Bittensor ships 18 updates across 16 subnets: $2.1M Targon burn, $4/hr B300s
bittingthembits · x · 2026-11-01
The author catalogs 18 updates shipped in one week across 16 Bittensor subnets, arguing no other decentralized network comes close.
Revenue & customers:
- Targon (SN4) bought back and burned 8,450 TAO ($2.1M), claiming fully organic revenue
- Leadpoet (SN71) shipped V2, 3x'd ARR in 2 months, gained SubConnect as strategic backer
- Bitcast (SN93) automated its sales pipeline; TAO.com saw $1M+ weekly ALPHA↔USDC swap volume
Cheaper than incumbents:
- Lium (SN51): B300s at $4/hour; 443 of 550 rented
- Engy (SN53): 30% cheaper on open models
- SayGM (SN28): private models beside Claude, GPT, Gemini
Real industries: NOVA drug-discovery agent, AAA studios using image-to-3D, Trishool's 0.8B SOTA guardrail at 83.63 F1, Zeus forecasts with 25K downloads, Synth holding a lead vs Opus 5.5, Gemini, GPT-6.
Frontier AI: Reliquary's fully decentralized RL (+49.9 pts), Ingot beating Qwen on FP8, Ditto adversarial agent evals, Beam live with Hugging Face & Hermes, Atelier 300+ MiniMax H3 videos. Figures are self-reported by each team.
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