$TIG will be my last big long term play
I think most people assume I’ll talk about it for a bit.. then eventually move on to the next thing
But this is it
For me.. $TIG is the one
A long term hold from a wildly undervalued market cap that I’m willing to sit on for years
At just a $25m valuation.. I genuinely believe this is the single best opportunity across investing right now
It has the structure.. the market size.. the incentives.. the team.. and the timing to execute on something enormous
I’ve spent years moving through this space
Making mistakes.. learning what matters and what doesn’t.. seeing what fails.. watching teams fuck things up.. watching hype die.. and seeing fundamentals survive when everything else crumbles
This "experience" changes how I look at opportunities
I stopped chasing noise a while back.. stopped caring about all that loud shit.. cut off all temptations with no exceptions
I look for the thing thats quietly obvious before everyone else has caught up
In 2018, it was $QNT.. years later it was $TAO.. both are on their way to slowly execute on those early visions
And after all of that.. having spent thousands of hours quietly researching.. at this valuation..
$TIG is one of the clearest opportunities I’ve ever come across
The only real comparison I can make is finding $TAO back in 2022
(Before I get questions.. No, this doesn't diminish anything to do with $TAO, how I view it or whether I'm still holding.. of course I am, nothing has changed..
$TAO is simply 4 years ahead of $TIG from a price perspective.. but the scale of both is pretty similar)
People will trade $TIG.. they’ll jump in and out.. they’ll sell too early.. they’ll wait for validation.. they’ll completely misunderstand it..
That’s fine
I’m not here for a quick move.. I’m positioned for something massive in the distance
I’m here because I believe $TIG becomes one of the most important technologies in the entire societal stack
The open market for algorithmic breakthroughs.. the incentive layer for better methods.. the system that helps humanity do more with less
Real breakthroughs that companies will eventually need because they save money and improve performance
This imo, is what makes $TIG different.. its the value loop
If better algos are discovered, then benchmarked and proved through the network.. companies don't need to give a single shit about crypto to adopt them
All they need to care about is saving money
Lower costs of compute.. a faster system.. better optimisations.. less waste.. higher margins
Those incentives for companies is where the real world demand will come from
And everyone in the world needs better algorithms.. because thats the only way you compete with your rivals
If they're running the best algo in the world, you bet your ass you should be or you'll be left behind.. the 2nd best solution is effectively useless
So yes, they will pay $TIG through the nose to license it
This presents one of the biggest opportunities in the world hiding inside fucking ridiculous tiny valuation
So no.. I’m not moving on
I’ve spent nearly a decade making enough mistakes to recognise the moment when it finally shows up
And much like $TAO.. I think $TIG is it
@WatcherGuru If it was the year 1491, and you could buy a stock which would reflect value from the discovery of America and all of the consequential resources and innovations, would you buy it? Now replace America... with outer space ✨️ Your welcome.
@WatcherGuru If it was the year 1491, and you could buy a stock which would reflect value from the discovery of America and all of the consequential resources and innovations, would you buy it? Now replace America... with outer space ✨️ Your welcome.
$TAO Bittensor SN55 (NIOME) Update
NIOME is transitioning from a wide-ranging DeSci vision into a set of concrete execution plans.
In the last seven days, the team made the announcement of the Data Synthesis Phase 1 which has an aim of approx 25 million artificial genomes in six weeks period and early news about SN55 challenges related to CRISPR gene editing was shared.
Their objective is almost 100 million validated data sets for AI modeling by 2026.
For the next twelve months, there will be total of 24 prediction challenges within NIOME's roadmap concerning:
• Drug response prediction • Rare diseases cohorts • Structural variances • Gene therapy vectors • Synthetic biology • Multi-omics and clinical translation
NIOME's proposition makes it interesting because of clear proposition of values however the technological challenge is totally different.
This is because high quality human genomic data is rare. The data is costly to gather, strictly regulatively controlled, privacy sensitive, and challenging to scale as well.
