Revenue Search: Inside Bittensor

This Revenue Search features Subnet 113 (Taonado)—a non-custodial, Tornado-style privacy mixer on the Bittensor EVM. Users deposit fixed denominations (starting with 1 TAO, with 10/100 TAO pools planned), receive a secret note, and later withdraw to a fresh wallet to break linkability; miners simulate realistic flows to deepen the anonymity set and earn the subnet’s alpha. Revenue comes from ~2.5–...

This Revenue Search jumps into a deep-dive with Bitcast (Tom & Will). Bitcast pitches itself not as an agency but a decentralised ad tooling layer that lets brands brief creators at scale, with AI verifying message-fit and rewards tied to real attention (watch time/eyeballs via official platform data), not vanity metrics. They share traction to date (hundreds of Bittensor videos, ~hundreds of...

Siam kicks off by revealing a commissioned Bittensor artwork (“Michealeagτao”) he’s gifting to Const, then he and Mark run a no-guest AMA. They cover near-term market timing (expecting the bigger move into late-2025), the risk to compute subnets if TAO fell sharply (miner exodus) versus a healthier ecosystem at higher TAO, and how funding really follows credible, revenue-led plans (examples: Targo...

Victor Teixeira (General TAO Ventures) traces his path from Contango Digital’s $10M blockchain–AI fund to becoming a full-stack Bittensor operator — incubating or advising multiple subnets (e.g., 23, Red Team, TPN), running the Round Table validator, and mining across the stack. He spotlights Subnet 35 (“Cartha”), an FX perp DEX co-built with Taoshi (Subnet 8): miners are either LPs or trader-mine...

Gopher (ex-Masa) / Subnet 42 provides cryptographically verified, AI-ready data via a network of ~256 miners running trusted execution environments to scrape and normalise web/X/Reddit/TikTok plus large financial price feeds. Devs use a UI + API (credit-based billing) and a built-in vector DB to aggregate/search topics and power apps. Traction: ~77k users across products (≈54k on AI Insights; ≈20k...

Vidaio (Subnet 85) does AI video upscaling (SD → HD/4K) and compression (dramatically smaller files with similar perceived quality). Their consumer web app is live in beta—demo showed ~95% size reduction—with paid tiers coming (think ~$0.05/min, ~75% margins). Beyond creators, the big targets are streamers/broadcasters, legacy libraries, security/medical, and autonomous fleets—anyone drowning in s...

AWS went down, so we kicked it old-school on Zoom with Seby (RESI, Subnet 46). Quick refresher: RESI is building a real-estate oracle—unlocking U.S. property data and on-chain intelligence for lenders, DeFi/fractional RE, and proptech. Seby walked through fresh updates: a new white paper and alphanomics, DSV added to their OTC stack, V2 moves from APIs to scraping (cheaper for validators), V3 spli...

Mark and Siam sit down with Jill Kenney, CEO of sundae_bar (Subnet 121)—a publicly listed (AIM: ESBAR) AI agent marketplace that lets developers list, host, and monetise agents while businesses buy ready-to-use or customised agents for workflows (HR, sales, ops, etc.). The twist:tsundae_bar uses its BitTensor subnet as a supply engine—briefs (from users/miners) are voted on, miners build against t...

Mark and Siam sit down with Austin, founder of Aurelius (SN37)—an AI-alignment subnet built on Bittensor. In plain English: training gives models knowledge; alignment adds wisdom. Aurelius tackles the “alignment faking” problem by decentralising how alignment data is created and judged. Miners red-team models to generate high-resolution synthetic alignment data; validators score it against a livin...

BitQuant (Subnet 15 by Open Gradient) wants to be your on-chain “pocket financial advisor”—chat in plain English, get analysis, and execute swaps across supported chains—all powered by a BitTensor subnet of competing miners. Guests: Matthew (ex-Two Sigma) and Advait (ex-UCL founder; PhD track) from Open Gradient. Their bigger vision: an L1 (Open Gradient) for verifiable, privacy-preserving AI agen...

Mark & Siam clear the rumour mill: they have helped broker Subnet 71 for a new team (funding + intros + “stabilisers”), official comms coming from the team soon. Guest Sam (Subnet 10) then lays out SN10’s mission: kill the onboarding friction. Today, a typical newcomer wrestles with wallets, TAO, bridges, and hours of steps. SN10’s cross-chain swap fixes that.

In a live Revenue Search special, Shak (Ridges) explains how they’ll shift incentives from benchmarks to real user impact: the product itself will decide who earns emissions. Ridges V1 ships as a Cursor/VS Code extension on Oct 30, 2025 , priced around $12/mo (with an opt-in data tier near $8 ). Under the hood, validators still run SWEBench/Polyglot, but an additional step silently swaps in challe...

