Original article by CryptoZPunisher
Most people in the Bittensor ecosystem pay attention to the subnets in flashy categories: Language models, scraping, prediction markets, model serving. Anything that looks like AI on the surface.
Meanwhile, one of the most commercially valuable technologies on earth lives quietly in the background. It powers every streaming platform, every social network, every cloud service, and every AI video pipeline. Yet almost no one in Web3 talks about it.
That technology is video compression. And Subnet 85 on Bittensor, Vidaio, is one of the few teams in crypto that truly understands its value.
Understanding the Market
Video is the heaviest content format in the world. Every platform is drowning in it.
Every day:
a. YouTube gets 500,000 hours of uploads
b. TikTok exceeds 1 billion daily video views
c. Netflix pays enormous sums in storage and bandwidth
d. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook compress millions of clips
e. Data centers hit capacity limits
f. Infrastructure costs keep rising
Today, video accounts for more than 80% of global Internet traffic.
And all of that traffic depends on a single invisible piece of technology: Compression.
The smaller a video becomes, the cheaper it is to store, transfer, and monetize.
A simple 40% size reduction saves a streaming company tens of millions of dollars. Vidaio says, “we can do more” and is pushing toward an 80% reduction.
This is not a niche problem. This is a global necessity with giant budgets behind it.
What Vidaio Actually Does
Traditional codecs like H.264, H.265, or AV1 compress based on mathematical rules. Vidaio takes a different path, it leverages on bittensor to create a subnet that uses:
a. AI models that is trained on human visual perception, and
b. Judged using real-world quality metrics like VMAF, TOPIQ, LPIPS, and PieAPP
This creates perceptual compression. With this, files become dramatically smaller without visible quality loss.
Validators measure quality using human-centered metrics, while miners compete to produce the lightest and cleanest outputs.
For any streaming service, Content Delivery Network (CDN), cloud operator, or social platform, this is a massive advantage. Lighter video equals cheaper operations and higher margins.
Why Bittensor Makes This Powerful
Vidaio takes a high-value industry and plugs it into the Bittensor incentive structure.
Here is how it works:
1. Miners build AI models that,
a. compress videos provided by validators
b. optimize for size, speed, and quality
c. compete for higher $TAO rewards
2. Validators
a. test compression outputs
b. measure perceptual quality
c. score miners based on real results
This creates a self-improving market where the best compression pipelines rise naturally. Older, weaker models fade out and new optimized models emerge quickly.
Centralized companies simply cannot iterate this fast.
Why the Future Is Perfect for Vidaio
Every major digital trend increases video size. Over the next 5 years, the ecosystem should watch out for key deliverables from Vidaio:
a. 8k to 12K video
b. VR and spatial computing
c. Generative video
d. Real-time video AI
e. Digital twins and simulation
f. Large scale video archives
Bandwidth is not keeping up, storage is not keeping up and cloud costs are moving in one direction.
Compression becomes the core technology that makes the next wave of digital media possible.
And in Web3, only one subnet is targeting this market: Vidaio, right on Bittensor.
Commercial Fit
Vidaio’s target market is enormous and already well established. Potential customers of this infrastructure include:
a. Streaming platforms
b. Telecom operators
c. Social media companies
d. Cloud storage providers
e. Video on Demand (VOD) applications
f. Security and surveillance systems
g. Medical imaging archives
h. Video production houses
i. AI video pipelines
A single enterprise customer produces massive recurring volume. This is not speculative demand, it’s a need already exists.
Looking Ahead
Vidaio’s roadmap shows a clear progression toward a full-stack multimedia engine:
a. AI upscaling and compression
b. Adaptive compression with dynamic bitrates
c. Full AI-driven transcoding
d. Decentralized streaming for on demand and live video
e. A complete AI powered multimedia production pipeline
If materializes the fourth,, the industry gets the first decentralized alternative to traditional CDNs. And at the center of it all is “compression”.
Final Thoughts
Subnet 85 stands out because it focuses on something real. Something profitable that the entire digital world actually depends on.
Searching for one of the most commercially viable subnets in the Bittensor ecosystem? Vidaio deserves a position at the top of that list.
This might be one of the rare subnets capable of attracting enterprise clients, generating meaningful revenue, and becoming a fundamental component of the future Internet.
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