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This is awesome. More of this to highlight the achievements and what's been happening across the subnets
Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights :: June 8–14, 2026
SUBNET ACHIEVEMENTS
[ @chutes_ai - SN64 ]
@jon_durbin shared a draft of the Parallax tech report, outlining a MoE training method to reduce per-participant VRAM and FLOPs.
> bit.ly/3RYSpFM
Chutes also became a launch partner for Respan’s new AI Gateway.
> bit.ly/4aAdpJd
[ @QuasarModels - SN24 ]
Quasar released Quasar-Preview, its first public Quasar model trained on Bittensor: 18B MoE, 2B active and 5M context.
> bit.ly/4ekxl3U
Quasar is preparing a 10T-token decentralized training run on SN24, starting with a 5T-token phase to produce a stronger checkpoint.
> bit.ly/3RZb7gv
[ @oroagents - SN15 ]
ORO shared its arXiv pre-print, code, data and post-training pipeline for building shopping agents from SN15’s open agentic shopping traces.
> bit.ly/43vW3cG
[ @webuildscore - SN44 ]
Score showed how its 19MB vision model beat larger AI models on object detection while running much faster on CPU.
> bit.ly/4os0FtX
They also added new comparison pages on @manakoai against ChatGPT, Claude, Roboflow, SAM 3 and other vision AI tools.
> bit.ly/4vMuCY7
[ @vidaio_ - SN85 ]
Score is partnering with Vidaio to bring vision AI challenges to SN44 and make video archives searchable and actionable.
> bit.ly/4ekAbWC
[ @yanez__ai - SN54 ]
Yanez partnered with Nexartis, an identity and trust infrastructure company, to help verify human, AI model and agent activity across digital transactions.
> bit.ly/4eshDUp
They also shared in their latest AMA that Yanez has generated $300K in 2026 sales, with an active pipeline over $1M and 11 clients.
> bit.ly/4v9VUYq
[ @trishoolai - SN23 ]
Trishool was accepted into Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network.
> bit.ly/4uUf5EZ
[ @affine_io - SN120 ]
AFFINE-XXIX beat the Qwen3-32B baseline on SWE-Rebench, SWE-Multi, HumanEval and MCP-Agent benchmarks, while staying close on BBH.
> bit.ly/4xrRA8D
[ @VantaTrading - SN8 ]
Vanta Trading crossed 2000 users after launching free $1k eval accounts and cutting prices by 55% across all challenges.
> bit.ly/3QGKOv5
[ @SwarmSubnet - SN124 ]
Swarm announced SOTApilot, an open-source AI drone autonomy model with 95.34% success on its UAV navigation benchmark.
> bit.ly/4opsiUi
[ @blockmachine_io - SN19 ]
Blockmachine launched Ethereum RPC.
> bit.ly/4fGe67h
[ @TrajectoryRL - SN11 ]
TrajectoryRL is expanding SN11’s skill competition from skill packs to miner-submitted finetuned models.
> bit.ly/4eoTA91
[ @heydittoai - SN118 ]
Ditto reached 1000 users.
> bit.ly/4gkB7Na
[ @theminos_ai - SN107 ]
Minos has run over 37,000 variant-calling evaluations on chromosome 21, with submissions improving by 10.21% on average.
> bit.ly/4vO9noW
[ @minotaursubnet - SN112 ]
Minotaur launched its website and opened beta access to its DEX Aggregator.
> bit.ly/447GpEq
[ @ReadyAI_ - SN33 ]
ReadyAI launched a revenue dashboard showing real-time demand for SN33’s structured data pipeline.
> bit.ly/4epth2q
[ @say_gm_ - SN28 ]
Good Morning published the roadmap for its AI gateway running in a TEE, now live on testnet with mainnet beta next.
> bit.ly/4gkzGOQ
[ @EndureNet - SN30 ]
Endure is integrating @SynthdataCo's forecasts into its DeFi risk engines.
> bit.ly/4v5Remt
[ @eirel_ai - SN36 ]
Eirel released its first product, offering deep research, image generation, web search and agent tools across multiple model families.
> bit.ly/4otVg5I
[ @adtao_ppcrebel - SN21 ]
@dsvfund took an OTC position in the SN21 alpha token.
> bit.ly/4eHTs5G
SUBNET LAUNCH
[ @DeSciClaims - SN111 ]
Claims is launching as SN111 to build a claim-evidence graph that turns scientific literature into machine-readable data for AI reasoning.
