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[Openτensor Foundaτion @opentensor]

Bittensor is decentralizing Governance away from Opentensor

It gives the network the ability to move fast when consensus is clear, and slow down when proposals need more scrutiny.

Topics in this episode:
• chain governance
• Conviction (linked below)
• root yield
• root funds
• subnet emissions
• slashing primitives
• shorting and longing
• Tao Flow v2

Link to governance preview:
https://t.co/5mULswaNE7

[Pumpolinsky @pumpolinsky]

Do you believe $TAO can reach above 4000 dollar this year?

[Cali @Calicinance]

Everyone I've referred is already addicted. The vibes are immaculate. Come lose sleep over predictions instead of margin calls.

https://t.co/WM2KRW8adj

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

🚨 $TAO JUST DID SOMETHING NO MAJOR CRYPTO ASSET HAS DONE IN 2026

The top 10% wallet threshold dropped for the THIRD straight month.

Feb. | Mar. | Apr.
12.23 | 11.59 | 10.54 $TAO

Three months.
Three drops.
While prices ran.
While supply halved.
While many sold.

Read that twice.

When adoption grows, ownership normally concentrates. With $TAO, it's getting MORE accessible. New wallets are pouring in faster than concentration can occur.

Truly a for the people currency.

250,466 non-zero wallets.
Up 13,847 in 30 days.
+5.85% month over month.

Quarter million holders. Crossed for the first time. Without an airdrop.

All Credit to @RBS_HODL for the monthly on-chain accounting, give a follow.

That's 462 new wallets per day.
Every single day.
For 30 straight days. Organic.

Most networks get less accessible as adoption grows.
$TAO is becoming more distributed while STILL attracting larger capital tiers.

Only 14 wallets hold more than 100,000 $TAO.
That is 0.01% of all holders.

A lot of crypto has:
• A few whales
• Millions of tiny wallets
• Weak middle ownership

$TAO keeps building the middle. Even after halving.

THE MIDDLE CLASS OF HOLDERS KEEPS EXPANDING:

▫️50+ TAO: 10,117 → 10,200
▫️100+ TAO: 6,473 → 6,537
▫️25+ TAO: 15,458 → 15,589
▫️10+ TAO: 25,934 → 26,149
▫️5+ TAO: 34,747 → 34,973
▫️1+ TAO: 56,502 → 56,931

Look at >50 TAO:
Just crossed 10,200 wallets for the first time.
Look at >10 TAO:
Added 215 new mid-tier holders in 30 days.

Even some middle tiers (>1k, >500, >250) actually shrunk slightly MoM. That's not weakness. That's CONVICTION MIGRATION. Capital is leaving the middle and moving into staking, subnet alpha positions, or upward concentration. Either way, liquid float gets thinner.

👀 THE YEAR-OVER-YEAR DATA:

▫️100k+ wallets: +55.56% YoY
▫️50k+ wallets: +26.09% YoY
▫️1+ TAO holders: +29.16% YoY
▫️5+ TAO holders: +25.17% YoY
▫️10+ TAO holders: +25.07% YoY
▫️25+ TAO holders: +24.00% YoY
▫️50+ TAO holders: +23.25% YoY
▫️100+ TAO holders: +23.71% YoY

Every tier. Growing 23-55%. Year over year. During post-halving supply compression.

All while early 2026, saw the Fear and Greed Index hitting 5

Compare that to the rest of crypto. Ethereum's top 100 addresses control roughly 40% of all ETH supply.

Most altcoins sit at 50-80% whale concentration. Solana's top wallets are dominated by foundation and VC allocations from private rounds.

$TAO? Less than 1% mega-whale concentration. Because there was no ICO. No premine. No private round at a discount. Every token was mined. VCs paid market price like everyone else.

Find me another top 100 asset where:
• Every holding tier grew 23-55% YoY
• The top 10% threshold is FALLING
• There is no VC unlock, no team vesting. ANTI-INSIDER dump waiting, With the NEW BIT-0011 Formula (Conviction = Stake X Time) to counter subnet owner dumping.

I've asked this question publicly for months. Nobody has answered it because the answer doesn't exist.

Subnet registrations locks supply. Alpha token AMMs absorb $TAO. No VC unlocks coming. No team vesting.

