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xTAO, a publicly traded company focused on building infrastructure and making strategic investments within the Bittensor ecosystem, has completed an infrastructure upgrade and validator optimization initiative, the company announced today.
The upgrade is aimed at improving reliability and efficiency across its validator operations, which play a central role in distributing rewards and maintaining network integrity.
Within Bittensor, validators are responsible for evaluating the output of miners across subnets and directing emissions toward higher-quality contributions through a system known as Yuma Consensus. This makes validator performance a key factor in both yield generation and overall network health.
Following the upgrade, xTAO said its validator is now ranked fourth on the network by yield generation, reporting an annualized yield of 8.86% as of April 23. The company framed these results as a reflection of improved infrastructure performance and consistency.
Earlier this year, xTAO provided an update on its TAO holdings sharing that, as of March 26, the company held 61,135 TAO with "substantial" cash reserves.