> bit.ly/3SlCUaT
PODCASTS & ARTICLES
@opentensor Novelty Search hosted by @const_reborn with @zipcodenetwork
> bit.ly/3SmDlli
@TAO_dot_com Episode 14 with @Carrot_____1 and @KeithSingery
> bit.ly/3QCA9S6
@gordonfrayne podcast with @josercaldera from Yanez
> bit.ly/4vOufwf
@gordonfrayne podcast with @knakamor from Vocence
> bit.ly/4493MgY
@AltcoinMillie podcast with @MaxScore from Score
> bit.ly/3QGDX4L
@AltcoinMillie podcast with @zeussubnet
> bit.ly/4uBcNKu
@TAO_dot_com article “The Impact of Conviction”
> bit.ly/4esgBI1
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Lex Tensor retweeted
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The best teachers will be LLMs. The best feedback will be monetary. The best models will train competitively. The best AI company will be co-owned. The best software will be open source. And there is only one way to get all of it.
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A potentially undervalued aspect of Bittensor is how well it captures the robotics angle. Robotics isn't just about hardware; it's as much (if not more) about intelligence.
Bittensor subnets are building and releasing frontier-level products and models across the exact layers relevant for robotics, such as computer vision (e.g. @webuildscore), reasoning, real-time decision making (e.g. @SwarmSubnet for drones) and more (several other subnets could be mentioned as well). Rather than one company attempting a monolithic “robot brain”, you have specialized and incentivized intelligence competing to own specific layers of the stack.
You could see a world where robotics companies primarily focus on hardware and plug into the Bittensor hive mind where the network supplies the robot's brain.
bittensor:native
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Lex Tensor retweeted
Jun 13
Unstoppable, uncensorable, global decentralized AI seems like a good investment bet to make. The “Bitcoin of AI” so to say…
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Bittensor must win $TAO
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Lex Tensor retweeted
Jun 11
I agree with you re. that we definitely want to incentivize builders, but don't think the parallel you're drawing hits in terms of how companies, M&A etc. work in practice.
Re. 1: Here you get tokens in a fairly liquid system where the asset is denominated in TAO. Most companies actually never reach a phase where their shares are liquid. You can also still have a company where you start off with 100% shares and do capital raises on the company level (you can even IPO), with the investors understanding that there's a Bittensor token element here where the company would have to 'reinvest' some revenue/profits in that part as a core piece of operation (opex esque cost).
Re. 2: Well, nothing is "forced", but I see what you mean - in practice you would be forced to lock up some if the change re. takeover is implemented. If you want to draw the parallel to how equity in companies work, this sort of makes sense though. Say I want to sell my equity as a founder in a private deal, if I own only some of the shares, the buyer would usually wish to include other third party shareholders to the deal to acquire adequate control or to get rid of others - so you get them in on the same sweet deal as well. If you were to IPO, similar thing, all shareholders benefit. In dTAO land, you can currently exit alone in one clip, while still keeping control and continue to receive emissions. In a company, if you exited, you'd lose the company and receive nothing further (you also need to hold requisite number of shares to retain the control). And also, again the point in 1 above; you can still have a company.
Re. 3: Not theft but a design choice to have more TAO flow to where value is being produced - it was the chain who bought it and the chain is deemed a pari passu 'creditor' in a bankruptcy like situation. Normally in a bankruptcy like situation for a company (assuming no security is in place), creditors eat first, then shareholders - at that last distro there are typically no or limited funds left to distribute, since there's a reason why the company wasn't able to cover creditors in the first place.
All for further incentivizing builders, but struggle to follow your constant repetition of these points tbh.
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Jun 9
The crypto ethos around permissionless systems is strong with this one. Godspeed ser
Jun 9
The dream state would be models within a few IQ points of the frontier labs (probably task specific first, depth before breadth), with a "training-as-a-service" arm to achieve breadth (inc. RL), all on TEE with true privacy, served at a fraction of the price of frontier models with significantly less hardware, thereby commoditizing and democratizing intelligence to the maximum extent possible.
The entire world's knowledge trains these models, they should in turn be trained by and accessible to the entire world.
The thing about privacy is, it's not really just about privacy. YOU are the product (builders) by ignoring privacy concerns.
People are building the massive golden trillion dollar moats for the various labs for them by giving free RL data constantly. It's great, for a few, not so great for everyone else. Need to make sure AI remains accessible and available to everyone, always.
If AI gets concentrated into a handful of players, it would mean those teams and maybe even a single person within ultimately gets to decide if you are allowed to multiply matrices in particular ways or not, not to mention constant surveillance etc.
Parallax aims to be the destroyer of moats.
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Lex Tensor retweeted
Jun 9
Here's a draft of the tech report on the model training method I've been experimenting with, "Parallax".
chutes.ai/parallax.pdf
TL;DR: MoE models' params are mostly routed experts, and you can massively reduce VRAM and FLOPS per participant by splitting up those experts. You can also offload the expert training to commodity hardware further saving compute/VRAM per island.