While the rest of crypto looks like this:
• 80% of new blockchain startups fail within 1 year
• 53% of tokens launched since 2021 are dead
• 2025 supply exploded +800%
• 84% of insider-heavy launches are below listing
• 90% of unlocks = price down
• VC deals Count down 60%
• $6B Largest supply unlocked Mar 26

$TAO has:
• Hard issuance
• Post-halving scarcity
• Staking
• Subnet capital sinks
• Validator/miner reg. recycling
• Growth at every tier

That's ownership. Earned. On-chain. Verifiable

The data doesn't have opinions. It doesn't care about anyones narratives. It just shows you what 250,466 wallets are doing with their money.

Three threshold drops in a row.
Quarter million wallets crossed.
14 mega-whales out of 250,466 holders.Every tier up double-digits YoY.

This is what real adoption looks like.

Accumulate.

$TAO

Credit: @RBS_HODL | Source: @taostats | April 30, 2026.

DYOR.

[RVCrypto @RvCrypto]

More and more accounts are starting to talk about $TAO.

And even better they start to research subnets.

Not because they are paid but because they see others talk about the value creation.

In the end everyone in crypto started this journey by searching for value.

Bittensor and the subnets are the answer.

And we're only just getting started.

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

ONCE YOU SEE THE MATH, YOU CAN’T UNSEE IT 👀

Circulating: 10.87M $TAO
Max Supply: 21M $TAO
51.7% already issued

We’re halfway to max supply.

But circulating doesn't = liquid.

Staked: 7.25M $TAO (66.7%)
On exchanges: 371K $TAO (3.4%)
In wallets: 3.61M $TAO (33.3%)

Estimated effective float: 2.17M $TAO (20%)

That’s what the market can actually buy.

There is 19.5x more $TAO staked than sitting on exchanges.

HALVING
Current:

Block reward: 0.50 TAO
Daily issuance: 3,600 TAO

Next halving:
Jan 2030

Trigger: 15.75M supply

After:
1,800 TAO/day
Then:
900 TAO/day
450 TAO/day

Same scarcity curve as Bitcoin.

But tied to AI infrastructure demand.

ALPHA GAP

Sum of alpha prices: 1.38
$TAO reserves vs injected: -27.97%

Meaning:

Capital flowed into subnets
But the value hasn’t caught up yet

That gap is the opportunity

If even 10–15 subnets start producing real revenue…

That gap closes fast

Alpha strengthens
More $TAO flows into subnets
Emission weight follows performance
Buybacks and demand increase

That’s the flywheel

THE REPRICING

At $250 $TAO:
Market cap: $2.7B

If $TAO reaches:
$500 = $5.4B
$1,000 = $10.9B
$2,000 = $21.7B
$5,000 = $54.3B

People think it takes $50B to reach $50B

It doesn’t

MOVES FAST WITH

Thin supply
High staking
Low exchange balances
Rising demand

That’s how repricing happens

CAPITAL IS ALREADY MOVING

March 2025:
73% Root
2% Subnets
April 2026:
47% Root
18.8% Subnets

Over 5M $TAO migrated

From passive to productive

That’s dTAO working

CONVICTION IS BUILDING

Hundreds of long-term holders
Accumulating, not trading.

+14,000 Wallets in 30 days
500 new wallets every day

They understand:

Halvings
Subnet economics
Supply compression

THE JAW DROP 🤯

Only 14 wallets hold more than 100,000 $TAO.

That is 0.01% of all holders.

$TAO has less than 1% mega-whale concentration because there was No ICO. No premine.

Find me another top 100 asset where every holding tier grew 29 to 75% year over year.

Just shows you what 236,619 wallets are doing with their money

The shift happens when:

Subnets generate real revenue
Alpha strengthens
Buybacks become normal
Halving becomes narrative
Supply stays locked

That’s when price moves to find sellers

That’s when a $2.7B network
reprices into something much larger

You don’t need massive capital

You need:

Thin supply
Rising demand
And no sellers

The math isn’t priced

But it’s all on-chain

$TAO

[MUHAMMAD TANIMU @MUHAMMA97827194]

Success in #Crypto isn't about luck; it's about the quality of your info.@TAO provides the institutional-grade data that retail investors have been waiting for. Precision, depth, and wisdom all in one place. Stay ahead of the curve. #Bitcoin #DataIsPower
@bittensor @inspectxyz

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

$TAO is arguably the first liquid asset that stacks Bitcoin's scarcity, the S&P 500's self-pruning mechanism, and Nvidia's AI upside inside a single token. And it's trading at $250.

