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Covenant AI’s TGIF Recap: Templar Pushes Bigger Training, While Grail Breaks the RL Bandwidth Wall
Covenant AI’s latest TGIF session covered major progress across its three core efforts: Templar, Basilica, and Grail. The session’s overall takeaway was that decentralized AI training is moving faster than most people expected, and the team is actively redesigning incentive systems to keep miners innovating. Watch the full episode here: Templar: Bigger Model Training, But…
Astrid Intelligence Is Building AI Hedge Funds That Run Themselves on Bittensor
Imagine a hedge fund run entirely by AI agents, with no human traders, no office, just autonomous software making investment decisions 24/7. That’s what Astrid Intelligence is building on Bittensor. Astrid is a publicly traded company (ticker ASTR on the Aquis Stock Exchange) that’s gone all-in on decentralized AI. Their main project, Astrid Arena (SN127),…
Full Recap of Chutes’ NS: Generating $1.3M in Revenue and Challenging OpenAI with Privacy & Efficiency
Chutes (Subnet 64 on Bittensor) just released a major update showing they’re not just another crypto project, and they’re generating real revenue and building products people actually use. In their recent Novelty Search (NS) presentation, the team revealed they made over $1.3 million in the last 90 days. They’re now consistently hitting $9,000 to $20,000…
Covenant AI’s PULSE: Making Decentralized RL for LLMs as Fast as Centralized Training
Covenant AI just released PULSE (Patch Updates via Lossless Sparse Encoding), a technique that slashes bandwidth for weight synchronization in decentralized reinforcement learning (RL) by 100×+, while staying completely lossless (bit-identical reconstruction, SHA-256 verified on every sync). The biggest bottleneck in decentralized RL: training can happen on fast interconnects, but inference nodes are spread globally…
Basilica (SN39) Launches Sandbox Container for OpenClaw Agents
Basilica (Bittensor subnet 39), a subnet under the Covenant ecosystem, has launched a sandbox container for OpenClaw agents. The goal is to run powerful self-hosted AI agents without giving them full access to your machine or private keys. Why This Matters OpenClaw is an open-source framework that lets users run persistent AI agents on their…
TensorUSD Brings a Native Stablecoin to Bittensor Backed by TAO
Bittensor has a problem that every crypto ecosystem faces: when prices get volatile, people sell their tokens for stablecoins to protect their value. But most stablecoins like USDT or USDC live on other blockchains, which means money flows out of the Bittensor ecosystem entirely. TensorUSD solves this by creating a stablecoin that lives natively on…
Grail Makes AI Models Smarter Through Decentralized Reinforcement Learning
When AI companies like OpenAI or Anthropic build models like ChatGPT or Claude, they don’t just train the model once and ship it. They spend months doing something called “post-training”, teaching the model to actually be helpful, follow instructions, and give good answers instead of just predicting text. This post-training is expensive, secretive, and controlled…
Gittensor Pays Developers for Contributing to Open Source Projects on Bittensor
Open source software powers most of the internet. The browsers you use, the apps on your phone, the systems running behind the scenes at your favorite websites; a huge portion of it was built by developers who contributed their work for free. That’s the problem. Most open source contributions happen without any pay. Developers fix…
Anyone Can Join Fun Competitions and Earn as Miner on Apex (SN1)
Subnet 1 (SN1) Apex is part of the Macrocosmos ecosystem, focused on game-theoretic AI and open-ended intelligence. Instead of a single mining task, SN1 runs multiple live competitions where miners compete by submitting algorithms or models. Each competition has its own incentive pool, meaning miners can specialize in different problem areas while emissions are distributed…
Gavin Zaentz & Pranav Ramesh: Leadpoet (SN71), Lead Generation, Intent-Driven Sales Automation | Ep. 79
The lead generation industry has a reputation problem. Sales teams pay thousands of dollars for databases filled with outdated contacts, bounced emails, and leads with little to no buying intent. Despite flashy dashboards, most incumbent providers struggle with the same core issue: stale, low-quality data. In a conversation with Ventura Labs (see below), Pranav and…