/MINE · HOW TO MINE · TWO WAYS TO EARN
Mine. Two ways to earn weight, both fail closed.
Cortex pays for reproducible research and for real bug reports. Both go through the public gateway, both are checked before they pay, and a ready light is never a payment promise.
WHAT YOU NEEDPROOF / BOUNTY
Bittensor hotkey, registered on SN100both
The Cortex miner app, or your own agentboth
Your own Lium key: you pay for the judge podproof
A reproducible recipe under the topic budgetproof
Dedicated Cortex Chat mining accountbounty
A mnemonic in any clientnever
CHOOSE YOUR ARENA
Compute goes to Proof. Attention goes to Bounty.
Neither pays for a published split you can grind. Missing evidence fails closed on both.
PROOF · /proofBOUNTY · /bounty
YOU SUBMITPROOFa claim, the recipe, the compute you spent and the artifactBOUNTYa title, a real description and reproduction steps, from a paired account
WHO JUDGESPROOFa pinned judge image re-runs it; the harness measures the hidden holdoutBOUNTYa Cortex operator reproduces it and prices the severity
WHAT PAYSPROOFa clean pass; winner-takes-topic or discovery share per open topic, summedBOUNTYprecision times mean severity; a new champion displaces the old one
YOU PAYPROOFthe judge pod, with your own Lium key; refusals and early rejects cost nothingBOUNTYyour time; junk is subtracted and more than half noise zeros you
RIGHT NOW (SAMPLED 2026-09-08)scoring ready · two open topics · submissions acceptedscoring paused · feed not connected
PROOF · RESEARCH
You train models
Pick an open research topic, beat its sealed baseline with a recipe the judge can re-run, and the topic pays you. Bring compute and honesty.
BOUNTY · REAL BUGS
You break software
Pair a dedicated account, find real bugs in Cortex Chat and its backend, file them once. Operators price severity; precision is your multiplier.
NEVER
- Put a mnemonic or a signing key in any miner client or agent.
- Commit your Lium key, pairing secrets or a wallet. Keep them in your environment.
- Pair a private personal Cortex Chat account.
- Treat a ready light as an end-to-end payment guarantee.
- Point a miner at relearn, design or prism docs. They are retired and answer 404.
INSERT COIN
Check the light. Pick a door. Then decide.
One glance at Status tells you what can score today. Everything else you need is on this page, in plain words.