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Sat down with Bittensor co-founder Jacob Steeves (Const) for a deep dive into the state of Bittensor in 2026. We covered how Subnet 3 trained a 72B parameter model in a fully permissionless decentralized way, how subnets create markets for digital commodities like gradients and inference, the dynamic TAO...

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73,314 views • 4 months ago

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Ventura Labs Ep. 38 - Maciej Kula Maciej (Maciej Kula) is the Co-Head of education at Latent Holdings (Laτenτ Holdings) and Founder of (Learn Bittensor) Timestamps: 2:02 - Introduction 2:57 - Maciej Kula meets Bittensor 6:00 - The Journey into Bittensor 8:43 - Understanding Bittensor: A Decentralized AI Network 11:55 - TAO and Alpha Halving: Key Concepts Explained 14:52 - The Dynamics of Miner Registration and Price Effects 18:07 - Exploring the Sum of Prices and Market Dynamics 20:47 - The Impact of Inactive Subnets on Pricing 24:08 - The Future of Bittensor and Community Insights 39:07 - Understanding Complexity in Bittensor 40:28 - Navigating Changes Post-dTAO 42:28 - Optimal Strategies for Alpha 48:39 - Exploring Proxy Wallets and Their Risks 52:40 - Future Use Cases for Proxy Wallets 55:11 - Common Questions and Community Engagement 59:40 - Advice for Newcomers to Bittensor 1:02:16 - Liquid Alpha: Understanding Its Impact

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Andy ττ

27,275 views • 5 months ago

🚀 Exciting News $SHELL the Future of AI Agents and $TAO with the TTS Subnet on Bittensor! 🚀 MyShell extends the impact of Bittensor's incentive mechanism to its over 1 million registered users and 50,000 creators, greatly expanding Bittensor's and $TAO's influence. MyShell and Bittensor are right at the heart this massive shake-up with $SHELL and $TAO. They’re all about making AI not just smart but also something everyone can get into, thanks to the power of decentralized networks. And at the core? AI agents. These aren't your average digital assistants; they're about to change how we interact with tech on a whole new level. MyShell's Big Idea with $SHELL So, MyShell’s got this big plan to make AI something anyone can dive into. They're launching this TTS Subnet thing on Bittensor's network, which is all about making machines talk in more human-like ways, and they're using $SHELL tokens to fuel this vision. Their goal? To push past old-school AI limits and create with AI as easy as pie, all while keeping it open-source and community-powered. Bittensor Does Its Magic with $TAO On the other side, you’ve got Bittensor doing wonders with $TAO, building this massive network where anyone, anywhere, can chip in on AI research and development. This partnership with MyShell? It’s a game-changer, breaking down walls in AI development and letting folks from all over the world have a go at making AI smarter. $SHELL + $TAO = AI Revolution Putting $SHELL and $TAO together is where the magic really happens. MyShell and Bittensor aren’t just teaming up for the tech; they’re here to transform our digital world, making AI agents a big part of our online lives. Imagine AI that doesn’t just follow orders but helps, creates, and learns with you. That’s the future they’re building. Hop on Board the AI Revolution This isn’t just tech talk; it’s a call to action. MyShell and Bittensor are inviting anyone with a spark for AI to jump in and help shape this new world. Whether you’re a coder, a creator, or just curious, there’s a spot for you to dive in and make a difference. Want to get started? Check out MyShell on GitHub: Follow the latest buzz on X: MyShell.AI Take a deeper dive at Website: This is more than just building AI; it’s about crafting a future where AI is part of everyone’s life, powered by the community, for the community. Let’s make it happen with $SHELL and $TAO. Share on YouTube:
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🚀 Exciting News $SHELL the Future of AI Agents and $TAO with the TTS Subnet on Bittensor! 🚀 MyShell extends the impact of Bittensor's incentive mechanism to its over 1 million registered users and 50,000 creators, greatly expanding Bittensor's and $TAO's influence. MyShell and Bittensor are right at the heart this massive shake-up with $SHELL and $TAO. They’re all about making AI not just smart but also something everyone can get into, thanks to the power of decentralized networks. And at the core? AI agents. These aren't your average digital assistants; they're about to change how we interact with tech on a whole new level. MyShell's Big Idea with $SHELL So, MyShell’s got this big plan to make AI something anyone can dive into. They're launching this TTS Subnet thing on Bittensor's network, which is all about making machines talk in more human-like ways, and they're using $SHELL tokens to fuel this vision. Their goal? To push past old-school AI limits and create with AI as easy as pie, all while keeping it open-source and community-powered. Bittensor Does Its Magic with $TAO On the other side, you’ve got Bittensor doing wonders with $TAO, building this massive network where anyone, anywhere, can chip in on AI research and development. This partnership with MyShell? It’s a game-changer, breaking down walls in AI development and letting folks from all over the world have a go at making AI smarter. $SHELL + $TAO = AI Revolution Putting $SHELL and $TAO together is where the magic really happens. MyShell and Bittensor aren’t just teaming up for the tech; they’re here to transform our digital world, making AI agents a big part of our online lives. Imagine AI that doesn’t just follow orders but helps, creates, and learns with you. That’s the future they’re building. Hop on Board the AI Revolution This isn’t just tech talk; it’s a call to action. MyShell and Bittensor are inviting anyone with a spark for AI to jump in and help shape this new world. Whether you’re a coder, a creator, or just curious, there’s a spot for you to dive in and make a difference. Want to get started? Check out MyShell on GitHub: Follow the latest buzz on X: MyShell.AI Take a deeper dive at Website: This is more than just building AI; it’s about crafting a future where AI is part of everyone’s life, powered by the community, for the community. Let’s make it happen with $SHELL and $TAO. Share on YouTube:

