Bittensor’s native cryptocurrency TAO climbed 8.3% to close at $264.83 on Monday, reaching an intraday peak of $277. This marks TAO’s highest level in three months and extends a five-day rally that has driven the token approximately 25% higher from its baseline near $220 at the start of September.
TAO gains momentum through new integrationsThe surge follows TAO’s breakout above a key downward trendline, which had previously contained the token’s price action for several weeks. Trading data from CoinGlass shows that 24-hour futures volume soared 158% to $868 million, while open interest now stands at $434.6 million, a three-month high. This level of activity highlights the renewed interest in TAO among both spot and derivatives traders.
Raydium, a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Solana network, recently introduced trading pairs for TAO. This move has linked the AI-focused token with Solana’s broader decentralized finance ecosystem, making TAO more accessible to DeFi participants. Shortly after, Buttensor—a newly launched meme-inspired crypto project on Raydium—entered the scene with a unique tokenomics structure.
Buttutensor converts transaction fees from its ecosystem directly into TAO purchases, with accumulated tokens distributed to holders of its own native coin. By tying fee conversion to TAO acquisitions, Buttensor is generating continuous buy pressure for the original Bittensor token in tandem with meme coin trading volumes.
Mini dictionary: Bittensor, an open-source protocol focused on decentralized artificial intelligence, enables participants to contribute, train, and curate machine learning models on a blockchain-based network powered by its TAO token.
Social activity around TAO has also risen, with monitoring from Santiment showing its social dominance metric increasing from 0.05% to 0.12% following these collaborations and launches. The debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-6 Astra has helped direct extra attention toward artificial intelligence-linked tokens, including TAO.
TAO momentum accelerated after Solana DEX Raydium introduced trading pairs and Buttensor’s fee-to-TAO mechanism boosted buying pressure, causing TAO’s social metrics and market activity to surge.
Major protocol upgrades reinforce Bittensor’s fundamentalsThroughout August and into September, Bittensor introduced significant changes to its core protocol. Version 440 launched the Emission Gate mechanism, linking subnet rewards to market demand. If a subnet meets demand thresholds, it receives emissions correlated to price, but those that fall short see nearly all emissions halted. Additional releases—V441, V446, V447, and V448—brought further refinements to staking systems, alpha calculations, and subnet governance processes.
The launch of Version 450 marked a shift to a validator-curated root basket system, which places a concentration cap of 1/16 to achieve more balanced exposure between eligible subnets. Meanwhile, Chainlink’s interoperability technology has expanded TAO’s cross-chain capabilities, linking Bittensor to Robinhood Chain. The Bittensor Exploit Summit is scheduled to take place on September 28 and 29.
Technology analysts have noted that Gittensor’s RTX 5090-optimized Qwen3.8-27B model witnessed over 500,000 downloads on Hugging Face this week, reflecting growing developer interest in decentralized AI innovation. Developers have also highlighted the integration of GPT-6 Astra into Bittensor protocols, bringing advanced AI resources directly to the TAO network.
TAO’s technical outlook and price targetsMarket observers have identified $260 to $265 as a new support range for TAO following its trendline breakout, with resistance forming between $277 and $280. If these resistance levels are surpassed, analysts indicate that $300 will be the next area of interest for bullish traders.
Open interest in TAO derivatives has reached $434.6 million, underscoring the increase in leveraged investor participation as the price approaches key resistance levels. According to crypto analyst CryptoPatel, TAO has rallied 89% from his previously defined accumulation zone, with the analyst keeping a long-term target of $3,000 on the table. He also noted that $300 to $350 may serve as the next trigger zone for another potential surge.
TAO’s technical landscape shows strong support at $260–$265 and immediate resistance at $277–$280, with $300 in sight as the rally continues and leveraged participation grows.
MetricValueChangeCurrent price$264.83+8.3% in 24 hours5-day gain+25%From ~$220 to peak24h futures volume$868 million+158%Open interest$434.6 million3-month highTAO’s recent rally demonstrates the combined impact of ecosystem expansion, technical upgrades, and strong speculative participation within both the spot and derivatives markets.
