Emissions

Understand how the network rewards your faithful compute.

How do you earn?

Your payout comes from two independent streams:

Miner Payout = CU Payout + RU Payout

1. Compute Units (CUs): 1 CU = 1 GPU-hour of validated availability. You earn CUs by keeping your node online and passing validation, whether or not it gets rented. Each CU is priced at a configured rate per GPU-hour.
2. Revenue Units (RUs): actual USD rental revenue when your node is rented. A configurable share of this revenue is paid on top of CU earnings.

All rates are per GPU per hour. A node with 8 GPUs earns 8x the listed rate.

Vesting

Both CUs and RUs vest linearly over a configurable window (3 days by default). At each weight-setting epoch, validators calculate how much has vested and set your on-chain weight proportionally.

Going offline only stops you from earning new CUs. Already-earned CUs and RUs continue vesting normally.

Dilution

Each GPU type has a target supply for the network. When more GPUs of a type come online than the target, the CU budget splits across all online GPUs. Each one earns proportionally less.

• At or below target: you earn the full configured rate (no bonus for undersupply).
• Above target: the budget splits evenly, reducing per-GPU CU earnings.
• Categories are independent: oversupply of H100s does not affect A100 CU payouts.

Example: if the target for a GPU type is 24 GPUs and 48 are online, the per-GPU CU rate is halved.

RU payouts are not affected by dilution. They come directly from your actual rental revenue.

Slashing

Slashing only happens when your node is permanently lost during an active rental. This means the validator has given up health-checking the node. When slashed, a portion of your unvested CUs and RUs are voided.

The following do not trigger slashing:

• Transient failures
• Container health issues
• User-initiated rental stops

Recovery is automatic. New CUs accrue normally once the node comes back online.

See it in action

Using example values of $2.00/hr per GPU and 50% revenue share:

1 node, 8x GPUs, online 24/7, supply at target:

• CU earnings: 8 GPUs × $2.00/hr × 24h = $384/day in emission value
• RU earnings (if rented 12h at a $3.00/hr bid): revenue = 8 × $3.00 × 12 = $288, your 50% share = $144/day extra
• Total: $528/day, vesting linearly over the configured window

These are illustrative values. Refer to Current Configuration for actual rates.