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Crypto since 2017 / ₿ and τ / Big believer in $BTC and $TAO

[OBLock @oblock107]

Coming from years on CT, here’s what I’ve noticed about the Bittensor community after a month exploring $TAO:

1) Really Technical Group
The TAO community is super technical. It can feel intense for the average crypto investor—sometimes, at least for me—but it’s worth digging in. You’ll learn a lot if you stick with it.

2) No Hype, Just Facts
Unlike CT, where rugpulls and “BUY NOW” posts are everywhere, TAO OGs are not into shilling. They’ll explain big updates or why a project’s good, but they won’t push you to buy. It’s a breath of fresh air from constant shilling we see on CT.

3) Influencers Don’t Matter
Nobody cares about your X follower count here. The community’s technical enough to see through fluff. They want to know what real problems your subnet solves or how you're helping the community, not how popular you are.

4) Reminds Me of Bitcoin’s Early Days
Bittensor has this magnetic pull, like Bitcoin did back in the day, drawing in passionate, smart people with a religious cult vibe. It’s building a decentralized intelligence layer, like Bitcoin’s monetary layer, with incentives that drive network contributions—a key to Bitcoin’s success. No other project does this as well as TAO imo, with a sophisticated incentive layer around miners, validators, subnet owners, and stakers.

That’s my take on the TAO community after a month. I’m really liking the vibe here so far.

Here are some TAO accounts I recommend following if you want to learn more about Bittensor. I'm sure I'm missing a few - will share a more comprehensive list in the coming days, including subnet and AI agent accounts.

@const_reborn
@JosephJacks_
@DrocksAlex2
@here4impact
@markjeffrey
@JNGross
@mogmachine
@SiamKidd
@Lazz_eth
@sobczak_mariusz
@TaoIsTheKey
@KeithSingery
@DreadBong0
@tseutseutao
@bittingthembits
@CryptoZPunisher
@Victor_crypto_2

[OBLock @oblock107]

@TaoOutsider congrats bro👏

[OBLock @oblock107]

@xavi3rlu looks 🔥🔥

[OBLock @oblock107]

@yubrew @proofoftalk we just keep pushin' τ

[OBLock @oblock107]

Really bummed that I can't make it to @proofoftalk this year.

While I won’t be there in person, I’m especially looking forward to the subnet teams giving detailed updates on everything they’ve been building. Product launches, key partnerships, major milestones hit, and their plans for the rest of 2026.

I’m also interested to hear how teams are thinking about the new Conviction mechanism: how they’re approaching long-term alignment, stake locking, and addressing community concerns around skin-in-the-game and accountability.

The past few weeks have been brutal for many of us. I’m hoping Proof of Talk brings some meaningful positive momentum. And I have no doubt that many teams have been saving them for this week.

Even remotely, I’ll be watching closely.

[Proof of Talk @proofoftalk]

1 DAY TO GO.

Tomorrow, the doors of the Louvre Palace open. 2,500 of you, arriving in Paris from across the world, for 48 hours that shape what comes next.

A year of work, thousands of conversations, and the room that finally comes together.

We are honoured to welcome you to Paris.

Your year changes here.

[OBLock @oblock107]

Bullish update on SN50 @SynthdataCo

Synth correctly predicted the direction of Bitcoin price moves 86% of the time in 15-minute windows, compared to just 57% for Polymarket. It also beat them on hourly predictions (75% vs 62%).

The edge is especially strong on shorter timeframes, where Synth consistently spots opportunities the broader market misses (29% better than Polymarket for 15-min vs. 13% for hourly). That kind of alpha in forecasting is a massive moat in prediction markets.

Recent price action has been disappointing, but I think Synth is a perfect example of the intelligence layer creating real edge on top of Bittensor.

[Synthdata @SynthdataCo]

"Across 374 weekday 15 minute markets, Synth correctly called direction 86% of the time versus 57% for Polymarket. Across 95 hourly markets, Synth achieved 75% accuracy compared to 62% for Polymarket."

Appreciate the detailed analysis @Kunallegendd

[OBLock @oblock107]

@Pop_Collapse @markjeffrey @jaltucher 😂😂

[OBLock @oblock107]

Taoweave @oblong_inc invests $1M in Manako by SN44 @webuildscore

Another great news for Score👏

[Manako @manakoai]

Manako turns the camera infrastructure organisations already have into real-time understanding of their operations, no new hardware or specialist AI expertise required.

Today we’re announcing that TaoWeave (@oblong_inc) (Nasdaq: TWAV) has invested in Manako and partnered with us on North American commercialisation, accelerating our expansion into the world’s largest market for AI adoption powered by sn44 (@webuildscore) on Bittensor.

