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Cortex Bounty rewards useful, reproducible vulnerability reports about Cortex. Cortex records hotkey links and adjudicates findings; the subnet reads the public findings to calculate weights. Filing a report, receiving a valid verdict and receiving an on-chain reward are separate steps.

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Where to find Bounty

Open Cortex Chat with a dedicated mining account. Bounty is a programme inside Cortex, not a separate application or a page at /bounty in the app.
  • Link a hotkey: send /link <ss58> in Chat and complete the signing card.
  • File a finding: open Settings > General > Report a bug, then Add to the Challenge Bounty on the receipt when your report is eligible.
  • Read published findings: use the Transparency API. Its leaderboard is a public JSON response, not a payout dashboard.
Linking requires explicit acceptance of the current research terms. Read the terms card before accepting, then request the signing card. Sending /link alone does not accept anything or link a key. See Pair a hotkey, including what to do if your app does not yet show an acceptance control.

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Participate

Pair a hotkey

Check the prerequisites and sign a Chat card with your mining hotkey.

File a report

Submit a reproducible finding and add an eligible bug report to Bounty.

Verdicts and scoring

Understand severity, eligibility and why a valid report is not a guaranteed payment.

Transparency API

Read the public status, leaderboard and reports from one consistent publication.

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Privacy and rewards

Use an account reserved for mining: programme terms allow its conversations and logs to be used for research, fixing defects and assessing rewards. Never submit wallet secrets. The signing card needs a signature, not a seed phrase or private key. Pending findings stay private. After adjudication, a public record contains the verdict and its justification, not the original report body or Chat transcript. A public summary appears only when staff approves it. Bounty has 20% of subnet emission. Its share is not increased when another challenge is unavailable. Published report counts are not reward weights, and an unavailable scorer can leave the Bounty share unallocated to miners. The scoring rules explain the additional eligibility gates. A public verdict alone is not evidence of an on-chain payment.