In case you didnt know, bittensor also trains models. - τ $TAO

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Quadrillion-token intelligence will need new machinery. Actual is already forging it. @actualinc - τ

Actual Computer is pleased to announce its first source available-software, toks. Actual's toks is the best tokenizer on earth and the first tokenizer designed for the quadrillion-token era. actual.inc/company/blog/intr…

Highly competitive meritocracy at work. - τ $TAO #bittensor

Bittensor is the evolution of capitalism. Multiple trillions in the making.

Every new machine has its priests, its builders, and its crowd outside calling it impossible. Λctference. - τ

Next decade is gonna be so interesting.

bittensor:native 1T is only a 333x from here (depending which measure of supply you want to use). Do some math: ittensor today is still ridiculously early relative to the size of the markets it is trying to coordinate. AI is already one of the largest technology markets in the world. From compute, inference, training, data, agents, search, storage, robotics and broad intelligence, we could keep going. Bittensor isn't trying to build one AI product. It's building a network where thousands of independent markets can compete to produce intelligence. Training. Post-Trainig. RL. Inference. (Local) Compute. Data. Search. Prediction. Agents. Embeddings. And whatever primitives emerge next, basically any digital commodity possible of being incentivized, guess what: it will be incentivized and improved non stop. There is no reason to assume the number of useful subnets stays anywhere close to where it is today. Imagine Bittensor eventually coordinating thousands of specialized AI markets, each with real demand, real users and real economic activity. Then consider what happens as AI itself gets exponentially bigger. The amount of intelligence demanded by the world 10 years from now WILL be orders of magnitude larger than today. AND... Bittensor has something most AI projects don't: A native economic system designed to route capital toward useful intelligence. TAO isn't just a agent meme token larping as an AI product. The token is the blood that running through the network veins. The token is ai money. Capital flows toward subnets. Miners compete to provide intelligence. Validators evaluate output. Users pay for useful services. Subnets compete for liquidity and emissions. And the network continually reallocates resources toward whatever the market considers valuable. And even better, subnets will now have a way to leverage each others service without the need to dump their alpha (via gamma tokens). Then the compounding starts: Say the eventual economic opportunity available to Bittensor is 100,000x larger than what the network is coordinating today. If TAO needs a 333x from here, Bittensor only needs to capture ~1% of that potential. That's the asymmetry. I think people massively underestimate the scale of the opportunity when they look at TAO as "another AI token." It's something much bigger: a thousand years federation being built.

Affine was never really about building one model. It took me a while to grasp it, but with some help i think I’m getting there. The model is only the seed. Yuma Consensus gave Bittensor its economic nervous system: a way for thousands of competing actors to converge around incentives. @affine_io tries to build the other half. A recursive intelligence loop where miners continuously hunt the current king, improve it, replace it, and raise the floor again. King after king. Model after model. Intelligence compounding inside the network. Current king affine-1 is 40b parameters and equals 100b parameters opus 4.1. And this happened within a few months of its existence. Then comes the deeper part. Use that intelligence to connect the subnets themselves. Inference. Compute. Storage. Search. Agents. Training. Data. Meaning Affine’s model could eventually act as an intelligent router/orchestrator between those systems. Different organs of the same machine, accessible through an intelligence layer capable of routing between them and composing them together. A decentralized Mixture of Experts at network scale. Yuma tells the machine how value should move. Affine could teach the machine how intelligence should move. One aligned the incentives. The other may align the pieces. And somewhere inside that recursive loop, Bittensor stops looking like 128 independent subnets. It starts looking like one organism. - τ $TAO #bittensor

Bittensor spent 2026 turning itself into a full AI stack with accessible compute, storage, inference and router layers and highly usable products generating tens of millions in revenue and thousands of customers.

Discussing how the infinite recursive loop of training models is the missing piece, the soulmate of Yuma consensus. Everything looks so clear now One thousand year intelligence federation. Bittensor

Now take a minute and think what will happen when higher quality miners and higher incentives take place. - τ $TAO #bittensor

Λrtference incoming.

Hope you understand this is super bullish TOKENS! Hope you understand this paves the way to what bittensor:native subnets are doing and what it means regarding token burn and buybacks Bittensor eco to a trillion

i genuinely think the market is struggling to catchup with Bittensor flywheel they fell in love with stonks (i like the idea too) but what if they knew > you can buy subnet tokens (valued in TAO) > get paid 30-100% APY for holding bittensor:native appreciating in price means more eyeballs to the ecosystem, more incentives for miners, validators, subnet owners and ecosystem participants. This will lead to > TAO inflows from new participants wanting to buy subnets > TAO inflows from root moving to subnets to increase their tao stack So now, you are in a scenario where you bag multiple because TAO price appreciated, your subnet alpha appreciated and you are enjoying the APY compounding effect. do you see the compounding effect playing out in front of your eyes and are comfortable ignoring anon? this is ETH ICOs on steroids.

theres a lot of discussion around not being possible for TAO and subnet to go up both at the same time the rational is: as TAO goes up, people wants to take profit. as they are on subnets, they sell subnet token so then they can sell tao. while i'm not disagreeing, i will say that you cannot believe Bittensor is a 100B+ protocol while not believing on subnets, let me explain why: > Today TAO trades at approx 3B > we are 30x + from 100B So as much subnet selling occurs while TAO is going up, do you realized the TAO INFLOWS will outpace outflows by orders of magnitude right? So that's the thesis: TAO going up, will make SOME people take profits of subnets, but that just represents a TINY fraction of the total TAO INFLOWS we are about to see in a Bittensor bull run. If you had one shot, one opportunity, would you capture it?

There is something almost ancient about Burnweight. If you want a greater share of the kingdom, you bring something to the altar. $TAO Burned permanently. The subnets creating the most value should eventually be the ones most willing to make that sacrifice. And the harder they compete, the more τ disappears. A market that discovers where intelligence deserves to flow while strengthening the thing beneath it. That feels very #bittensor Simple incentive design. Almost brutal in its elegance. - τ

if a subnet handles smoothly his price when emissions are turned off. easy to imagine what will happen when they are turned on.