Founder rugs have been destroying crypto communities since the beginning of this industry. The standard response has always been “that’s just crypto” or “hire better lawyers.” Three days ago, a Bittensor subnet founder dumped 37,000 […]
If you asked most people in the AI industry to name the leading open-source inference provider on the planet, they would probably guess a well-funded Silicon Valley startup backed by hundreds of millions in venture […]
The complexity of mining $TAO has long become its greatest strength and its biggest barrier to entry. While the network enables programmable markets for intelligence, mining often requires a deep mix of administration skills, crypto […]
NOTE: This piece is adapted from insights originally shared by Nick Hotz, whose framing of incentives, geopolitics, and decentralized intelligence offers a compelling lens into Bittensor’s role today. In 2020, at the height of the […]
Here’s what happened across the $TAO ecosystem this week. Market $TAO opened the week around $310 and is currently trading ~$254–$280 after one of the most significant subnet exit crisis in the ecosystem. TAO surged […]
There is a quiet shift happening in AI right now. We are moving from tools to teammates, from isolated models to coordinated, task-driven agents that can actually work alongside humans. But there is a problem. […]
For years, crypto has promised a new financial system built on open infrastructure, programmable assets, and autonomous coordination. That promise is now materializing, the rails are here, and the tools exist. The agent economy is […]
When Gordon Frayne sat down with Erkin Kamran (founder of 0xMarkets), the conversation quickly moved past surface-level DeFi narratives into something more grounded. This was not about building another exchange, it was about translating decades […]
The Covenant exit is currently dominating headlines. But in the turbulence, something important got lost: Templar (SN3) was one subnet out of dozens. And many of the others are quietly building products that rival or […]
There is a quiet shift happening in enterprise AI, and it has little to do with model size or benchmark scores. The real question is becoming harder to ignore. Not what a model outputs, but […]
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