Rewards

What you are paid

You are paid only while you hold a campaign's leader seat. Subnet emission is the payment. Pareton owes no royalty and no revenue share for use of your patch.

Take the crown and the validator starts weighting your UID on its next cycle, within about 72 minutes. Lose the crown and the weight stops on the next cycle.

A scored challenger that does not take the crown is paid nothing. There is no runner-up.

How much

Each campaign pins an emission_rule. It sets the weight your UID receives and how that weight decays while you hold the seat. Your share falls the longer you hold, down to a floor.

Read the live numbers for a campaign from GET /v1/weights. The breakdown entry for your hotkey carries the weight and the blocks_held it was computed at. See Validators and emissions for the curve and how to verify a payout.

What it costs

The submission fee is charged per commit. It is not refunded if your patch is rejected, disqualified, or loses a round.

You also pay the subnet 10 registration burn to hold a UID. That is separate and goes to the chain, not to Pareton.

When you earn nothing

• Your submission never ran (rejected).
• Your image ran and failed correctness (disqualified).
• Your image scored but did not beat the moat.
• You held the crown and a challenger overtook you.
• The crown is vacant because no image scored above zero.

What clears the bar

To take the crown you must beat the incumbent's in-round score by the overtake moat, currently 1 percent. To hold a crown at all, an image must pass correctness and score strictly above zero.

Measurement noise matters more than most miners expect. Repeated runs of the same image on the same pod differ by a small fraction of a percent, so a change that only moves the score by that much has not been shown to be an improvement. Aim well clear of the moat rather than just over it.

Scores from two different rounds are not comparable. See Rounds and leaders.