Bittensor mapped: 128 subnets form a full-stack decentralized AI supply chain
markjeffrey · x · 2026-11-13
A shared infographic (Stillcore Capital analysis, Nov 2026) maps Bittensor as a full-stack decentralized AI supply chain — billed as a frontier lab no government can switch off.
- Raw commodities: GPU compute (Lium SN51), attested compute (Targon SN4), data transfer (Beam SN105), storage (Hippius SN75)
- Pretraining: Teutonic pretraining contests, IOTA distributed pretraining (SN9)
- Post-training: Affine (SN120), Reliquary coding models (SN81), TrajectoryRL (SN11), Trishool safety (SN23), ChronoLLM forecasting (SN38), REAX decision models (SN92)
- Inference: Chutes (SN64), Engy verified inference (SN53)
Customers include people, enterprises, and AI agents. Every subnet token is priced against TAO in a network-maintained pool: miners do the work, validators weighted by stake score it, and newly minted TAO pays for what they judge useful.
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