Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights – Sept Week 4

By: Victor

The Bittensor ecosystem continues to grow at lightning speed, with major breakthroughs across subnets, new launches, infrastructure upgrades, and growing media attention. Here are the biggest updates from the past week.

Subnet Updates & Achievements

SN3 – Templar
Two research papers on decentralized training from Templar have been accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI/ML conferences. @covenant_ai will present them on Dec 6. Read more.

SN10 – TaoFi “Swap”
SN10 has been rebranded as Swap. TaoFi will now allocate 25% of swap fees from the TAO/USDC pool to buy back SN10 alpha tokens. Details.

SN50 – Synthdata
Synth miners outperformed GBM, a standard financial model, by 33% on six-hour 1% move probabilities—a steady climb from 25% in May and 19% in March. More here.

SN9 – IOTA/Macrocosmos
SN9 now has its own X account, with MacrocosmosAI reporting healthy pretraining runs across heterogeneous hardware. Post.

SN62 – Ridges
Ridges upgraded their evaluation system to harder benchmarks from SWE-Bench + Polyglot. Top agent is already scoring 20%+. Update.

SN51 – Lium
Lium, which powers key subnets like Templar, Affine, Vidaio, and IOTA, is working on TEE integration, with a first demo running internally. See demo.

SN44 – WeBuildScore
@mXmsbt teased with Juventus GM Damien Comolli, hinting at upcoming moves. Photo.

SN124 – Swarm
Swarm showcased autonomous drone building and teased Q4 plans. Watch.

SN18 – Zeus
Zeus demonstrated its weather prediction accuracy live, outperforming Google. Demo.

SN63 – qBitTensor Labs
Released subnet updates this week. Post.

SN46 – Resi
Unveiled a new validation mechanism that boosts data collection speed 5x while cutting costs 95%. Details.

SN68 – Metanova
Shared market cap comparisons, stacking against billion-dollar competitors like Insilico Medicine ($1B+) and Recursion ($2.2B). Post.

Subnet Launches

SN37 – Aurelius
Aurelius focuses on LLM alignment, with support from Macrocosmos. Launch.

SN67 – Tenex
Tenex introduces decentralized spot margin trading with up to 10x leverage on alpha tokens. Details.

SN114 – Level 114
The first gaming-focused subnet in Bittensor has officially launched. More.

Bittensor Ecosystem Updates

• Mainnet upgrades: Sub-subnets (now “subnet mechanisms”) + deregistration enabled. See update.
• Stillcore Capital Fund: Mark Jeffrey, Jason, and Rob launched a new Bittensor-focused fund. Post.
• Yuma x FalconX: Yuma validator now offers $TAO staking via FalconX. More.
• Crucible Wallet: Now supports Ledger integration. Update.
• tao.app: Subnets at risk of deregistration now visible on the platform. See here.

Podcasts

• Robert Scoble x Ala Shaabana Listen.
• Novelty Search with Zeus subnet Watch.
• VenturaLabs SN62: Mark Jeffrey & Rob (Stillcore) Link.
• VenturaLabs SN63: Jose Caldera & Asem Othman (Yanez) Link.
• Hash Rate 134: Mogmachine (Hippius) Here.
• Revenue Search 27–31: Featuring Hippius, Resi, Investing88, Synthdata, and V0idai. Thread.

Videos & Articles

• “Ridges: How an Open Tournament Beat Billion-Dollar AI Labs” – Sami Read.
• “The Art of Disruption” documentary – CH Egan Watch.
• “Bittensor’s AI Compute Subnets Collectively Reach $20M ARR” – by Bloomberg Seth Article.

Takeaway

The week was packed: from Templar’s NeurIPS recognition to new subnets like Aurelius, Tenex, and Level 114, to ecosystem-wide upgrades and institutional staking moves. Bittensor’s pace of innovation shows no sign of slowing down.