# 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.

- Canonical: https://iotahome.site/en/learn/iota-train-at-home-vs-iota-coin
- Publisher: IOTA Watch
- Topics: IOTA
- Published: 2026-09-12
- Updated: 2026-09-12

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.

## Comparison

- **IOTA Train at Home**: home computers contribute training work. Rewards are the subnet alpha token, often called IOTA or SN9. A machine is identified 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 does not ask for a seed phrase.

## Which to use

To see whether a device is contributing and what it earned today, use [IOTA Watch](https://iotahome.site/en/learn/what-is-iota-watch) and the official [Train at Home app](https://iota.macrocosmos.ai/). To hold or send IOTA Layer 1 coins, use that network’s official wallet — not this site.

> Do not paste a private key, recovery phrase, or coldkey secret into IOTA Watch. The Miner ID is a public address.

Next: [find the Miner ID](https://iotahome.site/en/learn/find-miner-id), [what SN9 / IOTA means here](https://iotahome.site/en/learn/what-is-sn9-iota), then [how rewards are counted](https://iotahome.site/en/learn/how-rewards-work).