IOTA Train at Home vs the IOTA cryptocurrency
IOTA Train at Home is a Macrocosmos / Bittensor subnet. The IOTA Foundation chain, Firefly, and IOTA Layer 1 wallets are a different product.
People searching for “IOTA” usually land on the IOTA Foundation Layer 1 cryptocurrency. IOTA Train at Home is a different product: a Macrocosmos training network in the Bittensor ecosystem. IOTA Watch only monitors the second one.
Side by side
- IOTA Train at Home: home computers contribute training work. Rewards are the subnet alpha token, often called IOTA or SN9. You identify a machine with a public Miner ID (SS58 hotkey).
- IOTA Layer 1: a separate ledger and token. Wallets such as Firefly hold that coin. They do not show Train at Home device status.
- IOTA Watch: a read-only dashboard for Train at Home Miner IDs. It is not a wallet and never asks for a seed phrase.
How to tell which page you need
If you want to see whether a Mac is contributing and what it earned today, you want IOTA Watch plus the official Train at Home app. If you want to hold or send IOTA Layer 1 coins, use that network’s official wallet — not this site.
Next: find the Miner ID, what SN9 / IOTA means here, then read how rewards are counted.