Revenue Search: Inside Bittensor

In this episode, Mark and Siam discuss why they now view Const’s rapid protocol changes more positively: although constant changes can make institutional investors nervous, they argue Const is in “founder beast mode,” trying to fix Bittensor’s core mechanics before the network scales. They focus heavily on “Root Reborn,” especially the distinction between emissions and injections: miner/validator/...

This session starts with Mark and Siam briefly addressing the decision to pivot away from “Handshake”: it didn’t gain the traction they hoped, the team’s focus drifted toward building trading/mining “skills” that didn’t feel like a scalable revenue path, and they chose to “rip the band-aid off” rather than keep a zombie project alive. They argue that in AI (especially on Bittensor) things change f...

This episode, Mark discloses that DSV is already invested in today’s subnet, but they’ll still ask the awkward questions. They bring on Koyuki (“special k”) from San Francisco, who shares her background in AI (web2 + web3), how she joined the Bittensor Foundation/OTF as Head of AI, and then dives into her slides on Subnet 78, Vocence. Koyuki pitches Vosens as a decentralized “voice intelligence la...

In this episode, Bob from Subnet 48 (quantum compute) gives a grounded overview of quantum computing: huge long-term promise (materials, batteries, drug simulation), but today’s machines are still “NISQ” (noisy, intermediate-scale, not error-corrected at useful scale). Subnet 48’s pitch is essentially “Airbnb for quantum computers”—miners run real quantum workloads, users submit quantum circuits,...

In this Revenue Search episode, the hosts sit down with Aldo from Subnet 55 (NIOME / “Neural Intelligence in Omics”)—a project tackling one of the messiest problems in biotech: how to make genomic/biodata usable for research and AI without turning it into a privacy and cybersecurity nightmare. Aldo walks through why the status quo is broken, pointing to repeated breaches and misuse across the indu...

This episode brings the long-awaited sequel with Jake (Investing 88) and Alex (Trusted Stake). They recap how the two teams teamed up to build Subnet 118 / HODL, a joint venture focused on making subnet investing less painful by reducing slippage, improving liquidity, and smoothing out the constant rotation/volatility that comes from trading directly against shallow alpha pools. The core product i...

Revenue Search returns with the usual chaos and banter, then introduces Josh and the launch of Green Compute—a new Bittensor compute subnet designed specifically for enterprise-grade inference workloads. Josh shares his background building and selling GPU infrastructure in the UK since 2017, and explains that Green Compute plugs into an already-profitable compute business with existing customers,...

Revenue Search returns with the usual banter (and a bit of tech lag) before welcoming Bitrecs (Subnet 122)—a small, doxxed team building an LLM-powered product recommendation engine for e-commerce, starting with Shopify. Dimitri (CEO), Max (CTO) and Arsham (CRO) explain how their widget boosts store performance by generating smarter “you might also like” suggestions, then cleaning messy LLM output...

Revenue Search is back after the Bittensor San Francisco event, and this episode is a first: a dual-subnet session with Yanez (SN54) and BitMind (SN34). Jose and Ken announce a partnership aimed at tackling the rapidly growing threat of deepfake-driven identity fraud—the kind of attacks that can bypass KYC, liveness checks, and even enable high-value social engineering scams. In short: Yanez produ...

This episode starts with Siam and Mark chatting about TAO going “more mainstream,” name-dropping Jason Calacanis’ interest and sharing Const’s reminder that TAO/Bittensor ultimately stands on Bitcoin’s groundwork. They briefly recap recent ecosystem happenings (Bitstarter’s TAO Ads launch for Subnet 21 and their upcoming San Francisco trip), then bring on a returning guest from Resi (Subnet 46) to...

This hosts-only “Revenue Search” episode is a casual catch-up where Siam and Mark answer live chat questions and discuss Bittensor’s bigger picture. They explain that accepting fiat for subnet services doesn’t bypass alpha value—fiat typically routes into TAO and then through liquidity pools—and that long-term alpha appreciation depends on each subnet’s “alphanomics,” mainly revenue-funded buyback...

This session begins with Mark and Siam chatting about a proposed new Bittensor “shorting mechanism” aimed at punishing malicious or gaming subnets by letting markets drive their alpha toward zero and trigger deregistration—while flagging obvious risks like self-shorting by subnet owners and the broader concern that changing market rules can make the ecosystem feel less investable. They then bring...

In this Revenue Search session, Mark and Siam open with a quick macro discussion about escalating conflict in the Middle East, the Strait of Hormuz risk, oil spikes, and how that could affect inflation, rate cuts, and global “printing” dynamics—then pivot to why war-time social media becomes a firehose of fake or misleading footage, setting up the day’s guest: Vericore (Subnet 70). Vericore is pre...

