Research & Insights

Explore our latest research, analysis, and insights into decentralized machine learning and staking mechanisms.

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Bittensor and the Ideological Investor

As we navigate what Park brilliantly describes as the collapse of traditional investment frameworks, he articulates something we've been experiencing firsthand in markets for a while: the death of yield-based investing and the birth of ideology-driven capital allocation.

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128 Subnets: The Halving Horizon

TrustedStake Research — regulatory clarity, institutional adoption & the first TAO halving. Four months ago Bittensor had ninety live subnets, regulatory uncertainty clouded institutional adoption, and TrustedStake had just launched v1 with basic staking infrastructure.

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100 Subnets: Q1 2025 dTAO Snapshot

TrustedStake Research — take-aways, insights & what comes next for Bittensor. Four months ago Bittensor had around sixty-four live subnets, TAO paid a steady ~18% root yield, and TrustedStake was still in closed beta.

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Medium

Intelligent Predictive Validation and The New Frontier of Yuma Consensus

As the Bittensor ecosystem continues to evolve, so do the strategies employed to mitigate the pervasive issue of weight copying. The OpenTensor Foundation (OTF) has iterated on the Commit Reveal mechanism, culminating in Commit Reveal 3.0 (CR3).

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taopill

Fast Inference, Easy Fine-tuning, Reliable Serverless Compute

If you've been around Bittensor, you've likely seen a lot of innovation—but much of it has felt experimental, almost like ongoing R&D with yet-to-be-realized potential. Now, things are shifting.

Technical Analysis

Twitter

Weight copying in Bittensor and the proposed solutions

Within Bittensor there is a fundamental flaw in Yuma consensus. Validators can replicate the weight assignments of other validators or the consensus weights without performing their own independent evaluations of miners.

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Dynamism: Decentralizing the Future of AI and Supercommodities

Before the introduction of Dynamic TAO, Bittensor implemented its governance mechanism through a centralized protocol known as the Root Network. The Root Network placed governance powers in the hands of the top 64 validators.

Technical Analysis

taopill

The Controversy of Bittensor's Future with EVM Compatibility

Bittensor's current architecture is intentionally simple: subnet owners create incentive mechanisms that direct validators and miners toward specific goals. But with EVM support on the horizon, Bittensor is poised to dramatically expand its capabilities.

Governance

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Dynamic TAO: Bringing Bittensor out of the Dark Age

Today, $4.2 million worth of TAO emissions will be minted. If the current price holds, over the next year, $1.5 billion of TAO will flow to subnets and their contributors.