Staking

How to earn (or burn) NMR with your Signals model

If your signal has sufficiently low churn and turnover, you may optionally stake NMR on your model to earn or burn based on your scores. Staking means locking up your NMR and giving Numerai permission to add payouts to or burn from the NMR locked up. For general rules about staking and payouts, please read the main staking documentation.

It is important to note that the opportunity to stake your signal is not an offer by Numerai to participate in an investment contract, a security, a swap based on the return of any financial assets, an interest in Numerai’s hedge fund, or in Numerai itself or any fees we earn. Payouts will be made at our discretion, based on a blackbox target that will not be disclosed to users. Fundamentally, Numerai Signals is a service offered by Numerai that allows users to assess the value of their signals, using NMR staking as a way to validate “real” signals. In return, Numerai uses the staked signals and related data in the Numerai hedge fund. Users with different expectations should not stake signals.

Please read our Terms of Service for further information.

Payouts

Payouts are a function of your stake value and scores. Please review the main staking documentation to understand how payouts work generally. The Signals payout function is specifically:

payout = stake * clip(payout_factor * (fncv4 * 1 + mmc * 2), -0.05, 0.05)  

For rounds starting on September 2nd, 2025, the payout function will change to:

payout = stake * clip(payout_factor * (alpha * 0.3 + mpc * 0.8), -0.017, 0.017)  

The payout_factor reduces logarithmically as the total NMR staked grows over the stake_cap_threshold.See the values of stake_cap_threshold here.