Back to collectionProposal ties challenge emissions to elapsed time
Xai proposed replacing a fixed per-challenge esXAI allocation with an allocation based on seconds since the previous challenge. The stated problem was variable rollup timing: an hourly reward assumption could miss its intended distribution when challenges did not arrive hourly. The proposal's illustrative rate of 1 esXAI per second produces 3,600 esXAI after 3,600 seconds and 7,200 after 7,200 seconds. Those figures explain the formula; they are not the actual emission schedule.
Xai proposed replacing a fixed per-challenge esXAI allocation with an allocation based on seconds since the previous challenge. The stated problem was variable rollup timing: an hourly reward assumption could miss its intended distribution when challenges did not arrive hourly. The proposal's illustrative rate of 1 esXAI per second produces 3,600 esXAI after 3,600 seconds and 7,200 after 7,200 seconds. Those figures explain the formula; they are not the actual emission schedule.
Feedback immediately raised an eligibility question: what happens to a node that is offline during a missed challenge but returns just before the next one? That is separate from calculating the total reward pool. A time-weighted emission formula can smooth the amount issued without, by itself, measuring each operator's availability throughout the gap.