Subnet Summer started as a place to talk. Today it becomes a place where stake can speak. The Subnet Summer Validator is live, built with Medulla Labs. Where your root yield goes is your call. You vote, it moves. The Town Square of Bittensor now has a vote. 🔗 : subnetsummer.com/

NIOME is following through on one of the clearest asks from the community. After sustained requests from holders, the first-ever $GENOME to $NIOME migration is now live. The initial 5% allows eligible Base holders to convert into locked conviction positions on Subnet 55, with GENOME held in escrow and burned only after the NIOME delivery is verified. If the swap fails, the original GENOME is refunded. This is more than a straightforward token swap. Existing Genome holders are moving into NIOME as locked participants, bringing a new group of users from the Base ecosystem into Bittensor. At the same time, the structure is designed to lock capital into the subnet rather than create immediate sell pressure. Across the full migration, as much as 1,500–2,000 TAO (over $500k) could move into long-term alignment with SN55. The first 5% is open, this is the kind of move that expands the subnet while keeping holders aligned.

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NOVA (SN68) is moving from hit discovery into hit-to-lead optimization. @metanova_labs is developing a Hit-to-Lead Optimization Agent with @chutes_ai and @onepot_ai, combining an algorithm that won a NOVA Blueprint competition with chemical databases spanning billions of compounds. The goal is to help researchers explore molecular modifications, compare strategies, and prioritize candidates based on affinity, selectivity, physicochemical properties, and synthesizability. Compounds from the Onepot databases can be delivered in 5–7 business days. There's also an important confidentiality component. With Chutes integrating domain-specific models into verified Trusted Execution Environments( TEES), the collaboration aims to support inference on external infrastructure while keeping sensitive pharmaceutical research data protected and under organizational control. What's particularly interesting is the move from an algorithm developed through open competition to a tool that can support proprietary drug discovery programs. This is another step in connecting what the network produces with the iterative work required to advance candidates. The team continues building out that path.

The cost of doing business on Bittensor this year was getting steep. In fact, the average TAO price of registering a subnet in 2026 was 638 TAO, or around $159,000 at the time of each registration. • The peak was 2,633 TAO (about $796K at the time) on May 8. • New teams would either need to be well funded from Bittensor fund or get fundraised by someone like @bitstarterAI to have a chance to start their own subnet. On October 13th the stakes changed. Prior to this change, it took 8 days for a subnet price to reach the price it was prior to the current registration. This meant a flurry of registrations could keep the price high for over a week, pricing out smaller teams. • That time is now cut in half, and the prior price only takes 4 days to be reached. • Theoretically, if a subnet registration does not take place 4 days after the last price is reached, the 1 TAO floor is then reached. Now, with this change, the latest registration price was 224.64 TAO, about a third of the average TAO price this year. This makes acquiring a subnet a lot more attainable and affordable for aspiring teams. Another change that was made was the immunity period for new subnets. Immunity is the state of being safe from being deregistered from the chain. • The prior immunity period was 120 days. Now it is 60 days. • This change puts new subnet's feet to the fire and forces them to be productive projects on the network sooner rather than later. • At 60 days, a young subnet's price matters as much as what it has built. Since all 128 subnet slots are full, the lowest priced subnet on roughly a 1-day EMA, that does not have immunity, will be deregistered when someone pays the current registration price for a subnet. What are the consequences of these changes? • Subnet registration entries are now cheaper, but turnover is much faster. • Younger subnets with weak prices and very low liquidity carry even more risk than before. It's rarely been easier to acquire a subnet, but it's never been harder to stay afloat. The chain, as always, rewards productivity, true value, and acceptance from the TAO holders. The pace has quickened, and the progress continues to accelerate. What are your thoughts on the new changes? Come to Bittensor’s Town Square at the Subnet Summer Telegram group to offer your thoughts!

🚨 Subnet Summer TAO X Spaces - October 28, 2026 | Wednesday at 5PM GMT 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗛𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗔𝗢’𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 The halving didn’t just cut emissions. It stress-tested every part of Bittensor at once. Four voices, four angles: capital, on-chain data, building, and validating. Speakers: • Mark Jeffrey (@markjeffrey) - @stillcorecap • Mog (@mogmachine) - @taostats | @hippius_cloud | @vidaio_ | @blockmachine_io | @say_gm_ • Max Sebti (@MaxSebti) - @webuildscore (SN44) • Tribit (@iamtheloraxnow) - Medulla Labs | @subnetsummerTAO • Bryden (@SubnetSummerT) - @subnetsummerTAO Join us this Wednesday for a high-signal conversation on what the first post-halving year means for Bittensor’s path to 2027. Set your reminder and join the discussion.

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🎙️ Subnet Summer AMA × SN55 @NiomeAI is now live on YouTube We covered: 🔄 The $GENOME → $NIOME migration (starts Oct 28) 💰 Buybacks and capital alignment 🧬 Synthetic genomics for drug discovery 🚀 Where NIOME wants to be in 5 years Full replay 👇 youtu.be/rJZqFFiHxdE?si=-ZJ7…

We turned the Tesla flying car scene into a playable experience with 404. Every 3D object in the scene was built with Three.js code, written by an AI coding agent pointed at the 404 game recipe. The geometry is generated in code, while textures and skies are brought in through Atlas, allowing the entire experience to run directly in the browser. With the 404 game generator, you can build anything from a vehicle or character to a city block, full environment, or playable game. All you have to do is give your agent a simple prompt, point it to the repo, and start building. Build yours here: github.com/404-Repo/404-game…

$0 to $3.3M worth of $TAO in less than 80 days 📈 That's how much TAO has been bridged to @base and @RobinhoodCrypto through ForeverMoney since we launched. Our bridge moves native TAO 1:1, and it's secured by @chainlink CCIP. - Total bridged: 13,393.6 TAO (~$3.32M) - Bridged to Base: 8,521.78 TAO (~$2.11M) - Bridged to Robinhood Chain: 4,871.82 TAO (~$1.21M) Wherever TAO goes next, it gets there through ForeverMoney. Link to our bridge below 👇

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AI detection is about more than identifying AI-generated content. It also means protecting genuine human writing from being wrongly flagged. That’s what makes @ai_detection (SN32)'s latest multilingual benchmark results worth examining. Tested on DetectRL-X (ACL 2026), It's AI reported the following accuracy across four languages: • Arabic: 99.8% • German: 99.5% • French: 99.4% • Spanish: 96.0% The evaluation covered multiple writing domains and approximately 12,000 human and AI texts per language. Just as important, its reported false-positive rates on real student writing remained below 1% across all four languages. A detector must do both well: identify AI-generated content and avoid misclassifying genuine human work. It's AI also reports 98.3% accuracy on the English RAID benchmark and the top position on MGTD. Full results, methodology and datasets: its-ai.org/en/accuracy