We are joined by Chris Zacharia, founder of bitstarter.ai and founding partner at Macrocosmos. Outsider 1: Chris, the last time we chatted, Bitstarter was just starting to take shape. Two months later (sounds like 1 year), nearly 1,500 TAO have been deployed by more than 200 people across three projects launched within the Bittensor ecosystem….
Imagine Kickstarter, but instead of getting a t-shirt or early product access for backing a project, you get tokens that could increase in value if the project succeeds. That’s BitStarter in a nutshell. Launched in late 2025, BitStarter is a crowdfunding platform specifically for Bittensor AI projects. Teams building new AI subnets can raise money…
Bittensor is still early, but it is no longer simple. The dynamic TAO (dTAO) era has been live for less than a year, with the network already supporting more than a hundred active subnet ‘$ALPHA’ tokens, each competing for emissions, attention, and credibility. What once felt experimental is now capital intensive, reputation sensitive, and increasingly…
By: Eyad Gomaa, CEO @TroyQuasar || Youssef Farahat, CTO @Farahatyoussef0 The Long Memory Problem For most people, artificial intelligence feels impressive but oddly forgetful. You can paste in a document, ask a few good questions, and then suddenly the system starts to lose the thread. Ask it to remember too much and it either slows…
Hrish Lotlikar, CEO @hrishlotlikar | Max Woon, CTO As modern consumers we produce vast digital data, but almost none of it is tied to real locations Every day, billions of phones, cameras, sensors and social feeds capture fragments of the physical planet. Yet this information floats in disconnected platforms. It has no unified place in…
Bitstarter is about to introduce one of the most powerful mechanisms the Bittensor ecosystem has ever seen: on-chain pledging. It’s your chance to back the alpha before it becomes ALPHA, support teams before their subnets launch, and help shape the future of decentralized intelligence. What Is TAO Pledging? Pledging TAO on Bitstarter lets you support…
NOTE: This article was repurposed from RVCrypto’s tweet. A second project has just been announced on Bitstarter: AlphaCore, a team focused on automating one of the most expensive and time-consuming challenges in engineering, which is DevOps. This represents a major step toward intelligent software operations capable of deploying, maintaining and repairing systems with minimal human…
In a major development for the decentralized AI ecosystem, Jacob Steeves, co-founder of Bittensor, has officially joined Bitstarter, the on-chain crowdfunding platform for emerging AI and subnet projects. Announced via X, the move positions Steeves as a strategic advisor focused on protecting Bittensor’s founding ethos while supporting the next wave of builders entering the network….
SUMMARY: On Ventura Labs Podcast’s episode 71, Chris Zacharia shares the story behind Bitstarter , a self-funded accelerator built to help new subnet teams navigate emissions pressure and avoid the token centric traps that have slowed innovation across the protocol. He explains how Bitstarter simplifies Bittensor for founders through hands-on mentoring, incentive design support, crowd…
When Shifa Abbas sat down with Brian McCrindle on Subnet Magazine, the conversation felt less like an interview and more like a journey through the evolving world of decentralized intelligence. Brian, one of the lead engineers behind Macrocosmos and Bitstarter, carries a rare mix of deep technical expertise and reflective curiosity. Together, they explored everything…
