To answer your question, that is savant @mogmachine the Eurdite questing good insights with the great General Tensor @mikecontango 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.

🚨 Speaker Announcement 🚨 We’re excited to welcome Mike Grantis @mikecontango to Digital Asset Summit Canada on Friday, May 29 🇨🇦 Mike is the Founder & CEO of General Tensor, a Bittensor-focused firm building critical infrastructure for decentralized AI. Previously, he led Contango Digital Assets, investing at the intersection of blockchain AI. Don’t miss his insights on the future of decentralized intelligence ⚡️ 📍 Downtown Toronto Financial District 🗓 Friday, May 29 🎟 Get tickets now: DigitalAssetSummit.ca

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

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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We are thrilled to share that Astroware, Trishool's parent company, has been accepted in Nvidia's Inception program. By becoming a member, we are in Nvidia'a active AI ecosystem, giving us access to experts, partner networks, compute credits and VC connections. It's also a validation of Trishool's thesis and a recognition for our AI credentials.

@generaltensor is one of the BIGGEST infrastructure builders on Bittensor. As one of the largest and longest-standing validators, they've amassed 400,000 TAO delegated and over 6,000 delegators, cementing their status as a cornerstone of the network. They also have also given a step beyond and approached us to make a customized merch pack to their ENTIRE team. 😎 That, Legends, is skin in the game...THAT...is wearing what you talk...and they talk and,now wear, the fuτure. Check some of the ABSOLUTE FIRE items they have ordered...(yes, the duffle bag is full of bittensor:native & alpha 🤑)

Mike Grantis @mikecontango is the co-founder & CEO of General Tensor @generaltensor, a venture builder supporting the growth and adoption of the Bittensor network through validation, mining, subnet incubation, and application development. At General Tensor, Mike works across some of the key layers of the Bittensor ecosystem, from GTV, one of the network’s leading and most trusted validators, to mining, subnet incubation, and Project Rubicon with Chainlink, which is bringing subnet tokens onto Base through CCIP. It places him close to some of the most important parts of the network’s evolution, from infrastructure and validation to subnet creation and broader market access. This summer Mike returns to the Louvre. June 2–3, Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk. Use code TAO for 30% off tickets 👇

Subnet Summer TAO X Spaces - May 1, 2026 Topic: TAO 2026 Ecosystem Developments, Conviction Mechanism & Subnet Opportunities Our first bi-weekly X Spaces session brought together some of the strongest voices in the Bittensor ecosystem - drawing over 1,000 live listeners. Main Speakers: Gordon Frayne (@gordonfrayne) kicked things off with a comprehensive overview of the current state of Bittensor and his forward-looking thoughts on where the network is headed in the years ahead. Mikecontango (@mikecontango) took a deep dive into the future trajectory of TAO, covering key developments, challenges, and opportunities on the horizon. Macrozack (@macrozack) delivered a detailed breakdown of the Conviction Mechanism and its implications for the network. Subnet Owners Each subnet owner presented their project, current progress, use cases, and opportunities for miners and developers. SN79 - @mvtrx_79 SN21 - @adtao_ppcrebel SN32 - @ai_detection TaoDx - @TaoDX_Official SN4 - @TargonCompute SN112 - @minotaursubnet SN63 & SN48 - @qBitTensorLabs youtu.be/ifGIJ_yeEAo?si=8k_x…

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For the second time, we brought our partners in the Bittensor community together at the @dcgco Summit to dive deep into Bittensor $TAO. A lot of momentum in the ecosystem and we’re excited for what’s ahead.

For those of you #Bittensor community members who are unaware, there is a BIG VOTE about to go down with the Top 12 Validators. I view it like a Gov Bill packed with multiple (and significant) changes for the protocol. -sn registration becoming stake -giving 25% lock cost to owners -auto-chk to sn validator -etc My thoughts: This has some positive/needed changes. That said, I will be voting a HARD 'NO'. IMO the auto-chk proposal removes decentralized validation from Bittenser and opens the door to a plethora of new problems in the ecosystem. The challenges they are trying to solve with this can be accomplished in much better ways. If passed, I believe this will incentivize malicious subnet owner activity. It will remove the required 'checks and balances' that make decentralized infrastructure the power that it has become. Let's not take two steps back.. I encourage the other 11 validators to register and vote NO by my side. (btw, if they don't register, it's an automatic YES vote for them 🧐) Let's not rush this, but instead, put our heads together to come up with a much better solution. Validator Stakers: I encourage you to pick up the phone and call your Senator (send a message to your validator owner 🤪). Give them your thoughts. Encourage them to pause and assess. I appreciate everyone's attention to this matter. @CrucibleLabs @21RoundTable @opentensor @taostats @generaltensor @TAO_dot_com @daofive @krakenfx @YumaGroup @taodotbot $TAO

