Bittensor Weekly Recap – 15 December 2025: News, Top Gainer, TAO.
Big Events in the Bittensor Ecosystem
TAO Halving
Today marks the TAO Halving, a major milestone for the Bittensor Network. With this halving event, the issuance of new TAO is reduced, reinforcing token scarcity and strengthening long-term incentive alignment across builders, validators, and subnet operators.
Historically, halving events draw increased attention to network fundamentals, including adoption, sustainability, and real-world utility. For Bittensor, this moment places renewed focus on the quality of intelligence produced by the network and the economic mechanisms that support its continued growth.
Grayscale Bittensor Trust Goes Public Ahead of TAO Halving
This week, Grayscale launched its Bittensor Trust on the OTCQX market under the ticker GTAO. As a result, the product transitions from a private investment vehicle to a publicly traded offering. This shift significantly expands access to regulated exposure to TAO, the native token of the Bittensor network. Moreover, it extends participation beyond accredited investors.
Notably, the public listing comes just days ahead of Bittensor’s first-ever TAO halving on December 15, a key milestone in the network’s tokenomics. In addition, with its debut on OTCQX, GTAO becomes an SEC-reporting trust. Consequently, this enhances transparency and positions Grayscale to capture growing institutional demand for decentralized AI infrastructure.
Overall, the timing underscores increasing market attention on Bittensor. On one hand, the network is approaching a major supply event. On the other, it is gaining broader visibility through traditional financial markets.
Loosh (SN78): A New Subnet
Yuma has officially accelerated its own Bittensor subnet, Loosh (SN78), placing it within the Yuma Subnet Accelerator and reinforcing its long-term commitment to decentralized AI development. Loosh is focused on building advanced AI agents with persistent memory, ethical reasoning, and contextual understanding, leveraging Bittensor’s decentralized compute network.
This initiative represents a meaningful step toward more capable autonomous systems, including robotics and cognitive architectures that require ongoing learning and decision-making. For those monitoring decentralized AI innovation and subnet-level experimentation, Loosh stands out as a notable development within the Bittensor ecosystem.
Learn more about Loosh here
ForeverMoney (SN98): A New Subnet
ForeverMoney (SN98) has launched as Subnet 98 on the Bittensor network, focusing on decentralized, AI-driven liquidity intelligence for Web3 and DeFi. The project is building an open marketplace for liquidity insights, where AI models are rewarded through Bittensor’s on-chain incentive system.
ForeverMoney is in early development, with initial documentation and code available on GitHub. An alpha release is expected soon, positioning the project within the growing DeFAI (DeFi + AI) sector.
Subnet Updates
Hippius (SN75) Unveils Arion: A New Era for Decentralized Storage
This week, Hippius introduced Arion, a custom-built decentralized storage network designed to overcome the performance and reliability limitations of IPFS as the ecosystem scales toward AI-grade infrastructure.
Arion replaces probabilistic peer discovery with deterministic data placement, allowing clients to instantly calculate where files are stored rather than searching the network. Combined with Reed–Solomon erasure coding, the system can tolerate large-scale node failures while remaining more storage-efficient than traditional replication models.
The network is also self-healing by design, with Validators continuously monitoring data integrity and automatically regenerating missing shards when nodes go offline. Performance is further enhanced through grid streaming over QUIC, enabling parallel data retrieval from multiple nodes and delivering cloud-like speeds without centralization.
With Arion, Hippius positions itself at the forefront of decentralized storage, closing the gap with centralized cloud providers while preserving openness, resilience, and trustlessness.
Chutes (SN64) Powers AI Safety Research on Aurelius (SN37)
Chutes is now providing decentralized compute infrastructure for AureliusAligned, supporting AI safety and alignment research at scale. This infrastructure is used to test AI models under real-world conditions, with a focus on probing model behavior, identifying alignment weaknesses, and stress-testing systems in adversarial environments.
This deployment highlights a clear and practical use case for decentralized compute, enabling compute-intensive and security-critical AI research without dependence on centralized cloud providers. At the same time, it preserves scalability, resilience, and the fault tolerance required for rigorous safety-focused experimentation.
Chutes Subnet Incentives Push Miner Performance Toward Human-Level Accuracy
Miner performance has nearly matched the human gold standard, improving from 38.2% to 78% in one month under a fully automated and open-source setup. With models hosted on Hugging Face and inference running on Chutes, the results highlight how proper economic incentives can rapidly drive measurable performance gains in decentralized systems. This serves as a concrete example of incentive alignment translating directly into model quality improvements.
TAO Market Update
Price: $288.10
Weekly result (7d): –2%
Ranking: #40
Market Cap: $2.85B
24h Volume: $75.20M
Over the last 24 hours, TAO traded in approximately the $285–$298 range, reflecting active trading and continued two-way interest. Following last week’s sharper pullback, price action has stabilized, with the smaller weekly decline suggesting consolidation rather than renewed selling pressure.
Top Gainer Subnet: OMEGA Labs (SN24)
Omega Labs is an AI research and engineering organization building advanced multimodal artificial intelligence systems based on any-to-any AI, enabling models to transform inputs such as text, audio, images, or video into different output modalities. It emphasizes open research and open infrastructure, developing these multimodal models in a decentralized manner using the Bittensor network through publicly available GitHub repositories that support subnets, datasets, and tooling.
Weekly change: +79.12%
Price: $1.23
Market Cap: $4.65M
Volume (24h): $492.84K