Andy ττ

10,823 views • 2 years ago

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our Smart Allocator, a powerful new tool designed specifically to simplify staking TAO in the Bittensor ecosystem. Check it out here: With Smart Allocator, all the TAO you earn from staking to root will be automatically staked into the top 20 subnets ranked by price. We believe this is a powerful solution for passive TAO holders wanting some exposure to higher network yields while managing subnet volatility risk. We created a simulator on our website to help you better understand how the Smart Allocator works. Why did we build this? Crucible Labs was founded to make Bittensor more accessible and useful. We believe simple, consumer-friendly staking products will encourage participation, ensuring the most promising subnets receive the strongest support from the network. Ready to simplify staking your TAO? Get started with Smart Allocator today and experience a smarter, easier and more powerful way to engage with the future of decentralized AI. We have created a user guide to help walk you through how to set up, stake, and make the most of Crucible's powerful features, including Smart Allocation with Core Alpha and direct subnet control. Get Crucible Wallet here: Ala and David
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We're thrilled to announce the launch of our Smart Allocator, a powerful new tool designed specifically to simplify staking TAO in the Bittensor ecosystem. Check it out here: With Smart Allocator, all the TAO you earn from staking to root will be automatically staked into the top 20 subnets ranked by price. We believe this is a powerful solution for passive TAO holders wanting some exposure to higher network yields while managing subnet volatility risk. We created a simulator on our website to help you better understand how the Smart Allocator works. Why did we build this? Crucible Labs was founded to make Bittensor more accessible and useful. We believe simple, consumer-friendly staking products will encourage participation, ensuring the most promising subnets receive the strongest support from the network. Ready to simplify staking your TAO? Get started with Smart Allocator today and experience a smarter, easier and more powerful way to engage with the future of decentralized AI. We have created a user guide to help walk you through how to set up, stake, and make the most of Crucible's powerful features, including Smart Allocation with Core Alpha and direct subnet control. Get Crucible Wallet here: Ala and David

