📣 Masa Bittensor release v1.0

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🗺 What's left for release

<List of items with remaining PRs and/or Issues to be considered for this release>

🌍 Subnet

• Create Dune dashboard with Incentivized testnet winners masa-bittensor#220
• Spike: miners are incentivized to do work "faster" than protocol and circumvent it entirely to gain advantage masa-bittensor#207
• Spike: malicious validators only calling a hard-coded list of malicious miners masa-bittensor#206
• Spike: auto-updating when we version bump masa-bittensor#208
• Spike: Rewards distribution research - OTF feedback and other validators feedback masa-bittensor#223
• spike: Improve Bittensor Subnet Reward System masa-bittensor#225
• feat: PingMiner Timeout and Sample Size masa-bittensor#226
• spike(data storage): Indexed Twitter data storage masa-bittensor#234
• feat: auto-update validator and miner code using pm2 masa-bittensor#245
• feat: autoupdate to latest code for miner and validator masa-bittensor#246
• Feat: Spot check miners against twitter api false/true masa-bittensor#237
• feat(validator): Implement Tweet Validation Tool masa#7

🧪 Code testing

• Test scalability of hyperparameters setting masa-bittensor#100
• Tests for validator masa-bittensor#120
• Tests for miner masa-bittensor#121

🚑 Code health

• spike: investigate best code practices and tests from other subnets masa-bittensor#177
• spike: research new BTCLI version masa-bittensor#255

🤖 CI and release process

• Spinning down the instances in GCP masa-bittensor#235

📖 Documentation

• chore(docs): CONTRIBUTING.md masa-bittensor#143
• https://github.com/masa-finance/product-issues/issues/25
• Feat [Docs]: Add data contracts for each scraper masa-bittensor#233

Release Checklist for v1.0

Security

• Run pip list --outdated to check for outdated dependencies
• Update dependencies if necessary and run pip freeze > requirements.txt

Continuous Integration (CI)

• Verify all CI tests are passing:
  • Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (subtensor)
  • Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (subnet)
  • Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (miner)
  • Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (validator)
  • Docker Build and Publish / check-and-build (protocol)

Tagging

• Tag the masa-bittensor release for v1.0

Release Notes

• Update release notes text for v1.0
• Ensure release notes are ready for publication to dev docs

Docker

• Confirm Docker images are published correctly for v1.0

Documentation

• Review and update installation instructions if needed
• Ensure API documentation is up-to-date
• Verify validator and miner requirement documentation is current

Final Checks

• Verify there are no critical open issues blocking the release
• Conduct a final review of all changes included in this release

Notifications

• Notify @giovaroma and @lacyg4 upon completion of release preparations