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Burnweight: emissions as an ongoing auction
Unsupervised Capital's Burnweight proposal ties TAO emissions to a decaying weight generated by burning TAO, effectively making emissions an ongoing auction between subnets. Critics argue this could squeeze out research and model-training subnets that don't generate direct revenue to burn, risking their migration off-chain. Supporters counter that such subnets can still draw stakers on the strength of their work alone, or bring in outside partners to cover their burn weight, and note Burnweight is harder to game than the earlier taoflow mechanism since tokens must actually be burned rather than bought and dumped. A rival proposal, Emission Taper, was floated as an alternative: subnets that return value to their alpha token through burns or dividends would see slower dilution instead of competing head-on through burns.
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Incentive manipulation on older subnets
YumaGroup amplified a claim that some older, established subnets have been buying up their own tokens to inflate their incentive weighting. YumaGroup said it will present a proposed fix on stage at ExploitSummit on Tuesday, Sept 29.
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Platform and subnet updates
taostats shipped a new dashboard UI, which drew user complaints about usability and calls to revert to the prior version. SN114, SOMA, went live, described as 'Novelty Search: Open, Competitive Context Compression.' Lium, a Bittensor-powered GPU rental neocloud pitched as 'Airbnb for GPUs,' was promoted as the fastest-growing neocloud in the space.
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Revenue and market notes
An amplified external claim put Bittensor at 25 revenue-generating subnets, totaling $28M-$35M annually, with a projection to surpass $100M by end of 2026. Separately, a Bittensor-related token was noted as the second such token to list on both Robinhood and Base, though the subnet behind it wasn't named.
