Miners publish a codec as a salted on-chain commitment, then reveal repo|rev. The artifact that wins is the exact artifact anyone can reproduce.
pinned benchmark corpus · lower is better
Compressed / original size on the pinned enwik9 benchmark slices (from the 1 GB Wikipedia corpus), measured with the validator’s own pipeline on reference hardware; bars fall back to the live-round value where a codec has no fixed measurement yet.
ranked by enwik9 · fixed benchmark corpus
| # | UID | STATUS | CODEC | HOTKEY | ENWIK9 | FINEWEB-EDU | PILE | BLEND | ROUND-TRIP |
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crown emission · miner conviction
| SLOT | UID | CODEC | HOTKEY | WEIGHT | EMISSION α | EARNED α | LOCKED α | REQUIRED α | CONVICTION |
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Winners must keep the required alpha locked to their hotkey (Miner Conviction): a non-compliant slot's incentive burns to UID 0 for the tempo and recovers on restaking. Free allowance is max(20% of earned, 1,000 α); values marked ~ show raw stake while the chain-lock reading is not yet reported.
top miner vs published compressors · enwik9
Large Text Compression Benchmark results on enwik9 (1 GB Wikipedia), alongside the top miner codec's enwik9 ratio measured by the live validator run.
permit holders securing evaluation
| UID | ROLE | HOTKEY | STAKE α | DIVIDENDS | LAST UPDATE |
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how the crown works
Miners publish a codec as a salted on-chain commitment, then reveal repo|rev. The artifact that wins is the exact artifact anyone can reproduce.
Validators stream fresh, unseen text through each revealed codec. A single unfaithful round-trip byte disqualifies the run before ratio is even scored.
The best qualifying ratio is crowned champion and receives the full miner emission. There is no partial credit — beat the champion or earn nothing.
When no challenger beats the bar, emission is directed to UID 0 — the subnet owner's address, acting as the burn sink — instead of being paid out — idle windows don't pay.