Staking
50 articles in this topic.
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Alpha Staker
How an alpha staker names a staker who holds subnet alpha through staking in a specific Bittensor subnet.
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Autostaking
How autostaking automatically routes Bittensor miner emissions into validator staking.
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Child Hotkey
How a child hotkey lets a parent hotkey re-delegate stake so the child validates on the parent's behalf on a subnet, without transferring ownership.
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Child Hotkeys
How a Bittensor delegate validator authorizes child hotkeys to validate on its behalf in a selected subnet, and how child take works.
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Childkey Take
How childkey take describes the subnet-specific share of dividends a child hotkey keeps when it validates on behalf of a parent hotkey.
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Conviction and Locked Stake
How locked stake builds conviction as a public commitment signal in Bittensor staking.
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Delegate
How a delegate functions as a subnet validator that receives staked TAO from delegators.
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Delegate Stake
How delegate stake refers to the TAO a Bittensor delegate stakes themselves.
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Delegate Tx Rate Limit Exceeded
How the DelegateTxRateLimitExceeded error signals that a validator tried to raise delegate take again before the delegate-take cooldown had expired.
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Delegation
How delegation names staking TAO to a validator to support validator stake and subnet consensus context.
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Delegation Rewards
How a delegator earns a share of a validator's rewards in proportion to the stake it adds, after the validator's take.
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Duplicate Child
How the DuplicateChild error blocks a schedule_children call that lists the same child hotkey more than once for a parent on a subnet.
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Effective Stake
How effective stake describes the total staked TAO associated with a delegate.
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Emission
How emission names Bittensor's process for creating and allocating TAO and subnet-specific alpha tokens.
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Hotkey-Coldkey Pair
How a hotkey-coldkey pair names the authentication pairing that links operational hotkeys to ownership coldkeys for delegates, nominators, and Senate participation.
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Ledger Hardware Wallet
How a Ledger hardware wallet fits into Bittensor coldkey custody, wallet-app signing, staking, transfers, proxy setup, and address verification.
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Moving Stake
How moving stake changes the hotkey and/or subnet that holds a staked position in a single atomic operation, used when a participant rearranges an existing staked position without withdrawing to a coldkey.
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Nominate
How nominate describes staking TAO with validators in Bittensor delegation terminology.
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Nominator
How a nominator names the TAO-holder role that stakes with validators through Bittensor delegation vocabulary.
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Non Associated Cold Key
How the NonAssociatedColdKey error signals that a stake, unstake, or subscribe request was signed by a coldkey that does not own the targeted hotkey account.
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Price Protection
How Bittensor price protection limits adverse price movement handling during staking and unstaking.
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Relative Stake Weight
How relative stake weight describes a validator's proportional stake-based influence inside a Bittensor subnet.
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Root Claim Type
How root claim type names the Keep or Swap setting for handling Root Subnet alpha dividends.
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Root Claims
How Bittensor root claims handle alpha dividends earned through Root Subnet staking.
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Root Proportion
How root proportion describes the portion of a subnet's dividend context attributed to TAO staked through the root subnet.
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Root Staker
How a root staker names a TAO holder who stakes on the Root Subnet through validators.
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Root Subnet
How the Root Subnet, also called Subnet Zero, provides a subnet-agnostic staking path.
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Root Validator
How a root validator names the validator role on the Root Subnet, where TAO stake is not tied to one mining subnet.
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Same Netuid
How the SameNetuid error blocks a move_stake, transfer_stake, or swap_stake call that would leave a staked position pointed at the same hotkey, coldkey, and subnet it already has.
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Slippage
How slippage affects Bittensor staking and unstaking when subnet pools convert between TAO and alpha tokens.
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Stake
How stake names the token amount associated with a validator position inside a Bittensor subnet.
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Stake Too Low For Root
How the StakeTooLowForRoot error signals that a root_register call failed to displace the lowest-staked root validator because the registering hotkey's root stake was not higher.
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Stake Weight
How stake weight describes validator influence inside Bittensor subnet consensus.
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Staking
How staking names the process of attaching TAO support to a validator in Bittensor's subnet consensus context.
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Staking and Delegation (TAO)
How TAO holders stake and delegate to validators using Bittensor tooling, including concepts, minimums, and operational cautions.
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Staking Operation Rate Limit Exceeded
How the StakingOperationRateLimitExceeded error signals that a second staking operation was attempted on a subnet before the one-per-block staking cooldown had cleared.
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Staking Precompile
How the staking precompile lets Ethereum-style smart contracts reach native Subtensor staking actions such as adding and removing stake on the Bittensor EVM.
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Staking Proxy Attacks
How delegated staking authority can become a Bittensor wallet-safety risk even without direct transfer authority over the protected wallet.
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Staking vs Liquidity Provision
How staking to a validator and providing liquidity to a subnet's pool are two different ways to deploy TAO, earning from emissions versus trading fees.
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Subnet Stake Burn
How subnet stake burn adds TAO to a subnet reserve while permanently removing alpha from circulation.
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TAO
The network token used in Bittensor incentive, staking, subnet reserve, and emissions context.
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TAO Weight
How TAO weight sets the relative role of TAO stake when Bittensor derives validator stake weight inside a subnet.
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Toggle Transfer
How the toggle transfer subnet hyperparameter allows or disallows transferring staked alpha between coldkeys on a subnet.
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Too Many Children
How the TooManyChildren error blocks a parent hotkey from having more than five child hotkeys on a subnet at once.
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Transferring Stake
How transferring stake changes the coldkey that owns a staked position, used when a participant reassigns staked tokens to a different coldkey.
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Tx Delegate Take Rate Limit
How the tx delegate take rate limit sets the block-counted cooldown that paces how often a delegate's take can be increased on chain.
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Unstaking
How unstaking describes removing staked TAO from a staking position in Bittensor.
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Validator Dividend
How validator dividend names the emission share Bittensor validators receive for their consensus role.
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Validator Permit
How a validator permit marks validation rights inside a Bittensor subnet.
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Validator Take
How validator take describes the share a validator keeps from delegated-stake emissions before the remaining emissions flow to stakers.