Creating a network

The operator track for standing up an open network on NFH fabric — environment, participant onboarding, policies, and building consumer and provider nodes.

This is the hands-on track for a Network Facilitator Organisation (NFO) standing up an open network on NFH fabric, and for Network Participants (NPs) joining one. It walks from a blank environment through onboarding, policy, and building the nodes that transact.

These guides use the Beckn Protocol (the wire spec keeps its name) over NFH fabric services — REGISTR / DeDi for identity, Catalog Publishing and Discovery + DISCOVR for catalogs and discovery, and ONIX for the protocol adapter.

The path

1

Set up the network environment

The infrastructure and services an NFO stands up first. → Setting up the network environment

2

Onboard network participants

Register identities, keys, and callback URLs in DeDi. → Onboarding network participants

3

Publish and discover catalogs

Self-host and self-sign a catalog, and see how a Discovery Service crawls and verifies it. → Catalog Publishing and Discovery

4

Configure network policies

Express the network's rules. → Configuring network policies — the network manifest, Rego policy artifacts, and signing a file.

5

Build the nodes that transact

Stand up the consumer (buyer-side) and provider (seller-side) applications using ONIX as the protocol adapter, then run the Getting started with NFH fabric walkthrough end-to-end.

Just want to try NFH fabric first? See Getting started with NFH fabric for a guided, runnable walkthrough before standing up a full network.