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So this is what actually happened with $TAO / inside Bittensor: Const (Bittensor’s father) called out Sam (the owner of the three subnets) for burning miners’ emissions, especially considering his subnets are among the top in emissions. Then Const sold a small but still significant portion of his SN3 tokens (which led to a drop in emissions) and also brought up an idea he’d been wanting to implement for a while, one that would give token holders more power. All of this made Sam realize that in the future it would be harder to pull off an exit scam by dumping all his tokens at once (especially after the feature introducing a delay on token sales would be implemented). That pushed him to take advantage of the moment, blame Const, and execute an $11M exit scam.

@DistStateAndMe You should be in jail you fucking scumbag

Crypto was meant to stand against tyrants.

If you ‘leave bittensor with your subnet’, what really happens is your emissions leave you. You get no more continuous improvement. Others can now take your emissions and community and power a better version of your open-source idea using your own people. Now you’re locked outside of what was once yours, staring helplessly in.

@CostanzasCrypto @DschlopesIsBack Us hockey fans: Canada is going to humble you if another team doesn’t send you home before you even get the opportunity to lose to the kings of hockey.

@DschlopesIsBack That's not a fight. The horse collar pull is generally done by pussies who don't want to engage with their fists. Wilson would've knocked the baguettes out of his cafenium if it was a proper fist fight.

I can’t think of anything more embarrassing than losing a fight to a Frenchman.

The next phase of Bittensor has begun. Governance is coming on-chain. Chain nodes are decentralizing. Power is leaving the Opentensor foundation. This is the transition from network → organism. Full video feat @const_reborn → youtu.be/oAzOvgnDEak

Barry Silbert telling a room full of Bitcoin whales that $TAO is in a league of its own. The rest of AI crypto is mostly garbage. “I think most of what we see is kinda BS” He also mentioned seeing a 100-500x ROI. More bullish on $TAO than BTC. Probably nothing.

Why I’ve Been Tracking TAO Wallets Every Day Instead of Price I want to post a follow-up on something I’ve been tracking closely over the last six weeks because it’s starting to form a pattern that’s easy to miss if you only look at charts. For the past month and a half, I’ve been logging wallet data for TAO multiple times per day. Not price. Not volume. Wallet count, rank movement, and percentile positioning. The reason is simple: price tells you what already happened, ownership tells you what is happening. Here’s what I’ve observed. Total wallets have been growing steadily, even during periods of drawdowns, volatility, and low volume. In the last few days alone, wallet growth has averaged roughly 15 to 20 new wallets per hour. That’s over 400 new wallets per day, happening while price is weak and sentiment is mixed. This isn’t hype-driven growth. There’s no green candle pulling people in. These are people deliberately creating on-chain wallets and holding TAO. At the same time, the top distribution has barely changed. I’ve been sitting around the top 0.73 to 0.74 percent of holders for weeks. My absolute rank fluctuates slightly, but the percentile stays stable. That tells us something important. There has been no broad distribution among the top holders. If whales or large conviction holders were exiting, you’d see sharp upward jumps in rank. That isn’t happening. What is happening is base expansion. New wallets are coming in below, widening the distribution, while the upper cohorts remain dense and competitive. Sometimes my rank worsens slightly, which actually means people above me are accumulating more, not selling. Other times it improves marginally, which usually corresponds to small trimming or inactivity near the margin, not exits. This combination matters. Growing base plus stable top is how networks transition from speculative assets to long-term infrastructure. It creates stickiness. Small holders tend to sit on positions longer. Mid-tier conviction holders provide structural stability. Large holders don’t need to trade noise. The result is reduced effective float over time. We’ve seen this before. Bitcoin didn’t explode because everyone rushed in at once. Address growth quietly expanded for long periods during sideways or down markets. The big moves came later, when supply became constrained and demand turned persistent. Ethereum showed the same behavior before DeFi went mainstream. Addresses grew steadily while price lagged, then price repriced after adoption was already there. What’s different now is speed. Information travels faster. Infrastructure develops faster. Participation ramps faster. That compresses timelines, but the pattern is still the same. I’m not posting this to predict price or timelines. I’m posting it because adoption patterns like this don’t show up on candles. They show up in who owns the network and how that ownership evolves under stress. So far, what I’ve seen is simple. The base is widening. The top isn’t breaking. Supply is sticky. Participation is growing when price offers no incentive to join. That doesn’t guarantee outcomes. Nothing does. But it does strengthen the long-term case in a way charts alone never will. I’ll keep tracking it and sharing updates for anyone interested in the data rather than the noise. $tao #bittensor #tao

