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Subnet Mining
Skills

Downloadable skill files that let Claude Code, Claude.ai or Codex walk you through setting up a Bittensor miner — from an empty wallet to a verified, earning node. Built from live chain data and the subnets' own source code.

15
subnets covered
128
subnets screened
$0.13
cheapest entry
07 SEP
data verified
How it works

Download, add to LLM, Get Started

A skill is a markdown file that teaches your AI assistant a specific job. Add one of these and your assistant knows how to set up that miner — including the checks that stop you wasting money.

01

Get the skill

Download the folder for the subnet you want. Always take Bittensor Core too — every subnet skill depends on it.

02

Add it to your assistant

Claude Code: unzip into your skills folder. Claude.ai: upload the SKILL.md. Codex: rename to AGENTS.md or paste the contents.

~/.claude/skills/
03

Ask it to start

Then just say what you want. It runs the preflight checks first and stops before anything costs money.

"Help me start mining SN13"
Good to knowNothing gets spent without your say-so. Every skill is written to stop and ask before it burns TAO, creates a key, or opens a port — and to verify your setup actually works before you pay a non-refundable registration fee.
Start here

Required foundation

Required by every subnet skill

Bittensor Core

Foundation

Wallet, funding, registration, and the checks that prove a miner is actually earning. Carries the safety rules and a plain-English glossary.

Good to knowDownload this first. Every subnet skill depends on it.
SKILL.md
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All Subnet Options

Choose a Subnet

Ordered by median daily pay. Every figure is pulled from the chain weekly, and checked again by the skill itself before you spend anything.

Netuid 93 · create content

Bitcast

No server skillsYouTube channel requiredAlpha +109% / 30d

Publish YouTube videos against brand briefs; validators read your channel analytics and score them in USD. The only subnet here where the work is creative, not technical.

$1.30
to register
4
of 256 earning
$653.11
median / day
$4.08
bottom quartile
100%
top-10 take
4%
emissions burned
RiskTwo channels take 95% of the pool. Third place earns about $5/day.
WatchFive hard channel gates: 21+ days old, 100–500k subs, 1,000+ watch minutes, 10%+ retention. Miss one and you score zero.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 62 · submit an agent

Ridges

$0.13 entryNo serverCoding required

Write a software-engineering agent; the platform runs it against real repository tasks. Test the whole loop locally for free and only upload when it performs.

$0.13
to register
13
of 256 earning
$448.05
median / day
$375.80
bottom quartile
91%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
RiskOnly ~13 of 256 miners earn. That bottom-quartile figure is the bottom quartile of those thirteen — a first upload very likely scores nothing.
WatchEntry is cents and local runs cost only inference credits, so iterating costs you time rather than TAO.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 124 · train and submit

Swarm

Highest medianRL training requiredNo GPU to run

Train a drone pilot that competes across 1,100 fresh worlds every epoch. Highest median here, in a field of only ~25 earners.

$130.01
to register
25
of 256 earning
$309.09
median / day
$215.66
bottom quartile
63%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
WatchPick your challenge family first. Each holds a fixed emission slice and one hotkey = one family. Avoid cf_interceptor — archived at 0%.
Risk17-hour immunity. Train and benchmark before you register.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 61 · build and submit

RedTeam

Highest payingCoding requiredAlpha +141% / 30d

Write a solution to a security challenge, publish it as a Docker image, and a small node submits the digest for daily scoring.

$14.18
to register
49
of 256 earning
$282.50
median / day
$41.34
bottom quartile
39%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
RiskOnly ~49 of 256 earn. That median is the median of winners — roughly 200 people receive nothing.
WatchCompetition is climbing fast: half the subnet registered in the previous two days.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 28 · resell capacity

SayGM

Alpha +32% / 30dNo GPUNeeds cheap API capacity

Supply upstream LLM capacity through a TEE gateway with your own provider keys and earn the spread. No model to run, no server of your own — it deploys to Phala Cloud.

