Frequently asked questions

No. Taosis is read-only: it never holds your funds or your keys, never asks you to sign anything and cannot move anything. It reads public on-chain data about any address — that is what an explorer is. Any transaction you make happens in your own wallet or on a staking platform, never through Taosis.

Nothing. Taosis is a read-only explorer: every page, every figure and the API are free, and the site never asks you to sign a transaction. Buying or selling α happens in your own wallet or on a staking platform (see the guide), never here.

We recommend SubWallet, which supports a Ledger hardware wallet; Polkadot.js and Talisman also work. Connecting only tells the page which address is yours so the portfolio opens on it — Taosis never asks you to sign anything.

No. Everything readable is public on-chain data — you can paste any address into the Portfolio or Explorer without connecting anything. Connecting a wallet only opens your own portfolio without pasting the address; Taosis never asks you to sign anything.

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. Two inputs do not come from the chain: the TAO/USD rate (CoinGecko), used only to convert τ figures to USD, and news content — the RSS and Atom feeds of subnet teams and of ecosystem outlets (blogs, newsletters, the press, Medium, Reddit, YouTube), Google News, the official X API, and GitHub release and commit feeds, which also give the development counts. Neither enters any τ price, pool, stake, emission or yield figure. Subnet logos are images Taosis's server downloads from the address in each subnet's on-chain identity. The status page shows, live, how fresh each source it tracks is — and names the ones it does not.

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: the chain keeps no trade history per wallet, only blocks, and Taosis has not back-filled its index to the time before it started. That index has a start date, and rather than repeat it here where it could drift, every page that depends on it prints the live one: see status and the note under any activity feed. A position opened before it has no verifiable cost basis, so the figure is labelled partial (covering only the tracked part) or left blank — never guessed.

Both annualize the same measured return r. APR (simple) = r × the periods in a year, with no compounding. APY (compounded) = (1 + r)^periods − 1: each period’s return is added to the stake and earns in the next one. On a subnet the period is an epoch (7,300 a year at tempo 360) and the chain adds dividends to your stake every epoch, so a nominator who never withdraws earns the compounded rate if it holds — 34.5% APR is 41.2% APY. On root the return comes from the chain’s BasketTwr series over about 24 hours and is compounded daily, as if you claimed and restaked every day — 5.12% APR is 5.25% APY. Subnet yields are in α, root yields in τ. Taosis shows both side by side everywhere and computes the APY from the APR with one rule; neither is a forecast. Worked through in APR vs APY on Bittensor.

A validator APR (simple) is one epoch’s dividends (~72 minutes on most subnets) divided by the α its nominators held, times the epochs in a year — measured in α, so it moves with every epoch and young or small subnets can legitimately show high numbers. The APY (compounded) beside it is the same rate compounded every epoch, so it reads higher still. Your return in τ also depends on the α price. Every yield on the site says how it was computed (hover the column header; the full method is in how validator APR is computed), and the validators directory shows a 24-hour median rather than a single epoch, so one lucky epoch cannot paint an absurd headline.

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. It is read-only, and an AI agent can call the same endpoints directly over HTTP — same JSON, same null-means-unknown contract, no key.

As little as possible: no account, no advertising cookies, and no email address unless you subscribe to a Taosis newsletter (Taosis Weekly or Taosis News; then that address, until you unsubscribe from them). Taosis counts page views itself with a random id kept in your own browser, stores no IP address with them (only your country as Cloudflare reports it, your device type and your browser family), never stores a wallet address from a page’s path, and honours the browser’s Do-Not-Track setting. Two things do see your IP address: the servers’ access logs, kept 30 days for security and summarised into daily traffic statistics (including the most active addresses, for abuse prevention), and Cloudflare, which delivers the site. Cloudflare adds two scripts to every page: its cookieless Web Analytics (it does not read Do Not Track) and a bot-detection script that sets a security cookie, cf_clearance, valid for up to a year. If you set a wallet as your own, subnet pages and the markets overview send its address to Taosis’s API to draw your own fills on the charts, so it appears in those requests and their logs. News images load from their publishers’ hosts. Full detail in the privacy policy.

Two free emails, chosen when you sign up (both are ticked by default). Taosis Weekly arrives every Monday: the week in numbers (TAO/USD from CoinGecko, τ in pools, subnet registrations and deregistrations), the biggest α price gains and losses, the best validator yields as APR (simple) and APY (compounded) and notable on-chain events, with dollar values. Taosis News arrives every Friday: the week’s articles from the subnet teams’ own blogs and sites, the press and community newsletters — no X posts, no GitHub releases. You sign up on the newsletter page and confirm from the email you receive (double opt-in); nothing is sent before you confirm, and a newsletter added later needs its own confirmation. The one exception: if you ask Taosis directly to add another newsletter to an address you have already confirmed, Taosis adds it for you without a second email. Every issue has a personal unsubscribe link that stops that newsletter, and your mail app’s unsubscribe button does the same; the page it opens can stop both at once. Leaving your last newsletter deletes your address; so does not confirming a first sign-up within 48 hours (a newsletter added later and not confirmed is simply not added), and so does a permanent bounce or a spam report once Resend passes it back to Taosis. Taosis stores your address, its status and dates, which form you used, which newsletters you have, hashes of the links’ tokens and whether each issue was sent to you — plus, against abuse, hashes of your IP address and of your inbox made with a key that changes every day and deleted after 48 hours, never the IP address itself (the server logs keep it 30 days, like every request). Resend delivers the emails. No tracking pixel, no click tracking. Past issues are on the newsletter page; the details are 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 terms of service.