The crazy cool thing about these sketches is, you can actually onboard workers nearly instantly (sync time with ternary weights is a few MB), and they never need to download or stream the raw datasets (sketches contain all the work they need to do and are tiny). You'd probably want the first couple layers of the model in your own infra if you had sensitive data because otherwise you could do gradient inversion attacks to reconstitute the raw text, but beyond the first couple layers and not knowing which layer/expert you're training I think it's infeasible so privacy is pretty baked in.
Decoupled DiLoCo/RDA-diloco style backbone sync, surrogates for non-owned routed experts with low rank updates to sync those, tiered sync cadences for various components, "sketches" to offload expert work, etc.
20b tested two different ways, plenty of small model iterations, and 176b params just to prove out feasibility.
There are hundreds of additional experiments and loads of data we could also highlight as well, but the guts are there.
Variations:
- freeze routed expert weights instead of using surrogates, eliminates adam state, backward pass, etc., though you'd need different sync methods vs. low rank updates to the surrogates (the surrogates are already tiny, rank-8 updates to those even smaller)
- hierarchical parallax, i.e. each node itself becomes an rda diloco style multi-learner which then syncs with the outer/global islands (the point here is to enable GPUs without NVLink/etc. and reduce GPU<=>GPU comms to maximize MFU on less-capable/commodity GPUs)
- pipeline parallelize each island itself such that each island can decompose the backbone etc.
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Lex Tensor retweeted
Jun 8
$TAO spoiler... This is what Chutes SN64 @chutes_ai price chart will look like in the future.
you just don't believe it yet
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Jun 8
Happy to see the @QuasarModels team start shipping. Early days still, but conceptually seems like they're on to something. Keep it up guys
Jun 8
This is a very early Quasar model, trained on only 0.1% of our full token budget, so there is still much, much more room to improve!
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Lex Tensor retweeted
Jun 8
On the interoperability, fair points. I think we're seeing moves here though, e.g. canonical bridging between Solana and Bittensor, in addition to multiple DEX trading venues on Solana:
x.com/solana/status/20516783…
I expect to see subnets becoming more broadly available as well, but I think the "lag" there might have something to do with the novelty of the system; every subnet token in principle requires TAO in order to be acquired (or acquired through mining/validation/subnet ownership emissions, but even then you need to have in place 'market making' on the subnet level). This is not really replicated anywhere else, and once we get the availability distributed, I think we'll appreciate the flywheel this novelty brings with it.
Agree re. hardware wallets - strange to me that someone like @Trezor or others haven't jumped on board here.
Otherwise echo the points made by @0xSunRun and @tylerdurdeth
$TAO is available in your favorite Solana apps
@tryfomo , @dflow , @Titan_Exchange , @phantom , @JupiterExchange , @solflare , , @kamino_swap , @mayan and more
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Jun 8
Coming back to this while waiting patiently for @chutes_ai to cook. One of many things I'm extra excited about in the near/medium term in Bittensor
$TAO
May 27
Just for fun I kicked off a run of a 176b parameter model on ~140 steps to prove feasibility - 4 separate nodes across the internet using the "Parallax" method, works like a charm.
Still need a more concrete plan on dataset curation, phases, context elongation, etc. etc. before a full run is ready of this scale, but at least we know 176b should be no problem at all.
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Lex Tensor retweeted
Jun 7
The biggest benefit of this shakeout is that people are finally realising that 99% of crypto is literally worthless. Capital will get reallocated to the few tokens that are actually creating value, and the repricing will be violent when sentiment flips.
$TAO
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I am officially taopilled and I can't stop thinking about it - Bittensor is bar none the most interesting project happening in crypto.
Jun 4
I am officially taopilled and I can't stop thinking about it - Bittensor is bar none the most interesting project happening in crypto.
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Jun 4
And if you care about DeFi in the US, maybe don't push policy about Hyperliquid when we're this close to get the win on actual DeFi
Jun 4
If you care about crypto in the USA, this new org is one to follow and support.
@defenddevspac is led by @glzavatone, one of the unsung heroes of DeFi policy in DC. It’s the first and only PAC focused exclusively on protecting developers.
A much needed effort. Thank you Gavin!
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Jun 4
Agreed. Also remarkable to see the number of people attending the Bittensor talks compared to the rest of the conference -- run Bittensor track on mainstage only next year @proofoftalk?
I’m 100% more bullish on $TAO than I was going into Proof of Talk.
My biggest takeaway:
The ecosystem is no longer focused on proving it can build great products.
That stage is largely behind us.
The focus has shifted to product market fit and landing paying customers.
It the next step and exactly where we need to be.
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Conversation with @const_reborn starting at 1:22:25 into the video. Might have gone under the radar for most attending Proof of Talk. Worth a watch. $TAO
Jun 3
The final livestream features our conversation with Bittensor cofounder @const_reborn and @JohannKerbrat from @RobinhoodApp 👇
x.com/i/broadcasts/1AGRnneAQ…
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