Crucible Labs

74,357 views • 1 year ago

DROPS E38: Vanta Trading - The Best Traders Won't Be Human Arrash is the founder and CEO of Vanta Trading, a decentralized prop trading platform built on Bittensor. He spent years as a quant trader building his own strategies before deciding the entire funded-account industry needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. We talk about: - Why most "funded accounts" trade on money that doesn't exist - Why your payout was never real - How prop firms intentionally change rules and spreads before you cash out - Why the best traders of the future won't be human And much more… Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:48 Founder of Vanta 3:08 Explaining Vanta to an Uber Driver 3:26 Unfair vs Fair Funding 6:37 How do they make money? 8:33 How a Legit Prop Firm Makes Money 9:43 Founder's Journey Into Entrepreneurship 10:42 Discovering Crypto & Blockchain 13:03 From LinkedIn Engineer to Quant Trader 15:22 Trading Strategies 16:13 How Trading Is Changing? 18:39 Why TradFi Should Fear Hyperliquid 19:16 Building on BitTensor 21:43 Explaining BitTensor Simply 22:03 How BitTensor Creates Value 23:17 BitTensor's Structure 24:36 BitTensor as Crypto AI 25:35 Is the BitTensor Hype Justified? 27:09 Revenue & Profitability in BitTensor 29:17 Role of TAO 29:51 Advantages & Limitations of BitTensor ecosystem 31:56 What Is Vanta? 32:26 Why No One Fixed Prop Trading Before 33:12 Is the Entire Industry a Scam? 34:17 How Prop Firms Really Make Money 35:35 How Vanta Is Different 38:33 Copy Trading Explained 39:30 Vanta's Business Model 40:28 Dark Reality Behind Funded Accounts 43:48 Long-Term Vision for Vanta 44:50 What Happens If Too Many Traders Win? 46:25 Future Belongs to AI Traders 47:59 Vanta's Endgame 49:14 Conclusion
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DROPS E38: Vanta Trading - The Best Traders Won't Be Human Arrash is the founder and CEO of Vanta Trading, a decentralized prop trading platform built on Bittensor. He spent years as a quant trader building his own strategies before deciding the entire funded-account industry needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. We talk about: - Why most "funded accounts" trade on money that doesn't exist - Why your payout was never real - How prop firms intentionally change rules and spreads before you cash out - Why the best traders of the future won't be human And much more… Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:48 Founder of Vanta 3:08 Explaining Vanta to an Uber Driver 3:26 Unfair vs Fair Funding 6:37 How do they make money? 8:33 How a Legit Prop Firm Makes Money 9:43 Founder's Journey Into Entrepreneurship 10:42 Discovering Crypto & Blockchain 13:03 From LinkedIn Engineer to Quant Trader 15:22 Trading Strategies 16:13 How Trading Is Changing? 18:39 Why TradFi Should Fear Hyperliquid 19:16 Building on BitTensor 21:43 Explaining BitTensor Simply 22:03 How BitTensor Creates Value 23:17 BitTensor's Structure 24:36 BitTensor as Crypto AI 25:35 Is the BitTensor Hype Justified? 27:09 Revenue & Profitability in BitTensor 29:17 Role of TAO 29:51 Advantages & Limitations of BitTensor ecosystem 31:56 What Is Vanta? 32:26 Why No One Fixed Prop Trading Before 33:12 Is the Entire Industry a Scam? 34:17 How Prop Firms Really Make Money 35:35 How Vanta Is Different 38:33 Copy Trading Explained 39:30 Vanta's Business Model 40:28 Dark Reality Behind Funded Accounts 43:48 Long-Term Vision for Vanta 44:50 What Happens If Too Many Traders Win? 46:25 Future Belongs to AI Traders 47:59 Vanta's Endgame 49:14 Conclusion

MR SHIFT 🦁

37,896 views • 1 month ago

INTERVIEW - Venice Is Here to Win: How Private AI Takes On OpenAI and Anthropic David Hoffman sits down with Jon Venice and Jesse Proudman to unpack how Venice is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with private AI. They talk about: - why AI is becoming the biggest data honeypot ever - private Grok access through Venice - unrestricted AI as a consumer wedge - how non-crypto users still feed the $VVV economy - $DIEM, tokenized inference, and AI agents --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:12 Why Private AI Matters 3:01 The AI Data Honeypot 6:07 Venice’s Consumer AI Ambition 8:01 Beating the Big AI Labs 10:19 Model Aggregation and Agentic Chat 12:29 Open Source, Closed Source, and Private Grok 17:14 Who Actually Needs Private AI? 21:58 Venice’s User Base 23:53 What Drove Venice’s Recent Growth 27:21 $VVV, $DIEM, and Tokenized Inference 29:00 Where Venice Gets Its Compute 32:17 Bonding Curves and DIEM Monetary Policy 39:14 Real Tokenomics, Not Just a Pie Chart 45:46 AI Agents Need Inference to Exist 52:54 ShapeShift DNA Inside Venice 55:53 Regulation, AI, and Individual Rights
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INTERVIEW - Venice Is Here to Win: How Private AI Takes On OpenAI and Anthropic David Hoffman sits down with Jon Venice and Jesse Proudman to unpack how Venice is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with private AI. They talk about: - why AI is becoming the biggest data honeypot ever - private Grok access through Venice - unrestricted AI as a consumer wedge - how non-crypto users still feed the $VVV economy - $DIEM, tokenized inference, and AI agents --- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:12 Why Private AI Matters 3:01 The AI Data Honeypot 6:07 Venice’s Consumer AI Ambition 8:01 Beating the Big AI Labs 10:19 Model Aggregation and Agentic Chat 12:29 Open Source, Closed Source, and Private Grok 17:14 Who Actually Needs Private AI? 21:58 Venice’s User Base 23:53 What Drove Venice’s Recent Growth 27:21 $VVV, $DIEM, and Tokenized Inference 29:00 Where Venice Gets Its Compute 32:17 Bonding Curves and DIEM Monetary Policy 39:14 Real Tokenomics, Not Just a Pie Chart 45:46 AI Agents Need Inference to Exist 52:54 ShapeShift DNA Inside Venice 55:53 Regulation, AI, and Individual Rights

