Install CoopHive

CoopHive

CoopHive is a two-sided marketplace for computational resources. It enables users to run computational workloads in a permissionless protocol, where anyone can get paid to connect their compute nodes to the network and run jobs.

It uses an EVM-compatible blockchain to manage agreed job state and payment and use bacalhau to manage the compute nodes.

Getting started

Halcyon Testnet

The testnet has a base curency of ETH and you will also get HIVE to pay for jobs (and nodes to stake).

Metamask:

Network name: CoopHive Halcyon testnet
New RPC URL: http://halcyon.co-ophive.network:8545
Chain ID: 1337
Currency symbol: ETH
Block explorer URL: (leave blank)

Fund your Wallet with ETH and HIVE

To obtain funds, go to http://halcyon-faucet.co-ophive.network:8085

The faucet will give you both ETH (to pay for gas) and HIVE (to stake and pay for jobs).

Install CLI

Download the latest release of hive for your platform. Both the amd64/x86_64 and arm64 variants of macOS and Linux are supported. (If you are on Apple Silicon, you'll want arm64).

Nb: to check your version use which hive - if an old version run rm <path> to remove that path then reinstall newest version

The commands below will automatically detect your OS and processor architecture and download the correct build for your machine.

Then Download & Install

You can also, at your option, choose to compile hive using Go and install it that way on any machine that supports the Go toolchain.

Run a Job

(or arrange for the key to be in your environment in a more secure way that doesn't get written to your shell history)

Cows

SDXL

Not working? Try rm -rf /tmp/coophive/data/repos uninstall hive path and reinstall from the start

Run a Node, Earn HIVE

systemd units & more details here

Available Modules

Check the github releases page for each module or just use the git hash as the tag.

More coming soon!

Write a Module

A module is just a git repo.

Module versions are just git tags.

In your repo, create a file called module.coophive

See cowsay for example

This is a json template with Go text/template style {{.Message}} sections which will be replaced by hive with json encoded inputs to modules. You can also do fancy things with go templates like setting defaults, see cowsay for example. While developing a module, you can use the git hash to test it.

Pass inputs as:

Inputs are a map of strings to strings.

YOU MUST MAKE YOUR MODULE DETERMINISTIC

Tips:

  • Make the output reproducible, for example for the diffusers library, see here

  • Strip timestamps and time measurements out of the output, including to stdout/stderr

  • Don't read any sources of entropy (e.g. /dev/random)

  • When referencing docker images, you MUST specify their sha256 hashes, as shown in this example

If your module is not deterministic, compute providers will not adopt it and blacklist your module

Writing Advanced Modules

  1. subt: The subt function allows for substitutions in your template.

This function is a workaround for the lack of direct substitution support in the module. It implements the printf function under the hood, which allows you to format strings with placeholders.

Usage

The `subt` function can be used in the same way as the `printf` function in Go. You pass in a format string, followed by values that correspond to the placeholders in the format string. ``` const templateText = ` {{ subt "Hello %s" .name }} ` ```

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