01 / DAILY
Chain-wide outage: transactions fail for hours
A subtensor update pushed today broke transaction processing on most wallets and swap platforms, including Talisman, Taostats, Crucible, Nova, tao.app, TAO.com, and taoswap. Affected users hit a '1011: Unknown Transaction Validity: UnknownTransaction::CannotLookup' error on swaps, unstakes, and transfers. Community members traced the issue to subtensor PR #3160, which alters decrease_stake_for_hotkey_and_coldkey logic, and criticized the lack of advance notice before the update went out. Transactions resumed within a few hours, with multiple users confirming successful swaps and stakes on mainnet.
02 / DAILY
Shorting and basket-swap: testing ahead, security questions now
A public sandbox described as a 'mainnet clone,' paired with a custom BTCLI build, is being used to test upcoming short-selling and basket-swap functionality. Reaction to short-selling was mixed, with some community members warning the added complexity could deter institutional investors. Reviewers of recent GitHub PRs said developers had already found and patched loopholes in the mechanism using new concepts like 'smoothed reserves' and 'parked liquidity,' alongside retuned parameters. One community member drew a parallel to the 2025 Balancer exploit, which drained $128M via a rounding-error bug, pointing to Bittensor's own history of rounding issues, and recommended a third-party bug bounty program such as Immunefi before release.
03 / DAILY
Root APY isn't basket yield, Taostats clarifies
A Taostats team member clarified that the Root APY figure shown on the platform reflects root_prop earnings distributed across subnets and then deposited into 'baskets' -- not returns generated by the baskets themselves. Basket performance, they said, is driven largely by underlying subnet price action rather than a true annualized yield. New basket-view features are in development, with no ETA given. Separately, SN88's validator '88root' was reported to have again delivered double-digit APY for root stakers through its basket allocation strategy.
04 / DAILY
Deregistered subnet: investors seek a venue, mods say no
Investors and miners in a subnet reportedly exploited before its deregistration sought a place to discuss recovery or refunds with the subnet's owner. Server moderators said deregistration automatically redeems all stakes and declined to host recovery discussions in the official server, citing rules against providing investment support; affected users were pointed to the dTAO Discord and TAO Community Discord instead. Separately, a community member flagged that SN118's community channel had become hard to follow due to miner activity, and moderators said they couldn't act without specific reported rule violations.
05 / DAILY
Around the ecosystem
const_reborn laid out a vision for the Bittensor stack combining compute (Lium, Targon Compute), inference (Chutes), and data (Hippius) subnets toward what was called 'free intelligence,' and separately relayed that a Conjectures subnet's miners produced a Lean-verified solution disproving Erdős Problem 96. YumaGroup highlighted NiomeAI's synthetic, privacy-preserving DNA datasets for AI research and noted trishoolai's acceptance into OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program. markjeffrey relayed a claim that Bittensor subnets could expand to other chains, including Base and Robinhood Crypto, as soon as next week.