The $TAO supply shock is no longer a theory, it’s the reality. ⛓️🧠 1- The 1st Halving is COMPLETE. Daily emission dropped from 7,200 ➔ 3,600 TAO. 2- 69.23% of all TAO is currently STAKED and off the market. 3- Total supply just crossed 10.6M, but 'Liquid TAO' is becoming a rare commodity. While the world chases centralized AI wrappers, the decentralized machine intelligence network is entering its scarcest era yet. Bitcoin has a 21M cap. Bittensor has a 21M cap. One secures value. The other secures intelligence. #DeAI #staking

Today we filed the initial S-1 for Grayscale Bittensor Trust (ticker: $GTAO) with the @SECGov This milestone is the next step in converting $GTAO to an ETP, which would make it the first $TAO ETP in the U.S. and another first for Grayscale. Read the S-1: sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

Looks like 10x leveraged $TAO subnet trading is here. Bridge your $TAO to the Ethereum chain, and use it to construct positions with up to 10x lever on any subnet. Long only! No shorts allowed (by the protocol) So it begins :) @Tenex_SN67

With the first Bittensor halving complete, I can’t help but recall Bitcoin’s first halving, which I was fortunate enough to witness.  History doesn’t repeat, but the rhymes are unmistakable; both the parallels and differences between the two are striking: Same: A Decentralized Alternative for Global Challenges Bitcoin launched during an unprecedented wave of central bank liquidity. By its 2012 halving, the Fed had tripled its balance sheet to $3 trillion, demonstrating how deeply monetary systems are tied to political interests. For many, this was the first time they questioned the foundations of money, who controlled it, and what these trends meant for the future. Meanwhile, in a fringe corner of the internet, a radically different idea was taking shape. Bitcoin’s halving showed that predetermined disinflation was possible, even as nation states inflated global money supply at a historic scale. Today, AI is expanding at an exponential rate, challenging entrenched industries and even our sense of humanity. This movement has been dominated by massive corporations - each with its own agenda - while governments scramble to regulate. And once again, in a fringe corner of the web, Bittensor offers a decentralized alternative: open competition driving AI infrastructure, training, and application without centralized control. Same: Technical Familiarity Remains a Hurdle Participating in Bitcoin in 2012 required technical knowledge. Public information was scarce, and understanding was predicated on familiarity with hash functions, peer-to-peer networking, and monetary plumbing. Most users still relied on the reference client and downloaded the full blockchain, as light clients and Coinbase had just emerged. Bittensor feels similar today. In addition to general crypto knowledge, understanding the network means having a grasp of AI infrastructure as well. Browser wallets exist, but the command line interface remains the most powerful way to interact with Tao and subnets. We’ve seen Bittensor investment funds recently launch and tooling is improving rapidly, but genuine understanding of the core fundamentals remains limited to relatively few. Same: Small Community with a Rising Tide Early Bitcoin was driven by cypherpunks, libertarians, and curious technologists - people motivated by ideals, not just profit. The small community was driven largely by personal relationships. People who would eventually become leaders of major companies (and serious competitors with one another) openly collaborated and shared ideas for the sake of the broader industry. After the 2012 halving, Bitcoin’s price surged 20x, attracting venture capitalists, megacorps, scammers, and the press. The core enthusiasts remained, and even grew, but signal became harder to find amid the noise. Bittensor is still in its heavy signal phase. While monetary opportunity exists – as it always did with Bitcoin - general uncertainty and technical complexity remains a hurdle for the general populace. Conviction about Bittensor’s potential impact remains a driving force for those currently involved, and it's still easy to reach leaders on X, Discord, conferences, and in commercial collaborations. There will never be a time as good as today to build relationships in this industry. Same: No Precedent for Valuation Bitcoin was completely novel at launch, making valuation nearly impossible. Was it a payment network? A store of value? A tool for buying drugs? In 2012, debates raged. Thirteen years and a 7,500x jump in value later, investment banks regularly publish Bitcoin research while sovereigns incorporate it into sophisticated strategies. Bittensor faces similar questions today. The network actively incentivizes productive outputs, but how does that translate to investment value? What is the relative value of Tao and subnet tokens? What makes a sustainable subnet? Answers will come through debate and experimentation, but for now, long-term valuation is yet to be clearly defined. Different: Crypto Plumbing Is Already Mature When buying Bitcoin in 2012, I had to hand cash to a convenience store clerk and punch numbers into a MoneyGram phone, hoping my account at Mt. Gox would be credited in the coming days. Bittensor benefits from more than a decade of crypto infrastructure - exchanges, companies, and regulations - enabling rapid capital flow when interest spikes. But this maturity also makes attention harder to capture. Crypto is vast now; garnering focus on distributed AI is far more challenging than when Bitcoin was the only game in town. Different: Risk Tolerance Has Changed Bitcoin thrived on its free, unregulated nature, both ideologically and practically. Today, institutional capital, regulatory frameworks, and existing reputations of people involved mean risk tolerance is far lower. Imagine the community reaction if something as "unsavory" as Silk Road appeared on a Bittensor subnet. Different: Diversity of Involved Parties Bitcoin’s early days were dominated by Austrian economists and cryptography wonks. Bittensor subnets have already attracted a far broader mix: scientists, cybercrime experts, quantitative traders, marketers, and graphics specialists, reflecting AI’s sweeping potential across industries. In 2012, Bitcoin offered an alternative to centralized money. As 2025 comes to a close, Bittensor is offering us an alternative to centralized intelligence. I assumed Bitcoin’s wild ride was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Now, as I approach my second first halving, I have a sense we just might get one more.

