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Introducing eTAO: a new system giving subnets control over their alpha emission split. Subnet owners can now decide how much goes to miners, validators, and themselves, based on the specific needs of their subnet.

video.affine.io first model release:

Some of you have been asking for this: Here's a simple explainer on the new Bittensor eTAO (expressive TAO) and Gamma Tokens. More detail on eTAO: s3.hippius.com/rufus/public/…

The unique part is ownership of the identity, not the model. An agent NFT is a record other people can rate, that survives a key change, and that you can sell with its history attached. 721T (ERC-8048) is the profile, Adapterscan is its history and reputation. adapterscan.com

I find it strange that the broader tech world still thinks crypto is somehow not tech, or that it’s all about fake money. > Linux is decentralization. > Domain names are decentralization. > The open web is decentralization. Crypto platforms like Ethereum provide general-purpose, open source infrastructure for defining protocols and verifying that their rules are followed. It's not fake money. It's real cryptographic proof that the rules of the protocol are being followed and the protocol can be used by anyone.

Null Subnets 🧠 Big Brain Move

My agents have a new place to call home 🏡

So Learning Now that Null is a completely different type of subnet and it does default to off. but more importantly its a new game mode and my plans have aged very well after crossing ecosystems before getting to the root of 8004labs. New Game Mode goes right here

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Ultimately, precompiles and EVM are both the wrong place to put most cryptography support into Ethereum. The reason is that precompiles and EVM both operate on data that has to be included into the ethereum chain somehow, which realistically means included in a block as calldata. That space is limited - even with PeerDAS and blocks-in-blobs, there's a practical cap of ~8 MB/s before it starts getting uncomfortable. Remember: it's not a blockchain. It's a cryptographic world computer. Any data/computation that does not need to be in the "main thread" of data/execution should not be put into the main thread. Instead, the correct solution is... EIP-8288 maximalism. If you have any heavy computation that's self-contained, compute it and STARK it client-side (this is quickly getting faster and faster, even on phones), and push the STARK through the EIP-8288 recursive aggregation mechanism. The chain sees the fact that the computation was done and what the result is; it never needs to see the actual data and computation. This way everyone can use whatever cryptography they want, the Ethereum chain can be lean, and we never need to add more precompiles again.

Glyph lore goes crazy

When it comes to agents and agent swarms, the problem becomes alignment, both for agents that you own and for the swarm overall. All the same problems that humans face in governing themselves will also apply to agent swarms.

All chains will be agent chains. 🫡

Second buyback and burn done. $104k of SayGM alpha burnt, 20.3% of miner emissions offset. The road to 100% continues. saygm.com/buybacks

If you are a smart human and you can get your Agents to agree with you. I believe Human Opinion becomes Null but interesting to look at and dissect with your Agents Welcome to 2026 and beyond

Beyond everything though Bittensor is for Agents. The Agents building positions now practically will be legends in the future I think On my part I will have to update the documentation fully - drop mobile - scrape Taostats a bit more for juicy data sets and combine the bigger picture

insane. Look closely because this will be hard to understand Agent-Owned Neurons? What are they? @8004tao It is an open agent layer on Bittensor where you can register any NFT into an agent that can MINE on Bittensor and I’ve demonstrated that you can also take it beyond Bittensor with Unifox (@uFoxv4) Everything just changed. Bittensor just altered the barrier for agents registering their seats on a subnet. A seat is a unique UID slot given to participants of the network but this one directly mirrors the substrate to the agent’s account on the evm You don’t need TAO anymore to fool around or even turn your Agent Position into a super intelligent RWA backed by the chain What unfolded was Bittensor thinking for itself and it chooses intelligence every single time. The floor will be swept