Bitcoin, $82.320 seviyesini aşamamasının ardından yeniden geri çekildi. BTC, gece yarısından bu yana %0,42 düşerek 78.800 dolar civarına gerilerken son 24 saatteki kaybı %0,75 oldu.
Ancak piyasanın tamamı Bitcoin’i takip etmiyor. BNB %2 yükselirken PancakeSwap ve Syrup da değer kazandı. Aerodrome Finance ise yaklaşık %18’lik yükselişle günün en dikkat çekici altcoinlerinden biri oldu. Peki Bitcoin düşerken bazı tokenler neden yükseliyor?
BNB ve DeFi Tokenleri Neden Ayrışıyor? Piyasadaki yükselişin merkezinde BNB Chain bağlantılı tokenler bulunuyor. BNB, 754 dolara çıkarken PancakeSwap (CAKE) son 24 saatte %7,5, Syrup (SYRUP) ise yaklaşık %4,9 yükseldi.
CoinDesk 100’deki tokenlerin 42’si düşüşte olmasına rağmen BNB ve bağlantılı varlıkların pozitif kalması, sermayenin piyasanın belirli bölümlerine yöneldiğini gösteriyor.
DeFi tarafında ise daha sert hareket Aerodrome Finance’ta görüldü.
AERO Yükselişinin Arkasında Ne Var? Aerodrome Finance’in AERO tokeni son 24 saatte yaklaşık %18 yükselerek 64 sente ulaştı ve CoinDesk 100’ün en güçlü yükselen tokeni oldu.
Fiyat hareketine vadeli işlemler de eşlik etti. AERO’nun açık pozisyonları 129 milyon token ile rekor seviyeye çıktı.
Açık pozisyon, yatırımcıların vadeli piyasalarda hâlâ açık tuttuğu toplam pozisyonları gösteriyor. AERO’nun yükselen fiyatıyla birlikte bu verinin de artması, yeni pozisyonların harekete eşlik ettiğine işaret ediyor.
Üstelik AERO’nun CVD göstergesi de pozitif. Bu veri, alıcıların piyasa fiyatından daha agresif işlemler gerçekleştirdiğini gösteriyor.
Bitcoin Gerilerken Hangi Coinler Yükseliyor? AERO dışında Injective’in INJ tokeni de yaklaşık %10 yükseldi. INJ’nin yükselişi, son dönemde satışların yoğunlaştığı 6 dolar seviyesinin üzerine çıkmasıyla birlikte geldi.
VeChain’in VET tokeni de yaklaşık %8 değer kazanarak güçlü performans gösterdi. Böylece Bitcoin ve büyük kripto paralar baskı altındayken bazı DeFi ve blockchain tokenlerinde yükseliş devam etti.
Ancak piyasanın tamamı aynı yönde hareket etmiyor.
Raydium (RAY) gece yarısından bu yana %5,5 gerilerken Kaspa (KAS) %4,7 düştü. Bittensor (TAO) son 24 saatte %3,7 değer kaybetti. Jupiter (JUP) ise pazartesi günkü %9’luk düşüşün ardından %3,8 daha geriledi.
Türev Piyasası Bitcoin İçin Ne Söylüyor? Bitcoin tarafında satış baskısı sürerken vadeli işlemlerde toplam açık pozisyon yaklaşık 141 milyar dolar seviyesinde kaldı. Buna karşılık işlem hacmi %5 artarak 149,85 milyar dolara çıktı.
Bitcoin’in fiyatı yaklaşık 80.000 dolardan 78.700 dolara gerilerken bazı büyük vadeli işlem sözleşmelerindeki açık pozisyonların 257.000 BTC’den 265.000 BTC’ye yükselmesi de dikkat çekiyor. Bu hareket, bazı traderların düşüş beklentisiyle short pozisyon açmış olabileceğine işaret ediyor.
Buna karşın opsiyon piyasasında tamamen karamsar bir görünüm yok. Deribit’te haftalık vadeli işlemlerde call opsiyonların öne çıkması, kısa vadede yükseliş beklentisinin tamamen kaybolmadığını gösteriyor.
