3,000,000 MASA tokens have been allocated to the rewards pool for the Masa Bittensor Incentivized Testnet.

How will rewards be determined?

• Miners supply data and bandwidth to power AI training and processing on the Masa Bittensor Subnet
• The top-performing 256 miners at any given point in time will be eligible to earn a share of the 3,000,000 MASA token rewards pool
• Rewards are tied to performance. The higher your performance, the more rewards you may earn
• Performance is based on the amount of data, quality of data, and computational processing power miners provide to the network. All rewards are calculated programmatically over the entire duration of the testnet campaign. Masa ensures that participants are motivated to continually enhance their contributions
• Final rewards will be published on a public Dune Dashboard on or around August 7, 2024
• Rewards will be distributed upon Masa Protocol mainnet launch in Q4’ 2024. Rewards are delegated to a validator, and are subject to to-be-announced lockup terms

The Masa Bittensor Incentivized Testnet runs from July 9th to July 23rd, 2024. The timeline is subject to change at the sole discretion of Masa.

Key milestones:

• July 9, 2024: Registration opens, testnet begins, and miners will start earning rewards
• July 23, 2024: Testnet concludes
• August 7, 2024: Masa Bittensor Subnet testnet final rewards will be published on a public Dune Dashboard
• Q4’ 2024: Rewards will be delegated to a validator and distributed at Masa Protocol mainnet launch, target Q4’2024

Masa is the decentralized network for Fair AI, where people earn by contributing data. AI developers are empowered to build anything, anywhere with the world’s data. 

Bittensor is a decentralized, peer-to-peer artificial intelligence network designed for the creation, sharing, deployment, and training of machine learning models. 

The Masa Bittensor Subnet provides real-time and static, structured, annotated, and vectorized data from a variety of data sources critical for AI development, such as X (Twitter), Discord, diarized speech (e.g. podcasts, YouTube, TikTok), gated web data (e.g. New York Times), and public web data (e.g. Google Search). 

• Open Participation: All participants are welcome to join the Incentivized Testnet, subject to certain restrictions as set forth below 
• Performance-Based Rewards: The top-performing 256 miners at any point in time will be eligible to earn a share of the 3,000,000 MASA rewards pool. All rewards are performance-based and programmatically calculated
• Hardware requirements: 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, 10GB storage, open ports 4001 (TCP/UDP) and 8091 (TCP); No KYC required
• Rewards: Final rewards will be published on a public Dune Dashboard on August 7, 2024. Rewards will be delegated to a validator and distributed at Masa Protocol mainnet launch, target Q4’2024 
• Certain jurisdictional limitations apply (i.e., users must be non-U.S./Canada and OFAC compliant).