Taosis News — 2 – 8 Oct 2026: Affordable Arc RPC for Circle's New Layer 1 Blockchain

TAOSIS NEWS — 2 – 8 Oct 2026
The week's articles from the subnet teams, the press and community newsletters: Friday 00:00 to Thursday 23:59 UTC.
View on taosis.com: https://taosis.com/newsletter/issues/1

LEAD STORY
- Affordable Arc RPC for Circle's New Layer 1 Blockchain (SN19 blockmachine · blog · 8 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15665510
  Get a dedicated Arc RPC endpoint from blockmachine, priced in USD and payable in USDC. See pricing, setup steps and how we compare. Start free today.

FROM THE SUBNET TEAMS
- AI Search API: Links Only or Cited Answers in One Request (SN22 Desearch · news page · 8 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15458501
  Build one AI search API request end to end: pick web and X sources, choose links or a cited summary, set count, decide on streaming, and read the cost headers.
- OpenAI API Pricing 2026: GPT-6.1 Sol, Astra and Luna (SN28 SayGM · blog · 7 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15075500
  OpenAI API pricing for GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Luna and older GPT models, compared across OpenAI, Requesty, OpenRouter and SayGM. See what you'd pay.
- Get Paid to Refer Developers to SayGM's AI Gateway (SN28 SayGM · blog · 6 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/14993848
  SayGM's new affiliate program pays referrers in alpha, capped at the revenue customers actually pay. See how the AI gateway pool works.
- The One With the Big Prizes: qBitTensor Labs at Exploit Summit 2026 (SN63 Enigma · blog · 6 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15000585
  Bittensor threw its own conference in Montreal, and we took the stage to make the case for Enigma: remove the centralized staffing decision and let the whole world advance the state of the art. Notes from the talk, the keynote, gamma, a co…
- Run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on your own Lium GPUs (SN51 lium.io · news page · 5 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/14770735
  Run DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on a Lium GPU node with vLLM, then call your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint from your laptop. deepseek vllm llm-inference h100
- Why we make AI skills compete (SN121 sundae_bar · news page · 2 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/13808355

IN THE PRESS
- Cascade (SN91) Outperforms Toto2. Here’s What the Founders Say About Where the Subnet Is Going (SN91 cascade · The TAO Daily · 8 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15727702
  Cascade (SN91) beats Datadog's Toto2 on key forecasting benchmarks with 85% less training data, as the subnet expands into AI forecasting APIs and trading tools.
- ORO Launches AssistantEval Benchmark for Replayable AI Assistant Evaluation (SN15 ORO · Intelligence — tao.media · 8 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15711838
  The Bittensor Subnet 15 team published a public leaderboard that grades assistants from service logs in resettable synthetic environments.
- Actual Computer Releases toks Tokenizer With Claimed 13x to 151x Speedup Over Hugging Face (SN95 Actual · Intelligence — tao.media · 7 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15356744
  The Bittensor Subnet 95 team says toks delivers exact Hugging Face token IDs while staying free for organizations below one quadrillion tokens a year.
- Cameron Fairchild Explains What’s Really Going On With Ridges (SN62 Ridges · The TAO Daily · 6 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/15050746
  Cameron explains the thinking behind Ridges’ recent changes, its mixture-of-agents vision and how Ridges could eventually get used without users even knowing it.
- UMI SN78 sets October beta target for its sign-language app (SN78 Umi · Tao Outsider · 5 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/14667782
  UMI, Bittensor's SN78, plans an October 15 beta for /sign. A look at the app's intended conversation flow and the subnet building its translation models.
- UMI fixes a missing step between joining SN78 and getting work (SN78 Umi · Tao Outsider · 4 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/14362022
  UMI's October 4 update adds durable work requests to its Bittensor SN78 miner updater. Competition rewards remain inactive in the project's public status.

NEWSLETTERS & COMMUNITY
- I joined a Bittensor Co-learning camp without knowing anything. (Medium #bittensor · 6 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/14960085
  Introduction
- Stake on Bittensor. Trade on Base or Robinhood. One wallet. (Medium #bittensor · 5 Oct) — https://taosis.com/news/14615157
  ForeverMoney is now live in Talisman, bringing $TAO to Base and Robinhood Chain, powered by Chainlink CCIP

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