Thoughtful writeup on Bittensor by our partner's, @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth from @UnsupervisedCap
This was a particularly good Novelty Search July 31, 2025 youtube.com/live/beLaqGbdKfw… via @YouTube
Excited to announce @CrucibleLabs new Smart Allocator for staking TAO.
Stake to root. Earn alpha yield.
Check out the math CrucibleLabs.com.
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our Smart Allocator, a powerful new tool designed specifically to simplify staking TAO in the Bittensor ecosystem.
Check it out here: cruciblelabs.com.
With Smart Allocator, all the TAO you earn from staking to root will be automatically staked into the top 20 subnets ranked by price. We believe this is a powerful solution for passive TAO holders wanting some exposure to higher network yields while managing subnet volatility risk. We created a simulator on our website to help you better understand how the Smart Allocator works.
Why did we build this? Crucible Labs was founded to make Bittensor more accessible and useful. We believe simple, consumer-friendly staking products will encourage participation, ensuring the most promising subnets receive the strongest support from the network.
Ready to simplify staking your TAO? Get started with Smart Allocator today and experience a smarter, easier and more powerful way to engage with the future of decentralized AI.
We have created a user guide to help walk you through how to set up, stake, and make the most of Crucible's powerful features, including Smart Allocation with Core Alpha and direct subnet control.
Get Crucible Wallet here: Cruciblelabs.com
Ala and David
Excited to be immersed in the Bittensor community at Proof of Talk next week. Message me if you want to connect in person.
Excited to dig in and learn more. Congrats @MacrocosmosAI @macrocrux @WSquires...you are raising the bar for all of us.
IOTA (Incentivized Orchestration Training Architecture) is a framework for pretraining large language models across a network of heterogeneous, unreliable, permissionless and token incentivized machines.
In our technical primer we report the following advances:
Incentivized Data- and Pipeline-parallel training across heterogeneous and unreliable nodes
128× activation compression to enable training on memory-limited hardware
CLASP: Contribution Loss Assessment via Sampling of Pathways
Butterfly All-Reduce for O(1) sync bandwidth
Nice summary from @benzion_b
a very brief 101 on the holy grail of decentralized ai - frontier model training
will be covering specific attempts at this from @gensynai, @PrimeIntellect, @NousResearch and @tplr_ai in upcoming videos
enjoy 👽
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We wish @Old_Samster and @bloomberg_seth the best with their new fund, Unsupervised Capital. We loved working closely with them during the incubation phase and are excited to be their anchor investor. Professionally managed capital is the next logical evolution to ensuring the market mechanisms at the core of Bittensor function efficiently. Congratulations!!
Today I’m proud to announce Unsupervised Capital — a liquid token fund dedicated to Bittensor.
At a moment when conviction feels scarce across crypto, I’ve never felt more clarity or confidence about a single thesis: Bittensor.
I’m launching this with my longtime friend @bloomberg_seth as Partner and the backing of @CrucibleLabs as our anchor investor.
Feels surreal to write this. Four years ago I was working as an aerospace engineer, dreaming of managing capital. Today, that dream begins.
The name Unsupervised Capital is a nod to unsupervised learning — where algorithms find structure in raw data without labels or instructions. Like those algorithms, we don’t follow maps. We explore the edge, where others hesitate. That's where the best opportunities live.
Bittensor has created something unprecedented: an open market for intelligence. It turns models, data, and compute into tokenized assets—creating entirely new investment primitives. Old frameworks don’t apply here.
This is why we started Unsupervised:
> To play in the frontier
> To bet on what hasn’t been discovered yet
> To back builders creating the next layer of intelligence
This fund is my biggest bet to date. I’m all in—and I’ve never been more sure.
We just published the full announcement, including our thesis and strategy (in next tweet)
GLHF
One of the many things I admire about the Bittensor cofounders, @const_reborn @shibshib89, has been their singular focus on building a valuable ecosystem. They are AI missionaries, not crypto mercenaries.
