During the latest TGIFT call, the OpenTensor Foundation shared two major upgrades that shift Bittensor from an early-stage network into a maturing digital economy.
This moment matters. It is not just about yield or token mechanics. It is about letting real markets decide value, encouraging real use, and building toward thousands of live intelligence networks instead of a handful of speculative ones.
Why Novelty Search was Halted
The call opened with a brief update on Novelty Search. It was paused because community focus is shifting toward real value contracts, proven subnet output, and strengthening core incentives that reward live workloads instead of speculative testing.
In other words, this pause is not a retreat. It is consolidation and maturity.
Why Root Claim Changes Everything
For months, auto selling on Root created constant market pressure. It ensured fairness at launch, but it also muted price discovery and made the ecosystem feel mechanical instead of organic.
Bittensor has now introduced Root Claim. This system gives every $TAO holder the ability to choose whether they want their rewards automatically sold or staked back into the network.
In simple language: users can now decide whether to take profits or compound your influence across all subnets.
This is a milestone because Bittensor was always meant to behave like an economy, not a faucet.
How Root Claim Works in Practice
Users can now use new commands to either stake their claim or unstake it.
Dividend timing also changes. Instead of every 6 minutes, distributions now come roughly every 2 days. The pace becomes healthier, more intentional, and more aligned with long term participation.
When you claim, something called alpha dust spreads across 128 subnets. Think of it as tiny traces of value that follow your participation and show where interest naturally goes.
Later, users will be able to choose specific subnets to claim from. This leads to more control, more strategy and more personalization.
This upgrade is not only about earnings. It is also about governance. Root Claim gives real voters real influence over subnet emission flows instead of relying on automated scripts.
Markets breathe again. Decisions matter again.
The Big One: Emission Structure Reform
For a long time, emissions were tied to price. It worked in the early days, but it also allowed subnets with low activity to continue earning simply because $TAO traded well.
Bittensor is ending this model and adapting a new system called Tao Flow to direct rewards toward real usage.
The design is simple at heart. Emissions should flow where intelligence is being produced, not where liquidity happens to sit.
A subnet that contributes earns. A subnet that goes quiet fades out naturally.
The network will also move away from long tail price denominators. Meaning it will no longer be limited by barely active subnets that distort distribution.
With this upgrade, Bittensor is no longer capped at only a few hundred viable subnets. It can scale toward 1000+ in the future.
That unlocks an entirely different era.
What this Means for the Ecosystem
These upgrades would see to:
a. Real markets return
b. Rewards following real usage
c. Dormant subnets naturally phasing out
d. Participants gaining choice and influence
e. The ecosystem becoming healthier, not inflated
Auto deregistration and token burns also become part of the process. That means underperforming networks clean themselves up without drama or politics.
The result is simple. Good projects rise, unused networks step aside, and growth becomes sustainable instead of noisy.
Community Notes and Calendar
A few extra call highlights:
a. New bookkeeping systems are being prepared for dust accounting
b. UX improvements are coming as claims and voting get simpler
c. Overflow logic ensures the network does not stress during transitions
d. Mainnet rollout for Root Claim begins soon
e. A China trip and global education push are underway
f. SportsTensor call shifted to next week due to timing overlap
Nothing here felt rushed; it felt like a network growing into its role.
Final Thought
Bittensor is moving away from hype economics and into the physics of real value. It is grounding itself in choice, market discipline, and live demand for intelligence.
That is what systems do when they stop trying to prove they are alive and start building a world.
This was not a speculative call, it was a maturity checkpoint.
If you are watching closely, this is one of those quiet chapters that later becomes obvious in hindsight.
The network is growing.
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