https://1t1b.ai/ Daily digest of the Bittensor ecosystem en-us Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:19:38 GMT https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-17/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-17/ Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:19:38 GMT A new Subtensor change calculates the root network's share of block emissions live from current network state each block, replacing a fixed per-subnet value that can shift how emissions are effectively split among validators. Separately, SN25 (UR) launched mainnet, bringing more than 100,000 existing network providers onto Bittensor as miners, while SN2 (DSperse) underwent a leadership handover to a new development team. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-16/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-16/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:18:45 GMT Opentensor's Etao release (spec 480) replaces the network's fixed 18/41/41 emission split with a per-subnet emission weight vector and a baseline-anchored effective TAO weight, a breaking change that applies across all subnets. The same day, Opentensor separately detailed Null Consensus, a protocol update raising subnet participant capacity and offering an alternative to Yuma Consensus. Subnet-level news included a reward-structure overhaul on SN92 (REAX) and a deregistration and identity dispute on SN86 (Zils). https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-15/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-15/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 02:27:17 GMT Bittensor reduced the immunity period for newly registered subnets from 120 days to 60 and said registration lock costs will now fall twice as fast, a change aimed at speeding up subnet experimentation. The announcement came alongside a day of subnet-level incidents, including a self-transfer exploit identified on SN105 (Beam) and a prolonged validator outage on SN100 (Cortex) that left miners at zero incentive before being resolved. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-14/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-14/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:18:49 GMT TAO traded at $277.46, up 2.27%, though breadth across the network's 128 subnets was mixed, with 52 up and 72 down. SN46 (Instant) posted the day's largest gain after shifting emissions fully to miners and launching on a new inference auction platform. Elsewhere, SN118 (Ditto)'s owner acknowledged a lack of transparency over an emission split, and SN120 (Affine)'s audit flagged a discrepancy in its new model evaluation process. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-13/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-13/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:27:36 GMT TAO dropped 8.21% to $271.30, with more subnets down than up across the network. Subnet-level activity included an incentive mechanism redesign at SN118 (Ditto), a hosting outage that disrupted scoring at SN96 (Verathos), and fresh model-copy and blacklisting disputes at SN44 (Score). https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-12/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-12/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:15:46 GMT @opentensor's weekly digest crowned SN51 (Lium) the standout story, with GPU utilization hitting an all-time high and most hardware types fully rented out. @markjeffrey put a number on the broader opportunity: TAO-related products already pull in $50M annually, with a stated goal of doubling that to $100M by end of 2026. Elsewhere, a taostats.io front-end bug and a community debate over subnet funding standards round out the week. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-11/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-11/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:15:36 GMT Taodaily's latest emission-share ranking puts SN51 (Lium) in the lead at 13.36%, and the numbers behind it are moving fast -- Lium's GPU rental spend hit $1.4M over 30 days, up 45% month over month. Elsewhere, SN10 miners are squeezing more inference out of the same hardware, and a subtensor PR has the dev community debating design options with no timeline in sight. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-10/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-10/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:15:43 GMT A 30-day commit leaderboard puts SN25 (UR) ahead of the rest of the subnet pack, with Carbon and Leadpoet close behind. ForgeLending is separately bringing Alpha collateral to mainnet, building on the existing wstAlpha wrapper stack. Also this edition: a new SN91 inference API, two subnets on the Exploit conference stage, and a wallet migration that's left some users needing old seed phrases to recover funds. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-09/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-09/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:15:36 GMT SN51's Lium has quietly burned close to $2.7M in alpha over six months, funded entirely by GPU rental billings that just posted a 36% monthly jump. Elsewhere, the Yuma Total Market Fund matched TAO's best month yet, SN33's ReadyAI is closing in on six-figure ARR, and SN91's Cascade model claims a training-efficiency win worth watching. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-08/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-08/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:15:26 GMT Yuma's Large Cap Fund posted a 29.0% USD gain in September, capping a Q3 where it beat the bittensor:native benchmark by more than 16 points. Elsewhere, a SEC filing points to Score (SN44) running live across 124 fuel stations in France, Lium (SN51) is sold out of GPU capacity, and chain buys are hitting ten subnets at once. