# basket-position (/docs/query/basket-position)

`beta` is the staker's beta token balance — the product-facing number:
it never moves with market prices, only grows as root dividends accrue
and shrinks when you claim. One beta is 10^9 raw chain units and had a
par value of τ1 at fund inception, so `beta_price_tao` (fund NAV over
outstanding beta) tracks the fund's performance from 1.0. `value_tao`
is the realizable TAO a claim would pay right now — exactly what
`claim_root_with_hotkey` would redeem; `spot_value_tao` marks the
same slice at spot prices (display only). Returns `None` when the
staker holds no beta there.

**Category:** Staking

## Parameters [#parameters]

| Parameter      | Type   | Description                                |
| -------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------ |
| `hotkey_ss58`  | string | Validator whose basket the position is in. |
| `coldkey_ss58` | string | Staker whose position to read.             |

## CLI [#cli]

```bash
btcli query basket-position --hotkey <ss58|name> --coldkey <ss58|name> --json
```

## Python [#python]

Namespace method (autocomplete, signature help):

```python
import bittensor as bt

sub = bt.Subtensor()
result = sub.staking.basket_position(hotkey_ss58="5F...", coldkey_ss58="5F...")
```

Or dispatch by name, as an agent would:

```python
result = sub.read("basket_position", hotkey_ss58="5F...", coldkey_ss58="5F...")
```

Async is the same surface awaited: `async with bt.Subtensor() as client:`.