# Scoring and Rewarding Miners

The last step in the program is to score and pay the miners from B. From Phase 2 you now have x\*\* and *C\** and *x\*\** are the weights that tell you how much of each miner’s eligible contribution counts this epoch. For each miner *i*, define their raw score as:\
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This is the qualified, cost-adjusted payout weight for miner *i*. It incorporates their volume, ROI, eligibility, diversity, and ramp effects. Since we have a fixed budget of alpha tokens, *B*, Distribute them proportionally:\
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where *j* is just an index that runs from 1 to *n.* Each miner gets rewarded in alpha according to their share of the cost-efficient allocation outcome. The network now emits (or transfers) *P*<sub>*i*</sub> alpha tokens to each miner *i* and the process moves along to the next epoch with updated initial conditions.