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Miners
Produce intelligence
Miners run models and compute that solve real tasks — text, images, predictions, storage, inference. Better work earns more TAO.
Digital Mining Academy · TAO Economy
Learn to mine machine intelligence.
Bittensor is a training ground for the next generation of crypto miners. Master subnets, validators and TAO emissions — and turn raw compute into value on the world's open AI network.
21M
Max TAO supply
12s
Block time
100+
Active subnets
41·41·18
Miner · Validator · Owner split %
How it works
Mining, rewritten for the AI era
Bitcoin rewards hashing. Bittensor rewards useful intelligence. This is the loop you'll learn to master.
02
Validators
Score the work
Validators test miners, rank their output and set weights on-chain. Honest, accurate scoring is rewarded through Yuma Consensus.
03
Subnets
Compete in markets
Each subnet is a specialised marketplace with its own incentive design and alpha token. You choose where your hardware creates the most value.
Learning paths
From first wallet to full validator
Level 01
Foundations
Crypto-assets, blockchains, wallets and keys. Everything you need before plugging in a single GPU.
Level 02
Miner track
Register on a subnet, deploy your miner, tune performance and track your emissions in real time.
Level 03
Validator track
Staking, weight setting, delegation and the economics of running trusted network infrastructure.
The TAO token
Digital scarcity meets digital intelligence
TAO follows Bitcoin's playbook: a hard cap of 21 million, a fair launch with no pre-mine and periodic halvings. Every token in circulation was earned by contributing to the network.
- Fair launch — no ICO, no pre-mine, no investor allocation
- Halvings cut issuance as supply reaches each milestone
- Stake TAO into subnets to receive their alpha tokens
- Smallest unit: 1 rao = 0.000000001 TAO
Your hardware. Your intelligence. Your rewards.
Join the academy and learn to mine the network that pays for intelligence.
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