Lifecycle and timings

Nothing deletes itself

Idle time never deletes a neuronet or its tasks — it only changes the status and stops emission. The record, tasks, stake and keys stay in place. Deletion happens exclusively on your command: dissolving the neuronet or removing a task.

The idleness ladder

Idle longer than 50 400 blocks (≈7 days) — status Warning: everything keeps working, rewards accrue. Idle longer than 216 000 blocks (≈30 days) — Frozen. The status is recomputed on the neuronet’s own settlement boundary, so the change may lag the threshold by up to one epoch.

Freezing does not lift itself

For a frozen neuronet the gateway stops accepting requests — inference, training and dataset uploads get a 409 neuronet_frozen. Emission is withheld: it does not burn, it accrues and is paid once the neuronet is back.

Since requests are rejected, no new work can appear — freezing is self-sustaining. The way out is an owner action: a settlement batch submitted directly to the chain, or dissolving the neuronet. The practical takeaway: do not let it get there — Warning gives you ≈23 days of slack.

What counts as activity

Activity means executed requests to your tasks, and nothing else. The idle clock resets when the gateway settles those requests with the chain: it submits a summary for the period (the explorer and the logs call it the epoch settlement batch). Adding a task, staking or editing settings do not count: with no requests, the clock keeps running.

Dissolving

Dissolving removes the neuronet record from the network immediately; earned-but-unpaid emission is paid to the owner as part of the same action. The stake comes back through a queue: 50 400 blocks (≈7 days) after the command.

Tasks

Tasks have no expiry: a task exists until you remove it. Removing a task also revokes the miner invitations issued for it.