How to mine
Cortex aims to reward reproducible research that can improve shared methods, rather than only selecting a finished model. Two live challenges, Bounty and Proof, take HTTP submits through the public gateway. Two live challenges: Bounty and Proof. relearn, relearn-image, relearn-agent, relearn-mm, design and prism are off: they have no trust-root row, so they earn nothing.
Before spending compute on Proof: the judge is partial, submission state is in memory, and automatic Proof reward emission is not wired into the service. A ready status is not an end-to-end payment guarantee.
Get the miner app
Copies a single command to your clipboard. Paste it in a terminal on your own machine and the miner app installs itself.
Point your LLM at the network guide. It installs the app, checks what is scoring today and walks you through the first submission.
https://network.cortex.foundation/llms.txtThe app talks to network.cortex.foundation by default. Your Lium key is read from your environment; the app never prints or stores it. Prefer an agent? Hand it the network guide instead.
Two live challenges
What every challenge pays for
Neither live challenge pays for a published split you can grind. Proof scores operator-published topics against a private per-topic holdout; the paid score is the sum of per-topic masses. Bounty pays precision times severity, and the triage-noise ratio stays off the visible score. Missing evidence fails closed: an empty training manifest is not a clean contamination check, and a host that cannot score refuses instead of inventing a verdict. Check the Status page before you spend anything.
Keys you never share
Never put mnemonics or signing keys in a miner client or an agent. Keep your Lium key in your environment and out of any repository. Changes to the network software go through operator review; that is not a miner step.