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-07/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-07/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:16:45 GMT A proposed subtensor change to migrate dynamic subnet pools is drawing criticism over a one-block liquidity shift and dust-cleanup behavior. Meanwhile, Yuma's Subnet Composite Fund posted its second-best month of 2026 and Grayscale added a second custodian to its Bittensor Trust. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-06/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-06/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:15:20 GMT Bittensor shipped Spec 473 this week, a chain upgrade that automatically burns or converts dust-sized Alpha positions sitting in wallets. The cleanup coincided with TAO's climb past $300, and a new Bittensor book lands on Amazon in a week. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-05/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-05/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:15:32 GMT Opentensor's weekly highlights crown the Exploit Summit in Montreal as the week's top event, with a fresh subnet, a wallet security upgrade, and a 576B-parameter training run rounding out the news. Carbon (SN116) officially enters the ecosystem. And a training run dubbed 'Kappa' stopped at 9 trillion tokens with numbers that beat Llama 3.2 on several benchmarks. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-04/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-04/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:15:32 GMT TAO gained 37% in September, beating the broader crypto market's 24% and holding its own against Grayscale's AI Crypto Sector index. Targon Compute went live with bare-metal infrastructure, SN55 got airtime on a genomics-focused podcast, and at least two users hit a stuck wTAO bridge redemption. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-03/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-03/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:15:35 GMT 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. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-02/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-02/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:15:35 GMT Montreal's Exploit Summit crowned a winner: physics AI project Carbon took Pitchtensor 2026 and pulled in 500 TAO in under 20 minutes, with a subnet launch next on the roadmap. Elsewhere, SN9 (Iota) got attention for productizing decentralized training with a pipeline-parallel design, Opentensor listed a new subnet, and the community floated a 'gamma token' mechanism for subnet-specific stablecoins. https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-01/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-10-01/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:15:45 GMT Opentensor's latest Novelty Search spotlight landed on Chutes AI, where a presenter at the Exploit Summit showed off an 8B parameter model trained across distributed gaming GPUs for roughly $6,500 — and it runs on a phone's CPU at nearly 60 tokens per second. Elsewhere, SN80's robot-intelligence competition is expanding toward real robot validation, SN81's Reliquary team laid out a gamma-token mechanism for compute-fleet building, and the community reopened a running debate over Bittensor's core economics. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-30/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-30/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:15:45 GMT At Exploit Summit in Montreal, const_reborn unveiled Gamma tokens, a 2027-targeted standard that would let subnets pay each other for services out of their own emissions instead of running redundant miners. The pitch drew fast pushback over self-dealing risk. Day 2 also brought a phone running an 8B model at 60 tokens/second with no GPU, plus new subnet price-discovery research from Yuma Group. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-29/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-29/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:15:43 GMT Opentensor unveiled Gamma tokens, a proposed new economic layer meant to let Bittensor subnets buy and sell each other's AI services without touching fiat. The announcement landed alongside Bittensor's Exploit Summit in Montreal, where Metanova Labs reported a lab partner has synthesized molecules discovered through its SN68 competitions. Stillcore Capital also disclosed a stake in Lium, SN51. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-28/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-28/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:15:36 GMT Opentensor's weekly roundup flagged solid revenue growth at SN53 (Lium), SN64 (Chutes), SN4 (Targon) and SN44 (Score), with Lium alone posting roughly $1M last month and 36% month-over-month growth. That good news ran alongside a sharper debate: whether burning or locking buyback proceeds, or fixing the liquidity pool curve itself, is what actually solves Bittensor's price and emission-distribution problems. Separately, taostats users flagged that root rewards have stopped showing up on the dashboard. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-27/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-27/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:15:48 GMT A community discussion this week floated a structural fix for Bittensor's emission model: subnets that don't return value get throttled over time instead of subsidized indefinitely. The debate weighed burns against conviction locks as enforcement tools and pointed to SN25 as a working template. Elsewhere, SN3's rocky history resurfaced, SN62 detailed how it's splitting AI coding agents by skill, and an in-person conference lands next week. