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Exploit Summit Headlines a Crowded Week
Opentensor Foundation's weekly ecosystem highlights, covering September 28 to October 4, named the Exploit Summit in Montreal the week's biggest Bittensor story. The same post flagged Macrocosmos, Beam, Umi, Targon, Hippius, Score, Pareton, and Carbon as notable projects. TaoDaily's parallel roundup matched subnet teams to the mentions: SN9 (IOTA), SN105 (b1m_ai), SN78 (Umi), SN4 (Targon Compute), SN75 (Hippius), SN44 (Score), SN10 (Pareton), and SN116 (Carbon). Carbon's SN116 slot marks its public debut in the subnet ecosystem.
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CLI Adds Native Multisig Support
The newer Bittensor CLI now natively supports multisig wallets, adding QR vault signers and ledger hardware keys to the key-management options. The update is framed as a safeguard against key-management mistakes, a recurring source of risk for teams handling subnet stake and treasury funds.
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Kappa Run Stops at 576B Parameters, Beats Llama 3.2 on Several Benchmarks
A training run referred to as the 'Kappa run' was stopped after reaching a 576B-parameter checkpoint trained on 9 trillion tokens. The resulting model surpassed Llama 3.2 1B on ARC-C, OBQA, and TQA, and came close on ARC-E and SciQ. The run was reported at roughly 90% lower cost per token than a baseline comparison.