In this Revenue Search episode, Mark and Siam open with TAO-market chatter and why decentralized AI ≠ generic crypto before welcoming the team behind Subnet 65 to unveil the TAO Private Network (TPN) and its premium consumer app, WhaleSurf—a VPN/proxy stack built on Bittensor that emphasizes difficult-to-detect residential routes, unlimited devices, and perks, targeting crypto and active traders w...

In this Revenue Search episode, Mark and Siam swap notes on wrangling OpenClaw (shout-out to Mark Jeffrey successfully mining SN33) before welcoming Marc to unpack Numinous (SN6)—a forecasting subnet on Bittensor that rewards agent/miner code via category leaderboards (prediction markets, geopolitics, sports, macro) scored with Brier metrics and evolving from winner-takes-all to reward pools. He p...

In this session Siam and Mark banter about experimenting with a Mac mini/“Claude bot” and runaway token costs before interviewing Gustave from Mentat Minds about their non-custodial way to allocate TAO into Bittensor subnets via themed index baskets (e.g., prediction/inference), a “Sum of Subnets” product, price-weighted entries with optional monthly rebalancing, and a 9% fee taken only from staki...

Mark and Siam return after a break with a surprise guest: Shaq from Ridges. They recap Davos/AI House meetings (Chris, Etienne, Max), then explain how they partner with Bitstarter to vet code and teams (Quasar as the first collab, later incubated by Const). They’ve been buying/minting slots—including freshly minted subnet 99 (“99 Problems”)—and are actively placing strong teams. Shak joins to unpa...

Mark and Siam kick off the first Revenue Search of 2026 and bring on Felix from subnet 91, Tensorprox. A decentralized “bouncer” layer that sits between clients and servers to stop DDoS and bad traffic while keeping legitimate requests flowing; it onboards in minutes (auto-detects ports), is paid in fiat, bills in 15-minute increments (~$0.07; roughly $200/month for 100 Mbps), and aims to be more...

The hosts open with travel/gossip (Mark dialing in from Dubai) and a firm PSA about why they won’t confirm wallet/subnet rumours, They then bring on Yoav, Garrett and Gyles from Tensor Group to debut tao.com , a rebuilt Bittensor wallet (iOS live now; Android targeted for Q1) that makes onboarding dead simple: fiat/TAO toggles, in-app TAO purchase via Coinbase Pay (debit or Coinbase), one-tap stak...

Mark and Siam open with a candid TAO update (over-levered loans due, price drawdown, macro notes on TGA and QT) then bring on Akshat from Dippy, who explains Dippy as an AI-friend entertainment app (~8.6M users, ~1 hr/day engagement) adding tap-to-video (not real-time yet) and imminently voice calls; Dippy now runs all text inference on Bittensor SN-4 (Targon) via a six-figure deal and is pivoting...

Mark and Siam join Max (Score / Subnet 44) for an update on Score’s shift from “just sports” to a broad computer-vision platform: they’ve built a new incentive mechanism that uses VLMs to generate pseudo-ground-truth and run twin tracks—an open, verifiable Hugging Face competition and a private client track—driving rapid gains toward a football “gold line” benchmark. Score’s first featured client,...

A lively Revenue Search with guest Greg “Rizzo” unveiling two big threads: first, Subnet 45’s partnership with Talisman to turn its crypto wallet into an AI-augmented “smart” wallet—miners pull sentiment/relevance signals (e.g., via Subnet 64 and Data Universe), users set voice/dictation trading triggers (DCA, limit/TP/SL, on-chain events), with security handled via smart contracts and ledger/iOS...

A live, on-location Revenue Search featuring LeadPoet, a Bittensor-powered subnet/product that automates outbound sales by crowdsourcing high-quality leads from miners, validating them, and selling them to clients—initially via sales agencies for scale. The model gates access by burning alpha, creating a flywheel (more demand → larger reward pool → tougher competition → better data → more demand)...

After a short hiatus, Revenue Search returns with Crucible Labs: Ala and David explain why Crucible exists: do the unglamorous, high-leverage work the foundation can’t—validate and allocate, build research and investor materials (via Unsupervised Capital), ship a TAO-native wallet with an auto-allocator and Ledger support, and incubate/accelerate stronger subnets. A big theme is governance and spe...

This Revenue Search spotlights Subnet 32 “It's AI,” an AI-text detector focused on education. Founder Sergey demos a clean web app that flags AI-written passages, highlights “AI-impactful” tokens, and generates shareable reports; it also offers plagiarism checks, batch scanning, API/Moodle/Zapier integrations, with Canvas coming. Citing a new, large unified benchmark (to be presented at an AI-...