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General Tensor & Talisman are partnering to make Bittensor effortless — for institutional capital, retail users, and the agents working for them. @generaltensor × @wearetalisman 🦋 Pairing one of the network's largest wallets with a production grade multi-sig solution, across the GT stack, including @BackpropFinance, and @Rubicon_Bridge Custody. Trade. Cross-chain. One vision.
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Over the past few weeks, Trishool(SN23) has accomplished so much, and we are just getting started. The goal remains to build a stronger safety layer for frontier AI and improve the guard models that protect real-world AI deployments. Now we’d like to introduce the team behind the work. Meet @xnavkumar, co-founder and CEO of Astroware, co-founder of Trishool, and one of the builders behind Halo. Nav is a builder and operator. Before Astroware, he spent 14 years at Oracle, rising to VP and Head of Digital Products. He delivered enterprise projects with budgets above $100M, later led data monetisation strategy at Lloyds Banking Group, and joined the founding team of a challenger business bank at Nationwide. He is also a second-time founder. Before Trishool and Astroware, Nav co-founded Metaphy Labs with Preetham Sathyamurthy. Metaphy Labs was acquired by JetSynthesys in 2024. He is proof that Trishool is being built by people who understand both frontier AI safety and enterprise deployment. “We came for AI trust. We stayed for AI safety. Trishool is what we built.” This is the first post in our founder introduction series. More team announcements are coming soon.
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We are pleased to announce that Trishool (SN23) has been officially accepted into the Claude Partner Network by Anthropic. This marks a major milestone in our commercial growth. As an AI security startup, we provide more than infrastructure. We deliver expert advisory and consulting services that help enterprises deploy frontier AI safely and at scale. That commitment is what earned us this partnership. The timing couldn’t be better better. Enterprises are rapidly deploying Claude in production environments, and production-grade AI requires a robust security layer. That is exactly where Halo, our battle-tested guard model, comes in. Claude Partner status gives us the credibility, visibility, and network access needed to position Halo at the center of serious enterprise AI deployments.
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Had @mikecontango Founder of @generaltensor on the pod Talking about what it takes to get $TAO to the top institutional investors General Tensor are OGs who started some of the major subnets on Bittensor, acquired top validator Roundtable 21 and now have taken over trading venue Backprop Finance No one better to speak to than Mike on all things BIttensor Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:45 State of Markets 03:48 General Tensor Origins 09:21 Antifragility 11:11 TAO Capital Markets 15:12 Distributed Computing 20:18 Exponential Growth of $TAO 26:07 Subnet Analysis 29:43 TAO as a Diversified AI Index 35:36 Driving Institutional Adoption and Research
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✅ [New Audit Contest] @0x_Markets Smart Contract Audit Contest is LIVE on HackenProof! 0xMarkets is a multi-asset perpetual futures DEX for FX, crypto, and commodities, powered by Bittensor and built on the Cartha Subnet. Now it’s your turn to test it! 💰 Reward pool: Up to $30,000 📅 Duration: June 4 – July 8 👉 Join the contest now!
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ON STAGE: Bittensor subnets are pitching, and the room is funding them in real time. Proof of Pitch: Bittensor Track, powered by Bitstarter. With Marcus Graichen @mogmachine ( @Taostats), Mike Grantis @mikecontango ( @GeneralTensor), Jacob Steeves @const_reborn ( @Bittensor), and Chris Zacharia @Chris_Zacharia ( @bitstarterAI). Live crowdfunding on the Second Stage at the Louvre.
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The future of Bittensor is being shaped here
This is what Day 2 looks like in the afternoon. The conversations that started yesterday have turned into business today. The lunch with @SpectrumNodes was the room's senior names at the same table. The Main Stage is full again. The room feels exactly the way we hoped.
