News·Opentensor YouTube·Jul 17, 2026, 19:35 UTC
How Targon SN4 Is Building Confidential AI Compute
About SN4 Targon
This episode of Novelty Search welcomes Targon (Subnet 4) to explore the next evolution of decentralized AI infrastructure: confidential compute, verifiable execution, and permissionless cloud computing. Targon is building a confidential compute network on Bittensor that allows developers to deploy AI workloads inside hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), ensuring models, prompts, and data remain encrypted—even from the infrastructure operator. The conversation explores Intel TDX, remote attestation, virtual machines, the new Targon OS, and why confidential compute could become foundational infrastructure for the AI economy. Before the interview, Const covers the latest Bittensor protocol updates, including the Rust SDK and btCLI rewrite, multisig and Ledger support, the Subtensor monorepo migration, the latest emissions changes, and the launch of Conviction staking. The discussion then dives into how Targon evolved from decentralized inference into a permissionless confidential cloud, why ownership of compute matters, the challenges of modern AI infrastructure, and Targon’s long-term vision of enabling millions of independent compute providers around the world. Featuring: - Rob (Targon / SN4) * Const * Mark Jeffrey Links: * Targon: https://targon.com ( * Targon X: https://x.com/targon_ai * Targon GitHub: https://github.com/manifold-inc/targon * Targon Compute: https://compute.targon.com * Bittensor: https://bittensor.com * Bittensor Docs: https://bittensor.com/docs 00:00 Intro: Bittensor 4.3.1, Rust SDK, multisig & Conviction 12:09 Introducing Targon and the vision for confidential compute 17:18 Why confidential compute matters for AI 21:26 Trusted Execution Environments (Intel TDX) 25:38 Remote attestation and proving execution 31:10 Why ownership of compute matters 36:04 From inference subnet to confidential cloud 42:31 Targon OS and virtual machine architecture 48:57 Containers vs virtual machines 55:16 Memory encryption and protecting workloads
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SN4 Targon at a glance
SN4, Targon (α token δ), 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 0.056872 τ (≈ $12.91), against 138,980 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 20.1% APR, emissions add 0.007762 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #1,411,451.
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