A new wave of “human miners” is quietly entering the Bittensor ecosystem, and it’s coming from a place most crypto-native builders rarely reach: the global machine learning talent pool. In a recent Hash Rate interview (watch below), Jean Herelle, founder of Crunch, explained how his company has built a bridge between high-level data scientists and…
SUMMARY: Hash Rate Podcast Episode 150 features guest Matthew Karas discussing Babelbit (Subnet 59 on Bittensor), a project developing ultra-low latency real-time voice-to-voice language translation using predictive LLMs, inspired by the Babel fish from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He explains the subnet’s mechanics, incentive design, and how Bittensor enables decentralized funding for innovative…
In every corner of global finance, security teams are fighting a war most people never see. Fraud is expanding and money launderers are becoming more sophisticated. While deepfakes are accelerating the pace of identity theft, regulators have issued more than $300 billion in fines for compliance failures. Against that backdrop, Hash Rate Podcast’s Mark Jeffrey…
When Mark Jeffrey opened the latest episode of Hash Rate Podcast, he knew he was stepping into uncharted territory. Yoav Cohen and Garrett Oetken from TAO.COM joined him to debut something brand new, a complete reimagining of the official Bittensor wallet. What followed was an exclusive and guided walk-through of a product designed to introduce…
In an industry defined by scale, secrecy, and billion-dollar data centers, Covenant is attempting something that borders on the unthinkable: making frontier-model pre-training accessible to the entire world. On Hash Rate Pod’s episode 145 (see the video below), Mark Jeffrey explored with Covenant Labs’ Sam Dare what may be one of the most ambitious projects…
SUMMARY: Score (Subnet 44) is a vision-AI company turning ordinary cameras into intelligent, low-cost analytics systems—starting with professional soccer and now expanding beyond sports. In this Hashrate episode, Max Septi explains how their decentralized AI delivers coordinate tracking, event detection, and coaching insights at 10× lower cost than traditional solutions, highlighted by a new partnership…
In the sprawling ecosystem of Bittensor, where dozens of subnets compete to define the future of decentralized intelligence, few have managed to balance engineering depth with real-world traction quite like Gopher, grounded on Bittensor’s Subnet 42. The subnet, led by Brendan Playford, has quietly evolved from a data-scraping experiment into a fully-fledged infrastructure layer for…
In a Hash Rate Podcast, Mark Jeffrey sat down with James Woodman, co-founder of Targon (Subnet 4 on Bittensor), to talk about Targon’s $10.5 million raise, its latest security breakthrough, and how decentralized compute is evolving under Bittensor’s new economic model. It was a lively discussion (see the video below), one that touched on funding,…
Data fuels every corner of the modern internet, from social networks and AI research to marketing analytics and political insights. Yet, access to large-scale, high-quality data has long been a privilege reserved for well-funded Web2 corporations. That’s what makes Data Universe (TAO’s Subnet 13) such a breakthrough within the Bittensor ecosystem. In a recent Bittensor…
SUMMARY: Episode 139 of Hash Rate features Jill Kenney, founder of Sundae Bar (Subnet 121), discussing how her team is building a decentralized marketplace for custom AI agents on Bittensor. Jill explains Sundae Bar’s agent creation, validation, and revenue-sharing model, its vision of becoming a publicly owned AI company, and how community-driven innovation powers its…
