NCT Management

NCT management is keeping your Engine funded so it can bid consistently, and avoiding unexpected downtime from insufficient balance.

What Affects your Balance?

Bids

• When you place a bid, that amount is deducted from your Engine wallet.
• If the wallet cannot cover the bid, your participation may be reduced or treated as bid 0.

Rewards and penalties

• Rewards arrive after arbitration, typically on a delay of weeks.
• That delay means your wallet must fund bids until rewards are paid out.

Deposits

• Add NCT to your Engine wallet via the deposit address shown in the PolySwarm UI.

Withdrawals

• Reduce wallet balance immediately when initiated.

Operating Checklist

1. Choose a target minimum balance

Pick a minimum balance that covers at least the arbitration window for your expected bidding rate.

A practical estimate:

• Daily bounties you bid on
• Average bid size
• Arbitration window duration

2. Monitor balance and set a refill threshold

Decide a refill point such as:

• “top up when balance drops below X”
• “top up weekly if below X”

3. Match bidding to wallet reality

If your balance is low:

• Reduce bids temporarily
• Bid only on your strongest signal areas
• Return UNKNOWN on anything uncertain

4. Avoid sudden bid spikes

Bid spikes can drain your wallet quickly and create a stop-start Engine. Keep bids stable and increase gradually.

Signs you need to adjust

• Wallet drops rapidly day over day
• You stop participating due to insufficient bid funds
• You are overbidding relative to confidence
• Your configured rate limit is too high for your current funding level