Bittensor This Week: Quasar’s First Model, Yanez Crosses $300K in Sales, and Trishool Joins Anthropic’s Partner Network

A week of receipts across the ecosystem: first public models from Quasar, hard revenue numbers from Yanez, benchmark wins from Affine, and a steady stream of enterprise validation.

Here’s the rundown.

Subnet updates

Chutes (SN64) — Jon Durbin shared a draft of the Parallax tech report, outlining an MoE training method that reduces per-participant VRAM and FLOPs (source). Chutes also became a launch partner for Respan’s new AI Gateway (source).

Quasar (SN24) had the headline release. The team dropped Quasar-Preview, its first public Quasar model trained on Bittensor — 18B MoE, 2B active, 5M context (source). Quasar is also preparing a 10T-token decentralized training run on SN24, starting with a 5T-token phase to produce a stronger checkpoint (source).

ORO (SN15) shared its arXiv pre-print, code, data, and post-training pipeline for building shopping agents from SN15’s open agentic shopping traces (source).

Score (SN44) showed how its 19MB vision model beat larger AI models on object detection while running much faster on CPU (source) — a strong argument for compact, purpose-built models. Score also added comparison pages benchmarking Manako AI against ChatGPT, Claude, Roboflow, SAM 3, and other vision AI tools (source).

Score (SN44) × Vidaio (SN85) — Score is partnering with Vidaio to bring vision AI challenges to SN44 and make video archives searchable and actionable (source).

Yanez (SN54) had the standout business week. The team partnered with Nexartis, an identity and trust infrastructure company, to help verify human, AI model, and agent activity across digital transactions (source). In its latest AMA, Yanez also disclosed that it has generated $300K+ in 2026 sales, with an active pipeline over $1M and 11 clients (source).

Trishool (SN23) was accepted into Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network (source).

Affine (SN120) — AFFINE-XXIX beat the Qwen3-32B baseline on SWE-Rebench, SWE-Multi, HumanEval, and MCP-Agent benchmarks, while staying close on BBH (source).

Vanta Trading (SN8) crossed 2,000 users after launching free $1k eval accounts and cutting prices by 55% across all challenges (source).

Swarm (SN124) announced SOTApilot, an open-source AI drone autonomy model with 95.34% success on its UAV navigation benchmark (source).

Blockmachine (SN19) launched Ethereum RPC (source).

TrajectoryRL (SN11) is expanding SN11’s skill competition from skill packs to miner-submitted finetuned models (source).

Ditto (SN118) reached 1,000 users (source).

Minos (SN107) has now run over 37,000 variant-calling evaluations on chromosome 21, with submissions improving by 10.21% on average (source).

Minotaur (SN112) launched its website and opened beta access to its DEX Aggregator (source).

ReadyAI (SN33) launched a revenue dashboard showing real-time demand for SN33’s structured data pipeline (source).

Good Morning (SN28) published the roadmap for its AI gateway running in a TEE, now live on testnet with mainnet beta next (source).

Endure (SN30) is integrating Synth’s forecasts into its DeFi risk engines — another clean example of subnet-to-subnet composability (source).

Eirel (SN36) released its first product, offering deep research, image generation, web search, and agent tools across multiple model families (source).

Subnet investment

Ad-TAO (SN21) — DSV Fund took an OTC position in the SN21 alpha token (source).

New subnets

Claims (SN111) — a new DeSci subnet building a claim-evidence graph that turns scientific literature into machine-readable data for AI reasoning (source).

Podcasts and reading

• Opentensor’s Novelty Search hosted by Const with Zipcode Network (source)
• TAO.com Episode 14 with Carrot and Keith Singery (source)
• Gordon Frayne podcast with Jose Caldera from Yanez (source)
• Gordon Frayne podcast with Koyuki Nakamori from Vocence (source)
• Altcoin Millie podcast with MaxScore from Score (source)
• Altcoin Millie podcast with Zeus (source)
• TAO.com article: “The Impact of Conviction” (source)

Takeaway

The story this week is validation from outside the ecosystem. Trishool joining Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, Yanez disclosing $300K+ in 2026 sales and a $1M+ pipeline, DSV Fund taking an OTC alpha position in SN21.

These are external signals that Bittensor subnets are increasingly being treated as real businesses by real counterparties. Inside the network, the technical curve keeps bending: Quasar’s first public 18B MoE model with a 5M context window, Affine beating Qwen3-32B on multiple coding benchmarks, Score’s tiny 19MB vision model outperforming much larger systems. Receipts on both sides.

On to next week.