🧠 Bittensor eTAO upgrade goes live: Subnets can finally set their own reward splits
On October 19, Bittensor’s eTAO upgrade officially took effect.
Previously, rewards for every subnet were distributed according to fixed shares: 18% to subnet owners, 41% to validators, and 41% to miners. No one could change them.
Now the rules have changed:
🔹 Subnets can customize their reward splits
🔹 There’s a floor: miners must receive at least 33%
🔹 And a cap: owners can receive no more than 33%
The upgrade has only just gone live, but the choices some teams have made already say a lot👇
SN41 Almanac cut the owner share to 10% and raised the miners’ share to 50%, saying “miners are the lifeblood.”
SN103 Consted, on the other hand, raised the owner share straight to the 33% maximum.
The community is divided, too: one side thinks this finally lets projects design incentives around their needs, making it easier for compute-intensive subnets to retain miners. The other worries that this will make some teams’ short-term cash-grab mentality even more obvious.
My take: Now that the rules are more flexible, the reward split itself has become a kind of “public statement.” Subnets that are willing to give miners a bigger share seem, at least in their attitude, more focused on the long game. A subnet giving owners the maximum share isn’t necessarily doing anything wrong, but people will be watching more closely to see how it proves its value. Before choosing a subnet, it may be more useful to see how it splits rewards than to read its marketing.
Would you favor subnets that give miners a bigger share, or those where owners get more and may have greater incentive to work? Let’s talk in the comments👇
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