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    • Getting started
      • Install SubWallet
      • Create a master password
      • Customize language display
      • Customize currency display
      • Manage in-app notifications
    • Account security
      • Manage master password
        • Change master password
        • Forgot master password
      • Lock & unlock wallet
      • Advanced phishing detection
    • Account management
      • Understand account types
      • Create a new account with a new seed phrase
      • Derive a new account from an existing account
      • Switch between accounts and change account name
      • Import accounts
        • Import from seed phrase
        • Import from JSON file
        • Import from private key
        • Import by QR code
      • Migrate solo accounts to unified accounts
      • Attach a watch-only account
      • Export & backup accounts
    • Cold wallet management
      • Connect Ledger devices
        • Connect via network-specific apps
        • Connect via EVM apps
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        • Connect via the Polkadot Migration app
      • Attach Polkadot Vault (prev. Parity Signer) accounts
        • Add networks in Polkadot Vault
        • Update network metadata
        • Attach an account
      • Connect Keystone devices
    • Asset & address management
      • View token balances
      • Show/Hide balances
      • Manage address book
      • Customize your assets
        • Enable/disable tokens
        • Import & manage customized tokens
        • Import NFTs
    • Receive & transfer assets
      • Receive tokens & NFTs
      • Transfer tokens
        • Understand existential deposit
        • Single-chain transfer
        • Cross-chain transfer
        • Transfer tokens via bridges
      • Transfer NFT
      • View transaction history
    • Buy crypto from fiat money
    • Swap tokens
      • Single-chain swap
      • Cross-chain swap
    • Earning
      • Nomination pool
        • Start staking
        • Stake more
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        • Withdraw unstaked funds
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        • Start staking
        • Stake more
        • Unstake
        • Cancel a previous unstaking action
        • Withdraw unstaked funds
      • Parachain (Collator) staking
        • Start staking
        • Stake more
        • Claim staking rewards
        • Unstake
        • Cancel a previous unstaking action
        • Withdraw unstaked funds
      • Liquid staking
        • Start staking
        • Unstake & redeem funds
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        • Start staking
        • Stake more
        • Unstake & redeem TAO
    • Connect dApps & manage website access
      • Connect/disconnect dApp via WalletConnect
      • Sign transactions from dApp
      • Add new networks unavailable in pre-defined list from dApp
    • Network management
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        • Enable/disable networks
        • Import custom networks
        • Manage custom networks
      • Customize endpoint/provider
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      • Customize currency display
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      • Create a new account
      • Derive a new account from an existing account
      • Switch between accounts and change account name
      • Import an account
      • Attach a watch-only account
      • Export & backup an account
    • Cold wallet management
      • Connect Ledger devices
      • Connect Keystone devices
    • Receive & transfer assets
      • Receive tokens and NFTs
      • Transfer tokens
        • Single-chain transfer
        • Cross-chain transfer
      • Transfer NFTs
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  • Subnet staking (dTAO staking) overview
  • 1. What is dTAO staking?
  • 2. Difference between Dynamic TAO staking & traditional TAO staking (via direct nomination)
  • 3. Alpha tokens
  • 4. dTAO staking information & parameters
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Subnet staking (dTAO staking)

Stake alpha tokens to validator on subnets via SubWallet to earn rewards

Last updated 2 months ago

Subnet staking (dTAO staking) overview

Learn more about dTAO staking .

1. What is dTAO staking?

At its core, Dynamic TAO (dTAO) is an upgrade to the Bittensor network that replaces the previous emission logic with an intelligent, market-driven mechanism that can be used to determine token emissions.

Bittensor incentivizes the production and distribution of digital commodities by emitting newly minted TAO in each block to a set of subnets. Each subnet has its own token (Alpha for subnet 1, Beta for subnet 2, etc.).

The key mechanism introduced with Dynamic TAO is that each subnet operates as its own automated market maker (AMM). Each subnet has two liquidity reserves: one containing TAO (ττ)—the currency of the Bittensor network—and the other containing a subnet-specific "dynamic" currency, known as the subnet's alpha (α) token.

For simplicity, all subnet tokens will be referred to as alpha tokens.

Each alpha has a hard cap of 21 million, identical to the cap for TAO tokens.

2. Difference between Dynamic TAO staking & traditional TAO staking (via direct nomination)

Instead of staking TAO to a validator, in Dynamic TAO, you stake to a validator on a specific subnet. This can be either a mining subnet (most subnets) or the unique root subnet called Subnet Zero.

  • When you stake on a mining subnet, you swap TAO for a dynamic token representing the subnet's alpha where the validator operates (alpha tokens). Then, you stake that into the validator's hotkey.

  • When you stake on the root subnet, you stake TAO for TAO.

Any TAO staked before the launch of dTAO staking is now staked to root (Root staking).

If you prefer to stake TAO via the traditional staking method, refer to this .

3. Alpha tokens

in dTao staking, all subnets will have a token for staking. The subnet tokens are given a letter from an alphabet (greek, hebrew, arabic, etc.) but are generically defined as "Alpha". (Alpha is also the token of Subnet 1, as it is the first letter in the Greek alphabet).

Alpha tokens can only be purchased with TAO tokens (i.e., swap TAO for alpha).

SubWallet currently supports 80+ alpha tokens on the Bittensor network.

4. dTAO staking information & parameters

Parameter
Information

Minimum stake

0.0006 TAO

Existential deposit (ED)

0.0000005 TAO

Unstaking period

None - Instant withdrawal after unstaking

Rewards payout

At the end of each era ( 1 era ~ 24 hours).

Rewards will be automatically compounded.

Nominating mechanism

Stake TAO in subnets to receive derivative alpha tokens

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Start staking
Stake more
Unstake & redeem TAO