Frequently asked questions

No. Taosis is non-custodial: it never holds your funds or your keys. Every transaction is signed in your own wallet extension and broadcast by you. Taosis can read public on-chain data about any address — that is what an explorer is — but it cannot move anything.

Browsing is free — the screener, wallet lookups, charts, news and in-app alerts included. Two things are paid: a 15% surcharge on the network fee when you swap through the form (on a typical 0.0005 τ network fee, Taosis collects ≈ 0.000075 τ — the quote shows both before you sign, and a failed swap is charged nothing), and email delivery of alerts at $12/year, paid once in TAO.

We recommend SubWallet, which supports a Ledger hardware wallet; Polkadot.js and Talisman also work. If a Ledger refuses the bundled fee transaction, the swap form falls back to two separate signatures — untick “one signature” in the form.

No. Everything readable is public on-chain data — you can paste any address into the Portfolio or Explorer without connecting anything. A wallet is only needed to act: sign a swap, or create alerts tied to your address.

Directly from the Bittensor chain: prices are the pool reserve ratio, balances and stakes are chain state, validator yields are computed from on-chain dividends. There is no third-party market-data provider. The one external feed is the TAO/USD rate — display only, never used in an on-chain calculation. The status page shows how fresh every source is, live.

A dash means Taosis could not verify that number — and it refuses to show a fake 0 instead, because unknown and zero are different claims. The same rule runs through the whole site and the API (null means unknown, never zero). More in what we can and cannot know.

Cost basis is replayed from the trades Taosis has indexed itself, and the index starts on 27 August 2026 — the chain does not keep this history for anyone to backfill. A position opened before that has no verifiable cost basis, so the figure is labelled partial (covering only the tracked part) or left blank — never guessed.

Price alerts fire on a threshold or a % move over a window you pick; news alerts on new indexed items; chain-state guards fire on transitions — a deregistration or registration, an emission cut or restore, an owner change or commission raise, a scheduled child-key change, immunity expiring, an announced coldkey swap. In-app notifications are free; email delivery is the paid subscription.

APRs are annualized from short on-chain epochs (~72 minutes each), so they move constantly and young or small subnets can legitimately show high numbers. Every APR on the site says how it was computed (hover the column header), and the validators directory shows a 24-hour median rather than a single epoch, so one lucky epoch cannot paint an absurd headline.

The form signs a price-limited stake/unstake on the chain’s own AMM (the same pools as everywhere else). You set a slippage tolerance; the transaction reverts — or partially fills, if you allow it — rather than executing past your tolerance. The quote shows the network fee and the Taosis fee before you sign, and the trade lands in your wallet’s history like any other extrinsic.

Yes — free, key-less JSON, and it is the same API the site itself runs on, so it cannot silently lag what you see. Documentation at /api-docs, including an MCP server for LLM agents (read-only by design).

As little as possible: no advertising cookies, no third-party trackers, no IP stored. Page views are counted first-party with a random id kept in your own browser, and the browser’s Do-Not-Track setting is honoured. An email is stored only if you buy the email-alert subscription. Full detail in the privacy policy.

No. Taosis is an information tool. Figures can be delayed or incomplete, crypto-assets are volatile, and you can lose your entire stake. You are solely responsible for your decisions — see the legal notice.