So a thing I've thought Bittensor SORELY needs is a big lender that will accept subnet tokens as collateral. Something permissionless like @aave would be magic wand scenario. Last week, in a live session, I tried explaining why we need it, as it's basically a WIN WIN WIN. WIN for alpha holders: So many people are illiquid and don't want to dump their favoured charts. I'm one of them! WIN for the Big Lender: Easy "risk free" profit. They could easily charge 15% and be fully subscribed. The moment LTV hits like 80% LTV, loan liquidates. WIN for Bittensor: People will stump up alpha as collateral to get that 50% LTV loan. Use that USDT to buy more TAO and use that TAO to buy more alpha. TAO price wins and alpha prices win. Problem is, we need to find a Big Lender. Someone willing to take a punt with like $10m-20m. OR, an existing DeFi platform. Does anyone have any deep pocketed friends that could take a punt at this with the reward of an easy 15% yield on loans given? I can't see the downside to this...especially with Conviction now. Owners can convict and use that convicted alpha as collateral to borrow to cover subnet opex etc. And the alpha yield of the collateral will just self-liquidate the loan away over time. Anywho, I gave my agent the transcript of the live sesh and got him to whip up a page that explains what I was on about. Hope it helps! alphacollateral.netlify.app/

While the quality of most subnets is still so-so, if you compare it with other chains its actually miles ahead I’m often negative and one of the biggest critics of the ecosystem but its a clear trend

We need a chutes competitor, too comfy at rank 1 with suboptimal economics Actually, if i was able to do so i would short it

What do drug discovery, the creator economy, and AI vision models have in common? For @metanova_labs, @Bitcast_network, and @webuildscore, the answer is Bittensor. Each company uses a Bittensor subnet to marshal decentralized work (molecule candidate selection, creator video products, and specialized vision models, respectively) against their defined problem set. As a result, the speed at which we can find new drugs, the ease with which brands can find and work with new creators, and the availability of vision intelligence are being increased. Less economic friction and more building? What more could you ask for? For each subnet to come on the podcast and tell us more about what they are building. So we did just that! 0:00 Intro 2:19 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off! 3:40 What is Bittensor? 7:22 Metanova Labs joins the show 9:28 Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at Lemon.io/twist 17:16 How Metanova tackles the multi-billion dollar cost of drug discovery 20:48 Every.io - For all of your incorporation, banking, payroll, benefits, accounting, taxes or other back-office administration needs, visit every.io 30:20 Bitcast joins the show 31:23 Luma AI - Luma builds accessible, professional-grade AI tools for creatives. Try Luma Agents for free at lumalabs.ai/twist 32:30 Mining crypto with YouTube 36:48 Why Bitcast is focused on the crypto space to start 39:11 How healthy is the creator economy? 47:26 When will the AI bubble collapse? 53:44 Score joins the show 54:42 How Score will make vision AI more accessible 57:16 VLMs v. LLMs 1:01:14 Demo of the Manako platform 🎥 Watch the full episode here 👇

WTF is this “Bittensor” crypto everyone’s talking about and why should I care? Let’s break it down! Bittensor is a decentralized network that uses crypto incentives to reward people who provide useful AI models. The token iscalled $TAO. Bittensor can be used to do basically anything! That’s why they have “subnets” of the Bittensor network, each with different focus areas. Whether it’s drug discovery, computer vision, or anything else! For every subnet: - Miners provide their model to help solve the given challenge. - Validators select which of those results are the best. Have you been TAO-pilled yet?