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Bitcast just became the first profitable project on Bittensor. Not "on track." Not "projecting." Actually profitable. Here's what Tom Blears told me in our conversation. His brother was the first employee at Tensor Group. Tom ran an Instagram channel in Manchester that blew up locally. Together they saw the same thing: influencer marketing is slow, broken, and full of fake metrics. So they built @Bitcast_network on Subnet 93. The numbers right now: • 60+ YouTube creators onboarded • 2M+ total subscribers across the network • 30-40% month over month growth on all metrics • Landed Bitget as a brand partner, many subnets • 90% of emissions burned daily • $250K spent on emissions, ~$150K revenue and closing fast How it works is wild. Brands post a brief. Creators make videos. AI checks if the video actually matches the brief. Payments are based on watch time, not views. Not subscribers. Watch time. A creator with 10K views on a dedicated video can earn around $3K if their content does well. An integration is about $700. If your video smashes it, you earn more. If it flops, less. No fixed fees. No agencies. No calls that go nowhere. They just expanded to X using a PageRank algorithm that maps the entire Bittensor ecosystem. Only the top 150 accounts can mine. One tweet per brief. Quality over volume. Tom's target: $2M ARR by end of 2026. The play after that is Web2. Fiat payments. AI and tech brands with way bigger budgets than crypto projects. His take on TAO: "I couldn't put a number on it that would seem rational. But I think there's some irrational numbers coming up." Bittensor is valued at $3B. OpenAI just raised at a trillion. The gap is massive. And the tech is catching up fast. This is not a subnet running on hopium. It's running on revenue. P.S. if you're a creator that wants to get into Bitcast DM me & I'll be happy to connect

The founder of @taostats, @mogmachine was buying TAO at $12. He's co-founded 6 subnets, built the wallet, the explorer, the mobile app. Runs one of the largest validators on Bittensor. He rarely does interviews. We sat down and he told the full story. From the bear market to building the backbone of a $3B network. What he shared: • How he found Bittensor in late 2022 while running nodes at the bottom of the bear market • Started TaoStats as a Google spreadsheet. Turned it into the most used product in the ecosystem • Jacob from OTF personally asked him to build the blockchain explorer. He'd never built one before • Co-founded 6 subnets. Shut down the ones that weren't working. Kept the ones that were • Built Corcel, the first API gateway to Bittensor's AI • Just launched the TaoStats wallet and mobile app. Wants to be the single interaction layer for everything on Bittensor • His take on why only about 20-30 of 128 subnets are "real quality" • Says next year is "the era of bizdev" for subnets The line that stuck with me. He said you don't know HTTP because of HTTP. You know Google. You don't know TCP/IP because of TCP/IP. You know Netflix. That's where Bittensor is going. The subnets become the brands. The protocol disappears into the background. These aren't side projects. These are actual AI companies being built.

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