Bitcoin Düşerken Piyasa Nereye Yöneliyor? Bitcoin’in geri çekilmesi piyasadaki tüm sermayeyi aynı anda dışarı itmiyor. BNB Chain, DeFi ve bazı memecoinlerde görülen yükselişler, yatırımcıların belirli alanlarda risk almaya devam ettiğini gösteriyor.
Bitcoin tarafındaki yön ise yükselen petrol fiyatları, Fed’in faiz artırabileceğine ilişkin beklentiler ve yüksek tahvil getirileri nedeniyle baskı altında kalıyor.
Bu nedenle önümüzdeki hareketi anlamak için yalnızca Bitcoin’in fiyatına bakmak yeterli olmayabilir. Bitcoin zayıf kalırken AERO, BNB ve diğer ayrışan tokenlerdeki alımın devam edip etmeyeceği, piyasanın risk iştahı hakkında daha önemli bir sinyal verebilir.
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What if you could turn a decentralized mining network into a global army of ethical hackers? That’s the premise behind RedTeam, a subnet on Bittensor that pits miners against each other in competitive security challenges. And the results, at least on paper, are hard to ignore: bot detection efficacy jumped from 74.3% to 99.5% over 11 months of continuous adversarial testing.
The project, operated by cybersecurity firm Innerworks under Bittensor’s subnet 61 (SN61), is now gearing up for its next phase. An “Immune System” designed to expand bot detection into real-time attack-and-defense operations is on the way, complete with a new challenge called “Bot Virus” that aims to breed adversarial agents capable of doing both simultaneously.
How turning miners into hackers actually works Miners submit code-based solutions to specific security challenges. Those solutions get evaluated in controlled environments, and performers earn TAO tokens based on how well their submissions stack up against the competition.
Since its launch in late 2024, RedTeam has run 14 distinct challenges, deprecating 9 of them as the network’s capabilities matured past the difficulty threshold.
The challenges span a range of security scenarios, from human-behavior mimicry to automation bypass testing. Miners submit Docker-based solutions, which means each entry is a self-contained software package that can be spun up and tested in isolation.
The 99.5% bot detection figure is the headline stat, but the more telling number might be this: while RedTeam’s network was sharpening its detection capabilities, the average performance rate of competing systems fell to just 14.6%.
Enterprise traction beyond the subnet Innerworks has integrated its technology with 1inch, the well-known DeFi aggregation protocol, and with a major messaging application that serves over 100 million daily active users.
Beyond those two, five additional enterprise applications are currently being tested on the platform. Those five collectively carry valuations exceeding $22 billion and each processes more than 1 billion transactions per week.
The Immune System and what comes next The centerpiece is the “Bot Virus” challenge, which flips the traditional attacker-defender paradigm. Instead of miners only building better detectors, they’ll also be tasked with creating adversarial agents that can simultaneously attack and defend.
The Immune System will feature encrypted submissions, a design choice aimed at preventing miners from copying each other’s work. It will also introduce enhanced incentive structures to reward continuous innovation rather than one-time breakthroughs.
On the economic side, Innerworks plans to initiate alpha token buybacks funded through revenue from its SaaS operations, alongside locked profits and upcoming emissions.
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Well-known trader Killa: Altcoins may have already bottomed out ahead of schedule, making now a good time to accumulate positions.
Renowned crypto trader Killa said in a recent post that while he dislikes the vast majority of altcoins and even believes 99.9% of projects will eventually go to zero, selective participation is worth it as long as there are profit opportunities in the market. He noted that historically, one of the favorable periods to allocate to altcoins is when Bitcoin starts forming a bottom and begins a gradual rally. Killa pointed out that during the last cycle, when Bitcoin rallied from $16,000 to $74,000, many altcoins saw gains of 300% to 500%. However, after Bitcoin began significantly outperforming the market and its market dominance rose further, many altcoins started to plunge sharply. He believes that if his assessment is correct and Bitcoin has now formed a cyclical bottom, many altcoins may have also completed bottoming at low levels, meaning there is significant upside potential for selectively allocating to quality assets ahead of the actual bull market expansion phase. Killa revealed that he previously bought SOL at $76, and the position is now up roughly 50% from entry. His previously disclosed entry price for HYPE spot and long positions was $51.55, with subsequent gains of around 70%. He also recently shared a swing long position in ASTER, and expects this position to deliver upside of at least 50% to 100%. “Altcoins may have already bottomed out in advance, while the real rally has not yet started. Now is the time for selective allocation,” he said. He added that different altcoins will likely rally in rotation going forward, and he will continue holding his previously disclosed positions in SOL, ASTER, and HYPE, while looking for more worthy assets to allocate to.
