Philipp Koellinger & Christian Roessler: Claims Subnet 111, DeSci, Knowledge Graphs, Truth | Ep. 99
About SN111 Claims
In this episode, we are joined by Philipp Koellinger and Christian Roessler of Claims (Subnet 111), who detail the effort to convert 300 million scientific papers into a structured graph of claims and the evidence that supports them. They discuss the incentive failures in academic publishing that make published results difficult to replicate, why retrieval-augmented generation over raw PDFs is not sufficient for precise scientific reasoning, and the difference between extracting what a paper said and establishing what science currently supports. Philipp and Christian also detail the three behaviours the subnet rewards, the Bronze, Silver and Gold data tiers, the use of deliberately injected errors to calibrate language-model judges, and the case for running this work on Bittensor rather than inside a closed company. *In this episode, you'll learn* - Philipp's account of the replication study that no journal would publish, and why both publishing business models, charging readers and charging authors, reward novelty and volume over accuracy - Why frontier models hallucinate citations at rates that vary sharply by scientific field, and why retrieval-augmented generation over PDFs still leaves AI unable to judge how reliable the underlying evidence is - The three behaviours Claims pays miners for, coverage, extraction quality, and evidence quality, and why only the first two are live on mainnet today - How the team defines a substantive claim, why there is no fixed number of claims per paper, and how dilution of quality costs a miner points even when coverage is high - The Bronze, Silver and Gold data tiers, and the plan to inject known errors into judging tasks so miner consensus can be calibrated against ground truth - Christian's argument that truth in this system is probabilistic rather than binary, and why conditional logical proofs are becoming easier for AI to verify than empirical findings - The reasons for building on Bittensor instead of a closed company, cov
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SN111 Claims at a glance
SN111, Claims (α token Ё), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.004522 τ (≈ $1.43), against 5,684 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 36.44% APR (simple) and 43.96% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000610 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #5,615,562.
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