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SN44 · Score
Every Bittensor Daily mention of SN44 Score, newest first. Price changes are snapshots from each edition.
24h change +1.51%
- What happened
- A miner was found exploiting the tie-break logic on the fallen-person detection track, repeatedly avoiding certain validation challenges to retain top-miner status despite running a copied model. The team fixed the underlying archive exploit and updated the tie-break logic to compare the last 10 common non-zero challenges instead of simply the last 10 challenges overall. Separately, the team introduced a formal process for miners to request review and exclusion of soccer-track challenges demonstrated to be mislabeled against the annotation rules. Multiple miners also reported extended downtime on the Petrol station, Beverage detection, and soccer private track elements.
- Community
- Miners repeatedly reported the exploited hotkey and the extended outages on the Petrol station and Beverage detection elements, asking the team to investigate and, in some cases, blacklist the hotkey. A separate debate ran over soccer-track annotation consistency, with miners arguing that ground truth for events such as aerial duels was applied unevenly across clips.
- Official
- The team confirmed it fixed the archive exploit that allowed miners to selectively avoid challenges and revised the tie-break logic to compare common non-zero challenges. It also announced a review process for soccer-track challenges with demonstrably incorrect annotations, and said on X that fallen-person detection accuracy rose from a 43.6% baseline to 98% on crowded street footage.
24h change −0.98%
- What happened
- On SN44 (Score), the team removed several petrol-detection ground-truth blocks (9292500, 9281100, 9292200) after miners reported incorrect bounding box annotations. A miner alleged that a top performer on the Cricket element controlled roughly 30 hotkeys and continued operating new hotkeys after being blacklisted. The team paused Cricket challenges while adding new ones and clarified that the tie-break mechanism compares outputs across 20 challenges, 10 latest and 10 random, reproducible via hash. The PPE and Fallen Person Detection tracks went inactive and were later restored after repeated miner reports.
- Community
- Miners repeatedly flagged ground-truth errors in the petrol track and asked for specific blocks to be reviewed and removed. Several participants raised concerns about multi-hotkey control on Cricket and pushed back on the tie-break threshold, arguing it favors established miners, while others defended the existing rule as effective.
- Official
- The team confirmed removal of the flagged petrol blocks, explained the tie-break's random-but-reproducible design, paused Cricket pending new challenges, and announced the Fallen Person Detection element was restored and would be monitored.
24h change −1.55%
- What happened
- A miner alleged that two other miners submitted near-identical copies of their beverage-track model and received payouts through the subnet's tie-break mechanism; the team stated it does not ban model copies in the public track and pointed to private commits as the way to protect original work. Separately, the team blacklisted a significant number of Cricket private-track hotkeys after spot checks could not reproduce the results those hotkeys had reported, and said the spot-checking process would be strengthened going forward. A coldkey controlling three miner accounts and three validator accounts on the football track was also raised by community members, with the team attributing its validator display to an alpha-stake threshold rather than validator permissions. An official X post reported that every SN44 (Score) competition running ten days earlier has a new champion today, with first and second place separated by less than 0.01 in seven of eight races.
- Community
- Miners pressed the team to ban the alleged copycats and to tighten rules protecting original model submissions, while the team maintained that the public track allows copying absent a private commit. Separate community members questioned why one coldkey held both miner and validator accounts on the football track and whether validator access to ground-truth data gave it an advantage; the team disputed the characterization. A miner whose hotkey was skipped from evaluation after a deregistration near the eval block confirmed the gap was expected and was advised to use commit_recover rather than recommitting.
- Official
- The team said it does not ban model copies in the public track, citing existing protections via private commit, and announced the blacklisting of a significant number of Cricket private-track hotkeys following failed spot checks, with stronger spot checks planned. It also published a report showing new champions in six of eight SN44 (Score) competitions over a 10-day window, with close margins in most races.