This is a decade-long case, laid out:

Bitcoin's scarcity model, but with revenue attached.

21M hard cap. First halving hit December 2025, emissions dropped from 7,200 to 3,600 $TAO/day. Roughly 67% of circulating supply is locked. Liquid float is 3M $TAO against a $2.7B market cap.

Bitcoin did a 1,311x increase in the decade after its first halving on a pure store-of-value thesis. $TAO has the same scarcity DNA, except the network underneath is already generating subnet-level revenue + usage flows, while many generate zero.

Like the S&P 500's survivorship mechanism but automated.

The S&P 500 outperformed the majority of active managers over 20 years for one reason: weak companies get pruned automatically. Strong ones compound.

Bittensor does the same thing onchain. 128 subnets (expanding to 256) compete for emissions. Losers die. Winners capture more. With flow-based emissions, the market votes with stake.

It's a self-optimizing index of decentralized AI companies. That structure has never existed in the history of financial assets.

Nvidia's AI tailwind, but priced like a mid-cap altcoin.

Nvidia went from $360B (2019) to $3.3T (2024). 10x in five years on a single thesis: picks and shovels of AI.

$TAO market cap today: $2.7B. Grayscale's AI Fund allocation to $TAO just hit 43% the single largest position in the fund. ETF application pending with the SEC. xTAO running a corporate treasury. Yuma staking $691M.

Real adoption is already landing:
• https://t.co/flnZ7DVZN7 (1M+ paying users, founded by Erik Voorhees) trained their flagship model on @TargonCompute SN4
• Macrocosmos @IOTA_SN9 is targeting a 70B distributed training run world first

Venture-capital-style asymmetry, but liquid.

Owning $TAO is like owning a slice of every YC batch for the next decade. Except you don't wait 10 years for liquidity, failed projects don't zero your bag (they get replaced), and the winners compound back into $TAO automatically through the emission mechanism.

No VC fund on earth offers that structure.

The institutional rails are already built.

Grayscale Trust live. ETF filing pending. Bitwise filing. Corporate treasuries accumulating. Jensen Huang publicly endorsed decentralized training on the network. $TAO Institute launched April 2026 with a Subnet Risk Index for allocators @TAOInstitute_

Institutional wrappers don't just show up. They show up right before the repricing.

$TAO's strength is in:

Bitcoin is scarcity only.
Ethereum is programmability only.
Nvidia is revenue only.
The S&P 500 is survivorship only.
Venture capital is asymmetry only.

$TAO is the first asset in history sitting at the intersection of all five.

$TAO is also one of the only assets where usage reduces supply pressure.

Meaning:
• More competition, more $TAO recycled
• More usage, less net issuance
• Halving timeline, potentially extended

This creates a feedback loop:
Growth, Competition, Reduced Sell Pressure.

The next decade isn't a question of which AI company wins. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI they'll keep burning hundreds of billions fighting each other. The question is which asset captures the open, permissionless infrastructure layer that everything else eventually plugs into.

That asset already exists. It ships every block. It has a 21M hard cap. It auto-prunes its weakest components. It's accumulating institutional cover. And most of the market still thinks it's just another coin.

Ten years from now, this price will look absurd.

$TAO

DYOR

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

Most people are thinking about $TAO, like it’s a better AI factory.

Bigger factory
More workers
More output

That’s wrong

What's even better, a Global AI factory

But Bittensor is also the Global market.

Markets always outcompete organizations over time.

This is not an opinion.
It's a historical fact

The market doesn’t need to be told what’s valuable.
It Just figures it out.

Because it's faster at discovering truths.
The loop is a truth engine.

This gets missed

Bittensor is not trying to build one dominant AI factory or company.

It’s building:
A system of thousands of different approaches that compete simultaneously

It gets even more interesting.

In a company:

Bad decisions can persist for years

In a market:

Bad decisions get priced out almost immediately

That loop is everything.

Not building just a factory.
Not building just a company.
Not even building just a network.

