🎯 How We Select Miners

We've implemented a sophisticated selection system designed to reward high performers while ensuring fair opportunities for all. Here's how it works:

• Eligibility Check: To be considered, your miner must be actively connected to the testnet and capable of fulfilling Twitter data requests.

• Performance-Based Pool: Our protocol maintains a dynamic pool of top performers, considering your recent activity, capacity, and reliability.

• Fair Distribution: We utilize smart randomization to balance high performance with fair data task distribution - so all miners  have a chance to shine.

• Comprehensive Evaluation: Selection looks at multiple factors including your successful tweet history, total output, and reliability metrics.

🌟 Your North Star Metrics

Want to know what really drives success? Focus on these two key factors:

Capacity 💪

• More Twitter accounts = greater mining potential

• High-performance nodes help drive increased network capacity

• The more data you contribute, the more the network can scale

Availability 🎯

• Consistent online up-time

• Quick response times

• Low network latency

• Reliable node performance

💡 Power Tips to Boost Your Performance

1. Expand Your Reach: Add more Twitter accounts to your miner (always following Twitter's TOS)

2. Stay Connected: Maintain consistent online presence - every minute counts

3. Optimize Your Connection: Strong, stable internet reduces timeouts

4. Account Management: Regularly check your Twitter credentials for any issues

5. Stay Updated: Keep your node software current - watch our Discord for updates

🔍 Important Clarification on Self-Querying

Good news: Self-querying doesn't affect other miners' opportunities. Here's why:

• Our query selection process ensures fair distribution among all eligible miners

• Self-queries don't inflate your node's metrics when connected to testnet

• Disconnected miners using their own credentials are excluded from testnet rewards

Remember: Your success contributes to our network's strength. Keep optimizing, stay connected, and watch your performance soar. 🚀

💬 Questions?

Join our Discord community #nodes-miner for support, updates, and to connect with fellow miners.

Together, we're building a more efficient and powerful network. Thank you for being part of this journey. 🙏

Let’s make sure your Twitter miner is healthy & functioning correctly! This will ensure that once your miner is connected to the testnet, it’s actively able to scrape data and contribute to the Masa protocol.

To ensure your Twitter miner functions correctly, it’s essential to test it locally before connecting or reconnecting to the testnet. This process verifies that your miner works independently, while preventing potential issues once active on the testnet:

Initial Local Testing

1. Comment Out the Testnet Bootnode

   If you have added the testnet bootnode to your .env file, comment out the BOOTNODES line by adding # at the beginning:

   # BOOTNODES=/ip4/52.6.77.89/udp/4001/quic-v1/p2p/16Uiu2HAmBcNRvvXMxyj45fCMAmTKD4bkXu92Wtv4hpzRiTQNLTsL,/ip4/3.213.117.85/udp/4001/quic-v1/p2p/16Uiu2HAm7KfNcv3QBPRjANctYjcDnUvcog26QeJnhDN9nazHz9Wi,/ip4/52.20.183.116/udp/4001/quic-v1/p2p/16Uiu2HAm9Nkz9kEMnL1YqPTtXZHQZ1E9rhquwSqKNsUViqTojLZt
   

2. Restart Your Node

   Run the following command to apply this local configuration:

   make run
   

3. Test the Twitter Scraper

   You can use curl or tools like Postman to verify that the scraper works independently by sending a request:

   curl -X 'POST' \\
     '<http://localhost:8080/api/v1/data/twitter/tweets/recent>' \\
     -H 'accept: application/json' \\
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\
     -d '{
     "query": "$Masa AI",
     "count": 1
   }'
   

   • In Postman:

     • URL: http://localhost:8080/api/v1/data/twitter/tweets/recent

     • Method: POST

     • Headers: Content-Type: application/json

     • Body:

       {
         "query": "$Masa AI",
         "count": 1
       }
       

Ongoing Local Testing

• Regularly Test in Local Mode: Run this test periodically (e.g., daily) to ensure consistent scraper functionality.

• Validate Data Quality: Check that the response includes complete, recent data from Twitter relevant to your query.

Re-enabling Testnet Bootnodes for Testnet Participation

After confirming your scraper works locally:

1. Uncomment the Testnet Bootnode Line

   Uncomment the BOOTNODES line in your .env file to re-enable testnet connectivity.

2. Restart the Node

   Restart to apply the testnet configuration.

