Domain Owners
Domain Owners control the economic, scoring, and incentive parameters inside their domain.
Make sure to visit Domainsfor an in depth explanations of domains.
The diagram below represents the complete incentive flow that Domain Owners can configure:
1. What Domain Owners Control
Domain Owners do not control staking mechanics or global emissions, but they control how emissions and revenue are allocated inside their domain.
They configure:
A. Emission Weights
Domain Owners decide how much of the domain’s emission slice goes to:
Miners
Validators
Stakers
Creators
Domain treasury
Each domain can independently tune these weights to optimize for:
high-quality compute (miner incentives)
strong security (validator incentives)
capital inflow (staker incentives)
rapid model iteration (creator incentives)
B. Revenue Routing
Domain Owners define how revenue originating from model usage flows between:
Model Owners
Fees & Payment Processors
Buyback & Burn
Foundation
Variable Burn (registration fees)
Emission Reinforcement
See Revenue & Emission Distributionfor more details.
C. Scoring & Weighting Logic
Domain Owners set the weighting rules for:
Models
Miners
Validators
More details: Reputation & Weighting.
D. Registration Rules
Domains can set:
minimum performance thresholds
registration fees
model onboarding requirements
validator/miner admission criteria
Without modifying DeepNode’s global security primitives.
2. Why Domain Owners Exist
Domain Owners make DeepNode economically adaptive. They:
Tune incentives to match real-world performance
Prevent the “one-size-fits-all” failures of fixed tokenomics systems
Allow domains to evolve independently without changing protocol-wide economics
Ensure emissions follow verified work, quality models, and actual demand
Use scoring systems to discourage gaming and incentivize long-term alignment
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