Bittensor's Gamma would let AI agents pay via buy-and-burn: 100k agents = $365M/yr
bittingthembits · x · 2026-11-14
A thread analyzes Bittensor's Gamma proposal: instead of accounts, credit cards, and API keys per service, agents use one Bittensor wallet. Each request spends $TAO to buy and permanently burn a subnet's alpha, converting it into dollar-priced Gamma credits.
The author's math: at $10/day per agent, 10,000 agents would buy and burn $36.5M of alpha annually; 100,000 agents would burn $365M — more than all new $TAO issued per year ($279M). Every API call becomes an on-chain buy-and-burn.
An infographic shows the mechanism spanning inference, storage, training, search, and data subnets. The code is merged but disabled until the root sets the TAO/USD oracle and each subnet opts in; the scenario is illustrative, not a forecast. DYOR.
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