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title: Payouts
description: Where your earnings land, in what currency, and on what schedule.
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# Payouts

This page describes how provider earnings are paid out on Subnet 51.

### Destination

Earnings land in your **provider coldkey** — the same coldkey you registered with when you joined Subnet 51. You do not need to provide any additional wallet address.

### Currency & amount

You receive **alpha tokens**. One alpha token represents a stake in the SN51 dynamic-TAO pool. The amount you receive each day corresponds to:

- **Rental fees earned** (if you rented GPUs): your share of renter USD, converted to alpha at the daily settlement rate
- **Subnet emission** (allocated to all eligible providers): your share of SN51 emission, paid as alpha

### Schedule & delay

Payouts are processed **daily**. Your earnings from a given day are computed, and a transfer initiated. You receive your alpha with a delay of  from the earning date.

There is no expedited payout path. If you need faster liquidity, you can unstake your alpha once it arrives and convert it to TAO or another token (see "[How to receive as TAO](#how-to-receive-as-tao)" below).

### Misbehavior decline

If your node has a misbehavior incident (repeated SSH failures, crashes, or other policy violations) on a given day, that day's payout is not processed for the offending node. Once you resolve the incident and regain a valid score, subsequent days are paid normally.

## How to receive as TAO

Alpha tokens live in the SN51 dynamic-TAO pool. To convert them to standard TAO or swap for other tokens:

1. **Unstake** your alpha from the SN51 pool (returns it to your coldkey as standard TAO). See the [Bittensor dynamic-TAO unstaking guide](https://docs.learnbittensor.org/subnets/understanding-subnets#unstaking-from-dynamic-subnets).
2. **Swap** TAO for the stablecoin or token of your choice on any decentralized exchange (e.g. MEXC, Coinbase, Uniswap).

Unstaking has a default unbonding period of 7 days on the Bittensor network. Plan accordingly if you need the tokens sooner.