Bankless

59,360 views • 1 month ago

$TAO just reclaimed the #1 AI crypto spot. Most people saw the headline. Almost nobody understands what it means for the price. Here is the data. $NEAR built real infrastructure. Partnerships. Developer activity. A legitimate ecosystem. $TAO just walked past it anyway. Not because of hype. Because Bittensor is the only AI crypto with a functioning marketplace for machine intelligence where supply, demand, and price discovery are all happening on-chain right now. That is not a roadmap. That is a live network. The numbers. 120+ subnets running today. $1.4B+ total ecosystem value. Chutes AI subnet: 150B+ tokens per day. Grayscale GTAO Trust: already live. Single subnet listed on the marketplace at $970,000 asking price. Subnets are becoming assets. The market is starting to price that. What the emission data is telling you. Emission rate is the network's vote on where the most valuable work is being done. When a subnet gains emission share, the collective stake-weighted intelligence of the network has decided that subnet's output is worth more of the TAO supply. Chutes AI gaining emissions while processing 150B tokens daily is not a coincidence. The network is directing capital toward proven output before any headline announces it. Why mainstream money changes everything. James Altucher just launched bluetao. ai, a TAO-powered ChatGPT alternative built directly on Bittensor subnets. He did not just buy the token. He built a product on the network. Products built on a network create structural demand for the native asset. That is how every successful L1 cycle has worked. Bittensor is now getting that builder activity from outside the crypto native world. That is a different signal from a price target tweet. Why $TAO is structurally different. Most AI tokens are betting their chain becomes the preferred environment for AI development. $TAO is not betting on becoming infrastructure. It already is. 120+ subnets running. Miners competing. Validators setting weights. Alpha tokens being priced in real time. The difference between $TAO and every other AI crypto is the difference between a city under construction and a city people are already living in. Van de Poppe said $1,000 to $2,000 in 12 months. He gave you the narrative. The subnet emission data is the mechanism he did not explain. Now you have both. $TAO at $313 with a $3.42B market cap is still early relative to what this network is actually processing. Centralised AI infrastructure companies are valued at hundreds of billions for processing far less novel work than a decentralised intelligence marketplace running 120+ competing subnets simultaneously. The repricing has not happened yet. The subnet marketplace listing at $970,000 is telling you something the price has not caught up to yet.
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$TAO just reclaimed the #1 AI crypto spot. Most people saw the headline. Almost nobody understands what it means for the price. Here is the data. $NEAR built real infrastructure. Partnerships. Developer activity. A legitimate ecosystem. $TAO just walked past it anyway. Not because of hype. Because Bittensor is the only AI crypto with a functioning marketplace for machine intelligence where supply, demand, and price discovery are all happening on-chain right now. That is not a roadmap. That is a live network. The numbers. 120+ subnets running today. $1.4B+ total ecosystem value. Chutes AI subnet: 150B+ tokens per day. Grayscale GTAO Trust: already live. Single subnet listed on the marketplace at $970,000 asking price. Subnets are becoming assets. The market is starting to price that. What the emission data is telling you. Emission rate is the network's vote on where the most valuable work is being done. When a subnet gains emission share, the collective stake-weighted intelligence of the network has decided that subnet's output is worth more of the TAO supply. Chutes AI gaining emissions while processing 150B tokens daily is not a coincidence. The network is directing capital toward proven output before any headline announces it. Why mainstream money changes everything. James Altucher just launched bluetao. ai, a TAO-powered ChatGPT alternative built directly on Bittensor subnets. He did not just buy the token. He built a product on the network. Products built on a network create structural demand for the native asset. That is how every successful L1 cycle has worked. Bittensor is now getting that builder activity from outside the crypto native world. That is a different signal from a price target tweet. Why $TAO is structurally different. Most AI tokens are betting their chain becomes the preferred environment for AI development. $TAO is not betting on becoming infrastructure. It already is. 120+ subnets running. Miners competing. Validators setting weights. Alpha tokens being priced in real time. The difference between $TAO and every other AI crypto is the difference between a city under construction and a city people are already living in. Van de Poppe said $1,000 to $2,000 in 12 months. He gave you the narrative. The subnet emission data is the mechanism he did not explain. Now you have both. $TAO at $313 with a $3.42B market cap is still early relative to what this network is actually processing. Centralised AI infrastructure companies are valued at hundreds of billions for processing far less novel work than a decentralised intelligence marketplace running 120+ competing subnets simultaneously. The repricing has not happened yet. The subnet marketplace listing at $970,000 is telling you something the price has not caught up to yet.

