Emissions

The process of creating and distributing new TAO tokens across subnets based on root validator weights.

What are Emissions?

Every 12 seconds, when a new block forms, the network creates one new TAO token. The root validators (64 largest validators) decide how this TAO gets split among subnets . Each subnet receives a portion based on its assigned weights from the root validators.

Token Distribution

The network distributes accumulated TAO to subnets every 360 blocks (about 72 minutes). This process uses three main factors:

Trust: How many validators rate the subnet
Consensus : How much validators agree on subnet quality
Rank: The weighted sum of validator stakes

Calculation Process

The root network uses a specific method to calculate each subnet's share. First, it measures trust by counting validator stakes that give non-zero weights. Then it determines consensus using these trust scores. Finally, it combines consensus with rank to set emission rates.

Subnet Allocation

Each subnet's share of the daily TAO emissions depends on root validator weights. These weights show how valuable validators think each subnet is. Better-performing subnets receive larger shares of the daily emission. All subnet shares always add up to 100% of the new TAO.