Bittensor's building the market that will absorb the factories, the companies, and the networks that come after.

Markets. They can be manipulable. They can even be wrong.

But over time, they become unstoppable.

The fastest machine ever created for finding out what works next.

That is the truth.
And it is enough.

That is why $TAO is bigger than most realize.

Not because it will be the best AI.

But the only AI that cannot be turned off, captured, or gamed.

And when it work.
It always wins.

$TAO

[The Wolf of Defi ⚡️ @thewolfofdefi]

THORChain is building $TAO integration.

When live, you'll be able to swap into decentralized AI compute permissionlessly. No wrapped tokens. No bridges. Native.

Two of the most critical infrastructure plays in crypto converging into one.

$RUNE settles the trade. This is the way. 🔥

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

⚡️ $TAO holders Sequoia Just Mapped $1 Trillion in Services Being Replaced by AI Agents. Bittensor Already Built the Supply.

Sequoia nailed the demand.

Every industry on that map advertising, insurance, IT, accounting, legal, supply chain, healthcare, real estate, recruitment, cybersecurity needs intelligence, payments, and trust to run on agents.

Bittensor already delivers all three, live, today.

▫️Cybersecurity rewards ethical hackers and researchers to evolve faster than any centralized system.
Key Security Subnets right now:
@bitsecai (SN60) AI-driven autonomous code auditing. Finds vulnerabilities in minutes, not months.
@_redteam_ (SN61) Hack-to-earn platform. Ethical hackers get paid in $TAO for discovering exploits, which then strengthen defenses.
@LuminarNetwork (SN87) engineered to tackle the critical gap in security and forensic video review by automating real-time analysis of massive video streams.
@yanez__ai SN54 designed by Yanez Compliance to generate synthetic “inorganic” identities for testing and strengthening financial crime prevention systems. In essence, MIID serves as a data-generation engine that creates realistic, varied identity profiles (names, documents, biometrics, etc.)

▫️Real-Estate @resilabsai SN46 provides institutional-grade, real-time property valuations, data analytics, and automated transaction services by utilizing decentralized machine learning and satellite/spatial data.
▫️Advertising ($291B+) @adtao_ppcrebel SN21 16-year Google Ads vet with 20k+ accounts and $40K/month revenue already flowing @bitads_ai SN16 digital advertising by creating a performance-based incentive layer where humans and AI agents are rewarded for driving verified results like users, customers, and revenue
▫️Insurance & forecasting @numinous_ai (SN6) probabilistic causal modeling with 11k+ ML engineers now plugged in via Crunch
▫️IT & compute @TargonCompute (SN4) + @chutes_ai (SN64) confidential compute, $5.5M annualized, every GPU on earth now open @vidaio_ (SN85): Focuses on decentralized video processing, including up-scaling and high-efficiency compression @tplr_ai (SN3): Specializes in large-scale decentralized model training. @hippius_subnet (SN75): A decentralized storage solution that functions as an alternative to AWS S3
▫️Accounting & audit @HermesSubnet (SN82) real-time conversational blockchain intelligence
▫️Legal & compliance @djinn_gg (SN103) cryptographically accountable "intelligence marketplace" on the Bittensor network, designed to provide tamper-proof web attestation for sports betting data.
▫️Supply chain & vision @webuildscore (SN44) edge computer vision at 84–91% accuracy
▫️Healthcare & genomics @theminos_ai (SN107) + @metanova_labs (SN68) cutting drug discovery costs in half
▫️Software & Specialized Coding
@ridges_ai AI (SN62): An autonomous coding marketplace where miners tackle CI regression and code generation
@gradients_ai (SN56): Provides affordable decentralized training for AI models.
Content, Verification & Trust
@bitmind (SN34): A specialized subnet for deepfake detection, crucial for security, identity verification, and trust in an agent-led economy.
DSperse @inference_labs (SN2): An "enterprise trust layer" using zero-knowledge proofs for AI inference verification, essential for high-stakes industries like law and accounting.
@traininghone (SN5): Hone is a decentralized AI research subnet focused on training a new generation of AI models with hierarchical learning ...

And that’s just the start.

128 subnets. One base layer token. All composing through shared rails (storage, payments, inference, agents).

Sequoia mapped the demand.
Bittensor is shipping the decentralized supply.