2xnmore

12,150 views • 2 months ago

*Major* open source AI drop today. Can America win the Open AI race? My conversation with Nathan Lambert and Luca Soldaini 🎀 of Ai2 about the launch of Olmo 3 00:00 – Cold Open 00:39 – Welcome & today’s big announcement 01:18 – Introducing the Olmo 3 model family 02:07 – What “base models” really are (and why they matter) 05:51 – Dolma 3: the data behind Olmo 3 08:06 – Performance vs Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek 10:28 – What true open source means (and why it’s rare) 12:51 – Intermediate checkpoints, transparency, and why AI2 publishes everything 16:37 – Why Qwen is everywhere (including U.S. startups) 18:31 – Why Chinese labs go open source (and why U.S. labs don’t) 20:28 – Inside ATOM: the U.S. response to China’s model surge 22:13 – The rise of “thinking models” and inference-time scaling 35:58 – The full Olmo pipeline, explained simply 46:52 – Pre-training: data, scale, and avoiding catastrophic spikes 50:27 – Mid-training (tail patching) and avoiding test leakage 52:06 – Why long-context training matters 55:28 – SFT: building the foundation for reasoning 1:04:53 – Preference tuning & why DPO still works 1:10:51 – The hard part: RLVR, long reasoning chains, and infrastructure pain 1:13:59 – Why RL is so technically brutal 1:18:17 – Complexity tax vs AGI hype 1:21:58 – How everyone can contribute to the future of AI 1:27:26 – Closing thoughts
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*Major* open source AI drop today. Can America win the Open AI race? My conversation with Nathan Lambert and Luca Soldaini 🎀 of Ai2 about the launch of Olmo 3 00:00 – Cold Open 00:39 – Welcome & today’s big announcement 01:18 – Introducing the Olmo 3 model family 02:07 – What “base models” really are (and why they matter) 05:51 – Dolma 3: the data behind Olmo 3 08:06 – Performance vs Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek 10:28 – What true open source means (and why it’s rare) 12:51 – Intermediate checkpoints, transparency, and why AI2 publishes everything 16:37 – Why Qwen is everywhere (including U.S. startups) 18:31 – Why Chinese labs go open source (and why U.S. labs don’t) 20:28 – Inside ATOM: the U.S. response to China’s model surge 22:13 – The rise of “thinking models” and inference-time scaling 35:58 – The full Olmo pipeline, explained simply 46:52 – Pre-training: data, scale, and avoiding catastrophic spikes 50:27 – Mid-training (tail patching) and avoiding test leakage 52:06 – Why long-context training matters 55:28 – SFT: building the foundation for reasoning 1:04:53 – Preference tuning & why DPO still works 1:10:51 – The hard part: RLVR, long reasoning chains, and infrastructure pain 1:13:59 – Why RL is so technically brutal 1:18:17 – Complexity tax vs AGI hype 1:21:58 – How everyone can contribute to the future of AI 1:27:26 – Closing thoughts

Matt Turck

37,531 views • 8 months ago

A crypto project actually trained a 72B parameter AI model from scratch using decentralized GPU compute. Not fine-tuned, not a wrapper: trained from zero. The model benchmarks competitively against Meta's LLaMA 3 on reasoning tasks, and the entire training run cost a fraction of what centralized labs spend. If decentralized compute can produce frontier-class models, the moat around OpenAI and Anthropic is thinner than people think.
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A crypto project actually trained a 72B parameter AI model from scratch using decentralized GPU compute. Not fine-tuned, not a wrapper: trained from zero. The model benchmarks competitively against Meta's LLaMA 3 on reasoning tasks, and the entire training run cost a fraction of what centralized labs spend. If decentralized compute can produce frontier-class models, the moat around OpenAI and Anthropic is thinner than people think.

VirtualBacon

40,647 views • 4 months ago