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Yesterday, Subnet 76 — a deregistered subnet with effectively zero pool liquidity — experienced a temporary market cap spike from on-chain buy pressure. Because liquidity was so thin, the distortion pushed SN76 into the top subnets by market cap.
This resulted in substantial losses for customers at a competitor that also aims to provide "subnet index" services to TAO holders. According to their announcement, their "Top 5" and "Top 15" indexes automatically rotate and weight constituents purely based on market cap rankings.
Here is what happened yesterday:
The spike temporarily moved SN76 to the top.
That triggered automatic rebalancing in their systems.
According to our on-chain analysis ~1,861.78 τ or ~$331,156 USD was then deployed thus far in a deregistered subnet with minimal liquidity.
That resulted in a loss of 80.38% staked value. Trades reaching up to 97% slip.
This highlights a fundamental architectural difference.
TrustedStake does not auto-rotate constituents purely based on market cap movements.
For our Top 5, 10, 15 etc. by market cap — this is intentional by design.
Subnet rankings churn frequently. Pool metrics, liquidity depth, price action, emissions profiles, fundamentals — there are too many variables to allow constituents to change automatically without human judgment.
Our index constituents are added manually via our controller as the ecosystem evolves. Once a subnet is intentionally approved and included, automation handles rebalancing from there.
This design has mattered.
It allowed us to completely sidestep the 90%+ drawdown in Taohash — even after it briefly entered the top ranks. We chose not to include it due to the velocity of its rise.
It allowed us to avoid the ~50% drawdown in Ridges last summer before we added it to our indices. We waited for a proper retrace and structural stabilization before inclusion.
We saved our valued users hundreds of thousands of hard earned dollars last night.
We monitor these situations closely.
We include subnets once strength is demonstrated — not during brief liquidity-driven spikes.
And structurally, as another line of defense, our trading engine is built with:
• Balance-sensitive TWAP
• Internal slippage guards
• Price impact thresholds
• and much more…
Transactions of that nature would not have cleared on our system to begin with.
Another important point: the private 88 Quant Fund, run by the @investing88 team, automatically excludes subnets that have been deregistered or are approaching deregistration.
Layers upon layers of guardrails.
We also offer custom portfolio creation or automated investing into any of our core indices via the “Batch” section of our self-service staking platform. Users can craft their portfolio as they choose — but those positions are not continuously rebalanced or automatically updated with future index changes since they do not use a proxy.
Automation is powerful.
Automation without guardrails creates fragility.
Design decisions matter.
Our heart goes out to every affected user in the community.
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