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decrease-take

Decrease the delegate take of a hotkey.

The delegate take is the fraction of staking emissions a delegate hotkey keeps for itself before distributing the rest to its nominators. This call only moves the take downward — the chain rejects values at or above the current take — and unlike increases it is not rate limited, so lowering your take is always available. Signed by the coldkey that owns the hotkey. Use set_take to land on an absolute value without tracking direction.

Signer	Pallet	Wraps
`coldkey`	SubtensorModule	`SubtensorModule.decrease_take`

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`take`	integer	yes	New take as a u16 proportion (fraction of 65535, e.g. 5898 is about 9 percent). The chain enforces its configured take bounds.
`hotkey_ss58`	string	no	Hotkey the operation applies to.

Address parameters (--hotkey, --coldkey, --dest, ...) accept a raw ss58 address, an address-book or proxy-book name, or a local wallet/hotkey name.

CLI

Preview with --dry-run (shows fee, effects, and policy result without submitting), then submit:

btcli tx decrease-take \
  --take <int> --dry-run
btcli tx decrease-take \
  --take <int> -w my_coldkey

Python

import bittensor as sub
from bittensor.wallet import Wallet

wallet = Wallet(name="my_coldkey", hotkey="my_hotkey")
intent = sub.DecreaseTake(take=0)

async with sub.Client("finney") as client:
    plan = await client.plan(intent, wallet)   # fee, effects, policy — no submission
    result = await client.execute(intent, wallet)
    if not result.success:
        print(result.error.code, result.error.remediation)

Or build it by op name, as an agent would:

await client.execute_tool("decrease_take", {...}, wallet)