Maximizing Payout

Understanding how the network handles workload is crucial, because it directly affects your earnings. Some of the factors are set such as the market you participate in. E.g. the payout in the US will be higher than the payout in Bangladesh. However other factors, are completely in your control.

This guide is to optimize exactly that.

Increase Node Count

The easiest way to increase your total total earnings is to increase maximum potential of your host. To do this, add additional node licenses as your hardware comfortably allows, maximizing GPU usage and total earnings.

Increase Node Utilization

Then you may also want to optimize your utilization rate of your nodes. The utilization rate is determined by your accumulated reputation (XP), which can be increased high uptime, reliable connectivity and community participation. Participate in community events and hold earned tokens to boost your node's reputation, placing you at the front of the line for session allocation.

The other nudge you can tweak is having your pc operate during times or days when there is high demand. Usually high gaming demand peaks evenings and weekends. Ensuring your node is available during these periods increases your likelihood of receiving session assignments.

Finally, prevent abrupt disconnects. Utilize reliable hardware, power backups, and monitoring tools to maintain consistent availability. If you go under once, that's acceptable. However, if that happens repeatedly, your host will get penalized when under a certain uptime rate.

Apart from the above factors, YOM’s orchestrator also performs some balancing to prevent any single node from hogging all jobs or remaining completely idle for too long.

To Operate or Delegate

You can further optimize your rewards by ensuring the right balance of assigning your Node Licenses to your own host machine vs. delegating them to external providers.

Feature	Delegation	NANO Node Runner
Technical Knowledge	None	Minimal
Setup Time	Very Low	Moderate
Optimization Potential	Can be optimized by picking the right NaaS.	Can be optimized by building your reputation.
Hardware	None	Gaming PC
Maintenance	You pay monthly service fees to the NaaS partner.	You pay for your own electricity bills.
Risk	Requires monthly commitment.	None, just turn off your PC at any time.

Earnings Expectations: Practical Examples

One of the most common questions potential node operators ask is “How much can I earn?”. YOM provides a realistic forecast by modeling node earnings as a Gaussian (bell curve) distribution centered around an expected average.

The assumption is that on average, a node will be utilized about 50% of the time it’s available​. In other words, roughly half the hours your node is up, it will be actively streaming a session (the other half it might be idle, waiting for demand). Based on network simulations under current conditions, YOM estimates a monthly earnings of $53 per node (assuming 50% workload allocation).

It’s worth noting that these numbers scale linearly with the number of additional node licenses you run on your hardware (assuming your machine can handle it). For example, if you operate a rig with 1 NANO Node Runner + 4 additional licenses concurrently (e.g. a high-end GPU running five game streams), your projected earnings would be abou.t five times the single-node values. Concretely, five nodes could yield around $265 per month on average.