Kraken has completed the native integration of Bittensor’s dTAO and will begin listing subnet tokens in the near future.
What is a Bittensor?
Bittensor is a decentralized protocol that coordinates and rewards machine intelligence production. Rather than a single company training one large AI model in private, Bittensor is an open network where independent participants compete to provide valuable outputs, such as text generation, data scraping, price prediction, or protein folding, and are rewarded in TAO based on the usefulness of their work.
Bittensor rewards TAOs to contributors who generate information that other participants find valuable. The incentivized resources are different (useful AI output rather than raw hashing performance), but the basic idea is the same. This means paying a distributed crowd to use tokens to perform tasks that benefit the overall system.
What is dTAO?
dTAO, short for Dynamic TAO, is a model that provides every Bittensor subnet with its own token. Bittensor is a decentralized network of independent subnets, each operating as its own marketplace for specific digital goods such as machine intelligence, model training, data, or computing.
In dTAO, each subnet issues its own token and these are the subnet tokens we list. TAO remains the network’s fundamental asset and the unit through which value flows.
Why subnet tokens are important
Each subnet token represents participation in the economy of one specific subnet through its own market and its own emissions. This allows holders to participate directly in individual subnets rather than the network as a whole.
Staking is central to how subnets work.
Staking is at the heart of the dTAO model. Subnet tokens can be held or traded as well as staked to validators who secure each subnet within the protocol, with stakers sharing in the emissions generated by subnet activity.
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