validators/validator_utils.py

from typing import List
from prompting.utils.uids import check_uid_availability


def get_top_incentive_uids(metagraph, k: int, vpermit_tao_limit: int) -> List[int]:
    miners_uids = list(map(int, filter(lambda uid: check_uid_availability(metagraph, uid, vpermit_tao_limit), metagraph.uids)))
    
    # Builds a dictionary of uids and their corresponding incentives
    all_miners_incentives = {
        "miners_uids": miners_uids,
        "incentives": list(map(lambda uid: metagraph.I[uid], miners_uids))
    }
    
    # Zip the uids and their corresponding incentives into a list of tuples
    uid_incentive_pairs = list(zip(all_miners_incentives['miners_uids'], all_miners_incentives['incentives']))

    # Sort the list of tuples by the incentive value in descending order
    uid_incentive_pairs_sorted = sorted(uid_incentive_pairs, key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)

    # Extract the top 10 uids
    top_k_uids = [uid for uid, incentive in uid_incentive_pairs_sorted[:k]]
    
    return top_k_uids