As Bittensor grows, a question has become increasingly loud: which subnets are genuinely sustainable? TAO Revenue renders that answer fact-based instead of speculative. TAO Revenue is live, a fresh new dashboard tracking inflows, outflows, and burns on all subnets across the network.
What is TAO Revenue?
TAO Revenue is a data analysis dashboard created to uncover the money heartbeat of the Bittensor network. It tracks the real revenue of each subnet, showing how much TAO flows in from alpha buys and sells, how much is used up burning, and how much flows out as emissions to miners, validators, and stakers.
Where the economics were hidden before by emissions, TAO Revenue sheds light. For the first time ever, everyone can see which subnets are in the green and which run in the red.
The Metrics That Matter
Each subnet on the dashboard displays three important metrics:
- Revenue: TAO inflows generated due to subnet activity, primarily alpha buys and sells.
- Burns: TAO removed from circulation permanently through subnet burn processes.
- Outflows: TAO distributed as rewards to miners, validators, and stakers.
By comparing them side by side, TAO Revenue charts each subnet’s current economic balance.
The Coverage Metric
In the center of TAO Revenue’s dashboard is a single number, coverage percentage. It shows how much of a subnet’s emissions are backed by actual inflows.
100% or higher is sustainability; the subnet is producing at least as much as it consumes.
Less than 100% is emissions outgrowing revenue, showing an unsustainable burn rate.
This simple percentage reduces a complex economic reality into something everyone can understand.
Why It Matters
The Bittensor network has long been one of experimentation. There are hundreds of rival subnets competing for emissions, but not all of them produce real value in exchange.
TAO Revenue bridges the gap by indicating which subnets contribute to the economy and which live only on emissions. It’s the first accountability step, one that keeps the network in touch with real financial results, not hypothetical production.
It matters to contributors and investors as well. When emissions can be measured, the whole ecosystem is more trustworthy. Paying subnet teams stand out, and those that aren’t need to get their acts together.
Designed for Collaboration
The TAO Revenue team isn’t reporting numbers; they’re requesting subnet teams to verify them. Each subnet is unique, having its own wallets, sources of inflow, and burn mechanics.
Teams can reach out to incorporate their own data to accurately represent their subnet’s performance. The dashboard will learn and become more accurate as subnets join.
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