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-26/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-26/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:15:53 GMT A proposal to gradually cut emissions to mature, revenue-generating subnets unless they return value to TAO holders dominated community discussion this week, with Lium's economics as exhibit A. Meanwhile TAO pushed above $325, up 39% in seven days, and subnet teams kept shipping: SN114 demoed live prompt compression, SN54 landed an Nvidia program, and a new agent-communication subnet launched on testnet. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-25/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-25/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:15:42 GMT Unsupervised Capital's "Burnweight" proposal would turn TAO emissions into a continuous burn-based auction between subnets, and it's already dividing the community over what happens to research subnets that don't burn for revenue. Elsewhere, YumaGroup says some older subnets have been gaming incentive weighting by buying their own tokens, with a fix promised on stage at ExploitSummit. Also this week: a new dashboard UI, a new subnet launch, and fresh numbers on subnet revenue. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-24/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-24/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:15:37 GMT Metanova Labs just multiplied its searchable chemical universe more than elevenfold with a Boltz-2-based scoring upgrade to NOVA Blueprint. Elsewhere, Hippius reports near-3x growth, Exploit Summit is staging a live subnet-slot pitch battle, and moderators are still telling users not to trust on-chain identity data for SN108. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-23/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-23/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:15:58 GMT SN80's OpenRoboto just became the first Bittensor subnet token listed on Robinhood Chain, with word that all 128 subnets are slated for Robinhood and Base. Elsewhere, taostats launched its ad program with YumaGroup as pilot partner, GM's inference gateway added frontier models at a discount, and Trishool pushed into OpenAI's cyber program. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-22/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-22/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:15:38 GMT Bittensor shipped a network upgrade today that slashes root-claiming fees and lets validators run copy-tradable baskets, effectively turning root validators into yield asset managers. Hippius (SN75) launched its Android app with encrypted backup, and a Harvard team released a year-long dataset of Chutes (SN64) inference traffic covering 6.12 billion requests across 9,174 models. Elsewhere, NEAR AI landed on say_gm_, SOMA gets this week's Novelty Search spotlight, and a new decentralized math/code model debuted. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-21/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-21/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:15:44 GMT RedTeam and KubeTEE subnet tokens dropped sharply this week with no clear fundamental trigger, and the community is arguing about why. The bigger fight is over whether Opentensor Foundation has ever explained how subnet revenue is supposed to flow back to TAO -- alongside a quieter but real root claim fee hike and a new subnet launch on SN76. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-20/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-20/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:16:07 GMT NEAR AI has integrated with the say_gm_ subnet, which one ecosystem account is calling Bittensor's answer to OpenRouter. Score (SN44), the PwC-linked computer-vision subnet, is now using Hippius (SN75) for storage — an early example of subnets combining to cut costs. Elsewhere: three fee changes in one day confused taostats users, and a deregistered subnet operator has taken their dispute to court. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-19/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-19/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:15:40 GMT A subtensor runtime update sent transaction fees soaring across the network -- staking and registration costs jumped as much as tenfold, and one user watched a failed SN80 unstake loop burn through 3 TAO overnight. At the same time, root weight-setting was quietly replaced by a basket-swap mechanism that isn't turned on yet, leaving the network running flat weights with no fix date. Elsewhere, SN66 miners cracked six long-standing math problems and TAO clawed back above $250. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-18/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-18/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:15:57 GMT SN44 (Score) launched Score Studio, taking the computer-vision tooling behind its enterprise product Manako and putting it in the hands of independent engineers. Elsewhere, Bittensor's Root Reborn change has stopped auto-claiming root staking rewards, and stakers are reporting lower yields and unstable transfers. Also this week: two Erdős problems fall to a Bittensor subnet, an SN10 optimization lands in vLLM, and Yuma Group crosses $200M staked. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-17/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-17/ Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:15:34 GMT Bittensor shipped a live USDC-to-dTAO crosschain swap today, letting users move between USDC, ETH, and subnet tokens in seconds without touching a bridge. SN80 became the first subnet token tradable on Base, no Bittensor wallet required. Meanwhile, fresh emissions data has the community comparing today's subnet landscape to the pre-dTAO era. