complexity it hides. Bittensor uses a system called Yuma Consensus to keep everyone honest, and dealing with blockchain mechanics directly would be daunting. This template abstracts all of that away, letting you work at the level of "what should miners do" and "how should validators judge them." The README recommends starting with local development, then moving to the testnet before going live on mainnet. It also includes a standardized API interface for querying subnets, so external applications can interact with whatever you build.