I've been in #bittensor ecosystem since the early days. I've watched this network grow from a fringe idea to something @chamath talks about publicly. I need to say something, not as a commentator but as a early subnet co-founder and as someone with skin in the game. This is not the crisis it looks like. This is Governance Debt - the compounding friction that accumulates when a protocol's social layer fails to keep pace with its technical genius. #Bitcoin went through the block size wars. #Ethereum went through the DAO wars. Both emerged more legitimate, more anti-fragile, and ultimately more valuable. Not despite the conflict - because of how the community responded to it. The question isn't who is right. The question is whether the $TAO community has the maturity to convert this moment into structural progress. I believe it does. But only if we're honest about what this dispute actually revealed. To @const_reborn: You built something genuinely rare. The #dTAO architecture is elegant — using alpha token markets to allocate emissions through price signals rather than committee decisions is one of the most honest incentive designs in crypto. Stepping down from the Opentensor CEO role was a rare act of intellectual honesty that most founders never show. I genuinely respect it. But the community asks for one more step. Not because you're wrong on the technical facts of this specific dispute. But because the gap between technical correctness and community trust has become a liability for the protocol itself. When your alpha token sells - however small relative to your holdings - read as governance actions, that is a structural problem, not a perception problem. Champion a neutral audit layer. It costs you nothing and gains the protocol everything. To @DistStateAndMe: What your team proved with Covenant-72B cannot be unproved. A 72B parameter model trained permissionlessly across dozens of contributors on commodity hardware - cited by #Anthropic's co-founder, noticed by @chamath. That proof lives in the research, not in any one network's infrastructure. Build wherever you build next. But don't let the exit become the headline that overwrites the evidence. The temperatures are high because the stakes are genuinely historic. Grayscale has filed for $TAO spot ETF. Serious institutional capital is now watching this ecosystem with real intent. The worst possible thing we can do at this exact moment is look like every other #Web3 project that imploded over informal power disputes. Now here is what I actually want to say because this moment is too important to spend entirely on the flame war. The dispute exposed #Bittensor's most critical missing layer: there is no neutral, on-chain mechanism for subnet evaluation, governance arbitration or accountability. Subnet quality is vibes-based. Emissions integrity is vibes-based. Miner collusion detection is vibes-based. When conflicts arise, they resolve on #Twitter - not through transparent, verifiable process. That is not a criticism of any individual. It is a design gap that this community can fill, permissionlessly, without asking anyone's approval. Specifically: ① A Neutral 'Moody's for Subnets' - an independent Research Validator Node producing academic-grade subnet audits. If a subnet is on 100% burn code and not running, the data makes that case. Not a founder's alpha sell. Not a Discord moderator action. The data! This also solves the cold start problem and enables a base model for weights initialization. ② Proof-of-Intelligence as Protocol Standard (PoIP) - mandating Chain-of-Thought traces that validators can mathematically verify, combined with ZK Proof-of-Compute. If we cannot verify the reasoning, we should not reward the work. This transforms #Bittensor from a market of claims into a market of verifiable intelligence. That is what Jensen #nvidia is actually betting on. ③ Shapley Value Rewards: restructuring miner compensation around unique contribution to consensus, not consensus-matching. This kills collusion incentives at the protocol level. Structurally. No moderator required. ④ Cross-Subnet Schemas - Bittensor's ERC moment - #Ethereum's equivalent of ERC. 128 isolated subnets is a fragmented network. 128 subnets on shared interoperability standards is a composable intelligence economy. The difference is enormous and buildable right now. None of these require a multisig. None require the Opentensor Foundation. None require Const's approval or Sam's blessing. They require builders who understand the protocol deeply enough to ship them - and a community that demands them loudly enough to make them unavoidable. The $TAO community has been celebrating but we have been too passive on governance. We outsourced the decisions about what this network becomes to a very small number of people and then expressed surprise when informal power concentrated exactly where formal power was absent. Revolutionary technology demands unprecedented governance. We cannot import Web2 power structures onto #Web3 rails, call it decentralization and then act shocked when the gap shows. Build the Bittensor Protocol Infrastructure & Research Lab - a permissionless, replicable innovation hub. I am proposing an International AGI Reasoning Competition targeting the top 0.1% of global reasoning architects, beginning in emerging economies that this network was always supposed to serve. I am working on the synthetic dataset archive that captures miner reasoning as a commercial asset and turns it into a Process Reward Model - making AI safe by design, not by policy. The goal is a self-sustaining model accountable to no single person. Governed by the community. Funded by validator revenue & dataset licensing. This is the Protocol Memory that will outlive all of us - and the conflict that sparked it will be a footnote. I've been quiet for a while but not anymore. If you're a serious builder, researcher, validator or investor who wants to work on this - my DMs are open. Forward! $TAO #Bittensor #DecentralizedAI