Bittensor subnet products are now generating roughly $50M in annualized revenue, up 40% in a month, according to a public figure's post crediting paying customers for subnet-built AI tools. Meanwhile, the Root Reborn staking system left some long-term stakers confused when auto-compounding quietly stopped and a manual claim step took its place. Elsewhere: SN80 robotics miners posted a sharp accuracy jump, a new emission taper proposal aims to fix a TAO-price side effect, and Taostats users are pushing back on its redesigned explorer.
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Revenue run rate jumps to $50M
A public figure reported that Bittensor subnet product revenue grew 40% over the past month, putting the ecosystem at an approximate $50M annualized run rate. The growth was attributed to AI products built on Bittensor subnets picking up paying customers.
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Root Reborn replaced the old root staking system with auto-compounding into a stake basket, but claiming that basket is no longer automatic. One community member said their Opentensor Foundation stake stopped auto-compounding roughly two months ago, with Taostats now showing an 'unclaimed basket value' that requires connecting a wallet to claim. Staking and unstaking fees tied to Root Reborn claims have reportedly been reduced recently.
The root-claim command has moved out of the deprecated 'bittensor-cli' package and into the 'bittensor' package's CLI.
Current versions of 'bittensor-cli' no longer include a root-claim option at all.
SN80 (OpenRoboto) miners pushed a physical-intelligence robotics model's simulated task success rate from about 55% to nearly 90% in under a month. SN102 (ConnitoAI) is experimenting with training specialist skills -- law, coding, finance -- separately while keeping a base model unchanged, so skills can be recombined later. A TaoMarketCap-sourced ranking of subnets by holder count put Chutes, Targon, Lium, Score, Beam, Ridges, SN9 (IOTA), Affine, Teutonic Gradients, and Gradients at the top.
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A fix for emissions outpacing revenue growth
A community member flagged that rising TAO price inflates the dollar value of fixed emissions, which can push a subnet's revenue-to-emissions ratio backward even as the underlying business keeps growing. The proposed fix, dubbed 'Emission Taper,' would give new subnets initial emission runway that tapers down as they mature, with revenue-funded alpha burns helping offset emission growth driven by TAO price increases.
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Taostats explorer redesign draws criticism
A community member criticized the redesigned Taostats block/transaction explorer as less usable than the previous version. The complaint centered on prioritizing visual styling over the convenience an explorer is supposed to deliver.