Scoring/Rewards
How participants are evaluated and rewarded by distribution of incentives. Understand the mechanisms that ensure fair and effective value attribution.
Bittensor uses a scoring system to decide who gets rewarded. Validators "watch" miners work and score them. These scores are called weights . Validators give weights to each miner in their subnet. Higher weights mean better work and relatively more incentives/rewards.
The network uses Yuma Consensus to turn weights into actual rewards. It takes weights from all validators and combines them fairly. It stops cheating and makes sure the best miners get the most ALPHA tokens. Some validators copy weights from other trusted validators. This is called weight copying . It's used by some validators to participate without doing all the technical work themselves.
The system has special features to keep things fair. Commit-reveal makes validators submit scores in secret first. Then they reveal them later. This stops validators from copying each other. Liquid Alpha encourages validators to discover good miners early. This creates a prediction game and rewards those who do the validation work first.
Everything tighten together results in a fair system. Good work gets more rewards, than bad work. This makes everyone try their best. Better work means more incentives. The scoring happens regularly. Meaning that the rewards always match the quality of the current work.