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2xnmore

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JUST IN: const shares the vision for gamma tokens, usage credits that subnets could fund from a slice of their emissions and spend on compute, inference, and other infrastructure. What this means ⬇️ → Subnets stop being isolated prize pools. They can buy services from one another instead of only competing for $TAO → Gamma is meant to work as a transferable credit, not just another speculative subnet token → Access is designed to reach beyond Bittensor, so outside compute and inference providers could take the same credits → Emissions become operating budget, not only a reward that gets sold into TAO If a subnet can spend what it earns on real work, Bittensor starts looking less like a scoreboard and more like an internal market for intelligence.

Intelligence ττ

74,601 Aufrufe • vor 5 Tagen

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VirtualBacon

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MTS

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$TAO is still being priced like a narrative token. It is not. Right now, the network is running 128 live subnets. Every single one of them settles in and out of TAO. That is not a side feature. That is the entire economic design. When Ridges competes with or outperforms funded labs on real engineering benchmarks, value flows back to TAO. When Chutes serves paid inference, value flows back to TAO. When a new subnet launches and miners compete for emissions, value flows back to TAO. There is no other chain where the success of the applications automatically compounds into the base asset this cleanly. Meanwhile, the market keeps treating every quiet week as proof the thesis is dead. Look at the actual structure: - 21 million hard cap - First halving already done - Daily emissions cut in half permanently - Subnet tokens now appearing on major exchange roadmaps - Barry Silbert, Jason Calacanis, and Grayscale all positioned on the same side of the table This is not a “maybe one day” story. This is a live incentive machine that has already survived its first supply shock and is still producing intelligence that closed labs have to pay real money to match. The people staring at the daily candle are waiting for permission. The people reading the subnet economics already know what the next leg looks like. The people who understood this before the repricing will not need to explain their positioning later.
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$TAO is still being priced like a narrative token. It is not. Right now, the network is running 128 live subnets. Every single one of them settles in and out of TAO. That is not a side feature. That is the entire economic design. When Ridges competes with or outperforms funded labs on real engineering benchmarks, value flows back to TAO. When Chutes serves paid inference, value flows back to TAO. When a new subnet launches and miners compete for emissions, value flows back to TAO. There is no other chain where the success of the applications automatically compounds into the base asset this cleanly. Meanwhile, the market keeps treating every quiet week as proof the thesis is dead. Look at the actual structure: - 21 million hard cap - First halving already done - Daily emissions cut in half permanently - Subnet tokens now appearing on major exchange roadmaps - Barry Silbert, Jason Calacanis, and Grayscale all positioned on the same side of the table This is not a “maybe one day” story. This is a live incentive machine that has already survived its first supply shock and is still producing intelligence that closed labs have to pay real money to match. The people staring at the daily candle are waiting for permission. The people reading the subnet economics already know what the next leg looks like. The people who understood this before the repricing will not need to explain their positioning later.

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A subnet founder allegedly walked away with $10M in TAO and torched his own community in the process. On TWiST, Mark Jeffrey of Stillcore Capital joins us to break down what really happened with Templar/Covenant, the overall fixes that co-founder Const has proposed, and why Bittensor’s incentive engine may have been a victim of its own success. PLUS we’re joined by subnet operators Will Squires and Steffan Cruz (of MacroCosmos) and Ken Miyachi of BitMind to get their perspective on the controversy, and to demo the exciting projects they’re still building on the blockchain. 0:00 Mark Jeffrey joins the show! 2:18 How Mark Jeffrey learned about Bittensor. 6:17 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 7:22 Mark Jeffrey's Bittensor investments. 9:25 Check out our discussion with Nova: 10:16 Sentry - New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to and use the code TWIST 10:41 Check out Ridges! 11:53 How trading alpha tokens works on Bittensor 12:44 Subnet drama: what happened? 16:01 Do subnet owners have too much power? 18:33 Check out our conversation with Sam Dare (2268): 19:10 How Sam Dare should've handled walking away (per Mark Jeffrey) 20:02 Deel - Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, get visas handled fast, and get back to building. Visit to learn more. 23:29 Who should subnets be owned by? 24:02 Ken Miyachi from BitMind joins the show 30:56 Netsuite - Get the free business guide Demystifying AI at 31:06 Ken's $3M raise & investors (Arch, Canonical, Mechanism) 33:18 Token vs. equity: how to think about a subnet investment. 41:57 Will Squires and Stefan Kruse of MacroCosmos join the show 42:54 How MacroCosmos lets anyone become a compute provider. 56:29 Stefan on the Covenant drama: "disappointing, but solvable" 1:02:11 Off-duty with J-Cal, Mark Jeffrey, and Lon Harris 1:02:48 Bieber vs. Carpenter: does Coachella owe you a spectacle? 1:15:20 Jason says Staples should pay the "Staples baddie" $1M/year cc: @jason, Lon Harris, Mark Jeffrey, const, Distributed State, templar, covenant, Macrocosmos, Apex・SN1, IOTA ・ SN9, Ken Jon, BitMind BitMindAI 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇
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A subnet founder allegedly walked away with $10M in TAO and torched his own community in the process. On TWiST, Mark Jeffrey of Stillcore Capital joins us to break down what really happened with Templar/Covenant, the overall fixes that co-founder Const has proposed, and why Bittensor’s incentive engine may have been a victim of its own success. PLUS we’re joined by subnet operators Will Squires and Steffan Cruz (of MacroCosmos) and Ken Miyachi of BitMind to get their perspective on the controversy, and to demo the exciting projects they’re still building on the blockchain. 0:00 Mark Jeffrey joins the show! 2:18 How Mark Jeffrey learned about Bittensor. 6:17 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at and use code TWIST for 10% off! 7:22 Mark Jeffrey's Bittensor investments. 9:25 Check out our discussion with Nova: 10:16 Sentry - New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to and use the code TWIST 10:41 Check out Ridges! 11:53 How trading alpha tokens works on Bittensor 12:44 Subnet drama: what happened? 16:01 Do subnet owners have too much power? 18:33 Check out our conversation with Sam Dare (2268): 19:10 How Sam Dare should've handled walking away (per Mark Jeffrey) 20:02 Deel - Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, get visas handled fast, and get back to building. Visit to learn more. 23:29 Who should subnets be owned by? 24:02 Ken Miyachi from BitMind joins the show 30:56 Netsuite - Get the free business guide Demystifying AI at 31:06 Ken's $3M raise & investors (Arch, Canonical, Mechanism) 33:18 Token vs. equity: how to think about a subnet investment. 41:57 Will Squires and Stefan Kruse of MacroCosmos join the show 42:54 How MacroCosmos lets anyone become a compute provider. 56:29 Stefan on the Covenant drama: "disappointing, but solvable" 1:02:11 Off-duty with J-Cal, Mark Jeffrey, and Lon Harris 1:02:48 Bieber vs. Carpenter: does Coachella owe you a spectacle? 1:15:20 Jason says Staples should pay the "Staples baddie" $1M/year cc: @jason, Lon Harris, Mark Jeffrey, const, Distributed State, templar, covenant, Macrocosmos, Apex・SN1, IOTA ・ SN9, Ken Jon, BitMind BitMindAI 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

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