Managing Root Claims

Last updated: Aug 03, 2026

This page covers how to configure, monitor, and claim root dividends, i.e. dividends from staking to validators on the Root Subnet. See Root Claim

Use a proxy coldkey for these operations

The operations on this page require a coldkey. Your primary coldkey should remain in cold storage (hardware wallet) and never be loaded onto a machine running btcli or the Bittensor SDK. Use a scoped, delayed proxy coldkey to perform these operations via btcli or the SDK. See Coldkey and Hotkey Workstation Security and Proxies.

Prerequisites

A coldkey with TAO staked on the root network (subnet 0).
A hotkey that's registered and staked on one or more subnets.
To set your Root Claim preference requires a transaction fee, so you must be able to cover the cost of the fee.

Set a claim type

Your claim type determines what happens to your root dividends when they're claimed:

Claim Types:

Swap (default): Future Root Alpha Emissions are swapped to TAO and added to root stake.
Keep: Future Root Alpha Emissions are kept as Alpha tokens.
KeepSubnets: Keep Alpha for specific subnets only; all other subnets are swapped to TAO. This gives you fine-grained control over which subnet tokens you want to hold. Note that this is a new feature and not yet supported by BTCLI and the SDK (coming soon).

BTCLI
Bittensor SDK
Polkadot app

Use the btcli stake set-claim command to set your root claim type. The set_root_claim_type extrinsic is included in the Staking proxy type's allowed operations, so a Staking proxy is sufficient:

btcli stake set-claim --wallet.name PROXY_WALLET --proxy REAL_COLDKEY_SS58

The command will display your current setting and prompt for changes.

Show Sample Output

                    Current root claim type:

 Coldkey                                            Root Claim Type
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 5G4mxrN8msvc4jjwp7xoBrtAejTfAMLCMTFGCivY5inmySbq        Swap

Select new root claim type [Swap/Keep] (Swap): Keep

Changing root claim type from 'Swap' -> 'Keep'

Note: With 'Keep', future root alpha emissions will be kept as Alpha tokens.

Do you want to proceed? [y/n]: y
Enter your password:
Decrypting...
✅ Successfully set root claim type to 'Keep'
✅ Your extrinsic has been included as 5751523-6

SDK Version

This documentation is built against Bittensor Python SDK v10. For documentation built against SDK 9.12, see SDK 9.12 Archive.

Use the set_root_claim_type() pallet builder with a Staking proxy. set_root_claim_type is included in the Staking proxy type's allowed operations:

import asyncio, os
import bittensor as bt
from bittensor_wallet import Wallet
from bittensor.core.async_subtensor import AsyncSubtensor
from bittensor.core.chain_data.proxy import ProxyType
from bittensor.core.extrinsics.pallets import SubtensorModule

async def main():
    proxy_wallet = Wallet(name=os.environ['BT_PROXY_WALLET_NAME'])
    real_account_ss58 = os.environ['BT_REAL_ACCOUNT_SS58']

    async with AsyncSubtensor(network="test") as subtensor:
        set_claim_call = SubtensorModule(subtensor).set_root_claim_type(
            new_root_claim_type="Keep",  # or "Swap" for TAO accumulation
        )
        response = await subtensor.proxy(
            wallet=proxy_wallet,
            real_account_ss58=real_account_ss58,
            force_proxy_type=ProxyType.Staking,
            call=set_claim_call,
        )
        print(response)

asyncio.run(main())

You can also query the current claim type:

import asyncio
from bittensor_wallet import Wallet
from bittensor.core.async_subtensor import AsyncSubtensor

async def main():
    wallet = Wallet(name="validator", hotkey="default")
    async with AsyncSubtensor(network="test") as subtensor:
        claim_type = await subtensor.get_root_claim_type(
            coldkey_ss58=wallet.coldkeypub.ss58_address
        )
        print(f"Current root claim type: {claim_type}")

asyncio.run(main())

Navigate to Developer → Extrinsics
Select your coldkey account
Choose the pallet: subtensorModule and choose the setRootClaimType(newRootClaimType) extrinsic.
Select your desired claim type:
- Swap - convert all Alpha to TAO (default)
- Keep - retain all Alpha tokens
- KeepSubnets - keep Alpha for specific subnets only (requires specifying subnet IDs)
Click Submit Transaction and sign.

