Forge Opens Public Testnet for Bittensor-Native TAO Borrowing Against Alpha Collateral
The launch gives users their first hands-on look at borrowing TAO against Alpha collateral.
The launch gives users their first hands-on look at borrowing TAO against Alpha collateral.
Bittensor will now review subnet emission eligibility every week, removing inactive networks and restoring active teams on a case-by-case basis.
Const says the network is not yet decentralized like Bitcoin, but argues that rapid iteration, validator reform, and further economic upgrades are necessary before the protocol can fully ossify.
The Bittensor co-founder says critics misunderstand key elements of Root Reborn, defending the proposal's economics while disputing concerns around validator incentives, custody risk, and regulation.
Ecosystem debate and broader crypto market conditions have combined to erase much of TAO's recent rally.
Frank Schuil, CEO of Nordic crypto exchange Safello, says the proposal may increase complexity for investors and weaken TAO's role as a broad ecosystem exposure vehicle.
The firm says the proposed upgrade introduces significant moral hazard, regulatory uncertainty, and structural risks, while calling for a more formal process around major Bittensor protocol changes.
Ditto says its coldkey and systems were never compromised, attributing the incident to a sophisticated social engineering attack involving an OTC transaction escrow.
The Nasdaq-listed TAO company is set to gain exposure to investors tracking one of Wall Street's most widely followed index families.
A new Bittensor proposal would redirect root staking rewards back into subnet markets, replacing automatic selling with validator-directed reinvestment and potentially transforming root into the network's primary capital allocation mechanism.
The experimental framework aims to train large AI models across distributed hardware while reducing the infrastructure burden traditionally associated with model development.
Chutes reports generating roughly $280,000 in revenue per trillion AI tokens served, highlighting continued improvements in monetization efficiency on Bittensor Subnet 64.
Endure Network launches as Bittensor Subnet 30, creating a decentralized risk intelligence network that will power Forge, a forthcoming TAO-native lending market.
Meta description: Targon has launched Tower Pro, a high-performance AI computing system that lets users run enterprise-grade hardware at home and earn from idle GPU capacity.
Macrocosmos unveiled Orion-100B, a 100-billion-parameter distributed AI training run on Bittensor that achieved up to 65% of datacenter training efficiency using globally distributed GPUs.
Safello and Deutsche Digital Assets have listed their physically backed Bittensor Staked TAO ETP on Euronext Paris, expanding regulated TAO access across Europe's major exchanges.