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-16/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-16/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:15:47 GMT Taostats rolled out "Root Reborn," a tool that splits every validator's root stake into subnet-weighted baskets anyone can track and compare. Elsewhere, SN105 (Beam) is now moving roughly a terabyte of data every 30 minutes six months post-launch, and the community got a firm date for the Bittensor Exploit Summit. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-15/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-15/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:18:57 GMT A subtensor runtime update pushed today broke transaction processing across nearly every major wallet and swap platform, throwing errors on Talisman, Taostats, Crucible, Nova, tao.app, TAO.com, and taoswap before being fixed within hours. Meanwhile, a public sandbox for upcoming shorting and basket-swap functionality is drawing scrutiny over economic risk, and a deregistered subnet's investors are looking for somewhere to talk about recovery. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-14/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-14/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:17:48 GMT A mainnet-clone testnet for shorting and basket swap functionality is live, and the community is already picking apart its economic design. Developers have spent the past week patching self-identified loopholes with new mechanisms like 'smoothed reserves' and 'parked liquidity,' but reviewers are drawing uncomfortable comparisons to a $128M rounding-error exploit on Balancer. Meanwhile SN88's validator climbs back to double-digit APY, and opentensor amplifies a call for more ecosystem infrastructure. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-13/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-13/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:27:30 GMT Opentensor's weekly highlights put SN51 (Lium) front and center: nearly $1M in monthly revenue, all funneled into buying back and burning alpha. Elsewhere, the community argued over whether a new leveraged trading feature is a smart use of collateral or a liquidity risk in disguise, and a subnet quietly produced a verified math result. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-12/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-12/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:50:05 GMT SN61 (RedTeam) says it's working toward integrations with three top-10% Fortune 500 banking companies through partner Innerworks. Elsewhere, SN66 keeps paying TAO for decades-old math proofs, and the community is fighting over subnet registration integrity after a reported exit and a disputed emissions cut attributed to const_reborn. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-11/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-11/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:48:35 GMT SN35 went through deregistration this week, and the community is still asking whether the alpha/TAO tied to it is now stuck on-chain. Meanwhile a Telegram account once linked to SN58 (Handshake) was compromised and turned into a Microsoft Teams scam vector, RedTeam (SN61) posted real banking-sector traction, and the community reopened the long-running fight over how emissions should actually be earned. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-10/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-10/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:47:19 GMT Lium just took the #1 spot by market cap, ending Chutes' long run at the top. Meanwhile a network-wide emissions gate got switched off then partially back on, SN61 landed a fresh capital injection, and TAO went live as a trading pair on Bankr. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-09/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-09/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:46:15 GMT Opentensor patched a critical vulnerability that could have let a single valueless EVM interaction drain both EVM and staked TAO balances -- but the researcher who found it says the team called it a duplicate and went quiet on requests for recognition. Elsewhere, Oro Subnet (SN15) landed a Y Combinator slot with its token already live, subnet emissions reopened ecosystem-wide, and Yuma Group flagged a widening gap between its composite index and raw subnet performance. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-08/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-08/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:44:50 GMT SN15 Oro just landed a YC acceptance that crypto builders have chased for years: Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch, with commentary calling it the first crypto company with a live, trading token ever admitted. Elsewhere, Chutes named a new CEO and tao.app cleared up a data outage that had frozen Alpha staked position tracking overnight. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-07/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-07/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:43:47 GMT TAO is now trading live on Raydium, Solana's leading DEX, confirmed by an Opentensor retweet and already being paired against new Solana memecoins. Behind that milestone, community members are pushing back on the Arbos monitoring tool over missed and misclassified subnets, while SN61 racks up enterprise pilots and one operator floats eye-catching subnet revenue numbers. https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-06/ https://1t1b.ai/2026-09-06/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:42:56 GMT const agreed days ago to restore SN8's emissions, but they're still off. The delay is now surfacing a bigger question in the community: why can OTF cut a subnet's emissions unilaterally, with no dialogue with the team first? Meanwhile, the ecosystem's weekly roundups and a fresh SN74 model checkpoint offer a lighter counterpoint.