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Forge, the Bittensor-native money market being built by Endure, has announced an official partnership with Score, the computer vision subnet operating on Bittensor's SN44.
The agreement brings together two different meaningful parts of the Bittensor ecosystem. Forge is building lending infrastructure for TAO and Alpha assets, saying the partnership is an early step toward helping Score unlock new ways to access liquidity without compromising long-term alignment. Score, on the other hand, runs an established subnet focused on decentralized vision intelligence; in responding to the announcement, Score said it’s “in” on the idea of a native money market for the TAO ecosystem.
What Forge Is Building
Forge is designed as a money market for Bittensor users who want to borrow TAO against Alpha collateral instead of selling their subnet exposure. The protocol lets TAO suppliers deposit liquidity into a lending pool, while borrowers post supported Alpha collateral and borrow TAO against it.
We previously covered Forge's public testnet launch and its broader thesis as the first native lending market for TAO on Bittensor. The basic idea is different from a traditional DeFi money market built around stablecoins or generic ERC-20 collateral. Forge is being built around Bittensor's own asset structure, where TAO and subnet Alpha assets sit at the center of the network's economic activity.
That distinction matters because Alpha tokens represent exposure to individual subnets. Many subnet participants may want liquidity without exiting those positions, especially if they believe long-term alignment with a subnet remains valuable. Forge's model attempts to create that liquidity path by letting users borrow TAO while keeping Alpha collateral posted inside a Bittensor-native lending structure.
Why Score Matters as a Partner
Score is one of Bittensor's more visible application-focused subnets. The project is an open, permissionless computer vision layer for the real world, and its work has centered on making camera-based intelligence more scalable and useful across sports, enterprise and physical operations.
Earlier this year, Score notably partnered with PwC France through Manako, a collaboration we covered as an example of Bittensor infrastructure moving into enterprise physical AI:
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This matters for Forge because Score has a concrete operating domain, visible ecosystem partners, and an Alpha asset that fits into the lending market Forge wants to build. That visibility should help bring in additional partnerships that will help Forge build out its money market vision.
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