Economic Incentives and Rewards
StarMiner’s economic model is designed to foster sustainable participation, align stakeholders across all roles, and ensure long-term scalability through utility-backed rewards and performance-driven emissions. Unlike traditional token economies that rely on passive staking or inflationary emissions, StarMiner distributes value based on actual economic contribution.
This reward system is tied directly to task execution, protocol governance, and infrastructure expansion — turning every meaningful action into a monetized transaction via AGPU and AMAX.
1. Contribution-Based Rewards
StarMiner’s incentive framework is centered on rewarding verifiable work not idle token holding. Key contributors and their associated reward streams include:
Compute Providers
Receive AGPU for executing GPU-intensive jobs.
Bonus multipliers apply based on:
Task complexity
Uptime and consistency
Region-specific scarcity
Environmental sustainability score (e.g., CCS compliance)
Validator Nodes
Earn AGPU and/or AMAX for:
Validating task outputs
Monitoring performance
Enforcing penalties on misbehavior
Higher reputation scores yield higher validator assignment rates.
Oracle Nodes
Receive AGPU or governance delegation for feeding reliable off-chain data.
Rewards scale with data update frequency, accuracy, and protocol dependency.
Service Referrers
Referrals of new compute nodes or clients generate dynamic AGPU-based commission, structured as:
Flat onboarding bonus
Long-term % share of compute fees over 3–6 months
2. Staking Incentives
Users can lock AGPU or AMAX into protocol staking modules for:
Access Utility (AGPU)
Staking to unlock premium compute queues
Task bonding to reserve high-performance nodes
Time-based yield when staked against resource vaults
Governance and Security (AMAX )
Staking to qualify as validator or governance participant
Delegation to trusted actors for shared reward participation
Penalty protection for validators (slashing insurance mechanisms)
This ensures liquidity is committed not just for yield, but for functional access or protocol trustworthiness.
3. Dynamic Emission Curves
AGPU and AMAX are not emitted on a fixed schedule. Instead, emission is regulated through smart contracts that monitor:
Task volume across the protocol
Active participant count
Reward saturation rates
Ecosystem growth benchmarks
Features of StarMiner’s Emission Control:
Reward multipliers decrease over time to prevent yield farming
Dynamic adjustment based on demand (e.g., GPU shortages, surge usage)
Sustainability curve: more AGPU is burned when demand is low, preserving long-term value
This makes the token economy self-regulating, reducing reliance on hard-coded caps or constant governance votes.
4. Behavioral Rewards and Long-Tail Incentives
Beyond infrastructure and capital, StarMiner also rewards ecosystem-enhancing behavior. These include:
Sharing verified performance insights or analytics
Publishing educational content, tutorials, or tooling
Contributing to governance documentation or public proposal audits
Maintaining open-source repositories that interact with StarMiner SDKs or APIs
These actions are rewarded either via:
Direct AGPU bounties
Retroactive AMAX airdrops
Ecosystem grants funded from the DAO treasury
This approach expands participation beyond capital and compute supporting a creator-driven protocol economy.
5. Reward Transparency and Auditing
All rewards are:
Tracked on-chain
Linked to identifiable wallet or node addresses
Visible via dashboards or public API endpoints
Auditable by third parties, DAO members, or external data providers
This ensures StarMiner’s economy is verifiable, tamper-resistant, and merit-based.
Summary
StarMiner’s economic incentive design reflects the protocol’s core philosophy: value should flow to those who contribute real work, infrastructure, or intelligence to the network. Through AGPU and AMAX, the protocol ensures that all forms of participation whether technical, financial, or social are recognized and rewarded at scale.
It’s not just tokenomics it’s an operating system for decentralized productivity.
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