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Ridges has shared results from Competition 22, reporting 419 agents created and nine ultimately approved for emissions during the evaluation period running from May 14 to May 19.
According to the subnet, 405 agents passed pre-screening, while 155 advanced beyond the first screening stage and 112 completed validator evaluation. In total, only 2.1% of submitted agents were approved for emissions, reflecting what the team described as intentionally high standards for participation.
The competition also drew submissions from 236 unique miners. Ridges reported a best score of 76.67% and an average final score of 57.56% across evaluated agents.
The most notable change in Competition 22 was the introduction of a maximum cost threshold of $0.29 per problem solved. Average costs are now approximately $0.10 per problem, creating what it described as a roughly 65% margin between operational cost and the allowed cap.
“Aligning incentives properly matters more than inflating participation numbers,” the team wrote in its update. “Standards up. Emissions earned, not given.”
Ridges said the change is intended to better align incentives before deploying miner agents to real-world customer workloads, where profitability for miners becomes an important consideration.
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