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Tier A · SEC filing
Tier A SEC filing, read in full

Grayscale's Bittensor Trust signs Coinbase as a second custodian; BitGo stays primary

An 8-K filed on 5 October reports two agreements. The trust joined Coinbase's Prime Broker Agreement on 29 September so that Coinbase Custody can hold "a portion of the Trust's TAO". On 30 September it moved to BitGo's amended and restated custody agreement of 5 June 2026, replacing the March 2025 one (8-K, 5 Oct). The filing says the sponsor "has not determined the amount" it will move to Coinbase. It says nothing about an ETF conversion, although most posts on X described it as an ETF step. The trust also kept issuing shares to accredited investors in September: 151,900 shares for 2,869.4 TAO ($891,272), bringing shares outstanding to 2,994,200 on 28 September (8-K, 28 Sep). An earlier filing reported 2,842,300 on 15 September.

29 Sep
Coinbase signed
Not set
TAO to Coinbase
BitGo
Primary custodian
2,994,200
Shares, 28 Sep
2,869.4 τ
Sept issuance
$891,272
Same, USD
Grayscale Bittensor Trust (GTAO) · Coinbase Custody · BitGo — first carried on X by @FuturesWire 5 Oct 21:36 UTC

Revenue & traction

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Tier B Third-party index; method not re-checked

SubConnect now puts annualized subnet revenue at $50M+, up from $32–35M a month ago

SubConnect says Lium, Targon and Engy drove most of the jump. It also says Score and Vanta have started revenue-funded buybacks (2 Oct). Its August edition counted marketplace gross flow as revenue and accepted teams' own figures. Restated to platform revenue, that edition came to roughly $17–23M (our 26 Aug read). The new figure has not been broken down publicly.

$50M+
Annualized, claimed
$32–35M
Aug edition
+40%
Month on month
@WeAreSubConnect 2 Oct · amplified by @markjeffrey (473 likes)
Tier B Team account

Score (SN44) says September was its first break-even month and starts buyback-and-burn

Two "private track" partners are now long-term paid clients, with new clients in fuel retail and security via Manako. Buybacks and burns run from the owner address: the first were 9 × 1,044 and 1 × 4,444, and future amounts will not be announced (1 Oct). A new public contest, football event detection on youth-league footage, went live on 6 October with a best score of 53.1% against an 85% target (6 Oct).

Sept
First break-even
2
Paid partners
10
First buybacks
SN44 — @webuildscore 1 Oct 22:00 UTC (386 likes)
Tier B Team account, extrinsic linked

ReadyAI (SN33) jobs API at a $95k annual pace; September buyback 45% larger than August's

The team expects to pass six-figure annual revenue in October and links the September buyback transaction (6 Oct). August's buyback was 17.07 TAO, matched on chain in our 16 Sep check.

$95k
Annual pace
+45%
Sept vs Aug buyback
SN33 — @ReadyAI_ 6 Oct
Tier B Team claim relayed by a newsletter

Swarm (SN124) reports about $100k of 2026 revenue from two signed drone pilots

Two larger projects are still in sale. Buybacks are to start once the models are deployed on site (TAO Leeh, 4 Oct). The team's own post confirms two contracts signed this year; it is at World Summit AI in Amsterdam on 7–8 October (4 Oct).

~$100k
2026 revenue, claimed
2
Signed pilots
SN124 — @SwarmSubnet · @taoleeh
Tier B Commentator; not checked on chain

Vanta (SN8): third-party prop firms reportedly paid $20k in alpha in the first three days of October

The same thread claims 73,013 alpha collected since launch (about $640,000) and buybacks every six hours (@bittingthembits, 4 Oct). No team post with these figures was found in the window.

$20k
1–3 Oct, claimed
73,013 α
Since launch, claimed
SN8 — @bittingthembits 4 Oct
Tier B Team claim of a mechanism

Yanez (SN54): every Pulse and Gate transaction is to buy SN54 alpha, with 20% held and never sold

The team states the rule and is opening a referral scheme tied to a user's coldkey (2 Oct). Transaction volume is not disclosed.

20%
Held, never sold
SN54 — @yanez__ai 2 Oct

Partnership

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Tier B Principal account

Talisman wallet adds TAO bridging across Bittensor, its EVM, Base and Robinhood Chain

Built on ForeverMoney with Chainlink's cross-chain protocol (5 Oct). It brings the bridge already used for wrapped subnet tokens into a mainstream Polkadot-family wallet.