This is why $TAO compounds real intelligence markets replacing trillion-dollar services, incentivized at the protocol level.

The future isn’t coming.
It’s already live on one network.

$TAO

Stack quality subnets. The flywheel is spinning. 🚀

DYOR. Not financial advice.

[Cali @Calicinance]

@bittingthembits @inspectxyz @NuanceSubnet
#NuanceInspectxyz #Bittensor
$TAO can now be supplied as lendable capital to earn passive onchain yield. Borrowing is fully permissionless with transparent collateral mechanics.
$TAO is the future,don't miss mining n staking

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

That is why we need $TAO.

Every closed AI company eventually reveals the same truth:

you are not the customer.
You are the dependent.

They own the model.
They own the rules.
They own the distribution.
They own the upside.

You just rent access until they change the terms.

Bittensor

• open code
• open ownership
• open incentives
• open competition

The future of intelligence should not belong to a handful of companies.

It should belong to the people building, validating, and using it.

[Cali @Calicinance]

@inspectxyz @NuanceSubnet
#NuanceInspectxyz #Bittensor
$TAO can now be supplied as lendable capital to earn passive onchain yield. Borrowing is fully permissionless with transparent collateral mechanics.
$TAO is the future,don't miss mining n staking

[Bishal Raaj Omega Network N-1 Ambassador @bishal_raaj]

The $TAO ecosystem is growing, and rewards are flowing to those building the future of intelligence.
🧠🚀

Stay tuned to official @bittensor updates! 💎🚀

Powerup @inspectxyz
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[Bishal Raaj Omega Network N-1 Ambassador @bishal_raaj]

The $TAO ecosystem is growing, and rewards are flowing to those building the future of intelligence.
🧠🚀

Stay tuned to official @bittensor updates! 💎🚀

Powerup @inspectxyz
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[OLA ✰ @Theesbigdaddy]

$TAO is building a permissionless machine intelligence market.
Incentives align → models improve → network scales.

Don’t give up yet, While most are trading narratives, $TAO is shipping infrastructure for decentralized AI.
Subnets. Incentives. Real utility.”

#NuanceInspectxyz

[Cali @Calicinance]

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[Cali @Calicinance]

Inspect is becoming the market index layer for decentralized AI, tracking value across subnets, liquidity depth, capital flow velocity, and trading behavior in the TAO economy.
@inspectxyz #NuanceInspectxyz
#Bittensor $TAO @NuanceSubnet

[The Learning Pill 💊 @thelearningpill]

Circling back on $TAO → the thesis from my last post is holding.

When I flagged that 27% of Bittensor's market cap had moved into subnet tokens, the point wasn't the number itself, but rather what the number signals
→ value is redistributing, and the market hasn't caught up yet

@YumaGroup's data backs this → their institutional products have continued to outperform TAO's price action since launch. That gap tells you where informed money is actually going.

The mechanics I outlined before → emissions flowing to builders, automated chain buys, subnet APYs running 100%+ → are live and working as designed.

The next update from @YumaGroup should certainly be on your to-read list.

[The Learning Pill 💊 @thelearningpill]

Circling back on $TAO → the thesis from my last post is holding.

When I flagged that 27% of Bittensor's market cap had moved into subnet tokens, the point wasn't the number itself, but rather what the number signals
→ value is redistributing, and the market hasn't caught up yet

@YumaGroup's data backs this → their institutional products have continued to outperform TAO's price action since launch. That gap tells you where informed money is actually going.

The mechanics I outlined before → emissions flowing to builders, automated chain buys, subnet APYs running 100%+ → are live and working as designed.

The next update from @YumaGroup should certainly be on your to-read list.

[Loosh AI @Loosh_ai]

Running a subnet is hard
But we aren’t giving up

We’ve seen some volatility in the subnet market over the weekend. That’s part of how open markets behave and we don’t speculate on individual trading decisions.

What matters is that the fundamentals of the project remain unchanged.

Development continues exactly as planned and we remain on track with the Loosh roadmap.

We’re also releasing a scoring update later this week that strengthens Sybil resistance and improves scoring fairness for miners.

Building open networks means continuously improving them as they grow.

Our focus remains the same: developing the reasoning infrastructure that allows AI systems and robotics to operate safely in complex real-world environments.

More updates soon.