Announcement from @const_reborn and @opentensor today:
Starting next week we will be introducing an interim measure to block emissions on Bittensor subnets which are engaging in active foul play and or with no clear path to adding value into the Bittensor ecosystem.
This will need to be done on a case-by-case basis, however the criteria for blocked emissions will revolve around the following:
1) Long-term burning of 100% miner emissions with no plan from the team to bring them online.
2) Active self-mining i.e. subnets that do not have code and instead use stake weight to pass emissions to their own keys.
3) Dead or fully abandoned subnets, or those that have not announced themselves i.e. "unclaimed" subnets.
4) Subnets engaged in TaoFlow exploitation, such as 104, which have very little to no chain activity from the network at large.
A chain operation to block emission will be available on Tuesday to carry this out. Note this is not a long term solution as further protocol upgrades such as conviction, shorting, and the eventual full decentralized governance system of Bittensor, coming into play this year, will allow much more organic and swarm based intelligence to organize Bittensor's emission vector.
Onwards
@bittensor
DSV has acquired Subnet 69.
The number is funny. The opportunity is serious.
We're looking for a project to support and we'd rather wait for the right team than rush the wrong one in.
If you're building something that deserves to be on Bittensor, and want a partner ready to back it properly, our DMs are always open.
A Vietnamese miner with a GPU can now compete with anyone in the world.
No visa. No approval. No gatekeeper.
This is what Bittensor subnets actually unlock: anyone, anywhere, plugging into a global network and getting paid purely on contribution.
This is what permissionless actually means.
Interesting analysis of how bittensor weighs up against similar protocols in terms of brand awareness, and how selected subnets compare to web2 counterparts. nice job @subnetai, this is important framing
I've been thinking a lot recently about what's actually been holding Bittensor back from the rest of crypto. It isn't the tech. It isn't the teams. It certainly isn't ambition.
It's that most of crypto still doesn't really see what's being built here.
That's about to change.
This week, @taodotcom is opening a Solana-native route into TAO. And the first people I'm hoping show up are Solana traders.
Solana traders are some of the sharpest, fastest, most aggressive capital allocators in crypto. They've taken enormous bets on projects with anonymous teams, unaudited tech, and sometimes on nothing more than a narrative. That isn't a criticism. That's just the market doing its job, on the chain that moves the fastest.
Now point that same energy at Bittensor.
Doxxed teams. Real AI infrastructure. Subnet businesses with product, users, and roadmaps. An ecosystem that has spent years in the trenches building the thing instead of selling it. Talk to anyone serious in this space and you'll see the same pattern. These are operators, not narrative merchants.
That's what @taodotcom is opening up.
Better access. Better trading conditions. A clean venue where Solana-native capital can take a real position on one of the most substantive AI ecosystems in crypto, without ever having to leave the chain they already live on.
What it brings in is liquidity, capital, fresh eyes, and a lot of new ideas about how this ecosystem can keep growing.
For $TAO holders and subnet ecosystems, this is a new liquidity source and a new demand surface. Solana capital meeting Bittensor product. Two ecosystems lined up on the one thing that actually matters in crypto, which is building large businesses on chain.
Solana is crypto-native. Bittensor sits at the intersection of crypto and AI. There's a lot we can learn from each other, and the overlap is where this is going to get really interesting.
Honestly, in this ecosystem the people who show up early are almost always the same people who end up building the bridges.
No one is bigger than Bittensor. But Bittensor gets bigger when the rest of crypto can see it.
DCG Summit 2026 might be one of those moments we look back on in a few years
I spent every minute in conversations with the people actually building decentralized AI and privacy infra
every team I met has stronger conviction than the market currently reflects
came home with far more homework than I expected, and I'm grateful for it
we're going to look back at Bittensor $TAO and $ZEC the same way we look back at ETH in 2016
excited for what's next 👀