How the AET economy works
AET is the only token of AETRON. A hard cap of 33 million. Emission is paid only for confirmed AI work. The block reward halves every four years, the same way Bitcoin does it.
Emission schedule
The reward halves every four years, the same as Bitcoin. The first halving is in October 2029.
At the block level, 90% of the emission goes to neuronets in proportion to confirmed work, 5% to the chain's validators, and 5% to the treasury. The split shown below is inside each neuronet: 10% to stakers, up to 10% to the owner, at least 80% to miners.
How a neuronet's emission is split
Miners
The main share of the neuronet's emission
For inference, model training and cross-checking other miners' responses
- Serving AI requests
- Distributed training
- Peer-replay of other miners' answers
Neuronet owner
Set up the neuronet and runs it
This share is fixed to the owner and doesn't depend on any outside sales
- Setting up and configuring the neuronet
- Task parameters and re-check rules
- Growing the downstream product
Stakers
Back a neuronet with their stake
The stake increases the neuronet's throughput and acts as a vote on whether the service is useful
- Delegating AET into a neuronet
- Income proportional to the stake
- The stake is returnable, not burned
How the economy is wired
A hard cap
Emission is capped at 33 million AET. Genesis issued 4,500 AET across three accounts, 0.014% of the cap; everything else comes from block emission.
Proof of Intelligence
The emission goes only to those whose AI work the network was able to re-check cryptographically.
Stake = throughput
Stake on a neuronet sets its throughput, and at the same time acts as a vote on whether the service is useful.
No payments inside the protocol
No one pays for inference at the protocol level. All roles earn from the emission only.
How to earn AET
Emission is split between validators, miners and neuronet owners. Pick your role in the network.