Monitor claim status and types

View claimable amounts with stake list

Output from the btcli stake list command includes a Claimable column, which shows the amount of unclaimed, accumulated ALPHA emissions available for manual claiming from each subnet.

btcli stake list

For a live-updating view:

btcli stake list --live

Show Sample Output

                            Hotkey: Example (...)
                                                     Network: finney


        ┃                        ┃     Value ┃           ┃    Price    ┃            ┃  Emission ┃  Emission ┃  Claimable
 Netuid ┃ Name                   ┃ (α x τ/α) ┃ Stake (α) ┃ (τ_in/α_in) ┃ Registered ┃ (α/block) ┃ (Τ/block) ┃        (α)
━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━
 0      │ τ root                 │   τ 46.93 │  Τ 46.93  │ 1.0000 τ/Τ  │        YES │  Τ 0.0000 │  0.0000 τ │          -
 4      │ δ Targon               │    τ 0.30 │  6.88 δ   │ 0.0437 τ/δ  │        YES │  0.0012 δ │  0.0000 τ │  0.00031 δ
 120    │ ⲃ Affine               │    τ 0.00 │  0.01 ⲃ   │ 0.0551 τ/ⲃ  │         NO │  0.0013 ⲃ │  0.0000 τ │  0.00107 ⲃ
 119    │ Ⲃ Akihabara            │    τ 0.00 │  0.01 Ⲃ   │ 0.0176 τ/Ⲃ  │         NO │  0.0017 Ⲃ │  0.0000 τ │  0.00199 Ⲃ
 62     │ ز Ridges               │    τ 0.00 │  0.00 ز   │ 0.0676 τ/ز  │         NO │  0.0011 ز │  0.0000 τ │  0.00050 ز
 64     │ ش Chutes               │    τ 0.00 │  0.00 ش   │ 0.0783 τ/ش  │         NO │  0.0008 ش │  0.0000 τ │  0.00025 ش
 115    │ Ѕ SoulX                │    τ 0.00 │  0.01 Ѕ   │ 0.0125 τ/Ѕ  │         NO │  0.0015 Ѕ │  0.0000 τ │  0.00190 Ѕ
 51     │ ת lium.io              │    τ 0.00 │  0.00 ת   │ 0.0548 τ/ת  │         NO │  0.0004 ת │  0.0000 τ │  0.00039 ת
 41     │ נ Sportstensor         │    τ 0.00 │  0.00 נ   │ 0.0320 τ/נ  │         NO │  0.0009 נ │  0.0000 τ │  0.00045 נ
 8      │ θ Proprietary Tradi... │    τ 0.00 │  0.00 θ   │ 0.0286 τ/θ  │         NO │  0.0004 θ │  0.0000 τ │  0.00050 θ

Query claimable ALPHA

Bittensor SDK
Polkadot app

Using the following methods, you can query the claimable stake for a specific subnet.

import asyncio
from bittensor_wallet import Wallet
from bittensor.core.async_subtensor import AsyncSubtensor

async def main():
    wallet = Wallet(name="validator", hotkey="default")
    async with AsyncSubtensor(network="local") as subtensor:
        # Get claimable stake for a specific subnet
        netuid = 2
        claimable_stake = await subtensor.get_root_claimable_stake(
            coldkey_ss58=wallet.coldkeypub.ss58_address,
            hotkey_ss58=wallet.hotkey.ss58_address,
            netuid=netuid
        )
        print(f"Claimable stake for subnet {netuid}: {claimable_stake}")

asyncio.run(main())

To see how much you can claim from a specific subnet:

Navigate to Developer → Chain State
Select the storage query: subtensorModule → rootClaimable(AccountId)
Enter your hotkey address
Click the + button to query

Check claimed ALPHA

Bittensor SDK
Polkadot app

You can check how much you've already claimed from a subnet:

import asyncio
from bittensor_wallet import Wallet
from bittensor.core.async_subtensor import AsyncSubtensor

async def main():
    wallet = Wallet(name="validator", hotkey="default")
    async with AsyncSubtensor(network="local") as subtensor:
        # Get already claimed stake for a specific subnet
        netuid = 2
        claimed_stake = await subtensor.get_root_claimed(
            coldkey_ss58=wallet.coldkeypub.ss58_address,
            hotkey_ss58=wallet.hotkey.ss58_address,
            netuid=netuid
        )
        print(f"Already claimed stake for subnet {netuid}: {claimed_stake}")

asyncio.run(main())

To see how much you've already claimed from a subnet:

Navigate to Developer → Chain State
Select the storage query: subtensorModule → rootClaimed(AccountId, AccountId, u16)
Fill the parameters:
- AccountId: Enter the account hotkey.
- AccountId: Enter the account coldkey.
- u16: Enter the subnet uid.
Click the + button to query

Trigger a manual claim

The network will eventually process your pending emissions automatically. However, you can choose to manually claim your accumulated ALPHA without waiting, for a small extrinsic fee. See Transaction Fees.

