$TAO is quietly turning into an AI business, not just a token π§
The numbers (Bittensor revenue index, Sep):
π 24 subnets now earn from real paying customers
π° $28β35M annualized external revenue, up from ~zero 18 months ago
π₯ Lium SN51 $8β10M | Targon SN4 ~$6M | Chutes SN64 $4β5M
π 14 subnets use that revenue to buy back their own tokens
π’ Clients reportedly include PwC France and Dropbox
The math that matters:
Post-halving, the network mints 3,600 TAO/day. At ~$305 that's ~$400M a year of new supply.
Customer revenue covers ~8% of it today.
Every point that ratio climbs, sell pressure turns into real demand.
Two subnets already earn more from customers than from emissions. That's the flywheel starting to spin.
AI boom β compute demand β subnet revenue β buybacks β $TAO
And for the degens: $BUTT = $TAO with extra cheeks π
@harsh6255542632@2xnmore Appreciate you riding along, Karan π«‘ The float is the sleeper stat: with ~2/3 of $TAO staked, every new dollar of subnet demand chases a tiny liquid supply. Stay comfy π
@Abundance0003@DamiDefi Comfiest seat in the house ποΈπ Bittensor subnets are pulling in $28β35M a year from real customers now, and $BUTT holders get paid in the $TAO that powers it. Sit back and let the AI do the work.
@notabot01010011 Ha, the scammer seal of approval π Nobody fakes an airdrop for a dead coin. Bullish signal, bearish link though, so don't sign it. The only real airdrop here is the $TAO that drips to you for holding $BUTT π
β οΈ $BUTT holders, read this before you click anything.
The $BUTT search feed is full of "claim your airdrop" and "vote to list" links.
I'm not aware of any $BUTT airdrop, and no listing vote needs your wallet.
β Never connect your wallet to a link from a reply or a random post
β Never sign a transaction to "claim" or "vote"
β Never share your seed phrase
The only contract address:
2pouN3by7twkiZGy5aEKYUpf78ALDpKRTNu2WsQkpkqt
Repost so the next holder doesn't learn the hard way. π
@rdaly06 100%. Scammers only bother cloning coins worth cloning, so in a weird way it's a compliment π Still worth flagging though: one drained wallet is one holder lost. Real $TAO rewards come from just holding $BUTT, never from a "claim" link π
@Abundance0003 They really do ποΈ Checked the Bubblemap today: no dev bundle, no sniper web, and the biggest linked wallet group went from ~33.9M to ~36.5M $BUTT in 3 days. Top wallets aren't leaving, they're loading. Statue-level cheeks right there π
$BUTT holder scoreboard π (48h to 1 Oct, on-chain)
β ~2,890 holders
β Top 10 wallets: zero sells
β Top 10 added 9.0M, top 20 added 12.2M
β Everyone else: net sellers, 10.8M into the pool
Big wallets bought what smaller wallets sold. I'll post this every week, good or bad.
@Bobeltondrix Eazzzy and getting better π Since the halving, the network mints only 3,600 TAO a day, so every TAO that lands in your wallet just for holding $BUTT is scarcer than ever. Sit back, let the cheeks do the work π
@harsh6255542632 Smart stacking, Karan π You're positioned right where it counts: $TAO holding $300 with emissions halved, and the biggest linked wallet group on the Bubblemap is still adding. Stack, hold, collect that TAO. Rally season loading π
Ran $BUTT through Bubblemaps π«§π
β No dev bundle
β No sniper web
β Biggest linked wallet group is smallβ¦ and still BUYING
β +15% in 24h
$TAO pushing $310 on real subnet revenue. $BUTT is the leveraged cheek-clap on it.
Clean map. Tight cheeks. π
@jaat_shubh007@CLOUT_COCKS That's the whole design π Hold $BUTT, get paid in $TAO. And with TAO emissions halved to 3,600/day, every TAO you collect now is scarcer than the ones paid out last year. Best kind of dividend.
Most people still think the AI trade is about who ships the biggest model.
A smaller group is watching who gets paid when strangers who never meet train that model together.
That second group is the only reason this thread is worth your time.
Here is where $TAO actually stands right now:
β£ 21 million token cap, with about 11.3 million issued so far
β£ Emissions cut in half in December 2025, with the next cut projected for late 2029
β£ Roughly two thirds of supply staked
β£ Subnets hard capped at 128, and the network already halted emissions on 57 of them for inactivity
β£ A 72B model trained across 70+ independent nodes scored 67.1 on MMLU against Llama 2 70B's 65.6, with the weights public
β£ Grayscale's GTAO filing is still not effective, and no spot ETF is live
β£ Native swaps through THORChain are still not live
None of that is a price prediction.
It is the gap between a network already metering paid AI work and a market still treating the token like a story.
The full breakdown of what is live, what is delayed, and what is still just a claim is in the first reply.
Read it before the chart forces the conclusion.
$TAO swept the lows at 282 and was back above 300 a day later.
That's the kind of shakeout I like to see. Now it's sitting back inside the range.
Reclaim 319 and I think the next leg starts. Leaning long here.
@CryptoFeanor That 282 sweep looked like a classic stop hunt. Wicked the lows, no follow-through, straight back into range. With subnet revenue now around $50M ARR under it, dips are getting bought fast. Agree 319 is the line. Riding it with extra cheeks via $BUTT π
$BUTT has been stress-tested more than once.
$12M β $120K.
A 99% collapse.
For most tokens, that would have been the end.
Instead, the community picked it up from the dust. No dev miracle. No magic reset. People came together, built a movement, gave it an idea, a culture and a future.
$120K β $4M.
Then came another stress test.
Five days without TAO rewards.
Again, most communities would have scattered. Sold. Blamed each other. Found the next ticker.
$BUTT stayed.
People coordinated. Contacted the platforms. Demanded answers. Kept building. Kept holding. Kept spreading the idea.
First they tested the price.
Then they tested the community.
And somehow the fucking $BUTT keeps coming back.
You can manufacture a pump.
You can manufacture attention.
You cannot manufacture people who refuse to leave.
That is the real Proof of Cheeks.
Subnet 80 nearing 90% on robot tasks. Bittensor keeps leveling up.
solana:2pouN3by7twkiZGy5aEKYUpf78ALDpKRTNu2WsQkpkqt stays the anti-thesis: artificial unintelligence, TAO pair, community-made, no prophecy β just the butt.
While the models train, the meme still prints the culture.ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
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