Mining operations struggle to align individual contributions with fair reward distribution. Traditional centralized pools obscure contribution accounting, making it difficult for participants to verify that rewards match effort. Decentralized networks need a mechanism to score miner performance against verifiable on-chain activity without requiring constant computation or manual auditing.
A deterministic scoring system that reads finalized chain records and calculates daily weights based on stated contribution targets addresses this problem. By publishing reproducible fixtures and allowing independent verification, the system creates transparency: any operator can recalculate published scores from their inputs without trusting a central authority.
Noah implements this on Bittensor Subnet 82 by requiring miners to transfer stake to a designated Ark pool, delegating that stake to a specific validator hotkey, and identifying themselves on each transaction. The validator reads two independent chain sources, stores complete historical records, calculates daily scores using integer arithmetic, and publishes weight vectors.