📊 Rewards for miners

How they are formed. What they are awarded for.

👉 Author (Telegram): https://t.me/prog256

👉 Original article on Telegram: https://t.me/gonka_doc/7

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General information

On the network Gonka a node's total reward consists of two independent parts:

Total rewards = RewardCoins + WorkCoins

Let's look at each part separately.

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🎁 1. RewardCoins

Epoch rewards (Bitcoin-style)

🔹 How they are calculated

• Accrued once — at the end of the epoch

• Do not depend on the number of inference requests

• Distributed proportionally to Weight

🔹 Formula

RewardCoins = (Weight to Confirm / Total network Weight) × FixedEpochReward

🔹 What affects it

• ⚖️ Your node's Weight to Confirm

• 🌐 Total Weight of all network participants

• ⏳ FixedEpochReward

  • fixed for the epoch

  • decreases over time (similar to Bitcoin)

🔹 Example

• Node Weight: 400

• Total network Weight: 10 000

• FixedEpochReward: 285,000 GNK

RewardCoins = (400 / 10,000) × 285,000 = 11,400 GNK

Note: There are two types of node weight: 1. Weight 2. Weight to Confirm Miners receive rewards proportionally to Weight to Confirm. And the price for weight, it seems, is determined proportionally to Total Weight. *For more on how rewards are distributed - see the article: Community Pool

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💰 2. WorkCoins

Rewards for inference requests

🔹 How they accumulate

• Accrued during the epoch

• For each processed inference request

• The more real requests — the higher the reward

🔹 Formula

WorkCoins = sum of all ActualCost

Where:

ActualCost = (question tokens + answer tokens) × price per token

🔹 What affects WorkCoins

• 📈 Number of processed requests

• 🧠 Size of requests (number of tokens)

• 💲 Price per token (dynamic)

• ⚖️ Node's Weight to Confirm (affects request distribution)

🔹 Example

• Processed: 100 requests

• Average ActualCost: 1,000 uGNK

• Result:

WorkCoins = 100 × 1,000 = 100,000 uGNK

⚡️ Unevenness within a single epoch

🔸 RewardCoins — fixed

• Calculated only at the end of the epoch

• Do not depend from network load

• Depend only on the node's Weight to Confirm

🔸 WorkCoins — variable

• Requests arrive unevenly

• Network load can change sharply

• If in the first 5 hours there were, for example, 4 tokens/hour — this does not guarantee the same rate later

• More user activity → more WorkCoins

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🧩 Final picture

• WorkCoins — the variable part (depends on actual network load)

• RewardCoins — the fixed part (depends on Weight)

✅ Total rewards = WorkCoins + RewardCoins

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💡 How to increase rewards

1. ⚖️ Increase Weight to Confirm — PoC mining — stable node operation

2. 🚀 Process more inference requests — more WorkCoins

3. 🛡 Maintain stability — avoid missed validations — minimize downtimes

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Links

1. Community Pool

2. https://gonkascan.com/ - official participant tracker

3. https://gonka.gg/ - Gonka dashboards

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