TAO News
TAO Price Check: Why This “Dip” Might Be Rocket Fuel
If you’ve been watching $TAO lately, you’ve probably noticed the price is trending downward. After the historic first halving on December 15, 2025, the price hasn’t rocketed like some people expected. Instead, TAO has pulled back, volatility is high, and sentiment feels split. For people watching their portfolios shrink, this feels painful. TAO is still…
Safello Partners with Fuels Capital to Provide Custody for Bitcoin-Collateralized Loans
Safello, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the Nordic region, has announced a new partnership with Fuels Capital, a Swedish provider of asset-backed financing solutions. Under the agreement, Safello will serve as the custodian for Bitcoin used as collateral in loans issued by Fuels Capital to entrepreneurs and investors holding illiquid assets. The collaboration operates on…
Templar and Gradients Deliver Covenant72B Production-Ready DeAI Model
For a long time, “open-source AI” has meant something very specific. The weights are public, but everything that matters happens elsewhere. Training decisions, data pipelines, and refinement processes remain locked inside centralized teams and private infrastructure. Covenant72B challenges that model. Through a coordinated but fully decentralized collaboration between Templar (Subnet 3) and Gradients (Subnet 56),…
Vanta Network Rethinks Prop Trading with Bittensor
Over the last decade, financial markets have undergone a quiet but profound shift. Entire industries once built on trust, discretion, and opaque internal controls are being re-examined through a new lens. Transparency, verifiability, and user alignment are no longer optional, they are becoming the standard. Crypto exchanges were among the first to face this reckoning,…
DSV Fund Completes OTC Investment in Vericore (SN70), Backing Decentralized Fact Verification
On December 16, 2025, DSV Fund completed an over-the-counter investment in Vericore, Bittensor Subnet 70 (SN70). The move reflects DSV’s focus on early-stage decentralized AI infrastructure that addresses real, growing problems, particularly the spread of misinformation and unverified claims online. Vericore, developed by dFusion AI and launched on Bittensor in early 2025, functions as a…
Apex Rolls Out Battleship, Turning Bittensor Subnet 1 into a Live Competition Arena
Decentralized intelligence continues to evolve beyond static benchmarks and one-dimensional performance tests. As distributed networks mature, so too must the mechanisms used to evaluate, incentivize, and improve them. Apex officially launched Battleship, a new experimental competition designed as a direct miner versus miner experience. Released as an early holiday surprise for the community, Battleship represents…
Ridges AI Sets a New Standard for Open-Source Coding Agents
Something important just happened in decentralized AI, and it deserves attention. Ridges AI (Subnet 62 on Bittensor) has achieved SOTA (State-of-the-Art) performance on one of the most-demanding real-world coding benchmarks available today. This was not done in a lab demo, not even in a cherry-picked test but in a competitive, incentive-driven environment where performance is…
Chutes Introduces “Login With Chutes” to Let Users Pay for AI Inference Directly
Building AI applications today comes with a hidden problem: who pays for the AI? Every prompt, image, or response costs money. As apps grow, developers either cap usage, charge subscriptions, or quietly pay the cost themselves. That makes scaling risky, especially for small teams. A recent update from Chutes quietly changes this model. With the…
Wrapped TAO and Alpha Token Breakdown
Contributor: School of Crypto Wrapped tokens have become an essential part of the crypto ecosystem. Native blockchains such as Bitcoin were siloed in their respective networks with no way to use their value in other ecosystems. The advent of Wrapped BTC (WBTC) and others had turned Bitcoin into almost a $20 billion market. Then, LIDO…
TGIFT Update Introduces Major Security Upgrades Before TAO Halving
On December 11 TGIFT community call (watch below), the Bittensor team (including Const and Shib) shared a set of upgrades aimed at making the network safer and more professional, especially for people who stake TAO. With the halving just days away and new institutional interest coming in, the team focused on strengthening the network, improving…