News·Opentensor YouTube·May 16, 2026, 12:29 UTC

4 Subnets // Cacheon 14, Cathedral 39, Bitrecs 122, Swarm 124 + latest Subtensor Upgrades

Novelty Search E073 covers four Bittensor subnet teams and two upcoming Subtensor upgrades. Cacheon on SN14 discusses inference optimization. Swarm on SN124 discusses autonomous drone intelligence. Bitrecs on SN122 discusses product recommendations. Cathedral on SN39 discusses live agent evaluation. The episode closes with Conviction and TAO Flow V2, two Subtensor upgrades affecting subnet ownership, emissions, and protocol mechanics. Featured subnets: Cacheon - SN14 Website: https://cacheon.ai GitHub: https://github.com/latent-to/cacheon Taostats: https://taostats.io/subnets/14/chart Swarm - SN124 Website: https://swarm124.com X: https://x.com/SwarmSubnet GitHub: https://github.com/swarm-subnet/swarm Taostats: https://taostats.io/subnets/124/chart Bitrecs - SN122 Website: https://bitrecs.ai GitHub: https://github.com/bitrecs/bitrecs-subnet Taostats: https://taostats.io/subnets/122/chart Cathedral - SN39 Taostats: https://taostats.io/subnets/39/chart Chapter markers 00:00:00 - Opening Novelty Search E073 00:00:57 - Validators and super burning 00:02:42 - SN14 Cacheon begins 00:04:06 - SN14 miner validation 00:06:00 - SN14 early miner activity 00:10:00 - SN14 speed versus quality 00:15:04 - SN124 Swarm begins 00:17:00 - SN124 sim-to-real gap 00:19:30 - SN124 avalanche rescue use 00:24:15 - SN124 robotics benchmarks 00:28:00 - SN124 reinforcement learning 00:33:30 - SN122 Bitrecs begins 00:36:00 - SN122 miners submit prompts 00:40:00 - SN122 customer value metrics 00:45:20 - SN122 winning prompt review 00:48:20 - Subtensor upgrades begin 00:49:00 - Conviction activation threshold 00:54:20 - TAO Flow V2 begins 00:57:00 - Subnet economics upgrade 01:00:00 - SN39 Cathedral begins 01:02:20 - SN39 agent training data 01:03:30 - SN39 bug reproduction tests 01:06:20 - Conviction liquidity questions 01:09:42 - Closing Novelty Search E073

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