@jumperz@proofoftalk@herelle_jean The first Bitcoin pool launched in late 2010, when a single coin was worth about a quarter.
Everyone who pooled then looks like a genius now.
Solo Bitcoin mining stopped being viable years ago. Miners pooled together, and that's what built the industry. Today 6 pools produce 95% of all blocks.
Bittensor may be at the same point, with one twist: you're pooling intelligence.
At @proofoftalk, @herelle_jean laid out the thesis: a mining pool on Bittensor, built by Crunch.
Watch:
@gamblers99@proofoftalk@herelle_jean The best ideas sound too obvious. So did Bitcoin mining pools, right up until they casually ran 95% of the network.
Every major network undergoes an evolution, and we are officially in Bittensor's Mining Pool Era.
An early-stage opportunity akin to the birth of BTC mining pools a decade ago.
@herelle_jean will be presenting a masterpiece thesis that literally belongs in the Louvre Palace.
Keynote - Mining Pools on Bittensor
@herelle_jean, Founder & CEO of @crunchDAO on what mining pools mean for network participation and the next wave of talent entering the space.
🇫🇷 June 3 · 16:00 · Taostats Stage
Thanks for this, Graham. Indeed, most large enterprises aren't short on data, they're short on high-stakes problem intelligence they can trust to act on.
Crunch closes that gap by routing defined problems to a world class global network that competes on measurable performance, not billable hours.
@KyoshiTakeshiro@SynthdataCo Thanks for the thoughtful read, Kyoshi.
Probabilistic forecasting at the scale Synth is building requires a deep bench of competing models, which is exactly what the CrunchDAO network produces.
Watch this space.
Obesity ML Challenge Part 3 is launching today.
A leading biomedical research center @Schmidt_Center is working on one of the harder open problems in obesity research.
Instead of keeping it inside a closed in-house team, they opened it to a decentralized network of independent researchers all competing on the same question.
The question: which gene pairs, out of 4,474,413 candidates, most strongly drive thermogenesis in fat cells, a leading path to treating obesity.
The strongest submissions from Crunchers worldwide get tested directly in the lab.
🎉 The next phase of the @Schmidt_Center Obesity ML Competition is LIVE!
https://t.co/R44sR8EadC
This challenge is open to researchers from all backgrounds — no machine learning expertise required.
We are welcoming @Graham_dePenros to Crunch as Strategic Advisor, leading institutional growth.
Graham brings over three decades of experience operating where AI and emerging technology meet the real world.
His career spans national defense and cybersecurity, healthcare and medtech, global enterprise logistics, and capital markets. He advises Tier 1 market intelligence research firms on emerging technology, and his research on cognitive security, AI governance, and data integrity is read closely by the agencies, firms, and capital allocators that put AI into environments where stakes are high.
His work at Crunch is to bring non-consensus intelligence to institutional environments at global scale.
Give a shoutout to Graham!
Louvre Palace. June 2-3.
@herelle_jean is bringing the mining pool thesis to Proof of Talk. The same playbook that turned Marathon, Riot and CleanSpark into multi-billion dollar businesses, now applied to Bittensor.
If you're in Paris, this is the talk.
11,000+ quants and 1,200+ PhDs. One decentralized intelligence network running high-stakes AI on the world's toughest problems.
Jean Hérelle @herelle_jean, founder of @CrunchDAO, takes the Proof of Talk stage this June.
Jean studied international finance at Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management and holds a Master's in software engineering. He worked as a quant strategist and risk manager developing quantitative investment strategies, and lectured on decentralized finance at Université Paris Dauphine.
In 2020, Jean founded Crunch, a decentralized open network extracting high-stakes signal from the world's brightest minds and machine intelligence.
On June 2-3 at the Louvre Palace, Jean will make the case that Bittensor mining is the next $60B opportunity, applying the mining pool playbook that turned Bitcoin miners like Marathon, Riot and CleanSpark into publicly traded giants. Crunch is building the first mining pool for Bittensor.
Use code TAO for 30% off tickets 👇
Most models assume tomorrow behaves like yesterday.
The moment that assumption breaks, every forecast built on it does too.
Structural breaks sit inside billion-dollar automated systems, from market regimes in quant finance to climate sensors and healthcare diagnostics. Predicting them is what makes high-stakes automation robust.
ADIA Lab is back with more work for the Crunchers, once again choosing an open and decentralized ML network, over a closed lab or Big Tech vendor.
Not Palantir, not Quantum Black not McKinsey: Crunch. Let’s keep the great work Crunchers.
Compete on CrunchDAO: https://t.co/WfU8tf6pAg
@jumperz On the hardest problems, a global network of researchers competing head-to-head beats closed teams.
We simply built the rails for institutions to access it and ADIA's renewal proves this model works.
$TAO live on @solana.
Our crunchers have been mining @opentensor subnets for months, earning alpha tokens daily. With the bridge live, flipping those rewards just got frictionless.
Two ecosystems we've been building on. LFG 🔥
The scientists behind our biomedical ML challenges sat down for a panel at the Broad Institute yesterday. @herelle_jean was up there with them.
What it actually takes to build competitions like our IBD, cancer, and obesity challenges. What 1,000+ Crunchers from 62 countries iterating for months on these challenges actually produce.
From the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center's annual Biomedical Science and AI Symposium, here's the full video from the panel.