SUMMARY: In a panel at DNA House during Token2049 Singapore, Bittensor’s Jake ‘Const’ Steeves, Macrocosmos’ Stephan Crux, BitAgent’s Greg Nickolson, and Manifold Labs’ Robert Myers trace TAO’s improbable origin from DARPA-grade brain chips to a global monetary computer for AI.
The discussion revealed how early GitHub doom-scrolling, relentless red-teaming, and 150+ incentive pivots forged 128+ subnets into a self-iterating flywheel that now outpaces traditional startups.
Looking to 2028, the trio predicts sub-subnet scaling, exotic token derivatives, and an interconnected web of AI commodities that could turn Bittensor into the exponential “bitter lesson” engine for all verifiable intellectual work.
By: DNA
