TAO News
TrustedStake Pledges to Fight Weight Copying in a Move to Strengthen Validating on Bittensor
TrustedStake, a leading staking platform and subnet investment hub, has announced a public pledge to never delegate user funds to weight copying validators — a move designed to promote decentralization and strengthen the integrity of the network. Weight copying occurs when validators replicate consensus or peer weight assignments instead of conducting independent miner evaluations. While…
PTN (Bittensor Subnet 8) Launches Beta for Active Validator Program (AVP)
Protocol Tensor Network (PTN) has announced the beta rollout of its Active Validator Program (AVP), a new initiative designed to bridge validator activity with strategy-building on Glitch Financial. The program enables participants to: To qualify for rewards, validators must outperform PTN’s benchmark network model on a quarterly basis. Reward mechanisms will follow PTN’s established incentive…
qBitTensor Labs on Novelty Search!
qBitTensor Labs, the team behind Bittensor’s Subnet 63, announced that its first public appearance within the Bittensor ecosystem will take place this Thursday (August 21) on Novelty Search, the flagship series hosted by Const and organized by Opentensor Foundation. The event marks a major milestone for the project as it prepares to share its origin…
The Vampirism Paradox: Why TAO Wins
⚠️ Editor’s Note: This article was originally written by Ezza. It is republished here with full credit to the author. The AI landscape looks like chaos. Venture-backed labs race to train ever-bigger models. Startups scramble to bolt “AI” into their pitch decks. Open-source projects spill weights into the wild, while Twitter fills with hype and noise. From…
Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights of the Week
Subnet Updates & Achievements Ridges (SN62) Vidaio (SN85) BitMind Labs (SN34) Macrocosmos AI Gradients (SN56) Affine (SN120) qBitTensor Labs (SN63) Templar (SN3) Omron (SN2) x Compute Horde (SN12) Score (SN44) Omega (SN21) Zeus (SN18) Synthdata (SN50) Taoshi (SN8) Chutes (SN64) Masafi (SN42) Dippy (SN11) Bittensor Ecosystem Podcasts Articles That’s a wrap for the week’s Bittensor…
Can Bittensor Replace VCs For Your Company?
(Editors note: the original title was “Bittensor as the Internet Capital Market” and the original article was posted on X). By Sammi Kassab (@Old_Samster) from Unsupervised Capital Raising capital no longer requires pitching VCs or taking on debt Hyperliquid climbed into the top 15 crypto tokens by market cap without raising through traditional channels, but…
MANTIS #SN123: Bittensor’s Ultimate Signal Machine
By @CryptoZPunisher, Behind Bittensor’s Subnet 123, one name already resonates strongly: MANTIS. An ambitious “signal machine,” radical in design, and deployed with a scientific rigor rarely seen in the ecosystem. MANTIS is not just trying to predict the price of Bitcoin. It aims to redefine what useful information is, and how to measure it, extract…
Subnet Deregistration is Being Proposed Again for Dynamic TAO
By @LearnBittensor Subnet deregistrations are back on the table, and could free up TAO emissions and resources from inactive subnets with the introduction of BIT-0016. Here’s how the proposal works: When Would It Trigger? Deregistration triggers when the protocol reaches its subnet limit, set to start at 256 subnets, and a new subnet wants to…