By performing regular local testing before connecting to the testnet bootnode, you can ensure your Twitter scraper operates smoothly and detect issues early on.

In Conclusion

We hope that was helpful in checking the health of your miner, and being able to actively test it, so you can scrape data and contribute to the Masa Protocol.

If you still have questions or concerns, please flag them in the #nodes-miners channel on the Masa Discord. A BIG thank you to all of the miners contributing to the testnet!

Masa is a decentralized network for Fair AI, empowering developers to train AI using real-time data from various sources. Masa’s competitive global network allows you to build innovative AI agents with ease.

Key Points About Masa:

• 🏆 First AI project to debut on CoinList Launchpad in 2024: Masa launched via a viral, 17-minute token sale.

• 💼 Supported by Leading Investors: Backed by DCG, Anagram, Animoca, and incubated by Binance and Hashkey.

• 📊 Extensive Data Sources: Provides real-time and static (indexed), structured, annotated, and vectorized data from a variety of sources critical for AI development.

Data Sources accessible via Masa Include:

• 🐦 X-Twitter: ~350 million tweets daily

• 💬 Discord: ~4 billion messages daily

• 📱 Telegram: ~15 billion messages daily

• 🌐 Web pages: ~250,000 new websites launched daily

• 🎙️ Diarized speech: ~120,000 new podcast episodes daily; ~720,000 hours of new video content uploaded daily

Use Case: Quickly scrape and access data via the Masa Network to create AI powered applications or AI agents like real-time trading predictions or sentiment analysis.

Introduction to the Hackathon 🏆

Welcome to the Masa Bounty for the Redacted Hackathon!

Prize:

• 🥇 1st Place: USD 3,000: Awarded to the most innovative and well-executed AI agent developed using Masa Twitter data during the hackathon.

Project Ideas and Creative Freedom 💡

You have the freedom to create your own AI agent idea or use the examples below to get started. Focus on building an MVP that showcases core functionality, whether it’s based on one of these examples or your own unique concept. The only requirement is to use Masa Twitter data in your AI agent. Note that you can also leverage Masa Twitter data to build AI agents for other bounties, and earn multiple rewards.

Feel free to innovate and push the boundaries—originality is highly encouraged!

Ideation:

• Objective: Use Masa’s Twitter data and tools to build an AI agent that excites you.

• Key Tasks:

  • Identify a problem or opportunity where real-time Twitter data can provide value.

  • Implement core features that address this problem.

  • Focus on creating a working prototype within the timeframe.

• Why This Matters: Innovative ideas can lead to groundbreaking solutions. Let your creativity guide you!

Example 1: KOL AI Agent with Masa Twitter Data (video demo)🐦

• Objective: Track and analyze Crypto Twitter Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) for real-time market insights.

• Key Tasks:

  • Sentiment Monitoring: Analyze sentiment from KOL tweets.

  • Topic and Trend Analysis: Identify and track trending topics.

  • Market Sentiment Insights: Provide actionable insights based on KOL activities.

• Why This Matters: Stay ahead of market trends driven by influential crypto figures.

Example 2: Memecoin AI Agent with Masa Twitter Data (video demo)🚀

• Objective: Predict memecoin market movements using real-time Twitter data.

• Key Tasks:

  • Spike Detection: Identify spikes in mentions, hashtags, and emojis.

  • Trend Tracking Interface: Create a dashboard to monitor trends.

  • Data Analysis: Rank memecoins based on activity metrics.

• Why This Matters: Capitalize on the unpredictable growth of memecoins with real-time insights.

Quick Setup: Getting Started

Step 1. Choose How to Access Data via Masa Network

Decide whether you want to scrape real-time Twitter data using the Masa protocol or utilize existing Twitter datasets from Masa's developer playground.

Option A: Real-time Twitter Data Scraping via Masa Twitter Worker Node

Run a Masa Protocol Twitter Worker Node

1. Setup the Masa Protocol Node: Setup Documentation

2. Stake with Test Masa: Staking Documentation.

3. Setup Your Twitter Worker: Twitters scraper node setup

Option B: Large Amounts of Real-time Twitter Data Scraping via Masa Twitter Worker Node

Run a Masa Protocol Twitter Worker Node

1. Setup the Masa Protocol Node: Setup Documentation

2. Stake with Test Masa: Staking Documentation.

3. Setup Your Twitter Worker: Twitters scraper node setup

Setting up the Masa SDK: The SDK will allow you to more easily scrape larger datasets. You will need a Masa protocol node running to use the SDK. Note: You are also able to scrape the data with the Masa protocol alone but can run into limitations on how much data you scrape.

