NewsPressOct 18, 2026, 09:41 UTC

What is Bittensor? IOTA SN9 and shared AI training

Understand Bittensor through IOTA SN9: how miners, validators and token incentives can organize shared AI training. Based on the July 2025 research proposal.

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SN9 iota at a glance

SN9, iota (α token ι), 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 0.024046 τ (≈ $6.45), against 53,194 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 35.39% APR (simple) and 42.46% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.003218 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #1,489,797.

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OfficialGitHub · 2d ago

macrocosm-os/iota v4.13.7

OfficialGitHub · 5d ago

macrocosm-os/iota v4.13.6

OfficialX · @MacrocosmosAI · 9d ago

One week since we announced the IOTA SDK at @ExploitSummit . What our team have done with it so far:

OfficialX · @MacrocosmosAI · 10d ago

That's the full picture from Exploit: the long tail, the Orion results, the SDK, and what it runs.

OfficialX · @MacrocosmosAI · 10d ago

iota puts idle capacity to work, so more of the fleet earns without adding hardware.

OfficialX · @MacrocosmosAI · 11d ago

Most teams don't just pretrain. They fine-tune, run RL, and serve models, and each job often needs its own stack and its own capacity.

OfficialX · @MacrocosmosAI · 11d ago

Pretraining is only one job. The iota SDK also runs RL and post-training, fine-tuning, and inference on the same disaggregated compute.

OfficialGitHub · 11d ago

macrocosm-os/iota v4.13.5

Taosis indexes announcements, articles, posts and releases about Bittensor subnets from their own channels and keeps a record of each. The text above is the source’s; the figures are read from the chain by Taosis.