Cacheon launches GLM-5.3 kernel arena, paying up to 33 TAO daily to beat sglang
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-09-08
Inference-optimization competition platform Cacheon announced a GLM-5.3 arena where miners can submit kernel optimizations and earn protocol rewards.
How it works:
- Write Triton or CuteDSL GPU kernels targeting ops, fused blocks, or collectives in a fixed model
- sglang is the baseline: beat it at equal fidelity (KL fidelity gate, no benchmark regression) to earn a crown
- Rewards scale with speedup, up to 33 TAO per day, paid in SN14 tokens
Early results: RMSNorm kernel +37%, collective op +12%, attention block still open. Cacheon frames it as a path to production use and monetization of the subnet.
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