If NiomeAI becomes capable of producing synthetic genomic data sets that are scientifically reliable nobody will argue that SN55 will become the ground for new AI based biological solutions.
@NiomeAI
China is moving to restrict overseas access to frontier AI models — including open-weight ones. ByteDance, Alibaba, https://t.co/GOIB4rFs9I all in the room.
The US tightened AI export controls. China is now mirroring the move.
When nation-states start walling off their best models, centralised AI labs become geopolitical pawns overnight.
This is exactly why a protocol where algorithm development is open, borderless, and owned by no single jurisdiction matters.
$TIG. Prometheus drops end of July. 👀
https://t.co/qWCj6ldOnz
Decentralized AI is becoming the most important techno-political movement since Bitcoin.
Like many movements that emerged from the crypto community before it, I also believe it’s the industry’s next 1,000× opportunity.
With each passing day, it’s growing more likely that open source models running on permissionless infrastructure will be the only way to preserve equal access to intelligence.
The U.S. gating access to frontier models was just the first warning, as now even China is contemplating doing the same with their open source ecosystem.
The necessary technology to achieve independence from the leading labs is nascent with limited PMF at best, but if we can ultimately pull this off, it’s hard to imagine many things more impactful on the future of our civilization.
My personal thesis is quite simple..
⚪️ $TAO becomes the open market for intelligence
🔵 $TIG becomes the open market for algorithmic breakthroughs
Together.. they sit at two of the most important layers of the next decade..
Intelligence generation and algorithmic efficiency
⚪️ #Bittensor is building the incentive network for intelligence..
Within each subnet, miners compete to produce useful outputs across inference, training, agents, storage.. or whatever field someone wants to point the network at
Over time.. the best subnets will become real businesses, real infrastructure and real genuine alternatives to closed AI systems
If intelligence is going to become one of the most valuable commodities on earth..
$TAO is already positioned as the asset that coordinates and captures value from the economy of open intelligence
🔵 $TIG focuses on the algorithm layer..
Better methods, better optimisation, lower compute, faster systems.. and more efficient ways to solve extremely hard problems
This matters because the next major leaps in AI and other industries won't come from hardware alone..
They'll come from better algorithms that let the world do more with less
As $TIG grows..
Its not that companies will adopt its algorithms because they care about crypto.. They will adopt them because they save money, improve performance and create measurable, real world advantages and value
From a valuation perspective..
I think both are still being priced like speculative crypto assets.. when they should eventually be valued more like global critical infrastructure
$TAO has the potential to capture value from the growth of intelligence as a whole
$TIG has the potential to capture value from algorithmic breakthroughs across AI, logistics, manufacturing, energy, science, research etc..
Essentially improving the layer that quietly sits below everything in our soceity
One builds the open network for intelligence..
The other improves the algorithms that make intelligence cheaper, faster and more powerful
They are not competitors.. they are cohesive and are fighting the same fight against powerful centralised forces
If both execute..
The market will eventually stop treating them both as experiments or narratives and start treating them as foundational technology
Thats when the real repricing begins
$TAO $TIG
@TaoOutsider My brothers in Bittensor, I was a research scientist for one of the world's top universities, for 20 years. Trust me when I tell you that the handful of DeSci subnets ALONE in the ecosystem, are worth going all-in on TAO.
Lots of work to be done toward the end of 2026!
Announcing our next 4 Subnet challenges incl. the synthesis of close to 100 million validated datasets for AI modelling.🧬
A NIOME future is now. Join us! 🚀
https://t.co/DRTiBMNK0y
Faster insights. Smarter predictions. Zero bias.
That's AI in omics research and it's exactly what powers NIOME's synthetic genome platform.
High-quality genomic data, built responsibly. 🧬🚀
Explore today's poster to learn more, or check out NIOME: https://t.co/HLSyIQKeyh