6a. Stakeholder emissions: root

Root Emissions:

Stakeholders on root place their delegation of tao on a root validator.

• For every subnet the validator is active: stakeholders will earn a proportion of the rewards.
• Root staking will have lower returns over time, as stakeholder emission is split between alpha and root stakeholders (see Emissions: Root vs. Alpha Stake
• Every block, root's share of each subnet's alpha emission is set aside as alpha — it is not sold to tao. Since Root Reborn (mainnet, spec_version 441) it is not auto-compounded onto your root stake either: at each subnet epoch it is added, still as that subnet's alpha, to your validator's basket and held until you make a manual claim. See Root Validator Baskets.

Calculating Root Emission

Step 1: The validator take is removed from the root dividend and staked to the validator's hotkey as alpha on that subnet.

Step 2: The rest, still alpha, is added to the validator's basket. It is shared among the validator's root stakers in proportion to their root stake and reaches their stake only when they claim.

What's next

This is the final step of the emission flow — the root share has reached stakeholders. Under Root Reborn these rewards accrue to your validator's basket and are realized on a manual claim_root; see Root Validator Baskets and Staking in dTao. See also the parallel path, Stakeholder emissions: alpha.