Vanta is built by Taoshi, Inc., founded in 2023 by Arrash Yasavolian (CEO). Yasavolian brings over 15 years of tech industry experience combining software engineering with algorithmic trading, and previously developed an algorithmic trading program called TARVIS. The team includes machine learning specialists, data scientists, and quantitative trading professionals. The project is fully open-source, with code maintained under the taoshidev GitHub organization.
What is Vanta?
The Proprietary Trading Network (PTN) is a decentralized infrastructure designed to empower traders, developers, and data providers by enabling direct, real-time exchange of trading strategies and market intelligence.
Built with transparency and performance in mind, PTN eliminates intermediaries and traditional barriers to entry, allowing participants to monetize alpha signals, share proprietary strategies securely, and access a global ecosystem of trading tools and datasets.
Through its open architecture and peer-to-peer framework, PTN fosters innovation in quantitative finance while ensuring data ownership, privacy, and scalability.
How Vanta works?
Miners run quantitative or machine learning trading models and submit futures-based signals (long, short, or flat) to validators. Validators receive these signals, ensure trades are valid, and track portfolio performance over time. The scoring system evaluates miners across multiple risk-adjusted metrics over a 90-day rolling window, with miners ranked separately within each asset class. The top performers receive the largest share of TAO emissions. The elimination system enforces network quality. A plagiarism detection microservice analyzes the uniqueness of each submitted order. Miners whose drawdown exceeds 10% from their peak portfolio value are automatically removed. Miners ranking below the 15th position in their asset class enter a 30-day probationary period and must outperform the lowest-ranked active miner to remain in the competition. Over 26 governance proposals have been implemented to refine scoring, fees, and risk management mechanics. All miner contributions, validator scores, and reward distributions are recorded on-chain, ensuring full transparency. The barrier to entry is low: anyone with TAO can register a miner, and Taoshi provides open-source strategy-building resources through its community Discord, along with data partnerships with Glassnode and LunarCrush.
Frequently asked questions
What is it?
Vanta (SN8) is a Bittensor subnet designed as a decentralized proprietary trading network. It crowdsources advanced trading strategies from global participants and evaluates them based on verifiable trading performance.
How does it work?
Vanta (SN8) allows miners to submit trading signals for forex and crypto markets. Validators enforce predefined trading and risk constraints, track performance using metrics such as profit and loss, and eliminate miners who exceed drawdown limits or plagiarize strategies.
What is the main strength?
The main strength of Vanta (SN8) is its focus on measurable trading performance under strict risk controls. The subnet rewards consistency and risk-adjusted results, with a maximum 10% drawdown limit enforced for all participants.
What differentiates it?
Vanta (SN8) differentiates itself by treating live trading performance as the core output of the subnet. It operates as a decentralized hedge fund where participants compete to provide the most effective trading signals across multiple asset classes.
How to buy?
Vanta (SN8) tokens can be purchased on the SimplyTao platform where you have multiple payment methods, including Credit/Debit cards, Revolut, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Crypto, and TAO. Try it now here.
