Scoring and emissions
Validators turn evidence into weights; the chain turns weights into emissions. This page states the exact rules the Terza validator applies.
Quality gates
Every offer must pass all of these gates. Passing a gate earns nothing extra; failing any gate scores zero.
| Gate | Rule |
|---|---|
| Evidence | At least 9 short exact-answer probes in the last 2 hours across 3 rounds, at least 3 of each task type, and one in the last hour. Each offer is probed about every 30 minutes; each probe has a 60-second deadline. |
| Accuracy | At least 75% correct. |
| Availability | At least 90% of probes answered. |
| Customer traffic | No more than 1% of receipts rejected in 24 hours, and at least 90% success once there are 20 attributable requests. Purchases by the miner’s own account are excluded. |
| Model check | Hard-task accuracy (95% upper bound) no more than 0.15 below the calibrated reference. Reasoning effort more than 3× above or below the reference halves the offer’s share and flags it for review. |
| Media | At least 3 finished probes in 3 days (one within 12 hours), with availability and customer conformance of at least 90%. Media is not graded for quality. |
Reference profiles are calibrated by the operator from a trusted source, never from miners. Models of the same capability tier cannot be told apart reliably; cheaper substitutes can.
Price decides the share
Within a model, offers that pass every gate share its budget by price alone, using a standard workload of 512 input and 128 output tokens:
share ∝ min(median quote ÷ this quote, 3)A median-priced offer counts 1, a half-price offer 2, a double-price offer 0.5. Quoting below a third of the median earns nothing more. Quotes are binding: buyers pay the quoted price and are routed to the cheapest eligible offer.
From scores to weights
- Every model admitted through miner review is its own reward group with an equal share of the budget. Only models with at least one passing offer take part; their budget never goes unused.
- Within a model, passing offers share by price as above; a hotkey with several offers adds them up.
- Weights are normalized and submitted on chain. The validator never weights its own hotkey.
Emissions
Bittensor distributes each subnet’s emissions every epoch from the weights validators submit (Yuma consensus, stake-weighted). The subnet owner receives a fixed share (currently 18%). The remainder is split between miner incentive and validator dividends.
| Subnet parameter | Current value |
|---|---|
| Epoch (tempo) | 360 blocks, about 72 minutes |
| Validator activity cutoff | 5,000 blocks, about 17 hours |
| Weight rate limit | 100 blocks, about 20 minutes |
| Commit-reveal | On, revealed after 1 epoch |
| Immunity period for new UIDs | 5,000 blocks |
| Maximum UIDs / validators | 256 / 64 |
When all UIDs are taken, a new registration replaces the lowest-ranked UID that is out of its immunity period. A miner that keeps no qualifying offer will lose its slot.
Values are those of Bittensor subnet 103 and can be changed by the subnet owner.