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26 articles across 17 topics

Alpha Tokens How Bittensor uses subnet-specific alpha tokens in emissions, staking, and subnet liquidity pools. Bittensor Governance How Bittensor governance uses Triumvirate proposals and Senate approval to review privileged network changes. Bittensor Wallets What a Bittensor wallet is, what it stores, and how it is used to prove identity and sign transactions on the network.

Wallets

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  • Bittensor Wallets What a Bittensor wallet is, what it stores, and how it is used to prove identity and sign transactions on the network.
  • Coldkeys (Bittensor) The security-critical key that controls TAO and stake; used for financial transactions like stake, unstake, and transfers.
  • Hotkeys (Bittensor) The operational key used by miners, validators, and subnet actors to register, submit weights, and perform day-to-day on-chain actions.
  • Wallets, Coldkeys, and Hotkeys Understanding Bittensor wallets and the roles of coldkeys and hotkeys for security, identity, and operations.

Subnets

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  • Alpha Tokens How Bittensor uses subnet-specific alpha tokens in emissions, staking, and subnet liquidity pools.
  • Subnet 1: Apex Apex is Bittensor's first subnet, operated by Macrocosmos, running open competitions where miners submit Python algorithms that validators continuously benchmark for rewards.
  • Subnet 2: DSperse DSperse is Bittensor's Proof-of-Inference subnet, operated by Inference Labs, where miners generate zero-knowledge proofs of AI model outputs that validators cryptographically verify.
  • Subnet 4: Targon Targon is a decentralized confidential compute marketplace on Bittensor, where miners provide hardware-attested GPU and CPU workloads secured by Confidential Computing technology.
  • Subnet 5: Hone Hone is a Bittensor subnet operated by Manifold where miners compete to solve ARC-AGI-2 abstract reasoning problems; solutions run in a secure GPU sandbox and are scored by exact-match accuracy.
  • Subnet 6: Numinous Numinous is a Bittensor forecasting protocol that pits miners' Python agents against real-world prediction events, scoring them by Brier Score inside isolated Docker sandboxes.
  • Subnet 7: Allways Allways is a Bittensor subnet enabling trustless native asset swaps across independent blockchains, using a collateral-and-slashing smart contract to coordinate miners as market makers and validators as independent verifiers.
  • Subnet 8: Vanta Vanta is a Bittensor subnet that runs a decentralized trading competition, scoring miners on the verified risk-adjusted performance of their directional signals across forex, crypto, and equities markets.
  • Subnet 9: iota iota is a Bittensor subnet that incentivizes permissionless, pipeline-parallel pretraining of large language models by rewarding miners for the volume of valid activation work they contribute to a shared training run.
  • Subnet Creation and Incentive Mechanisms How subnet creators define tasks and incentive mechanisms that guide validator evaluations and miner rewards on Bittensor.
  • Subnet Hyperparameters How Bittensor subnet hyperparameters shape subnet timing, weight flow, consensus behavior, and emission handling without defining the subnet task itself.
  • Tempo How Bittensor subnets use tempos as block-based intervals for reward distribution, weight processing, and subnet timing.

Mining

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  • Mining and Validating in Bittensor A factual overview of miners and validators in Bittensor, including roles, registration, evaluation, rewards, and how emissions are distributed.
  • Subnet 1: Apex Apex is Bittensor's first subnet, operated by Macrocosmos, running open competitions where miners submit Python algorithms that validators continuously benchmark for rewards.

Staking

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  • Staking and Delegation (TAO) How TAO holders stake and delegate to validators using Bittensor tooling, including concepts, minimums, and operational cautions.

Consensus

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  • Commit Reveal How Commit Reveal conceals fresh validator weights before consensus so validators cannot simply copy the latest public weight matrix.
  • Exponential Moving Averages How exponential moving averages help Bittensor smooth noisy flow, bond, and reward signals over time.
  • Subnet Hyperparameters How Bittensor subnet hyperparameters shape subnet timing, weight flow, consensus behavior, and emission handling without defining the subnet task itself.
  • Tempo How Bittensor subnets use tempos as block-based intervals for reward distribution, weight processing, and subnet timing.
  • Validator Weights How validator weight submissions turn subnet evaluations into miner incentives and validator dividends in Bittensor.
  • Yuma Consensus An in-depth explanation of Yuma Consensus, the mechanism that aggregates validator weights to translate evaluations into incentive allocations across miners and validators.

Tokenomics

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  • Alpha Tokens How Bittensor uses subnet-specific alpha tokens in emissions, staking, and subnet liquidity pools.
  • Dynamic TAO (dTAO) An in-depth explanation of Dynamic TAO, Bittensor’s evolving tokenomics and governance model that decentralizes emissions and decision-making across subnets.
  • Exponential Moving Averages How exponential moving averages help Bittensor smooth noisy flow, bond, and reward signals over time.
  • Halving Mechanisms How Bittensor uses supply-based TAO and subnet alpha halvings to reduce emission rates across network and subnet tokenomics.