Revenue Search: Inside Bittensor

In this engaging discussion, Shaq (Shak), the founder of the Ridges project, dives deep into innovative incentive structures that prioritize genuine user engagement over traditional benchmarks. He reveals the upcoming Ridges V1 as a coding-assistant extension, detailing its user-friendly pricing and architecture. Shaq emphasizes the importance of iteration speed for competitive advantage and discusses strategies to prevent gaming the system. With plans for growth and a focus on organic reach, Ridges aims for robust user engagement while ensuring low subscription costs.

Stephen, known as Neuromancer, is the co-founder and technical lead of SportsTensor, blending expertise in physics and quantum computing to revolutionize sports predictions. He and Leo discuss their innovative mechanism that rewards only successful, conviction-backed predictions routed to Polymarket. They detail their anti-dilutive design that ties payouts to fees, aiming to enhance market accuracy. The duo also explores the impact of real trades on market signals and how their approach captures new revenue opportunities in prediction markets.

Keith Singery, a former supply chain expert turned Bittensor enthusiast, shares his wild transition into open intelligence. He reflects on his psychedelic journey and how it reshaped his purpose. Keith highlights the significance of breakout subnets, particularly Ridges, in attracting capital and driving growth. He emphasizes that a good strategy involves research over price charts. Discussing deregistration, he predicts many subnets will fall, making way for resilient innovators in the ecosystem.

In this fascinating discussion, Hansel Melo, an early BitTensor miner and subnet owner, shares insights on how his project, Void AI, is revolutionizing decentralized finance. He dives into the importance of bridging TAO and alpha tokens to major chains like Solana and Ethereum, making them tradable without specialized wallets. Hansel explains how concentrated liquidity reduces slippage, and unveils revenue sources such as bridge and staking fees. He emphasizes the aim of creating enduring infrastructure for seamless interoperability in the crypto world.

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 signalsWhy they see themselves as a decentralized Wall Street – from TAO staking to U.S. equitiesThe roadmap toward ETFs, hedge fund partnerships, and signal provision

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 a stablecoin backed by property values.We covered:How RESI plans to eat Attom Data’s market shareTurning property data into prediction marketsWhy early revenues from predictive lead-gen could scale fast to $100k+ MRRIf you want to understand how Bittensor could open a trillion-dollar market, this is one to watch.

Explore the groundbreaking world of decentralized cloud storage with Hippius. Learn how they challenge giants like AWS with transparency and affordability. Discover their unique approach using IPFS for on-chain data storage and the innovative H-alpha mechanism for revenue and miner incentives. Dubs and Mog reveal plans for expansion beyond storage and discuss the impressive current capacity and usage stats. Plus, get insights into their go-to-market strategy and the lessons learned for future subnets.

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 agentsHow Subnet 22 is already powering live customer deploymentsThe 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 codified buybacks and equity linkages to miner incentives and treasury strategy, James lays out the playbook he thinks will drive real adoption: make alpha a “ticket to value,” reward performance algorithmically, and communicate like a serious business - not a research project.In this conversation, you’ll hear:How to turn alpha from a memecoin into a “ticket” that unlocks real value (algorithmic buybacks, equity share classes, staking requirements)The treasury-company playbook for TAO: tokens-per-share, staking, validators, and why equity-like mechanics matterWhat risks could stall Bittensor - and how better incentive design and clear comms de-risk them

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 soonFirst 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 to the whole episode to find out how alpha holdres can capture the upside.