The Djinn project, also known as SN103 or “The Genius-Idiot Network,” has set a new record on Bitstarter, Bittensor’s on-chain crowdfunding platform, by completing its raise in just 51 minutes. The campaign hit its full target of 600 TAO, with 35 early participants contributing an average of 17.17 TAO each. This is the fastest in…
By: Tao Outsider Today we have Mark Creaser, CEO of DSV Fund, one of the earliest and most active capital allocators in the Bittensor ecosystem. He is also the CEO of Astrid, Subnet 127 on $dTAO, and a builder and long-term strategist in $TAO, with a rare mix of technical, economic, and philosophical understanding of…
The State of TAO: January 2026 report, published by Stillcore Capital, a U.S.-based fund focused exclusively on Bittensor, serves as an accessible introduction to the Bittensor ($TAO) ecosystem for newcomers. The report explains how the network works in simple terms, evaluates the state of the ecosystem as of January 2026, and outlines potential growth trajectories….
Crunch DAO has announced plans to mine on Bittensor, marking a meaningful step toward bridging traditional machine learning talent with decentralized AI infrastructure. The goal is straightforward. Bring experienced ML practitioners into Bittensor subnets without forcing them to become crypto-native operators. What Is Crunch DAO? Crunch DAO is a collective intelligence platform originally built in…
The Bittensor community’s highly anticipated Exploit Summit, originally set for March 30-31, 2026, at The Midway in San Francisco, has been rescheduled to fall 2026 and moved to a location outside the United States. The decision stems from travel restrictions preventing key speakers, panelists, and keynotes from attending the event in person. According to the…
SUMMARY: The video contrasts Bitcoin’s Proof of Work, which secures the network through massive but single-purpose computational effort, with Bittensor’s Proof of Useful Work, where compute is incentivized toward economically valuable tasks like AI predictions and data services. While Bitcoin optimizes for security via hash power, Bittensor channels incentives into subnet-specific work such as cloud…
Understanding Bittensor is the first real barrier to entry. Not because the network lacks innovation, but because its depth can feel overwhelming to newcomers. Subnets, miners, validators, tools, research, communities? For someone arriving fresh, it is not always obvious where to begin. IntoTAO was built to solve that exact problem. It offers a simple, structured…
SUMMARY: In this video, Gordon Frayne breaks down the value proposition of Sundae Bar, a Bittensor subnet building decentralized generalist AI agents for the enterprise sector. He argues that we are moving from a world of simple “chatbots” like ChatGPT to fully autonomous “digital workers” that retain memory, understand context, and integrate seamlessly into daily…
Bittensor is no longer just scaling; it is compounding. As the network matures, its most important evolution is not the number of subnets, but how those subnets increasingly reinforce one another. At this point, intelligence is no longer produced in isolation. It is flowing across the network, creating higher quality outputs, real revenue, and production-ready…
By: Dami Defi Bittensor has entered 2026 at a pace few ecosystems can match. Development is accelerating, capital is arriving, and real-world utility is already live. What is unfolding looks less like an experiment and more like the early infrastructure phase of a decentralized AI economy. Grayscale TAO Trust Launches The launch of the Grayscale…
