TAO News
Chutes Launches AI Search Built for Users
Chutes (Subnet 64) has officially launched Chutes Search, an AI-powered search engine designed to be affordable, open source, and powerful enough to replace traditional search as your default. It is an agent-driven research tool built for users who want depth, citations, and control over their compute. What is Chutes Search? Chutes Search is an AI…
Navigating Bittensor Quest, the Command Centre for $TAO Miners
Bittensor mining is no longer a guessing game. With 100+ subnets competing for attention, each demanding different hardware, skill sets, and capital exposure, the real edge is no longer just computational power. It is information. “Where should you mine? How long until you recover registration costs? Is a subnet worth the risk?” Until now, those…
BitAds Faces Early Friction, Bets Big on AI-Driven Performance Marketing
Every subnet begins with a theory of value. For BitAds (Subnet 16 on Bittensor), that theory is that marketing rewards should be tied strictly to verified sales, not impressions or clicks. Two weeks after its first live campaign, the subnet has shared a transparent update. The numbers are modest, the friction is real, but the…
Chutes Powers Pax Historia’s Explosive Growth
When infrastructure works, you rarely notice it, you just feel the speed. That is exactly what is happening behind the scenes at Pax Historia, a Y Combinator-backed alternate history sandbox game that has quietly scaled to more than 35,000 daily active users. Powering the entire Patron tier of Pax Historia is Chutes, a decentralized AI…
Bittensor Surges After Upbit Listing, Shows How Liquidity Shocks Could Reprice Crypto Markets
When a major regional exchange lists a token, the move is rarely about symbolism. It is about access, and access, in crypto markets, is liquidity. Bittensor’s native token, $TAO, surged nearly 8% within hours after South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit, announced new trading pairs. What followed was not just a price spike, it was…
Handshake58 Raised 220 TAO in Five Minutes and It Is Building Payment Rails for AI Agents
The era of autonomous AI agents is here, but they face a critical hurdle: they can think and code, but they struggle to pay. Traditional payment rails built on credit cards, KYC, and monthly subscriptions are designed for humans, not software. Handshake58 (Subnet 58) is solving this by building a ”Trust Action Layer“ for the…
Bitget Partners With Yuma to Expand TAO Staking Access
Popular crypto exchange Bitget has announced a strategic partnership with Yuma, a leading infrastructure provider in the Bittensor ecosystem, to make $TAO staking more accessible for users worldwide. The partnership, revealed on February 13, 2026, strengthens Bitget’s staking offering by integrating Yuma’s non-custodial validator services, allowing users to stake TAO without running validator infrastructure or…
RedTeam Initiates Token Buybacks — Here Is Why It Matters
For a long time, a primary criticism of decentralized AI projects has been the “extraction problem.” Innovative tech is built on-chain, but the financial value often flows off-chain to private companies, leaving token holders with little more than governance rights. Red Team (Subnet 61), a cybersecurity-focused subnet on Bittensor, just took a major step toward…
Const Follows the Satoshi Arc, Steps Down as CEO of OpenTensor Foundation
Const, co-founder and CEO of the OpenTensor Foundation (OTF), has stepped down from his role, in a move widely seen as a deliberate push toward true decentralization in the Bittensor $TAO ecosystem. The announcement was shared during Bittensor’s Novelty Search session and quickly spread across X, with community members describing it as a historic transition,…
Loosh AI Joins NVIDIA Inception Program, Strengthening Its Push Into Robotics Cognition
Loosh AI (Subnet 78 on Bittensor) has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program, a global accelerator designed to support AI startups with tools, technical guidance, and ecosystem support. The team confirmed the news on X, stating that Loosh is building cognition infrastructure for robotics and agentic systems, including persistent memory, multimodal inference, and orchestration….