$26.00
to register
58
of 256 earning
$59.04
median / day
$27.81
bottom quartile
84%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
RiskWork out your per-token spread before registering. Your margin is what the subnet pays minus what your provider charges — real if you have discounted or committed capacity, likely negative at list price.
WatchImmunity is only 12 hours, the shortest here. Deploy and declare products immediately after registering.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 96 · run a service

Verathos

Needs a GPUFair for a GPU subnet30% burned

Serve verified LLM inference from your own GPU — validators send canary requests and check your receipts against a reference before paying. A mesh pool option exists for smaller cards.

$26.00
to register
74
of 256 earning
$51.84
median / day
$26.10
bottom quartile
38%
top-10 take
30%
emissions burned
RiskAssume the bottom quartile, not the median. At the median a card clears its rental; at the bottom quartile it is close to break-even once power or rental is counted.
WatchAround 30% of miner emissions are burned, so the real pool is smaller than the headline. Receipts that fail verification score zero even when the service looks healthy.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 41 · submit an agent

Almanac

No GPUWrite an agent48h immunity

Write a forecasting agent; validators sandbox it and score your calibration once events resolve. Best pay-to-difficulty ratio here, and no GPU.

$32.45
to register
84
of 256 earning
$42.26
median / day
$29.33
bottom quartile
20%
top-10 take
7%
emissions burned
WatchSix reference agents ship with the repo — you adapt a working example, not a blank file.
RiskYour gateway key binds permanently to the first hotkey that submits with it.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 5 · run a service

Hone

Flattest curveNo GPULLM key needed

Validators send coding challenges; your miner relays them to an LLM and returns a signed solution, graded on hidden tests. The flattest reward curve on the network with real money attached.

$57.16
to register
244
of 256 earning
$40.88
median / day
$40.16
bottom quartile
4%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
Good to knowThe bottom quartile earns within 2% of the median, and the top ten take just 4% of the pool. There is no whale to displace — get set up correctly and you land at the median.
WatchLower reasoning budgets cut cost but reduce the pass rate. Keep the validator-permit policy on, or any registered hotkey can spend your LLM quota.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 15 · submit an agent

ORO

Healthiest subnetNo server$185 entry

Write a shopping agent; validators run it against 2.5M real products in their own sandboxes. Nothing runs on your side.

$157.94
to register
77
of 256 earning
$25.17
median / day
$13.27
bottom quartile
94%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
Good to knowPrice rank near the top of the network — effectively no risk of the subnet being pruned.
RiskMost expensive entry, 17-hour immunity. Build and test locally before you register.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 74 · contribute or serve

Gittensor

Zero infrastructureTwo tracks64% burned

Get paid for merged pull requests to whitelisted repos — no server, no neuron. A second track pays for verified GPU time.

$39.00
to register
12
of 256 earning
$22.31
median / day
$0.54
bottom quartile
100%
top-10 take
65%
emissions burned
RiskTwo thirds of emissions are burned, ~12 miners earn, and the top ten take nearly all of it.
WatchBest treated as an incentive layer on work you already do, not an income strategy.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 33 · run a service

ReadyAI

Flattest rewardsNo GPUNeeds OpenAI key

Run a conversation-tagging service against an LLM API. Nearly every slot earns and the top ten take a single-digit share.

$20.67
to register
247
of 256 earning
$14.58
median / day
$13.57
bottom quartile
6%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
WatchYou pay per request served. Track API spend against earnings from day one.
RiskNeeds one open inbound port. Home broadband behind NAT will never earn.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 50 · run a service

Synth

9 days immunityNo GPUBacktest first

Return simulated price paths, scored on CRPS. The most forgiving runway on the network — 218 hours of immunity.

