Data sources

Miner leaderboards and reward distributions come from the chain metagraph rather than from an indexer, because incentive is the value miner earnings depend on and we want it as close to the source as possible. Miner names are filled from on-chain coldkey identity first, then the public delegate registry. Most miners have not published a name, so the truncated hotkey is shown instead.

TaoScope caches upstream responses. Caching keeps the site responsive and keeps us inside third-party rate limits, at the cost of some latency behind the chain head.

• Cached responses are served for a short interval that varies by endpoint. Market data refreshes more frequently than structural subnet data.
• When an upstream provider rate-limits us, we serve the most recent cached response rather than failing or showing zeros. That data may be older than usual.
• Transaction lists stream from the TaoScope indexer as finalized blocks are written to TaoScope's Neon PostgreSQL explorer database. Browsers never open a Subtensor RPC socket.
• Background producer jobs query chain RPC for metagraph/current-state data and publish shared Redis/Neon snapshots; normal page requests read those prepared results.

Most values pass through unchanged. These are the exceptions, and each states its inputs.

TaoScope publishes no editorial scores. There are no difficulty ratings, no hardware tiers, no task categories, and no opportunity indices. Anything of that kind would be our opinion presented in the visual language of measured data.

Missing values

Not every subnet reports every field. Where a value is absent we display “—”. Filters that sort on a missing value exclude that subnet rather than treating it as zero, which would otherwise place unknown subnets at the top of any ascending sort.

Snapshot timing

Different endpoints are captured at slightly different moments. Two values on the same page can therefore come from blocks a short distance apart, which is usually invisible but occasionally explains a small inconsistency.

Metagraph availability

Miner leaderboards depend on a chain RPC call that can fail or time out under load. When that happens the section reports that data is unavailable instead of rendering an empty or partial list.

Miner display names

A public miner name exists only when the coldkey has on-chain identity or the hotkey appears in the OpenTensor delegate registry. Most miners have neither, so the leaderboard shows the truncated hotkey rather than inventing a label.

Historical registration cost

The registration cost chart is built from snapshots recorded in your own browser as you use the site. It is not a complete on-chain history, and it starts empty on a new device.

Historical returns

APR and APY figures are derived from recent observed returns. They describe the past and are not a projection.

For decisions with money attached, check the chain yourself. The CLI is the most direct route:

• btcli subnets show --netuid <N> for live subnet parameters, including the current registration cost.
• btcli subnets list for a network-wide overview.
• btcli wallet balance for your own balances.