NCN Design

It is one of typical NCN design, so every NCN does not have to follow this design.

Onchain NCN Program

NCN Program consisits of several components:

• Pricing
• Snapshot
• Core Logic
• Reward Payment

Operator Client

This is the core off-chain logic of the NCN. It will run some arbitrary computation, and post some data on chain to a custom instruction, signing the transaction with the operator keypair.

Sample Node Operator Client:

• solana-merkle-root-uploader
• stakenet-keeper

Permissionless Cranker

For all of the permissionless operations that need to occur on a regular cycle, we need a client that is continually executing instructions.