Operator Year 1: A Worked Walkthrough
Operator Year 1, illustrative.
// 11.3 · one operator · 12 months · figures depend on total online weight
Caveat·Illustrative, not a forecast
Operator profile
// hardware · region · workload · uptime target
Year 1 totals
// gross rewards · operating cost · implied break-even
// GROSS REWARDS Y1
~220,970 $PRLX
Per-second share of the live reward stream
// OPERATING COST
$21,600 USD
12 × $1,800/mo power + bandwidth
// BREAK-EVEN
~0.098 USD/$PRLX
Implied per-token price (gross / cost)
// PRINCIPAL AT RISK
0 $PRLX
No slashing; stake returned in full
Month by month
// 11.3.1 · per-second share of the live stream · weight constant, share falls
| M | ONLINE WEIGHT | YOUR TIER | YOUR UPTIME | YOUR SHARE | GROSS PRLX | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 4.98% | 51,830 | Few nodes online; bootstrap-rich |
| 2 | 7.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 3.55% | 37,020 | Network growing |
| 3 | 9.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 2.76% | 28,800 | More stake-weight online |
| 4 | 12.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 2.07% | 21,600 | |
| 5 | 15.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 1.66% | 17,280 | |
| 6 | 18.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 1.38% | 14,400 | |
| 7 | 22.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 1.13% | 11,780 | |
| 8 | 26.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 0.96% | 9,970 | |
| 9 | 30.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 0.83% | 8,640 | |
| 10 | 35.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 0.71% | 7,410 | |
| 11 | 40.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 0.62% | 6,480 | |
| 12 | 45.0M | 2.5x | 99.5% | 0.55% | 5,760 | Per-node share compressed by growth |
What the table assumes
// explicit assumptions · use as a calibration tool
Bucket release. The 25% Operator Rewards bucket releases ~1,041,666 $PRLX per month (§8.4) as a fixed pool, streamed from Sablier (~34,200 $PRLX/day). The operator's share is purely its weight over the total online weight; nothing about it is a yield on the stake.
Constant operator weight. The operator's weight (100,000 × 2.5 × 0.995 ≈ 248,750) is constant; the per-share figure falls only because total online weight rises as the network grows.
Per-second stream accrual. earned(nodeId) grows every block at rewardRate × (operator_weight / total_online_weight) while online. Call claim(nodeId) anytime to pull the balance to wei precision. There is no per-task crediting and no daily settle.
No slashing. No slashing exists, so there is no principal-loss row: the 100,000 $PRLX stake is returned in full on unstake (7-day cooldown: requestUnstake then withdrawStake).
Operating cost. Rough at $1,800/month; varies by region and electricity rate.
Risks the operator should watch
// 11.3.2 · effect · mitigation
Going offline
Uptime drops, weight falls, less of the pool
Monitor coord latency; alert at 2x p95
Failed / wrong results
Result rejected, no uptime credit
Verify hash output and checksum before returning
Hardware-tier mismatch
Uptime zeroed for the period
Declare the tier the machine actually has
Drop below 99% uptime
Lower uptime factor, lower reward weight
Redundant power, monitored network
Total online weight grows
Per-node share of the fixed pool falls
Stake more (more weight) or run more nodes
The table compresses 12 months of speculative parameters into one artifact. Treat it as a calibration tool, not a forecast.