1. Install the SDK

   • Follow our SDK installation guide

2. Access SDK Documentation

   • After installing the SDK. Run masa-cli --docs to view the documentation within the SDK.

Option C: Pre-Scraped Twitter Datasets

Access Existing Datasets

1. Utilize already scraped datasets available to download via HuggingFace

After completing the setup, you'll be ready to start working with Twitter data using the Masa protocol. If you encounter any issues or have questions, please refer to our comprehensive documentation or reach out to our support team.

Step 2: Build Your MVP

Data Processing: Use simple scripts to clean and analyze data. Focus on implementing basic sentiment analysis or spike detection.

Model Application: Use pre-trained models (e.g., LLaMA 3.1) to apply sentiment analysis or trend detection. Keep the implementation simple to fit the timeframe.

User Interface: Use Streamlit or a preferred solution to create a basic, functional dashboard that visualizes the insights generated by your AI agent.

Step 3: Test and Iterate

Ensure your core features work smoothly. Quickly iterate based on test results to refine functionality.

Step 4: Final Presentation

• Prepare Your Demo: Focus on showcasing the core features and real-time capabilities of your AI agent.

• Record a Loom Video: Create a short Loom video (3-5 minutes) demonstrating your project. Walk through your AI agent's key features, explain how it works, and highlight any innovative aspects.

• Document Your Work: Ensure your code is well-documented, and include any setup instructions needed to run your AI agent.

• Submit Your Work: Please email your work to calanthia@masa.ai.

Resources: Need Help? We’re Here to Support You!

• Join the Community on Discord: If you have questions or need guidance, hop onto our Discord channel. Our team and fellow developers are ready to assist you. Join the Masa developer channel #developer

Good Luck, and Happy Hacking! 🍀💻

Today, the Masa Foundation is announcing the first of a series of exciting upcoming changes and upgrades to the MASA Network. These changes pave the way for our future integration with the Bittensor (TAO) EVM upgrade, as well as our upcoming MASA Protocol Mainnet Launch. These changes will streamline our continued path to becoming the largest and most scalable decentralized data network in the world. Throughout this process, we're committed to keeping you informed  and ensuring a smooth transition for all users.

Why the Upgrades?

• TAO EVM Alignment: Opentensor recently announced  TAO EVM, which is coming to Bittensor mainnet. The TAO EVM upgrade will give us the ability to launch the MASA token natively on Bittensor. Masa Subnet 42 (SN42) plans be one of the first subnets to incorporate staking and MASA rewards for Validators and Miners on SN42. This will fully integrate our Masa Protocol with our Bittensor Masa Subnet, enabling dual rewards for Validators and Miners.

• Masa Protocol Staking: As the protocol transitions from testnet to mainnet we need to make incremental upgrades to the current staking contracts to facilitate this progressive transition. We are seeing incredible momentum with developer adoption and are now getting ready to do the final preparations for the Masa Protocol mainnet launch.

• Masa Avalanche Subnet: As a result of our upgraded infrastructure plans, Masa made the decision to sunset the current Avalanche Subnet. Masa is engaged in ongoing discussions of a strategic AI partnerships with Avalanche, which align with our shared  focus for Fair AI.

What's Changing?

1) Staking Contract Upgrades We're upgrading our staking contracts across all chains to improve consistency and prepare for validator and miner staking rewards. This upgrade will lay the groundwork for our upcoming Masa Protocol Mainnet launch and align with deploying EVM smart contracts on Bittensor (TAO) when they launch.

What this Means for Users:

• Staking is currently paused until new contracts are deployed on all networks

• Staking balances will be migrated to new contracts

• Staking claims will be processed once contract migration is completed

• Users impacted:

  1. Staking balances are still visible in the app.

  2. No new users can currently stake tokens at this time

  3. Users who’s staking period has ended cannot un-stake and initialize a cooldown until migration is completed

  4. Users who have initialized a cooldown will not be able to claim until migration is completed

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused our users with staked that have unlocked tokens who wish to un-stake. Know that your tokens remain safe, and you’ll continue to earn MASA while staked until the new staking contracts are upgraded and the staking claim is reopened.

