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Earnings

The Earnings page at provider.lium.io/provider-earnings shows both of your income streams: rental fees and subnet incentive (idle pay and rented extra).

Pick what to see

Select a hotkey, a date range (up to 90 days) and, if you want, some of your nodes.

Rental fees count for the account that owned the node when they were billed, even after the node moves to another provider. Fees billed to a node's previous owner are not shown. Rental earnings can appear before they are paid out.

Read the summary

The summary reads Rental + Incentive − Adjustments = Total estimated. The incentive is split into Rented and Idle. See Subnet emission.

See held idle pay

When idle pay in the selected days is on hold or lost, Idle incentive on hold or lost lists each cycle: node, status, estimated amount, reason, and about when it was held and checked (estimates). Pay held under a node ID given up by re-registering is not recovered. It shows the newest 2000 cycles; pick fewer days to see older ones.

Open a day

Each row is one UTC day. Open it for the per-node breakdown, then open a node for its day page. The node's Incentive history says why a cycle paid nothing and what to fix.

The day's Rental earnings breakdown ends on Net rental. When the day's payout also carried an account credit or recovered a debt, an Account adjustment line follows, then the Rental payout it adds up to. The day summary's Adjustments shows it too. Balance adjustment details says what it was.

A day paid to your USD balance reads Paid once a payout has sent it. Until then, or when that payout failed, it reads Pending payout until a later payout run sends it.

Accounts without a key​

If your provider account has no key of its own, its Earnings page has the same date range (up to 90 days, last 30 by default) and node filters as above. Only your own nodes are listed. Existing key accounts keep their usual Earnings page, including when signing in with Google.

  • Totals: the selected days and all time, Rental plus Idle pay in USD, both net of the same adjustments (penalties, refunds, debt recovered and credits). While some days' idle pay is pending, the selected days' total says so and leaves it out.
  • All time (settled) counts settled earnings only and does not change with the days you pick. Recent days show in the table and the selected days' total until they settle.
  • Table: each UTC day is a bold total line, followed by one line per node and, when there is one, an Account adjustments line. Columns: Rental, Adjustments, Idle pay and Total. On a node line, Adjustments is rental withheld by a penalty or a declined charge. On the account line, it is debt recovered from your earnings (minus) or a credit (plus). Under a debt recovery, the line names the debt it repaid (for a penalty, the rental and node) and what you still owe after it. Debt is repaid oldest first. Idle pay reads Pending until the day's incentive is known; until then the line's total leaves it out and says so.
  • Download statement (CSV): the rows shown, one per node and UTC day, plus the account adjustments.

Earnings statement​

For a bank, an accountant or a tax authority, use the toolbar:

  • Download statement (CSV): one row per node per UTC day of rental fees, one row per daily payout, and one row per UTC day of subnet incentive (idle pay, rented extra, total in alpha, and USD), with status unavailable when the incentive could not be read, and not_tracked for days before Lium tracked your hotkey.
  • Printable statement: the same figures with totals. Use Print → Save as PDF to keep a PDF.

Subnet incentive settles as stake on your hotkey, not as a transfer to your coldkey.

Verifying a settlement against the chain​

On a day's page, Epoch settlements lists each epoch that paid into that day. Its Verify reward link opens your hotkey's on-chain reward for that epoch on TaoMarketCap.

The epoch total is the authoritative figure. The day, node and rented/idle splits are Lium's reconstruction, so small differences from the epoch total are expected and do not mean you were underpaid.

Payouts​

  • Rental fees go to your coldkey once per UTC day, in alpha. There is no claim button. A day too small to send is carried to your next payout. A day whose transfer did not go out is sent again automatically about two hours later.
  • Subnet incentive accrues as stake on your hotkey every tempo (~72 minutes). Look at your hotkey's stake, not your transfer history.
  • USDT instead of alpha: set it in Settings → Payout. See Stablecoin payout.

If a rental fails because of your node, a penalty is taken from your rental fees. See Penalties. Schedule maintenance with a Notice Period to avoid one.

Payouts has the full schedule.

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