Bittensor (TAO)

In your opinion, is bittensor:native Bittensor capable of decoupling from bitcoin:native price action and following its own path in the short term, meaning over the next 15–45 days? Tomorrow I’ll repost this with my own opinion. For now, I’d like to hear your thoughts.

Good question. I have some still. But it has some truly fundamental flaws in my humble opinion. Funnily enough, they’re quite easily solvable but it seems like the whole point is missed, or even disregarded. I went fairly heavy at first in the early runup, but after the recent sn debacle I understood how much misalignment and constant drama keeps coming out of it. For as decentralized as it all claims to be, it’s also really not much at all. Wich is not a cardinal sin necessarily for a project like that, but then it should really be much easier to solve for my last point. The main one. Because more importantly - and this is less of a tangible I’m aware - but there’s that almost snooty “too good for thy” disregard for front facing normie frindliness. Lack of onboarding capabilities, almost disdain of. There’s no decent bridge, very little interoperability. Heck, I am deeeep into crypto, and fairly connected but even with the help of absolutely lovely people like @MaxScore from Sire/Sn44 - who’s projects I hold - and @adamsternbach who’s always been incredibly gracious in showing me around, I struggled with some absolute basics: how is there no proper Hardware wallet support other than Ledger, wich has repeatedly shown itself to be dangerously leaking people’s data? I could go on for hours and hours on all the little things that could be easily fixed and just tell me: not ready. And there’s a poin where “still early” starts to turn into Cosmos vibes - another ecosystem that I loved but ivory towered itself into oblivioun and irrelevance. Cause the whole point here is adoption. You do need users. You do need interoperability. You need good decentralized onboarding solutions: I don’t want to use a fucking cex in 2026! Unironically, you probably need a good degen who’s deep in the day to day of things, someone like me lol. A director of vibes of sorts with technical DeFi and architectural expertise and a good understanding of what actually good comms look like for the few crazies left here that still deeply care, and to onboard the next wave. The potential is so clearly massive - I hold both some Tao and some subnets fir that moonshot - that I actually would be happy to take some sort of short term advisory position for the first time in 5 years and help out @TAO_dot_com, I bet all I’d need is a short 3 months and willing years. I’m not cheap though…

$TAO is holding a key support zone around $215 and continues to print higher lows. If buyers maintain control, a breakout could send price toward $221.6, followed by $228.8 and $236.7. Invalidation remains below $206.5. DYOR, NFA #TAO #TAOUSDT https://t.co/929UIplbxS

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Buying the high is never ideal.. But buying the pull-backs is.. VAL re-claim at $228 and its on.. https://t.co/ZMaAbafT9M

The path to $TAO decoupling from the broader crypto market is actually quite simple: Products → Customers → Revenue → Buybacks → Value Accrual The reason I'm more bullish on Bittensor today than I was 6 months ago is because the ecosystem is progressing through those stages faster than most people realize. Not that long ago, the main challenge for subnets was proving they could build product. Could they leverage Bittensor to solve a real problem? For many of the serious teams, that stage is now largely behind them. The conversation has shifted. It's no longer about whether they can build. It's about whether they can find product-market fit, land paying customers (phase 2), and eventually scale (phase 3). More and more subnets are now working directly with design partners and early customers. Instead of building products based on assumptions, they're building solutions around real business problems. That's how sustainable businesses are created. And that's where the new money enters the ecosystem. Through customers paying for products that create value. Once that revenue starts flowing back into subnet economies, the flywheel starts spinning. That's why I believe the long-term winners in Bittensor won't be determined by hype. They'll be determined by value creation. The subnets that successfully capture real-world revenue and feed value back into the ecosystem will be the ones that outperform. And when enough subnets start doing that, I think that's when $TAO truly begins to decouple from the rest of crypto.