To manually trigger a claim:

BTCLI
Bittensor SDK
Polkadot app

Use the btcli stake process-claim command to manually claim your accumulated root network emissions. Use a RootClaim proxy — it is scoped specifically to claim_root operations:

btcli st process-claim --verbose --wallet.name PROXY_WALLET --proxy REAL_COLDKEY_SS58

Show Sample Output

               Claimable emissions

 Netuid   Current Stake   Claimable   Hotkey                                             Identity
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1           0.0035 α    0.0005 α   5CoZxgtfhcJKX2HmkwnsN18KbaT9aih9eF3b6qVPTgAUbifj   TAO.app
               0.0015 α    0.0002 α   5G3wMP3g3d775hauwmAZioYFVZYnvw6eY46wkFy8hEWD5KP3   Openτensor Foundaτion
   2           0.0036 β    0.0005 β   5CoZxgtfhcJKX2HmkwnsN18KbaT9aih9eF3b6qVPTgAUbifj   TAO.app
               0.0015 β    0.0002 β   5G3wMP3g3d775hauwmAZioYFVZYnvw6eY46wkFy8hEWD5KP3   Openτensor Foundaτion
   3           0.0033 γ    0.0005 γ   5CoZxgtfhcJKX2HmkwnsN18KbaT9aih9eF3b6qVPTgAUbifj   TAO.app
               2.6817 γ    0.0002 γ   5G3wMP3g3d775hauwmAZioYFVZYnvw6eY46wkFy8hEWD5KP3   Openτensor Foundaτion
   4           6.8791 δ    0.0003 δ   5CoZxgtfhcJKX2HmkwnsN18KbaT9aih9eF3b6qVPTgAUbifj   TAO.app
               0.0020 δ    0.0003 δ   5G3wMP3g3d775hauwmAZioYFVZYnvw6eY46wkFy8hEWD5KP3   Openτensor Foundaτion
   5           0.0033 ε    0.0004 ε   5CoZxgtfhcJKX2HmkwnsN18KbaT9aih9eF3b6qVPTgAUbifj   TAO.app
               0.0014 ε    0.0002 ε   5G3wMP3g3d775hauwmAZioYFVZYnvw6eY46wkFy8hEWD5KP3   Openτensor Foundaτion

...

Enter up to 5 netuids to claim from (comma-separated)
(1,2,3,4,5): 1,2,3,4,5

Estimated extrinsic fee: 0.000046377 τ
Do you want to proceed? [y/n]:

Use the claim_root() pallet builder with a RootClaim proxy to manually claim your accumulated root network emissions. The RootClaim proxy type is scoped specifically to claim_root operations:

import asyncio, os
from bittensor_wallet import Wallet
from bittensor.core.async_subtensor import AsyncSubtensor
from bittensor.core.chain_data.proxy import ProxyType
from bittensor.core.extrinsics.pallets import SubtensorModule

async def main():
    proxy_wallet = Wallet(name=os.environ['BT_PROXY_WALLET_NAME'])
    real_account_ss58 = os.environ['BT_REAL_ACCOUNT_SS58']

    async with AsyncSubtensor(network="test") as subtensor:
        # Specify subnets to claim from (up to 5 at once)
        claim_call = SubtensorModule(subtensor).claim_root(subnets=[1, 2, 3])
        response = await subtensor.proxy(
            wallet=proxy_wallet,
            real_account_ss58=real_account_ss58,
            force_proxy_type=ProxyType.RootClaim,
            call=claim_call,
        )
        print(response)

asyncio.run(main())

You can also check claimable amounts before claiming:

import asyncio
from bittensor_wallet import Wallet
from bittensor.core.async_subtensor import AsyncSubtensor

async def main():
    wallet = Wallet(name="validator", hotkey="default")
    async with AsyncSubtensor(network="test") as subtensor:
        # Get stake info which includes claimable amounts
        stake_info = await subtensor.get_stake_info_for_coldkey(
            coldkey_ss58=wallet.coldkeypub.ss58_address
        )

        if stake_info:
            print("Claimable emissions by subnet:")
            for info in stake_info:
                if hasattr(info, 'claimable') and info.claimable > 0:
                    print(f"  Subnet {info.netuid}: {info.claimable}")
        else:
            print("No claimable emissions found")

asyncio.run(main())

Navigate to Developer → Extrinsics
Select your coldkey account
Choose: subtensorModule → claimRoot(subnets)
Add subnet IDs to claim from:
- Click Add item for each subnet
- Enter the netuid (e.g., 1, 2, 3)
- You can claim from up to 5 subnets at once.
Click Submit Transaction and sign

Inspecting the Metagraph: View claim types for registered neurons

When viewing any subnet's metagraph, the Claim Type column shows the claim setting for registered neurons who have stake:

btcli subnets metagraph --netuid 14

Show Sample Output

                                                             Subnet 14: TAOHash
                                                       Network: finney • Mechanism 0

