Brief Introduction
A game-changer is coming to Bittensor, and it’s happening with data trading.
Data Universe (Bittensor Subnet 13) recently announced a marketplace that turns public social media information from platforms like X, Reddit, and YouTube into structured and tradable datasets, similar to what Bitcoin or Ethereum have done for digital currencies.
Why the Data Universe Market is important
Unlike other dataset libraries, the Data Universe Marketplace fully democratizes data access, allowing anyone to buy or sell cleaned and organized data sourced from social media platforms. Right now, more than 55 billion rows have already been indexed, with millions more added daily.
Also, this marketplace was designed to integrate with other Bittensor subnets, making it easier for machines to consume and use the data automatically.
How It Works
Everything runs on Bittensor Subnet 13, rewarding miners for collecting high-quality public data in real-time and uploading to Hugging Face. After local storage, validators check accuracy via samples and timestamps, so only top-tier contributions earn TAO or SN13 tokens.
Gravity, Macrocosmos AI’s no-code hub, lets anyone request keywords or topics for 7-day tasks, while curators bundle raw feeds into datasets like Bitcoin trends or Champions League stats, accessible via a simple API.
Key Features
- Dynamic Desirability List: User demands prioritize rare, high-value data, slashing duplicates and boosting uniqueness.
- Gravity Platform: No-code access for sentiment tracking, market research, or AI training—new users get $5 credits.
- Machine-Ready API/SDK: Feeds other Bittensor subnets automatically, from sports analytics (Subnet 44) to asset forecasting (Subnet 64).
- Dataset Variety: Financial trends, political insights, real estate, consumer behavior—all vetted, affordable, and scalable to 50 petabytes.
A startup can now grab brand mentions for pennies versus Brandwatch thousands, while researchers fuel models without scraping headaches.
What You Can Do With It
- Train or fine-tune models with the current social context and sentiment.
- Monitor trends across billions of conversations for finance, marketing, or governance.
- Run academic research without maintaining massive infrastructure.
- Feed decentralized agents with live, verifiable information streams.
By making social data both open and organized, Data Universe bridges two worlds — the chaotic online conversations and the organized datasets that AI models require.
The Bigger Vision
Data Universe flips the script on info asymmetry—where Google shells out $60M yearly for Reddit access, this democratizes signals for builders everywhere. Backed by Macrocosmos (Will Squires, CEO, Steffen Cruz, CTO), with a 1.3M fixed-supply SN13 token at $3-12, it’s essential infrastructure for decentralized AI. Roadmap adds YouTube, GitHub, live streams—turning data into liquid, on-chain fuel that powers intelligence without gatekeepers.
Explore at datauniverse.macrocosmos.ai, dash at sn13-dashboard.api.macrocosmos.ai, or GitHub.com/macrocosm-os/data-universe.
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