In this episode, Revenue Search digs into Subnet 41’s Sportstensor with Leo and Stephen (Neuromancer). Hosted by Mark and Siam, this episode unpacks how their new mechanism rewards only winning, conviction-backed flow routed to prediction markets. They lay out a Polymarket partnership where Sportstensor builds a layer on top and charges a 1% fee on traded volume, using those fees to buy back alpha...

Siam and Mark sit down with Keith Singery, host of the Bittensor Guru podcast, who admits he once rage-quit Bittensor, only to get re-hooked a month later. Keith talks about swapping a 12-year supply chain career for psychedelic soul-searching, mushroom experiments, and finally staking his future on open intelligence. He breaks down how capital really comes into the ecosystem, why one breakout sub...

Void AI is building the on-ramps Bittensor was missing. Hansel Melo – an early miner turned multi-subnet owner (SN27 + SN106) – lays out how Subnet 106 bridges TAO and alpha tokens to Solana now and Ethereum next, so anyone can trade with Phantom or MetaMask and plug straight into DeFi. What we cover: The simple win for users: swap TAO and subnet tokens without a Bittensor wallet Why concentrated...

In this episode we sit down with the team behind Subnet 88 – Investing , a project some call the “decentralized BlackRock.” Their goal: optimized trading strategies for any asset in the world, built on Bittensor. We unpack: How Subnet 88 combines miners’ allocation tables into portfolio signals Why they see themselves as a decentralized Wall Street – from TAO staking to U.S. equities The roadmap t...

Mark and Siam sat down with Seby Rubino, the 25-year-old real estate prodigy behind RESI (Subnet 46) – the subnet aiming to be “Chainlink for real estate.” Seby’s building a nationwide property database on Bittensor – decentralized, cheaper, and more open than the monopolized data silos of Attom Data. That foundation unlocks everything from an AI appraiser to on-chain real estate lending and even...

On this episode of Revenue Search , we dive into Subnet 75 – Hippius - with Mog and Dubs. Their team is taking on cloud storage with a decentralized model that’s cheaper, faster, and more transparent than AWS, Google, or Dropbox. We cover: Why decentralized storage has never really been solved – until now How Hippius uses its own blockchain to align miners, revenue, and token value What enterprise...

AI agents are only as smart as the data they can see. Giga joins us to explain how Subnet 22 is turning LLMs into real-time operators – by piping in fresh data at scale. We talk: Why real-time search is the missing layer in most agents How Subnet 22 is already powering live customer deployments The business case for 24/7 AI sales reps (spoiler: they don’t need lunch breaks)

James Altucher - entrepreneur, bestselling author, early Bitcoin evangelist, and founder of TAO X - joins us to unpack why Bittensor feels like “Bitcoin in 2013,” and how decentralized incentives could upend not just AI, but entrepreneurship itself. We cover the rise of subnets, the hard truth about alpha tokens, and why value capture - not hype - will separate winners from the noise. From codifie...

Zeus is building a weather API that outperforms anything that’s available right now now. Miners compete to forecast temperature, wind, rain, and humidity. Validators score them, and the best predictions win.  Paid API access coming very soon First focus: energy and commodities  50% of revenue goes to alpha buybacks. Weather forecasting is a billion dollar market, and Zeus has got an edge. Listen t...

In this episode of Revenue Search , we sit down with Fred from Polaris (Subnet 49) - a team building what they call the “Airbnb of compute,” starting from Africa and expanding globally. Fred lays out Polaris’ mission to make GPUs and compute power accessible for universities, researchers, and builders who can’t afford Big Tech’s pricing. We dive into: Why Polaris is focused on turning idle home GP...

Mark and Siam interview Atlas , the founder behind Mantis (Subnet 123) - Mantis doesn’t just score miners on their raw predictions. Instead, it measures the information value of their embeddings - rewarding miners whose signals improve the ensemble accuracy of market forecasts. Atlas walks us through: How a teenager in Costa Rica went from mining Ethereum without home internet to launching one of...

Mark Jeffrey is one of the most trusted voices in the Bittensor ecosystem, and we talk to him about the rise of subnets, what the best teams are doing right, and where many are falling short. From buybacks and dev roadmaps to communications and narrative, Mark shares how he sees the ecosystem maturing, the signals that matter, and the catalysts that could drive the next wave of adoption. In this c...

In this episode of Revenue Search , we sit down with Jose Caldera , CEO of Yanez MIID (Subnet 54) , to unpack how they’re using Bittensor to stress-test the world’s anti-money laundering systems - by generating fake humans. No, really. We explore how Yanez helps banks and financial institutions meet regulatory obligations by attacking their fraud systems with synthetic IDs, where Bittensor fits in...