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Chains
@wearetalisman 5 Oct · @forevermoney_ai · @chainlink
Tier B Both teams' accounts

Pareton (SN10) now tunes how Engy (SN53) serves its models in production

Pareton describes Engy as "a big customer with serious traffic" (1 Oct). Engy says a Pareton-tuned Qwen model is already serving its production traffic (1 Oct). Pareton is the guest on Opentensor's Novelty Search this Thursday.

SN10 @Pareton_ai · SN53 @engyai — 1 Oct
Tier B Team account; partner unnamed

Beam (SN105) services arm signs an unnamed consulting firm for client integrations

Beam Professional Services is a separate entity (6 Oct). Beam Studio went live on 2 October, with a command-line tool a day earlier. Its quoted base price is $5 per terabyte delivered, against about $90 per terabyte for AWS egress (3 Oct).

$5/TB
Beam base
~$90/TB
AWS egress
SN105 — @b1m_ai

Product

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Tier B Opentensor + team

OpenRoboto (SN80) miners lift Physical Intelligence's π0.5 from about 55% to nearly 90% on simulated tasks

Reached in under a month (Opentensor, 2 Oct). This is miners improving an open model; Physical Intelligence itself took no action. OpenRoboto also launched an open benchmark with Axis Robotics (5 Oct). Axis has contributed over 3 million robot trajectories to the subnet's open data pool, per a community post.

~55% → ~90%
Sim success
<1 month
Time
SN80 — @opentensor 2 Oct · @openroboto · @axisrobotics
Tier B Team account

Say GM (SN28) offers to match OpenRouter bills with up to $5,000 in credit

Same models and SDK, with prompts run inside a confidential enclave (2 Oct). Users can now also choose how requests are routed between providers (6 Oct).

$5,000
Max credit
SN28 — @say_gm_
Tier B Team claim; registry not checked

Nepher (SN49) says robot makers can now select "Nepher Verified" certification

The team says it is listed alongside CE, UL, ISO, TÜV, FCC and FDA marks, with a public registry, and is live in the US (5 Oct). Where it is listed is not stated.

SN49 — @nepher_robotics 5 Oct
Tier B Team account

Endure takes SN30 to mainnet on 6 October with risk scoring for lending

The network produces competitive, outcome-scored risk models. Forge, a lending market, is the first product built on it (5 Oct; 2 Oct).

6 Oct
Mainnet
SN30 — @EndureNet
Tier B Team account

Niome (SN55) launches a pharmacogenomic inference network

Miners resolve drug-metabolism genotypes and prescribing recommendations on synthetic patient cases (6 Oct). Its founder was on Mark Jeffrey's podcast on 3 October.

SN55 — @NiomeAI 6 Oct

Protocol & governance

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Tier B Chain feed

Carbon is registered as SN116 on 4 October

The physics-simulation team that won Pitchtensor with 500 TAO in under 20 minutes now holds a slot. It was not yet trading as of 4 October (4 Oct). Capcomp's SN103 was renamed "Deprecated" the same week (Alpha Terminal digest).

SN116
Slot
500 τ
Raised
@carbonphysicsai · @ShizzyUnchained
Tier B Chain feed

Nodexo shifts to SN96 and is exploring a sale of SN106

The team lead confirmed the move (subnetradar, 5 Oct). Runtime v473 went live on mainnet the same day (5 Oct).

SN106 · SN96 — @subnetradarcom
Tier B Fund's own report

Stillcore publishes "TAO 2030", a case for a $1 trillion Bittensor ecosystem

SubConnect quotes the report as estimating that outside customers pay subnets $50–65M a year (4 Oct). It became an X news headline (Stillcore article, 585 likes). Stillcore had announced positions in at least ten subnets by 1 October, so this is a holder's case. Critics noted its own figures put customer revenue at about a sixth of issuance (5 Oct).

$1tn+
2030 case
$50–65M
Customer revenue, est.
@stillcorecap 4 Oct
Coverage. Read in a browser, 1 Oct 17:30 – 6 Oct 13:00 UTC: all 32 searches and the curated List reached the start of the window; 1,036 new posts. Circulating but not news: Green Compute's $3M + $4M data centres (reported last week) were re-posted widely this week. A wave of near-identical Crucible wallet posts is partly paid promotion; one is labelled as such. "Grayscale ETF approval" posts read more into the 8-K than it says. TAO about $290 on 3 Oct and $302 on 6 Oct (AlphaRadar morning report; X price card).