A long time coming and officially here. Crucible Wallet is now available on iOS in the US. An easy, intuitive Bittensor wallet for your everyday TAO needs, with Unified Swap, portfolio tracking and Ledger support wherever you go. Already available on Google Play and Chrome Store. Download at CrucibleLabs.com #CrucibleWallet #TAO #Bittensor

Announcing Discovery Loop! I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor. ♾ Learn more at: discoveryloop.com

We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.

Bittensor & Baguettes 🥖 Subnet 15 (@oroagents), explained. Grab a baguette, hit play, and let @buildwithsamp walk you through one of Bittensor's most interesting subnets. 🎧👇

Congratulations Shardul! Oro is an ideal Bittensor use case.

In 20+ years of building @firstround, I’ve never hired for this specific role before. I’m kicking off a search to hire an Investor who will work directly alongside me. They will share my obsession to meet with the highest potential founders as early as possible, often before they even have a clear “imagine if” yet. Although the role itself is still being defined, my commitment is to work closely with this person to help them build the foundation of their investing career. Here’s what’s probably true about you if you’re the right fit: - You’re enthusiastic and obsessive. Following your curiosity has taken you down often weird and winding paths. - You already know a lot of brilliant builders — and more importantly, they enjoy spending time with you. You have a unique ability to generate followership, likely because you give more than you take. - You actually enjoy the work of building relationships from scratch: the cold emails, the endless events, the persistent follow-ups, the months of coffee chats. It requires relentless execution, and that excites you. You go about this work in an authentic way that isn’t conventional “networking.” If you’re looking for a role where the title does all the heavy lifting for you, this isn’t it. - You don’t find it difficult to put unreasonable hours into your work because it doesn’t feel like work to you. You’d call yourself a “work enthusiast.” - You’ve been immersed in the startup world long enough to have real context. What matters most is you’ve been close enough to startups to understand how they actually work and what great looks like. - You obsess over markets, customers, and why some businesses work while others don’t, but you can also hang when a conversation goes deep into technical choices. - You’re an exceptional communicator who tends to be more of a “simplifier” than a “complexifier.” - We’ll work together incredibly closely, but you aren’t someone who needs to be managed. You learn best by watching, by doing, by asking well-calibrated questions — preferring to “take the wheel” instead of being a passenger. You’d rather shape a role than fill one. If you want to spend your time with builders at the very beginning — and learn this craft of early-stage investing alongside someone who’s been at it for two decades and still thinks it’s the best job in the world — I’d love to meet you. SF or NYC only, with long days and lots of travel in both directions. Apply below. jobs.ashbyhq.com/firstround/…

Thoughtful writeup on Bittensor by our partner's, @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth from @UnsupervisedCap

The stronger the miners, the smarter the network, and the better products get built. @Old_Samster @bloomberg_seth @dlawee dig into what's working in Bittensor today.

We’ve been tracking what the most successful subnets are doing. They tend to: 1 - Keep miner costs low → high miner margins mean lower sell pressure and greater odds of survival 2 - Coordinate human intelligence → miners focus on things like writing code & refining models

1/ Your TAO. Your strategy. Now, your Ledger. Crucible — the only TAO-native wallet with Ledger support. Built for conviction. Built for security. Now Live.

Coming Soon: Customizable Allocation! Your TAO, your strategy. Stay concentrated in the top 20, tighten to the top 10 or even expand to the top 50. All inside Crucible. Launching next week!

This was a particularly good Novelty Search July 31, 2025 piped.video/live/beLaqGbdKfw… via @YouTube

first massive raise from a bittensor company!

New from our security teams: Our AI agent Big Sleep helped us detect and foil an imminent exploit. We believe this is a first for an AI agent - definitely not the last - giving cybersecurity defenders new tools to stop threats before they’re widespread.

Listen to this Podcast from Crucible Labs own @Dlawee and Unsupervised Labs @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth, as they breakdown: Problem: Root Staking Yields are declining Opportunity: High APY in Subnet Tokens Solution: Smart Allocator, A Strategic Bittensor Tool from Crucible Labs Download wallet at Cruciblelabs.com

The Crucible Smart Allocator monitors your Root rewards and dynamically re-stakes them into top-performing subnets, optimizing for yield and network health. Fully automated. Non-custodial. No guesswork. No micromanaging.

Excited to announce @CrucibleLabs new Smart Allocator for staking TAO. Stake to root. Earn alpha yield. Check out the math CrucibleLabs.com.