Charlie Holt: Ninja SN66, AI Agents, Miner Union, Brainlock, Bittensor | Ep. 97
About SN66 conjectures
In this episode, Charlie Holt of Ninja (Subnet 66) details the development of an agent-harness competition for autonomous coding on Bittensor. He discusses his path from early Bittensor mining and dropping out of college, the Miner Union, Brainlock, and the design of a winner-take-all subnet for improving coding agents. Charlie also details harnesses, GitHub-derived coding tasks, LLM judging, Katana, batch-invariant inference, fully homomorphic encryption, subnet economics, validator accountability, and Bittensor as a classroom for builders. *In this episode, you'll learn* - Charlie's path from discovering Bittensor in 2022 to mining, dropping out of college, organizing with Miner Union, and building on SN66 - How Ninja frames an agent harness as the tool belt around an LLM, and why harnesses matter for agents that search, code, and operate without constant human input - The mechanics of SN66's winner-take-all competition, where miners submit agent files, validators run task batches, and the winning harness becomes king - How GitHub commits become coding tasks, why LLM judging is central to the evaluation process, and how Katana fits into the Ninja stack - Why deterministic inference matters for agent evaluation, including the tradeoffs around temperature, batching, and batch-invariant inference - What Charlie learned from Brainlock and fully homomorphic encryption, including the gap between cryptographic privacy ideals and practical inference speed - Charlie's view of subnets as company-like networks, including tokens, voting power, holder accountability, emissions, and the tension between revenue and research - Why Bittensor can function as a classroom for builders, where contributors learn by competing, shipping, and getting paid for useful work *Chapters* 0:00 - Highlights 0:57 - Austin And Charlie's Bittensor Start 3:07 - Mining, Miner Union, And Brainlock 3:32 - What Ninja SN66 Does 4:57 - Harnesses As AI Tool Belts 7:04 - Agent Files And Validator Tasks 8:55
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SN66 conjectures at a glance
SN66, conjectures (α token ض), 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 0.003155 τ (≈ $0.99), against 6,897 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 49.73% APR (simple) and 64.42% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000142 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #4,958,013.
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