Opentensor Foundation Unveils The Experts Setting the Bar for Bittensor’s Next Subnets

As Bittensor continues to mature from an experimental network into a full intelligence economy, the quality of its next wave of subnets matters more than ever. That reality is reflected in the judging panel assembled for the Opentensor Foundation x HackQuest Bittensor Subnet Ideathon, a competition designed to surface subnet designs with real incentive logic,…

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2026 Is Off to an Insane Start for Bittensor

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…

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2026 Crises Incoming: Why Bittensor Subnets Are the Open Countermeasure

The crises of 2026 are not speculative. They are already forming at the seams of the global system. Creativity is being stripped of ownership, labor is being automated faster than it can be replaced, trust in information is collapsing, loneliness is scaling alongside connectivity, and the infrastructure powering intelligence is concentrating into fewer hands. Centralized…

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Everyone is Explaining Bittensor ($TAO) Wrong, Here’s Why!

SUMMARY: This video projected Bittensor not just as a blockchain, but a decentralized marketplace where intelligence is the primary product, currency, and business model.  Using a “bakery” analogy, it also explained how miners compete (and are rewarded) to produce useful work (like medical diagnoses or code optimization) while validators act as judges to ensure quality…

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General TAO Ventures Rebrands to General Tensor

General TAO Ventures has officially rebranded to General Tensor (@generaltensor). The team, strategy, and focus remain unchanged, with continued emphasis on building decentralized intelligence infrastructure within the Bittensor ecosystem. In the announcement, General Tensor outlined its track record and current footprint. The team has been active in Bittensor since 2023, owns Subnet 35 (0xMarkets), and…

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TGIF #20: Democratizing AI Training with Heterogeneous SparseLoCo

SUMMARY: On TGIF #20, Covenant Labs announced Templar’s latest evolution in decentralized training, moving toward a “unified training” paradigm that combines data and model parallelism.  By integrating their state-of-the-art SparseLoCO algorithm with new model-sharding techniques, Templar is now capable of harnessing the internet’s “long tail” of compute, allowing consumer-grade GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) and even…

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