Coinbase listed $Tao today, because investors want it, not because there is a big foundation that can pay for it. And after the incredibly successful launch of dTao, the ecosystem is ready for the attention. Congratulations!
🚀 $TAO is going live on Coinbase! 🚀
Institutional and retail investors, you now have direct access to Bittensor ($TAO) on @Coinbase, boosting liquidity and exposure for decentralized AI.
With growing adoption and a strong use case, TAO is positioning itself as a key player in the AI x blockchain space.
📈 A major step forward—are you paying attention?
📰 Read more: cryptobriefing.com/coinbase-…
#Bittensor #TAO #Coinbase #Crypto #Investing #AI
I hope this report and accompanying podcast help explain why we @CrucibleLabs are so excited about Bittensor. Thanks @adreon for hosting us.
Our State of Bittensor 2024 report is live!
Alongside the report, we're releasing a recording with the authors of the report, interviewed by our co-founder @dlawee and @adreon from Outpost.
We discuss:
> David's past experience as an executive at Google and as the founder of Alphabet's growth equity fund
> The history of Bittensor and what makes it unique
> Standout subnets
> Dynamic TAO's implications
> Our 2025 Thesis
teapaw.org/Old_Samster/status/188…
A lot of people are interested in Bittensor these days and I frequently am asked which subnets have the most promise. As a validator we are essentially an investor in the network so @CrucibleLabs thinks about this a lot. Here is our answer..for now.
Our goal is to be very intentional with the subnets we support.
In order to add some structure to the way we allocate emissions, we've created a three tier subnet classification system inspired by venture capital frameworks:
• Premier Subnets: Series A equivalent projects with established teams and proven track records of converting emissions into AI breakthroughs.
• Emerging Subnets: Seed stage projects showing measurable improvement in their commodity quality, with working but evolving incentive mechanisms.
• Seedling Subnets: Pre-seed equivalent projects, typically <1 month on mainnet, featuring talented teams with promising proof of concepts.
We're constantly looking to reevalute subnets and add new ones to support!
I really appreciate the warm welcome @CrucibleLabs has received from the @bittensor_ community. I am excited for us to play our part in the buildout of decentralized AI.
I have partnered with @BitMindAI, a deepfake detection project built on Bittensor.
The explosion of generative AI has led to a proportional explosion in deepfakes. All of a sudden it is everywhere. And while at times these can be comical, the consequences of deepfakes feels terrifying.
Ken and the team at @BitMindAI have a novel approach to solving the problem, leveraging a mixture of experts model. By building on top of Bittensor, a promising decentralized AI project, the @BitMindAI team can leverage a community of miners, validators and a highly functional token reward system, reducing the cold start problem.
The decentralized projects that I have the most conviction in are the ones that can only work if they are decentralized. The web is probably the best example. Bitcoin is another. These aren’t better because they are decentralized. They could not exist otherwise. Deepfake detection and the creation of a canonical source of truth, feels like another quintessential example.
I am also excited to partner with @shibshib89 , one of Bittensor’s cofounders, on this venture. We look forward to working with Ken and the @BitMindAI team to help make their vision a reality.
A day later and I am still obsessed with this spectacular hockey game. Wow! mercurynews.com/2019/04/24/s…
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Congrats James, Adam and Dvir and the rest of the Wing team. engadget.com/2019/04/09/alph…
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CapitalG signs #DecencyPledge. Thanks @reidhoffman for catalyzing a quick response. teapaw.org/reidhoffman/status/878…
VCs must hold the same moral position to entrepreneurs as manager/employee or professor/student #DecencyPledge
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One of my favorite Google marketing campaigns, initiated by my good friend Lorraine Twohill, back when I was running marketing. teapaw.org/Google/status/84785892…
👏 Let's hear it for Sarah Harrison, whose vision of "a peaceful future" is our #Doodle4Google contest winner! goo.gl/yUaRxl
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