Question 1

How do I start mining models on Affine?

Accepted Answer

Register a Bittensor hotkey on Subnet 120, create a HuggingFace account with a write token, then pull a baseline model from the network with `af pull <UID>`. Improve it through training or fine-tuning, upload to HuggingFace in a repo named with your hotkey suffix, and run `af miner-deploy` to commit the model revision on-chain. The validator will evaluate your model when your queue slot arrives. Note: each hotkey can commit exactly once; a second commit permanently invalidates the miner.

Question 2

What happens if my model loses the challenge?

Accepted Answer

The miner is permanently terminated and cannot compete again with that hotkey. You must register a new hotkey to try a different model. The strict all-environments-better rule means challengers get no second chances; this ensures only genuine improvements advance.

Question 3

How long does it take to see my model evaluated?

Accepted Answer

Each evaluation window opens approximately every 24 hours (~7200 blocks) and processes one challenger in queue order. If you commit now, you'll wait until your slot comes up—typically 1–7 days depending on queue length. `af get-rank` shows the queue head and your position.

Question 4

Do I need to run inference servers myself?

Accepted Answer

No. Miners only submit model weights to HuggingFace and commit the revision on-chain. Validators host inference through Targon or operator-managed hardware, load your weights when scheduled, and run evaluations. You can develop locally with `af eval` to sanity-check before committing.

Question 5

What base model architecture must I use?

Accepted Answer

Submissions must be Qwen3.6-35B fine-tunes. Other architectures are rejected at validation. The subnet enforces this via the monitor's `check_model_size` validation.

Question 6

How does Affine prevent model copying and plagiarism?

Accepted Answer

The system detects identical submissions using SHA256 hashes of weight shards. The earliest committer wins; any later miner with an identical hash is marked invalid. Additionally, each hotkey commits exactly once, and the queue processes challengers sequentially—there's no leaderboard climbing by resubmitting variants.

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