DeAI (Decentralized AI) is moving from theory to reality faster than anyone expected, and a major force behind that acceleration is Yuma Group. Backed by Digital Currency Group (DCG) and led directly by Barry Silbert alongside key industry leaders, Yuma is quietly shaping some of the most influential subnets inside the Bittensor network.
What began as a simple bet on decentralized intelligence has expanded into a full ecosystem of funded teams, specialized subnets, and real-world use cases.
What is Yuma Group?
Yuma is a DCG-backed company dedicated to building, accelerating, and supporting projects on Bittensor. Its goal is to make Bittensor the open “internet of intelligence” by giving builders everything they need to deploy state-of-the-art AI-solutions and systems on-chain.
Yuma provides:
a. Capital and strategic backing,
b. Engineering support for subnet teams,
c. A validator service for $TAO holders,
d. Mining infrastructure to strengthen subnet performance, and
e. Accelerator and incubation programs for early-stage projects.
Yuma sits at the center of DCG’s broader crypto plus AI thesis: that intelligence, like money, will eventually be owned, governed, and distributed by open networks rather than a handful of centralized companies.
Inside Yuma’s Subnet Portfolio
Below is a streamlined overview of the Bittensor subnets currently supported, accelerated, or incubated by Yuma Group.
Each one focuses on a specific type of intelligence or infrastructure:
Precog is a Bitcoin ($BTC) price forecasting subnet that outputs a new one-hour prediction every five minutes. It uses high-quality market data from Coin Metrics, creating a competitive environment where top analysts and models fight to produce the most accurate signals.
This is a decentralized marketplace for forecasting agents. Instead of scoring individual predictions, Numinous evaluates the forecasters themselves, rewarding AI-models that continuously learn and improve over time.
Swap is a cross-chain liquidity and subnet token trading platform. With Swap, users can buy or sell subnet ‘$ALPHA’ tokens from Ethereum, Base, and Bittensor in a single-click, removing the usual complexity of entering the TAO ecosystem.
A real-time, decentralized data pipeline that streams structured social and web content for AI applications. Gopher replaces expensive centralized APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) with a permissionless firehose of fresh, verifiable data.
A computer vision subnet built for football analytics. Score tracks players, ball movement, and match events to produce tactical insights, performance metrics, and predictive models for sports organizations.
Right now, Score is exploring the world of Vision AI beyond sports.
This is a decentralized generative media subnet powering fast image and audio creation.
Originally a roleplay LLM (Large Language Model) project, it has pivoted to become Bittensor’s first large-scale generative media engine.
This security intelligence subnet is focused on detecting vulnerabilities in smart contracts and codebases. Bitsec uses AI agents to identify high-value exploits, helping strengthen the entire decentralized ecosystem.
This cybersecurity subnet turns adversarial techniques into productive competition. Miners submit attack strategies, validators test them, and the results help companies improve bot detection and defense systems.
Vericore is a semantic verification subnet used for fact-checking statements at scale. Vericore returns evidence-backed assessments and aims to become the truth-verification backbone of the Bittensor network.
This is a dataset-creation subnet designed for small AI-models. Miners earn rewards for producing compact, high-quality datasets that train efficient models for phones, IoT (Internet of Things) devices, and edge environments.
A physical-AI subnet built with NATIX. StreetVision analyzes crowdsourced street imagery to detect road work, signage, hazards, and driving scenarios. It is used in powering safer maps and autonomous navigation.
This compliance-focused subnet helps in generating synthetic identities to test fraud detection, sanctions screening, and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) systems. MIID strengthens financial defenses by simulating high-quality adversarial identities.
BitQuant is a decentralized “AI quant desk” for crypto traders, like the ChatGPT of market trends. Users ask natural-language questions about markets, and BitQuant’s agents return verified, on-chain insights about risk, liquidity, and portfolio health.
This real-time speech-translation subnet predicts and completes sentences on the fly. BabelBit aims to deliver near-instant, emotionally accurate translations for live conversations and global broadcasts.
An AI-safety subnet that tests LLM behavior for traits like deception or manipulation. Miners submit prompts, and the network evaluates model responses to surface alignment issues early.
Key Ways Yuma Helps Accelerated and Incubated Projects
Yuma offers comprehensive, tailored support through two main programs: Subnet Accelerator (for transforming concepts into live Bittensor projects) and Subnet Incubation (for custom development with expert input).
Here’s the breakdown of Yuma’s core contributions on its Subnet portfolio:
a. Capital & Funding
Direct investments and fundraising assistance to fuel growth, including seed rounds and partnerships with institutional investors and its subsidiaries.
b. Technical Expertise & Infrastructure
They also provide in-house AI/ML specialists who give informed mining support, protocol optimization, and custom subnet solutions (such as staking tools and validator infrastructure).
c. Operational & Strategic Guidance
Yuma Group helps with bespoke mentoring on product-market fit, launch strategies, and ecosystem integration, helping with grit-intensive tasks like subnet deployment.
d. Talent & Team Building
Recruitment and onboarding of key roles (e.g., CTOs, COOs) to scale teams so as to foster collaborations with Bittensor contributors.
e. Ecosystem Access & Visibility
Introduces projects to investors, partners, and the broader Bittensor community. They also help promote subnets via announcements and events.
Conclusion
Yuma’s portfolio illustrates just how broad the Bittensor ecosystem has become. These subnets span forecasting, security, translation, media generation, physical-world data, compliance, and more. With each one of these competing to offer intelligence the network can reward.
In a landscape where AI is increasingly centralized, Yuma is helping push the opposite direction: an open marketplace where anyone can build, contribute, and own a piece of the intelligence economy.
If this momentum continues, Bittensor could evolve into the foundational layer for a decentralized, global AI infrastructure, and Yuma is positioning itself right at the center of that shift.
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