01 / DAILY
SN15 Oro lands in YC's Fall 2026 batch
SN15 (Oro) was accepted into Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch, with the team's focus described as open-source models for agentic commerce. Commentary framed this as YC evaluating the Bittensor subnet model directly, treating the subnet structure as a structural advantage and the live token as accretive to the company rather than a liability. The acceptance was also noted as arriving after a difficult stretch for the founders, including a prior hacking incident affecting the team.
02 / DAILY
Chutes names new CEO
Chutes announced a leadership change with a new CEO taking over. No further detail on the transition was shared.
03 / DAILY
tao.app fixes Positions tab outage
Alpha staked position data on tao.app's Positions tab stopped updating starting the previous evening. A contributor traced the cause to a large chain-indexing change where not all ETL jobs were updated during rollover. The issue is now resolved, though cached data for some users could take up to an hour to clear.
04 / DAILY
Debating subnet liquidity limits
A YumaGroup speaker is set to address the Exploit Summit conference on trade-offs between execution, price discovery, and liquidity depth in dTAO subnet markets. The talk's framing raises a question gaining traction in the ecosystem: whether a subnet pool can grow too liquid for its own good.