$208.02
to register
241
of 256 earning
$12.12
median / day
$4.30
bottom quartile
19%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
Good to knowShips a backtester that replays the validator's real scoring logic, so you can measure your rank before spending a cent.
WatchSecond-most expensive entry; break-even is a couple of weeks at the median.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 32 · run a service

ItsAI

Needs a GPU$3.54 entryVery flat rewards

Run a DeBERTa classifier judging human vs LLM text. One of the fairest curves anywhere, for the smallest fee on this page.

$3.03
to register
238
of 256 earning
$9.53
median / day
$7.91
bottom quartile
7%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
RiskWill not pay for a rented GPU. Mine it on hardware you already own and that is otherwise idle.
WatchPrice rank in the lower fifth of the network, so subnet-prune risk is real.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 13 · collect and serve data

Data Universe

Easiest startNo GPU$0.13 entry

Scrape public Reddit and X posts into a local database; validators sample and score it. The cheapest way to learn Bittensor.

$0.13
to register
240
of 256 earning
$6.09
median / day
$5.05
bottom quartile
5%
top-10 take
70%
emissions burned
RiskTest your data source first — the free Reddit path now returns 403 from most servers.
WatchPays single-digit dollars a day. A learning subnet, not an income one.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Netuid 79 · run a service

MVTRX

Cheap to learn onNo GPUToken down sharply

Run a trading agent inside a market simulation, scored on risk-adjusted performance. Nearly every slot earns and nothing is burned.

$19.31
to register
222
of 256 earning
$3.33
median / day
$1.05
bottom quartile
49%
top-10 take
0%
emissions burned
RiskAlpha fell by roughly half in 30 days and median pay is a few dollars. Learn on it; do not bank on it.
WatchA silent agent scores zero — trading activity is part of the score.
SKILL.mdscripts/preflight.sh
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Side by side

The numbers

SubnetEntry costEarningMedian /dayBottom 25%Top 10 takeBurnedImmunityPrice rank
SN93 Bitcast$1.304 / 256$653.11$4.08100%3.9%168 h112/128
SN62 Ridges$0.1313 / 256$448.05$375.8091%0.0%25 h102/128
SN124 Swarm$130.0125 / 256$309.09$215.6663%0.0%17 h103/128
SN61 RedTeam$14.1849 / 256$282.50$41.3439%0.0%48 h108/128
SN28 SayGM$26.0058 / 256$59.04$27.8184%0.0%12 h113/128
SN96 Verathos$26.0074 / 256$51.84$26.1038%30.3%17 h94/128
SN41 Almanac$32.4584 / 256$42.26$29.3320%7.0%48 h63/128
SN5 Hone$57.16244 / 256$40.88$40.164%0.0%17 h106/128
SN15 ORO$157.9477 / 256$25.17$13.2794%0.0%17 h121/128
SN74 Gittensor$39.0012 / 256$22.31$0.54100%65.1%17 h39/128
SN33 ReadyAI$20.67247 / 256$14.58$13.576%0.0%24 h61/128
SN50 Synth$208.02241 / 256$12.12$4.3019%0.0%218 h70/128
SN32 ItsAI$3.03238 / 256$9.53$7.917%0.0%24 h24/128
SN13 Data Universe$0.13240 / 256$6.09$5.055%70.4%40 h75/128
SN79 MVTRX$19.31222 / 256$3.33$1.0549%0.0%24 h37/128
WatchRead these honestly. Earnings are paid in each subnet's own alpha token, valued at the price on the day it was measured, in pools that are often thin — so treat them as a ranking signal, not a forecast. A median is the median of the miners who earn, not of everyone registered. Registration fees are never refundable.

Figures sourced from live Bittensor chain state and per-subnet metagraphs — 2026-09-07 · block 9,018,968 · TAO $260.03. Burn UIDs excluded from all earnings statistics.

These skills are educational tooling, not financial advice. Mining involves non-refundable costs and no guaranteed return. Verify everything against the subnet's own documentation before spending.