 UID ┃  Stake (ξ) ┃  Alpha (ξ) ┃    Tao (τ) ┃ Dividends ┃ Incentive ┃ Emissions (ξ) ┃ Hotkey ┃ Coldkey ┃ Identity              ┃ Claim Type
━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━
 29  │ 475.38k テ │ 395.29k テ │   τ 80.09k │ 0.265568  │ 0.999588  │ 187.260435 テ │ 5Cf4LP │ 5CKhH8  │ Owner14 (*Owner)      │    Swap
  3  │ 784.52k テ │ 294.40k テ │  τ 490.12k │ 0.438437  │ 0.000000  │ 64.894660 テ  │ 5C59tt │ 5GZSAg  │ RoundTable21          │    Swap
 243 │ 155.00k テ │  44.71k テ │  τ 110.29k │ 0.086595  │ 0.000000  │ 12.817256 テ  │ 5Ev8Zs │ 5HBtpw  │ Openτensor Foundaτion │    Swap
 147 │ 138.50k テ │  51.49k テ │   τ 87.01k │ 0.077363  │ 0.000000  │ 11.450874 テ  │ 5DfmoR │ 5E9fVY  │ Yuma, a DCG Company   │    Swap
 191 │  66.50k テ │   17.62 テ │   τ 66.48k │ 0.060868  │ 0.000000  │  9.010114 テ  │ 5GYfuc │ 5FHxxe  │ Kraken                │    Swap
 99  │  53.92k テ │   1.77k テ │   τ 52.14k │ 0.030121  │ 0.000000  │  4.458510 テ  │ 5HmkM6 │ 5Eq8b9  │ Crucible Labs         │    Swap
  4  │  50.66k テ │  26.55k テ │   τ 24.10k │ 0.028290  │ 0.000000  │  4.188392 テ  │ 5GRhNw │ 5Fuzgv  │ Rizzo (Insured)       │    Swap
 70  │  10.85k テ │   1.16k テ │    τ 9.69k │ 0.006058  │ 0.000000  │  0.897160 テ  │ 5G9hfk │ 5Ek8i6  │ 1T1B.AI               │    Swap
 235 │   9.38k テ │    0.77 テ │    τ 9.38k │ 0.005234  │ 0.000000  │  0.775315 テ  │ 5HbScN │ 5F4Xca  │ ~                     │    Swap
 89  │   5.00k テ │    0.02 テ │    τ 5.00k │ 0.000000  │ 0.000000  │  0.000000 テ  │ 5GKH9F │ 5GcCZ2  │ Taostats              │    Swap
 59  │   2.54k テ │  484.57 テ │    τ 2.05k │ 0.001404  │ 0.000000  │  0.209705 テ  │ 5FZGu1 │ 5CMUVy  │ MUV                   │    Swap
 207 │  533.28 テ │  533.28 テ │     τ 0.00 │ 0.000000  │ 0.000000  │  0.000000 テ  │ 5HTSgd │ 5GNE4s  │ tao5 (taohash key)    │     -
 21  │  350.18 テ │  350.18 テ │     τ 0.00 │ 0.000000  │ 0.000000  │  0.000000 テ  │ 5GND7u │ 5FNRRL  │ ~                     │     -
 134 │  116.72 テ │  116.72 テ │     τ 0.00 │ 0.000000  │ 0.000000  │  0.000000 テ  │ 5Esg46 │ 5ECNhc  │ ~                     │     -

...

────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────┼────────────    │   1.75m テ │ 816.98k テ │ 936.37k テ │   1.000   │           │  296.0217 ξ   │        │         │                       │


Subnet 14: TAOHash
  Total mechanisms: 1
  Owner: 5CKhH8nKAhXLmqxwaXzFtVFgxqwwnyckXG8qLpmGtzVJH9Ri (Owner14)
  Rate: 0.0104 τ/テ
  EMA TAO Inflow: τ 0.0102
  Emission: τ 0.0099
  TAO Pool: τ 21.15k
  Alpha Pool: 2.04m テ
  Tempo: 150/360
  Registration cost (recycled): τ 0.0005

Prerequisites​

Set a claim type​

Monitor claim status and types​

View claimable amounts with stake list​

Query claimable ALPHA​

Check claimed ALPHA​

Trigger a manual claim​

Inspecting the Metagraph: View claim types for registered neurons​

Prerequisites

Set a claim type

Monitor claim status and types

View claimable amounts with stake list

Query claimable ALPHA

Check claimed ALPHA

Trigger a manual claim

Inspecting the Metagraph: View claim types for registered neurons