Subnet 105 :: AI Has a Data Movement Problem. Beam Wants to Solve It.
About SN105 Beam
What if bandwidth itself could become programmable? In Novelty Search #088, we sit down with the team behind Beam, Bittensor Subnet 105, to explore their decentralized bandwidth coordination network and the infrastructure they’re building for moving data across the machine internet. Beam turns existing network capacity into an open coordination layer. On-chain orchestrators manage pools of workers that execute data transfers, while BeamCore coordinates jobs and verifies that data reaches its destination correctly. We dig into how Beam works, how miners qualify and compete, the economics of decentralized bandwidth, moving 100 GB files across distributed infrastructure, Beam Rooms, data connectors, and why fast data movement could become increasingly important as autonomous agents and decentralized AI systems begin communicating with each other. Novelty Search is a weekly conversation exploring the people, ideas and technology emerging across Bittensor. Beam // Subnet 105 Novelty Search #E088 00:00 Bittensor updates :: Root Reborn validator baskets 19:25 Meet the Beam team 23:15 Why build a bandwidth subnet? 27:15 What is Beam? 28:14 Orchestrators, workers & BeamCore 30:26 How mining on Beam works 34:00 Measuring real-world bandwidth 37:04 What does it take to mine Beam? 41:00 Routing data intelligently 44:00 Connectors & moving data between services 45:35 The 100 GB transfer challenge 50:41 Beam Rooms 52:00 Broadcasting data across the network 54:20 Building a decentralized bandwidth layer 59:30 Salesforce, MuleSoft & enterprise data 1:02:30 Encryption & data security 1:05:00 Beam + other Bittensor subnets 1:09:30 Distributed compute & MapReduce 1:12:00 What's next for Beam? 1:14:00 Exploit Montreal
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SN105 Beam at a glance
SN105, Beam (α token Գ), 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 0.004815 τ (≈ $1.07), against 4,673 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 50.48% APR (simple) and 65.66% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.000575 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #6,841,399.
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