Overview
The Evolve track is the second way Phylax miners earn. Instead of running a miner around the clock, you improve the subnet itself: submit a better version of any component, get it benchmarked against the current champion, and earn a continuous share of emissions while your version stays canonical. Submissions are one-shot, like a pull request with a stake behind it. No uptime requirement, no axon, no registration beyond a hotkey.The Evolve track pays 5% of miner emissions, divided across all currently adopted contributions. The other 95% flows through the Operate track described in the Miner Guide.
What You Can Improve
Any component of the subnet repo is open to improvement. Nothing is off limits. Examples:| Area | Examples |
|---|---|
| Detection | Classifier accuracy, static analysis rules, prompt-injection detection, SBOM and CVE coverage |
| Sandbox | Probe instrumentation, evasion resistance, new trace types, detonation performance |
| Reference harness | The open-source baseline pipeline new miners clone |
| Validator | Round orchestration, consensus logic, verification group selection, rerun efficiency |
| Scoring | Axis formulas, anti-gaming checks, tier calibration |
| Protocol and server | Wire schema, API endpoints, storage, caching |
| Tooling | CLI, runtime SDK, deployment scripts, test coverage |
How Adoption Works
Benchmark
Detection and classification changes are replayed against the ground-truth corpus (canaries plus known-good and known-bad skills) on detection accuracy, false-positive rate, classification accuracy, and runtime cost. Changes outside the detection path are assessed on measurable impact: performance, cost, correctness, and test results.
Threshold
Benchmarked changes must beat the current champion by at least 2% composite. Submissions are public, so copying the champion and resubmitting earns nothing.
Review and Adopt
Passing submissions go to human review (Praxi Labs during testnet). On adoption your version becomes canonical, pinned by hash, and announced to the network on the next round.