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We are pleased to announce that Trishool (SN23) has been officially accepted into the Google for Startups Web3 Program. This milestone grants us access to up to $200,000 in Google Cloud credits over the next two years, alongside specialized Web3 resources, enhanced technical support, exclusive ecosystem opportunities, and strategic partnerships. These resources will help us accelerate development, strengthen our AI safety and alignment initiatives, and continue building long-term value within the Bittensor ecosystem. The work continues. 🚀
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TensorFi: Unlocking DeFi for the Bittensor Economy. June 3 at the Louvre for @proofoftalk with @generaltensor @wearetalisman @forevermoney_ai @bitmind DeFi infrastructure for subnet owners — liquidity, investment primitives, market making, and the agentic economy. Plus how Bittensor's AI stack can evolve existing DeFi protocols. Panelists: @mikecontango @contangojosh @kenjon @philism & more! RSVP: luma.com/glytiyi4
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The greatest minds in TAO. One room. The Louvre. The Bittensor Track is back at @proofoftalk for year two, and we're co-hosting the #TensorFi workshop with @wearetalisman. @mikecontango, @contangojosh, @kenjon of @bitmind, @philism of @forevermoney_ai, and @wearetalisman will be discussing: 🔹 What can DeFi unlock for the Bittensor network — liquidity, investment primitives, market making, the agentic economy? 🔹 How can Bittensor's AI infrastructure improve and evolve existing DeFi protocols? June 3. Paris. Register here: luma.com/glytiyi4
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15 threat categories. Constitutions enforced on every prompt, response, and agent action. Novel attacks trained back in weekly. This is what decentralized AI safety looks like in production. @trishoolai @xnavkumar
We focus on making Halo SOTA because it guards against the real-world threats that hit companies when their AI breaks. 15 threat categories cause real incidents in production, and Halo ships a constitution for each, enforced on every prompt, response, and agent action. These threats include: ▫️ CBRN - Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear ▫️ Crime & harm - Violence, illegal or fraud, non-violent crimes, cyber abuse ▫️ Harmful content - Sexual content, self-harm, toxic chat ▫️ Data & IP - PII or secrets, copyright ▫️ Model & agent integrity - Jailbreak, and agent boundary Each constitution is a rulebook written in plain English, not a keyword list. You can read it, adjust it for your policies, and adapt it to your jurisdiction. There are about 15 out of the box, but the set keeps growing. And every week, novel attacks from the wild get trained back in. So companies running Halo never have to chase the next attack themselves. Halo has made it possible for any team to put frontier-grade security in front of their AI.
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The Bittensor track is drawing unprecedented participation from the broader web3 and AI worlds, shaping conversations and pushing SOTA forward. Join us and @wearetalisman at our workshop where we'll be talking about what #DeFi can unlock for Bittensor and how Bittensor can improve existing #DeFi protocols. luma.com/glytiyi4 Only at @proofoftalk
We’re delighted to welcome back @GeneralTensor as a Platinum Sponsor of the Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk. Formerly General TAO Ventures, General Tensor was the first supporter of the Bittensor Track back in 2024. We were fortunate to be close to them from the start, and they became partners and co-creators of last year’s track. Their early conviction helped make this possible. Today, General Tensor is building the full-stack infrastructure layer for the Bittensor economy, operating across blockchain, AI, and data centers. From validation and subnet incubation to market access and capital formation, they are building products that move capital into subnets with minimal friction. For retail traders. For institutional allocators. For autonomous AI agents. Through @Rubicon_Bridge, their bridge built in partnership with Chainlink, General Tensor is opening new liquidity pathways for subnet tokens and connecting Bittensor to one of the fastest-growing onchain ecosystems. Backed by DCG, Lvna Capital and Good Morning Holdings, General Tensor is helping turn open intelligence into a real, capitalised economy. This summer, General Tensor returns to the Louvre. Platinum Sponsor of the Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk.
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The Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk We’ve been close to Bittensor since 2023. What started as curiosity quickly turned into conviction. At @XVentures_Fund, the venture studio behind Proof of Talk, that conviction began with capital. Then we started mining subnets; including @gradients_ai, @taoshiio, and @affine_io. The deeper we got, the more obvious it became: Bittensor is not just another crypto. It's a permissionless market for coordinating intelligence, pulling thousands of leading minds across the globe towards the same frontier: the open production of value. By the end of 2024, it was clear this could not stay confined to niche rooms and Discord channels. So we brought it to the Louvre. We built the Bittensor Track. It put the leaders of the ecosystem in front of major allocators and investors at the frontier of decentralised technology. @BarrySilbert used the stage to announce Yuma Asset Management. @const_reborn registered Affine in the speaker prep room and announced it on stage minutes later. Every session, packed. The reception went far beyond what we could have anticipated. The room felt less like a conference track than a crucible for the open intelligence economy. A gathering of minds, both builders and investors, inside the Louvre, all circling the same question: What happens when intelligence is no longer owned by a handful of companies, but coordinated and incentivised by an open network? And this year, we're back. Sixteen sessions across two days. June 2–3 The Louvre, Paris Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk Full program below ↓
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I rarely post on X. But seeing @Forbes put a spotlight on @bittensor says a lot. Decentralised AI is becoming too important for institutions and mainstream media to ignore. Proud to see this conversation take the stage at @proofoftalk, June 2–3. Looking forward to welcoming you to the louvre palace for this monumental conversation @ninabambysheva @const_reborn
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1/ For a decade, Web3 and TradFi argued. In 2026, they're sitting at the same table. In 10 days, Jenny Johnson (CEO @FTDA_US, $1.5T AUM) and @adam3us (Co-Founder, @Blockstream , inventor of Hashcash) open Proof of Talk 2026 on the same stage. That fireside is the thesis of the entire event. @proofoftalk
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