A tao token holder can earn a share of emissions by delegating stake to one or multiple validators.

The more tao delegated to a validator, the greater proportion of network access they are granted and the greater their weight in all aspects of Yuma consensus calculations.

The validator's emissions are shared proportional to stake amongst all of those who have staked tao. Validators can take a commission from the staking emissions. This is defined through the take parameter, and can range from 0-18% with 18% as the default value.

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The take hyperparameter is a u16 integer (values 0-65535).

The allowed values for take are 0-11796. The percentage can be calculated by dividing the published take value by 65535.

Example: Take is 6553. 6553/65535 = 0.099999 or 10%. As a delegator, you will receive 90% of the weighted emissions with this validator.

Why Stake

Staking is a way for a holder of TAO to earn emissions without running a subnet/validator/miner and as a result retain value of the token whilst the supply increases due to continued token issuance. By staking with a validator, they are giving weight and showing support to that validator's actions on the network.

Staking TAO

Stake TAO with:

• Command Line Tool
• Taostats

Helpful links

• Taostats: For Staking: The Bittensor data you need to make staking decisions.