5.0.5 — Generator Qualification & Paid Resubmissions

Generator rewards now require demonstrated fooling performance, and discriminator miners can safely purchase additional submission credits without changing hotkeys.

• Generator qualification: earn image rewards above a 2% image fool rate and video rewards above a 1% video fool rate, measured independently across the last 7 days, with at least 20 benchmark evaluations per modality. Twenty is a minimum, not a rolling sample cap. Default challenge allocation is 36 qualified / 8 onboarding / 6 probe slots, retaining opportunities for new and under-threshold miners.
• Reward-state safety: separate image/video EMAs immediately clear disqualified reward history. Qualification and scores follow hotkeys rather than reusable UIDs, with persisted qualification as payout fallback during API outages. The 16% generator allocation and 30/70 image/video weighting are unchanged.
• Paid discriminator resubmissions: after the free counted submission, gascli d push offers an interactive 0.5 TAO worth of SN34 alpha burn. Existing stake uses burn_alpha; otherwise the CLI uses add_stake_burn. The prompt shows the actual cost, including up to 2% alpha price padding and additional transaction fees. Unused credits are reused on retries; only explicit duplicate-file responses skip uploading.
• Burn recovery: signed transactions are saved before broadcast, concurrent local pushes are locked, and interrupted burns are recovered from finalized chain history. Uncertain outcomes block another burn. Keep the same local GAS_HOME and preserve its journal/receipts; this is not a cross-machine exactly-once guarantee. Submission and recovery details.
• Validator reliability: durable asynchronous generation callbacks reduce stale-task failures, and dataset/cache handling reduces memory pressure. File-cache reclaim is opt-in through SN34_CACHE_RECLAIM. The release includes configurable global burn handling, currently 0%, preserving the full 40% image / 40% video / 4% audio / 16% generators allocation subject to existing activation and missing-recipient burn rules.

Upgrade: update and restart validators on v5.0.5 using the validator guide. Enabled main-tracking auto-updaters detect the version bump. Legacy combined generator EMA resets once on upgrade; benchmark history is retained. Paid resubmissions require the corresponding model_upload backend and Supabase migrations from BitMind-AI/bmcore#392.

All changes since v5.0.0