By: Victor
The Bittensor ecosystem continues to expand at breakneck speed — with multiple subnet launches, exchange listings, funding rounds, and groundbreaking technical releases. November week 1 was one of the most eventful yet, showcasing the network’s momentum toward a truly decentralized AI economy.
Here’s everything that happened:
SUBNET UPDATES & ACHIEVEMENTS
SN62 — Ridges
Ridges launched Ridges v1, the first version of their product, opening testing to initial users.
🔗 Read more
SN68 — Metanova Labs
Metanova introduced NOVA_Blueprint, a new incentive layer that lets participants compete to build the best chemical search algorithms.
They also unveiled a new dashboard for this challenge.
🔗 Challenge overview | Dashboard
SN13 — Data Universe
Data Universe launched The Data Universe Marketplace, opening access to new data-driven AI trading and analytics tools.
🔗 Announcement
SN51 — Lium
Big week for Lium:
- Alpha token listed on MEXC
- Added support for GPU computations in a fully encrypted, trustless setup using CVM
- Began daily buybacks & burns exceeding $10,000 per day
🔗 Listing | GPU update | Buyback news
SN64 — Chutes
Another alpha token joins MEXC — Chutes.
They also rolled out a set of fresh new AI models on their OpenAI-compatible platform.
🔗 Listing | New models
SN93 — Bitcast
Bitcast unveiled their no-code mining platform, letting creators mine their subnet simply by making videos. Their website also got a major refresh.
🔗 Learn more
SN41 — SportsTensor
SportsTensor partnered with GRID Esports, turning live sports data into actionable market intelligence.
🔗 Announcement
SN60 — Bitsec
Bitsec launched V2, featuring a scalable, agent-based AI security system outperforming human auditors. It enables decentralized, revenue-generating code audits.
🔗 Details
SN59 — Babelbit
Babelbit rolled out a full website revamp, aligning their design with recent product updates.
🔗 View site
SN3 — TPLR
Covenant72B Checkpoint 2 dropped, proving that a decentralized foundation model can outperform Llama2 7B while using just 25% of the tokens.
🔗 Benchmark
SN18 — Zeus
Zeus released a benchmark comparison against ECMWF IFS HRES, showing superior performance across every variable.
🔗 Results
SN44 — Score
Score detailed their new incentive mechanism, positioning themselves as a “VisionGPT” platform — the default hub for computer vision model training and deployment.
🔗 Thread
SN46 — Resi Labs
Resi secured a $100,000 OTC allocation from DSV Fund into their alpha token.
🔗 Announcement
SN71 — Leadpoet
Leadpoet also confirmed a $100,000 OTC allocation from DSV Fund.
🔗 Details
SN124 — Swarm
Swarm dropped a series of homepage upgrades to improve UX and network insights.
🔗 See updates
SN50 — Synthdata
Synth’s Polymarket trading account using Synth forecasts surpassed $15,000 in profit (500% ROI).
Their HFT prompts go live next week.
🔗 Update
SN48 & SN63 — qBitTensor Labs
The team attended Google HQ in New York City for The QEDC Annual Meeting.
🔗 Post
SN85 — Vidaio
Vidaio showcased an impressive 96% image compression with no visible quality loss — powered entirely by their subnet.
🔗 Demo
SN17 — 404gen
404gen teased major upcoming updates — one to keep an eye on.
🔗 Teaser
SN26 — KinitroAI
Kinitro highlighted progress from participants in their multi-task competition, advancing decentralized multi-agent research.
🔗 Overview
SUBNET LAUNCH
SN45 — Talisman
Talisman partnered with Team Rizzo AI to launch Talisman AI, a subnet focused on autonomous, agent-driven trading strategies.
🔗 Launch post
BITTENSOR ECOSYSTEM UPDATES
OpenTensor
Released two major protocol-level upgrades:
- Tao Flow: Redefines how emissions are distributed to subnet pools for better capital allocation.
- Root Claim: Enables root stakers to receive rewards in alpha tokens from the subnets their validators interact with.
🔗 Details
GTAO Ventures
Announced Project Rubicon, a liquid-staked alpha bridge built in partnership with Chainlink CCIP, enabling alpha token trading on AerodromeFi and Base.
🔗 Launch thread
xTAO
xTAO raised $7.3 million in fresh funding to expand its $TAO treasury and strengthen liquidity initiatives.
🔗 Announcement
TAO Synergies
Announced a $750,000 investment into Yuma Asset Management’s Bittensor Subnet Funds — further integrating DeFi capital into the Bittensor ecosystem.
🔗 Post
Taostats
Submitted a BIT proposal for substrate-native smart contracts, which is now live — a huge milestone for on-chain programmability in Bittensor.
🔗 Details
Mentat Minds
Published a new index covering Covenant AI subnets, improving transparency and data analytics for subnet ecosystems.
🔗 View index
PODCASTS
Ventura Labs Podcast dropped two new episodes:
- Ep. 68 — with Matthew Karas from Babelbit
🔗 Listen here - Ep. 69 — with Neuromancer_T from SportsTensor
🔗 Listen here
Wrapping Up
From groundbreaking product releases to capital inflows and cross-chain bridges, Week 34 was massive for the Bittensor network.
The pace of innovation continues to accelerate — and we’re likely only scratching the surface of what these subnets will achieve next.
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