Learn·Risk
Conviction locks and subnet ownership
Locking α builds conviction on a schedule set in the chain's own source — including the 18% takeover threshold.
Locking buys weight, over time
α can be locked on a subnet. Locked α matures into conviction gradually rather than counting in full immediately, so weight has to be earned by waiting.
The unlock and maturity rates are read from the chain, never hardcoded — they correspond to roughly 90-day and 30-day half-lives at the values currently on chain.
The takeover threshold is 18%
Ownership can change hands when conviction reaches 18% of the eligible α. That figure comes from reading the runtime's own source, and eligible α is the outstanding α less protocol-held and burned α.
Published figures of 10% elsewhere do not match what the chain actually does.
Why the projection is trustworthy
The decay model is a direct port of the runtime's own function, including its clamp on the exponent — which means it floors at a very small positive number rather than at zero.
It was checked against every real lock on chain, and reproduces the stored state exactly at zero elapsed time.