01 / DAILY
TAO beats the market in September
TAO rose 37% in September, outperforming the broader crypto market's 24% gain, according to a market recap shared by an ecosystem account. Grayscale's AI Crypto Sector index posted a higher raw return at 54%, but a Bittensor-focused account framed that comparison as less meaningful given TAO's diversified exposure across compute, inference, data, agents, and model development.
02 / DAILY
Infrastructure build-out continues
Targon Compute launched Bare Metal and Sandboxes, giving users dedicated physical machines with no hypervisor or container runtime in the way -- full control down to kernel, drivers, and firmware settings. Separately, an ecosystem account claimed Bittensor subnet products typically run at one-tenth the cost of non-Bittensor alternatives, with the Beam subnet cited as the standout at one-eighteenth the cost.
03 / DAILY
SN55 Niome takes the mic
Niome founder Aldo de Pape appeared on the Hash Rate podcast to walk through SN55's work in genomic data. Topics covered genomic data breaches and cybersecurity, scaling genomic datasets for research, China's access to genomic data, and where Niome's current products and market stand.
04 / DAILY
wTAO bridge redemption stalls for some users
A community member reported the button to bridge wTAO back to Finney was disabled and asked about a manual redemption path. Another member hit the same issue and said support told them the problem wasn't on the service's end -- they pointed to the chain itself and advised waiting 24 hours before retrying.