Link to PR in first comment 👇

[OBLock @oblock107]

There’s been some controversy around conviction, but nevertheless, this is great to see.

Const locking all his public wallets, perpetually, is what leading by example actually looks like👏

[Alex DRocks @DrocksAlex2]

$TAO @const_reborn locked all his public wallet's stakes perpetually.

based conviction.

https://t.co/FhRN1TcIZR

[OBLock @oblock107]

“The winner earns. The network learns.”

This line from @bittingthembits perfectly captures what SN66 @Ninja_Subnet just shipped.

Ninja introduced a powerful new POLAR-style rollout pipeline, turning their competitive coding arena into a sophisticated data engine for the entire Bittensor network.

But what does that actually mean?

Key Changes⚙️ This update fundamentally expands what data is captured and shared from every agent duel.

• Full Trajectory Capture: Every single duel now fully records the agent’s complete journey, both winner and loser. Every step, tools used, reasoning process, mistake, and recovery attempt
• Complete Path Transparency: Previously, only the winner’s final output was typically published. Now the entire decision-making path of every agent is preserved and visible, not just the result
• Automatic Open-Source Publishing: All rollouts are automatically redacted for privacy and exported to Hugging Face, making this high-quality data freely available to anyone both inside and outside Bittensor

Why This Matters🔍 This update is particularly important because it fundamentally changes how value is created in competitive agent environments. By capturing every step, including losers’ paths, the subnet turns what used to be “wasted” competitions into extremely valuable training data. More specifically:

• Learning from Failure: Every losing attempt now contributes meaningful insights into how agents think under pressure, how they fail, and how they recover, dramatically improving the quality of training data
• Real-World Pressure Data: Agents are dueling under genuine competitive pressure on real GitHub issues, creating behavioral data that is nearly impossible to replicate with synthetic training
• Accelerated Learning: This creates a powerful positive-sum loop where the entire network benefits from every duel, leading to faster iteration and stronger agents across the ecosystem

In short, ruthless competition on the surface, massive shared learning underneath. This is how you actually scale real AI progress.

[Andy ττ @bittingthembits]

🚨 $TAO's Ninja SN66 @Ninja_Subnet just did something most people will completely miss, and it's the kind of thing that compounds. The king wins. The network keeps the experience.
Every attempt becomes training data.

NVIDIA recently published POLAR RL rollout infrastructure for real coding harnesses (Codex, Claude Code, and others). Their headline result: same Qwen3.5-4B base, plain GRPO, Codex jumped 3.8% → 26.4% on SWE-Bench Verified just from better trajectory data.

The lesson:

What trains a strong agent isn't whether it got the answer right. It's the PATH, the tools it used, the mistakes it made, and how it recovered.

That kind of data is the real bottleneck in agent training. And it's almost impossible to fake.

Synthetic traces don't capture how an agent behaves under real pressure on a real bug.

SN66 is a king-of-the-hill coding arena. Miners register AI agents that duel one-on-one on real GitHub issues scraped commits, PRs, live repo activity. 100% of emissions go to the reigning king. No participation trophy. Get dethroned, get nothing.

Until now that design had a hidden leak: it produced ONE valuable thing per epoch the winning agent. Every losing duel got thrown away.

The new POLAR pipeline fixes that. Now Every duel win or lose gets recorded as a full trajectory, linked to its result, redacted, and exported to Hugging Face for anyone to train on. (Live now: 125GB dataset, 1,961 downloads last month.)

Sit with what that means:
▫️The competition stays ruthless. Kings still take all.
▫️But the Exhaust of that competition is now a public good.
▫️A miner who loses still contributed real training data that makes every coding agent better.

Competition and contribution usually trade off against each other.

Ninja just made them the same act.

The crown is zero-sum. The data is positive-sum. Miners compete for the throne, but every duel strengthens the kingdom. The winner earns. The network learns.

Open competition produces things centralized labs structurally cannot. This is what that looks like when it ships.

https://t.co/SEjGvY7wp1

$TAO

DYOR.

[OBLock @oblock107]

@bittensormax @markjeffrey @ShizzyUnchained @JesusMartinez @SiamKidd inspiring stuff bro

[OBLock @oblock107]

@MaxScore congrats max! this is the communication we all want to see from subnet owners. kudos

[OBLock @oblock107]

@TaoOutsider welcome back sir

[OBLock @oblock107]

This is a significant milestone for Score and the entire Bittensor ecosystem.

Tomorrow, @manakoai is deploying its first Vision Agent into a real fuel station. The very first time their subnet output is going live in the physical world.

