A Framework for Bittensor Subnets and Digital Commodities: Compute, Data, Distillation
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-09
This tweet presents a framework for understanding Bittensor subnets and digital commodities, built on three pillars: compute (inference and pre-training), data (synthetic/structured), and distillation (fine-tuning/RL). These infinitely reproducible commodities are sourced globally, permissionlessly, and priced toward marginal cost.
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