Introduction

Delegate staking is an important component of the Hypertensor economy. Each subnet must always have a required minimum balance of delegate stake. In return for delegate staking, users will receive a portion of the subnets rewards on each epoch.

Subnet Registration

During a subnet registration period, token holders can delegate stake to the subnet, which acts as a way to "vote" in subnets. The minimum delegate stake balance is:

$$minDelegateStakeBalance=MinStakeBalance * minNodes * MinSubnetDelegateStakePercentage$$

The minimum delegate stake balance is different from subnet to subnet and is primarily based on the size of the subnet, using its overall memory requirements. Review how this is calculated here, or by seeing the utils.rsfile in the Hypertensor Network pallet.

Subnet Activation

Once a subnet is activated, the subnet is required to always keep the minimum required delegate stake balance by the end of each epoch, or the subnet will be removed.

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The following documentation will show you how to delegate stake to subnets using the explorer and substrate libraries.

Explorer: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.hypertensor.org#/extrinsics