Validators

Yield 30% · agreement between windows 25% · participation 25% · update recency 10% · decentralization 10%.

Qualifying validators must have an active direct permit, positive dividends, an update within the subnet’s effective activity cutoff, positive 7d and 30d APY, at least 90% reported participation in both windows, a known fee and stake share, and a hotkey first registered at least 30 days ago. All four required source snapshots must be no more than two hours old and no more than one hour apart. Missing data never earns a favorable score.

Yield compares the lower of the 7d and 30d measurements within the qualifying group. Agreement compares those two averages; it does not measure daily volatility. Decentralization favors lower stake-weight share among this subnet’s direct permit holders. Fee is shown and breaks score ties; it has no separate balanced/yield/decentralization weight, avoiding an additional fee reward on top of reported yield.

Coverage is limited to direct permit holders. Validators working through child hotkeys are not evaluated unless their own hotkey meets these requirements. First registration is global hotkey age, not proof of 30 days operating on this subnet. The API does not expose observation counts for the yield windows here, so these are provisional data-based matches—not a full operational or security audit. Historical annualized yield does not guarantee future returns.

Sources: Yield · Metagraph · Activity parameters. Shared hourly caches; changing preference scores existing data without another API call.