Tomorrow is the Bittensor $TAO halving 🌗 ~5 million $TAO emitted since December 2023 with price staying above $250 💪 I will celebrate tomorrow as the end of the highest inflationary period being behind us 🎉 The foundation is laid, Bittensor has matured, now comes the fun part. Congratulations to the holders 🥳

Just 1 day to go until the first ever #Bittensor halvening Only 7,558 $TAO left to be emitted before we enter a new phase of scarcity $TAO

$TAO 👀👀👀

You're currently in the moment you're going to look back on with regret $TAO

For all of these reasons I am bullish $Tao. Spare powder ready for a leg lower but positioned bigly NOW!!!

Most people have no idea how good $TAO holders actually have it. If you DCA’d $TAO anywhere in 2024 & 2025, you're sitting all right. Here are the numbers: Even with swings, your blended cost basis beats most of the market while almost every other alt is still buried 60–90% from their highs. $TAO Performance: Currently: $296 ATH: $757 (March 2024) Down from ATH: 60% $TAO’s 2025 story is way simpler than people make it. Jan $564 → -47.5% May $457 → -35.2% Jul $446 → -33.6% Nov $498 → -40.5% Apr low $194 → now $296 → +52.6% People forget: only top-buyers are down big. Anyone who didn’t buy the wick is nowhere near those drawdown numbers 2024 Full Year Return: +70% Anyone who bought $TAO in: January 2024 ($440): Down 32% Mid-2024 ($200-280 range): Up, Up to 25% Q3 2024 ($280-400): Slight loss to slight gain Compare to Other Major AI Tokens: FET (Fetch. ai): 2024 return: +70% (similar to TAO) BUT down 80%+ from ATH Recent price: $0.60-0.70 range Anyone who bought near highs ($3.46): -82% loss AGIX (SingularityNET): 2024 return: +74% BUT down 94% from ATH ($3.46) Current: $0.30 ATH buyers: Completely destroyed RENDER: 2024 return: +53% Down significantly from highs Mixed performance across timeframes NEAR Protocol: Down 90% from ATH ($20.42) Current: $2.30 ATH buyers: -88% loss Broader Altcoin Carnage: Most top 50 altcoins (excluding new launches) are: Down 60-90% from ATH Everyone chases the coins that already killed their holders. $TAO is one of the only big infra plays where recent buyers are not underwater and the fundamentals are getting stronger. That is what a real play of the decade looks like. Before the crowd figures it out.

@DreadBong0 Or it’s just the standard bear market…..

#Bitcoin is trading like every OG just found out there is some insane critical flaw that is about to send it to zero It's the only explanation

#Bittensor subnet tokens on @base 🟦 Project Rubicon enables the trading of alpha tokens on #Base protocols such as @AerodromeFi thanks to @chainlink CCIP integration This is great for subnet exposure and made possible by @gtaoventures and their partnership with @chainlink 👏 More liquidity flowing to subnets.. $TAO