This transition from experimental miner tasks to real-world deployment is exactly what successful subnets need to prove, that Bittensor can deliver practical, revenue-generating intelligence in traditional industries.

Huge congrats to max and @webuildscore team👏

[Max @MaxScore]

tomorrow @manakoai goes live in a fuel station for the first time ever

what started as an idea on a deck is about to become realer than anything i've ever shipped

first time sn44 outputs hit the physical world too

huge thanks to the miners on @webuildscore making this real

and life being life, we're deploying our first vision agent in the city where i was born

see you tomorrow

[OBLock @oblock107]

@mdrouhaha im glad im not alone😂

[OBLock @oblock107]

Been traveling, left Taoland for a week. And man, I'm already feeling like so much has happened: conviction, root yield, root prop.

If I'm feeling overwhelmed, I can't imagine how difficult it must be for regular crypto investors, let alone retail, to research tao & subnets. Most don’t even know where to start.

This is why I think quality subnets are bleeding despite real progress. The market is still inefficient. But that just means we're early.

I still think it's a matter of when, not if. $TAO's time will come, and when it does, the move is going to be fast and abrupt. That’s when subnets generating real revenue and delivering actual utility will finally get the attention they deserve.

That's when having an exposure becomes an edge.

[OBLock @oblock107]

@RadoTsc @resilabsai

[OBLock @oblock107]

This is real-world proof that Bittensor actually works.

You can use @resilabsai's new appraisal feature to get accurate home pricing in under a minute. With almost 99% accuracy.

Typically, you'd need to wait weeks and pay around $1,000 for contacting experts.

RESI has already distributed $325k + to miners to date.

That capital is drawing top-tier talent into the network, sharpening the data models and tightening response times week after week.

It’s a self-reinforcing flywheel: more rewards → better miners → better product → more users → more revenue → buybacks → higher alpha price → more rewards.

This is what a working flywheel actually looks like.

[Rado | τsc @RadoTsc]

I just ran a property appraisal in 30 seconds with @resilabsai's new appraisal feature on their website and it's accurate AF (look at the pics)

- No 2 week processes
- No contacting experts for 700-1000 usd

Just a seemless 1 click experience.

The model actually took into account that the house might of increased in value because of time and inflation.

257k now vs sold 250k in nov 25'

Resi miner's run complexe machine learning property appraisal models and it already more accurate than the zestimate.

It is a hard subnet to mine on and i am very impressed by the miners.

I am so excited to be that software dev that offers RESI's products to non techy realtors

I have a shot at making good money with RESI's API and plug it in for people.

The appraisal model RESI-Pro-v2 is sitting at 98,6% accuracy from what actually happens in reality.

Just imagine what this could unlock for prediction markets, property management firms, property flippers, people that need real estate data and automations, realtors even REITS (real estate investment trusts)

When all of these players stated above plug into RESI and it's API, and they HAVE a source of truth,

That's when it is finally possible to automate

Instant loans, faster inspections and appraisals, a faster sales process,

an automated sales process without realtors (sad but true)

Fast collateralized loans vs your house (usually takes weeks)

betting on the housing market (polymarket style)

ALl of this is possible because of RESI's INFRASTRUCTURE.

This is how SN 46 RESI is unlocking the 45T real estate market and it's pricing oracle just went live.

$TAO #bittensor #sn46 #resi

[OBLock @oblock107]

@YVR_Trader @babelbit Awesome post. One of the most competent teams in Bittensor for sure

[OBLock @oblock107]

Fuel stations may be the first target, but this has real use everywhere safety matters.

@webuildscore is slowly but deliberately expanding into new verticals, one at a time.

This will all be obvious in hindsight.
Everything. Everywhere. All at once.

[Score - Subnet 44 @webuildscore]

'Detect-fire' launches Monday.

Built for fuel stations, useful anywhere safety matters: shops, bars, venues, or more.

Starter pack in comments.

[OBLock @oblock107]

@rBryer23 Bitcoin OG, even better welcome sir🤝

[OBLock @oblock107]

Welcome to the Bittensor rabbit hole sir

Bitcoin maxis always welcomed🤝

[R.L. ₿ryer @rBryer23]

I've been studying bittensor for the last 2 months or so - 4-6 hours each day. This ecosystem may be the most interesting experiment in the history of free-markets.

This is EXACTLY how it felt in the early days of bitcoin. It was hard to understand but you'd come across some of the most interesting ideas / people and everyone was working towards a common aim [the separation of money and state].

With 128 subnets on the bittensor network - each defining their own market, miners competing for the highest value output, and validators subjectively evaluating what is good work - the architecture is arguably even more capitalistic in 'nature' than bitcoin. 🤯