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The Big Picture
Bonds represent accumulated trust between validators and miners. The penalty factor controls how quickly bonds degrade. Higher penalty = faster bond decay = more responsive to recent behavior.
Use Cases
- Understand bond dynamics for a subnet
- Compare penalty rates across subnets
- Research consensus parameter effects
From Chain Metadata
MAP ( netuid ) --> bonds_penalty
Purpose & Usage
Purpose
Control bond degradation rate for consensus mechanics.
Common Query Patterns
- Query by netuid
Query Keys
| # | Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | netuid | u16 | netuid (u16, hashed key component) |
Stored Value
bonds_penalty (u16)
Code Examples
import { createClient, Binary } from "polkadot-api";
import { getWsProvider } from "polkadot-api/ws";
import { sub } from "@polkadot-api/descriptors"; // generated by: npx papi add sub -w wss://entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai:443
const client = createClient(getWsProvider("wss://entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai:443"));
const api = client.getTypedApi(sub);
// Query BondsPenalty storage
const netuid = 1;
const result = await api.query.SubtensorModule.BondsPenalty.getValue(netuid);
console.log("BondsPenalty:", result);Version History
v233 block 4,920,350 Added
v278–v289 · runtime versions skipped on chain (never deployed)
v290 block 5,947,548 Internal re-bind Current
Runtime Info
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- SubtensorModule
- Storage Kind
- Map
- First Version
- v233
- Current Version
- v411