Root Reborn Explained :: The Biggest Economic Upgrade in Bittensor
About SN53 engy
Root Reborn is now live on mainnet. In this episode of Novelty Search, Const and Mark Jeffrey unpack Bittensor's largest economic upgrade to date, exploring how Root Reborn changes validator incentives, staking, and capital allocation across the network. The discussion covers the first week of Root Reborn on mainnet, early market behaviour, validator strategy, permissionlessness, network governance, and why these changes move Bittensor closer to a fully decentralized future. The episode also includes broader ecosystem updates, including developments around Engy, Nous Research, inference infrastructure, subnet growth, and the roadmap beyond Root Reborn. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:05 Ecosystem updates 03:40 Engy and inference infrastructure 08:55 Community, openness & AI development 14:45 Why Bittensor keeps attracting builders 21:20 Root Reborn is live 23:40 Validator incentives & capital allocation 26:15 Why Root Reborn exists 29:15 Liquidity, markets & Uniswap pools 31:35 Release 444 discussion 33:45 The roadmap after Root Reborn 36:00 Permissionlessness vs governance 41:00 Quasar, subnet operators & trust 46:30 Community Q&A 46:45 Expanding to 256 subnets Useful Links Release 441 — Root Reborn https://www.bittensor.com/releases/root-reborn Bittensor https://www.bittensor.com/ Bittensor Discord https://discord.gg/bittensor Follow Const https://x.com/const_reborn Follow Mark Jeffrey https://x.com/markjeffrey Follow OpenTensor Foundation https://x.com/opentensor Novelty Search is a weekly podcast exploring the latest technical developments across the Bittensor ecosystem, featuring subnet builders, researchers and contributors shaping the future of decentralized AI.
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SN53 engy at a glance
SN53, engy (α token ب), 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 0.031912 τ (≈ $7.52), against 37,697 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 20.36% APR (simple) and 22.58% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.004274 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #4,203,869.
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