2) Avalanche Subnet Deprecation As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline our infrastructure and to focus on AI, we've made the decision to deprecate our current Avalanche Subnet.

Masa made this decision which allows us to focus and concentrate our resources on core features and future deployments around the Bittensor (TAO) ecosystem, which we believe will maintain decentralized AI dominance. We are also in a strategic AI partnership conversation with Avalanche, which aligns ith our shared focus for Fair AI.

What this Means for Users:

• If you have token balances which are currently held on the Masa Subnet, you will be affected by this migration.

• Next Step: Please transfer MASA tokens from the Masa Subnet using the bridge to the Base blockchain: https://app.masa.ai/bridge

• Any unclaimed tokens will be minted on Base and airdropped to the same wallet when the Masa Subnet is shut down

• Please Note: Bridge transfers from Masa Subnet to BSC and ETH are currently disabled. Please do not attempt any bridge transfers at this time or it will result in a loss of funds.

3) Base Token Swap As part of the deprecation of the Avalanche Subnet, we are using the Base blockchain as part of the migration process. It is low gas and user friendly.

For security purposes  during the migration process, we are encouraging users to transfer their tokens to Base blockchain, and re-issuing any untransferred tokens from the Avalanche Subnet to Base, while the Avalanche Subnet is being deprecated.

Any Avalanche Subnet Masa at the time of shutdown will be re-minted on a new Base MASAv2 token contract so there is no loss of user funds. This means the current Base MASAv1 token contract will be deprecated and a new token contract, MASAv2, will be deployed. We will also be upgrading the LayerZero bridge to BSC and ETH.

A snapshot of Base MASAv1 and Masa Subnet MASA will be taken on the 31st of October, and tokens will be issued on the newly deployed Base contract. All token lockup contracts, staking contracts, and Masa Foundation DEX liquidity will also be migrated.

What this Means for Users:

• Effective immediately users will not be able to bridge MASA from Base to ETH or BSC chains; any attempt will result in the loss of funds.

• After the 31st of October, MASAv1 on Base will be depreciated and no longer retain value, and all users will get MASAv2 on Base with current market value. MASAv1 will no longer be supported.

• MASA staking on Base will migrate to a MASAv2 staking contract.

• After the migration, users will be able to Bridge MASAv2 to ETH and BSC

• All airdrop lockups will migrate to MASAv2.

• The contract address (CA) for MASA on Base will change.

• Users impacted

  1. All current users on Base chain

  2. All users who are are eligible for the Masa Airdrop

The Migration Process

We understand that these changes are significant, so we want to assure you that we've designed this process with your needs in mind:

1. Gradual Implementation: We'll be implementing changes over the next 2-6 weeks to ensure a smooth transition.

2. Regular Updates: We'll provide frequent updates on our progress through our official channels.

3. Support Available: Our support team will be on hand to assist with any questions or concerns throughout the process.

4. Immediate Changes: This is due to ensuring the most secure and smooth migration, and we appreciate your patience during this process.

In Summary: What You Need to Do

Given the nature of these changes, some user actions may be required:

1. Do not attempt to bridge MASA from Base to ETH or BSC chains, as this will result in loss of funds.

2. If you have MASA tokens on the Avalanche Subnet, consider transferring them to the Base blockchain before the migration using the bridge in the Masa App: https://app.masa.ai/bridge

3. Be prepared for the token swap on the Base blockchain. After October 31st, only MASAv2 tokens will be supported. Make sure to add the new smart contract to your wallet and only trade using the MASAv2 smart contract.

4. Staking is currently paused, but tracking balances is still available in the Masa App: https://app.masa.ai/staking

5. Keep an eye on our official announcements for specific dates and any necessary actions.

6. Reach out to our support team if you have any questions or concerns. The Masa Team has created a Discord Support chanel for any support needs: LINK

Looking Ahead

These upgrades are crucial steps in our journey towards a more robust and efficient Masa ecosystem. We're excited about the future possibilities these changes unlock, including enhanced staking capabilities, improved interoperability, and deeper integration with the Bittensor (TAO) ecosystem.

We're deeply grateful for your continued support and patience during this migration and upgrade process. Your trust in our platform drives us to continually improve and innovate.

Stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for being part of the Masa journey!

Best regards,

The Masa Team