@MeesWijnants Groot gelijk jonge. Weet nog wel als we tegen VVOG moesten voetballen waar 90% van het team Mohamed heette, of het Amstelland toernooi waar je 'hartelijk' werdt ontvangen door de thuisploeg met een klap op je kaak en zelfs tegen hun eigen teamgenoten.
Open competition for AI chip design is running right now.
On @ChipForge, miners submit complete NPU designs, and every design is checked bit-exact and scored on speed and area across seven vision models. Quest 2 is open until Nov 23.
Sunday Brief – Nov 08, 2026
Brief Summary
TatsuOS now accepts USDC and USDT alongside ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f for plans and AI credits. It will be promoted to Mainnet within a few days. On ChipForge, Quest 2’s latest evaluator bundle is finalized and starts tomorrow.
TatsuOS
This week we tested USDC and USDT as payment options alongside ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f on Testnet, so users can now buy plans and AI credits with stablecoins as well as our own token. Each token has its own payment route, and ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f payments still get a discount. Will be promoted to Mainnet within a few days.
Chipforge
Chip Design Team
- Quest 2 went live: for the first time, miners submit a complete edge-AI NPU, the hardware (RTL) and its compiler together, and every submission is verified and benchmarked end to end on real AI workloads.
- That makes the evaluator one of the most demanding parts of the subnet: each run synthesises the chip, checks its timing and clock domains, compiles real models with the miner's own compiler, and simulates them cycle by cycle on validator machines.
- Miners pushed it fast: the most ambitious designs grew larger and used multiple clocks, which surfaced edge cases in memory use, clock-domain checks and compiler outputs at full scale.
- We worked through each one: v2.0.4 and v2.0.5 added memory retries for large designs, proper multi-clock support and clean not-scored results for evaluator faults. Validators stay up even when a design exhausts resources, and v2.0.5 was tested on real submissions with identical scores across machines.
Coming next
- v2.0.6, with faster clock-domain checks for large multi-clock designs and a fix for one timing-analysis case, released after real-design testing; then faster evaluations for the biggest designs.
The goal isn't to find one good NPU design and stop.
It's to give engineers a measured result to improve on, then raise the target when someone beats it.
That's the approach @ChipForge is taking with AI hardware.
https://t.co/CuF6E5Lb12
Sunday Brief – Nov 01, 2026
Brief Summary
TatsuOS now accepts USDC and USDT alongside ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f for plans and AI credits. Purchases are credited automatically once the payment confirms on-chain, and ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f keeps its discount. Every flow works on testnet, and the first version of TatsuOS moves to mainnet in the next couple of days.
On ChipForge, Quest 2 is finalized and starts tomorrow: miners design a complete AI chip, scored on performance, chip area and correctness, with power to be added in a later update. Behind the scenes, we rebuilt how rewards are paid with a new record ladder, made evaluation faster by giving each design to a single validator with independent confirmation of records, and made evaluator updates fully automatic for validators.
TatsuOS
This week we added USDC and USDT as payment options alongside ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f, so users can now buy plans and AI credits with stablecoins as well as our own token. Each token has its own payment route, and ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f payments still get a discount. Stablecoin payments are charged at the standard USD price, so costs are simple and predictable for anyone who doesn't hold ethereum:0x92f419fb7a750aed295b0ddf536276bf5a40124f yet. As soon as a payment confirms on-chain, the platform picks it up and adds the plan or credits to the user's account automatically, with backup checks so no purchase goes uncredited. Everything is running on testnet, and every flow is working well, from buying plans and AI credits to the account update after payment. Over the next couple of days we'll move it to mainnet and release the first version of TatsuOS.
Chipforge
Chip Design Team
- Quest 2 is finalized and starts tomorrow. Miners design a complete AI chip, hardware plus the software that runs on it.
- Each design is evaluated on three things:
- Performance: how fast it answers a single request (latency) and how much work it handles per second (throughput).
- Chip area.
- Correctness: every output is checked, and accuracy is measured on real images.
- Power is shown in the results but is not yet part of the score.
- The team is preparing the next update to the benchmarking system, which will add power to the scoring.
Infrastructure
- Record ladder: Rewards now go to the best recent records instead of a single winner. Each new record is reviewed first, then starts earning.
- One validator per design: Each submission is evaluated by a single validator, so results come back much faster. Records are confirmed by other validators before they count.
- Automatic evaluator updates: Validators now download and install new evaluator versions automatically, and the website shows each validator's live status.
@CryptoCrownHQ@cryptorover Exactly, it’s more like I see opportunities with this chart rather than a need for panic. I might be wrong but I go with my feeling.
All these years later, you can still hear these photos. You can sense the tension.
You feel the exact emotion each photo wants you to feel.
Generational aura.