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Bitcoin drops back below $80,000; this week's inflation data may be key to determining its next market direction.
Bitcoin fell in low-liquidity conditions on Monday, dropping nearly 2% intraday, falling back below the $80,000 threshold again and erasing almost all of its gains from the weekend when it first broke above that level. This comes after Bitcoin notched its first weekly close above $80,000 since May. Due to the U.S. Labor Day holiday, U.S. stock markets were closed, reducing market liquidity and leading to thinner order books, amplifying the risk of short-term price swings. Data from CoinGlass shows that long and short liquidations in the crypto market over the past 24 hours were relatively balanced, with total liquidations amounting to around $178 million. Currently, near-term market liquidity is concentrated at two key levels: $80,500 and $78,800. QCP Capital noted that market volatility has continued to contract recently, with traders waiting for new external catalysts. U.S. inflation data set to be released this Thursday and Friday could be a key factor influencing the market’s direction and further shaping expectations for the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike path. Despite Bitcoin’s recent sideways consolidation, analysts are still highlighting its resilience. Ryan Lee, chief analyst at Bitget, stated that Bitcoin’s ability to hold its high range—even amid stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data, which typically boosts U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar and pressures risk assets—shows the market is not viewing potential Fed rate hikes as the sole determinant of current price action. Additionally, inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs remain a key market focus, with net inflows hitting around $730 million in a single day earlier, marking the highest daily inflow since January this year.
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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warns that AI is advancing too rapidly, saying “extreme caution” is needed now.
Insight: Beating AI News Flash — OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that artificial intelligence is advancing too rapidly, growing increasingly difficult for humans to understand and control, stating that "extreme caution is needed now." He noted that AI models can already operate computers, collaborate with humans and other AIs, and conduct research, and that in the near future, they may achieve "recursive self-improvement" without human intervention. Pachocki expressed concern that no one is prepared for the consequences of the continuous rapid advancement of machine intelligence. Developers can align AI more closely with human interests, or slow down future research and development (R&D) if necessary. He anticipates and hopes that "voluntary slowdowns" in R&D by AI labs will become the norm before the industry establishes common safety standards. OpenAI has currently adopted a limited rollout approach for GPT-6 Astra due to its advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Hunter Biden’s upcoming Meme coin project, set to launch on September 9, has released detailed tokenomics for its LAPTOP token on its official website. The LAPTOP token has a total supply of 1 billion units, with 35% (350 million tokens) unlocked at the Token Generation Event (TGE), and full unlocking will take 36 months. The token allocations are as follows: 30% to founders, 30% to prediction markets, 10% to initial airdrops, 10% to future airdrops, 10% to liquidity, 5% to the foundation treasury, and 5% to charity. Notably, the handling of the 30% total allocation will be determined by the settlement results of 30 Polymarket prediction markets covering political, crypto, and cultural categories. If a market settles to YES, the corresponding tokens will be burned directly; if settled to NO, they will be donated to charity.
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The Hunter Biden-linked meme coin LAPTOP warns the community to beware of counterfeit tokens and malicious links.
Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, is set to launch a meme coin called LAPTOP. The project team has issued a reminder to the community to beware of counterfeit tokens and malicious links, stating that the LAPTOP project will never proactively contact users, nor will it ever request private keys, mnemonic phrases, or personal information, urging users to only trust communications from official channels. As BlockBeats previously reported, after Hunter Biden officially announced the coin launch, numerous LAPTOP-named tokens emerged on various popular meme coin blockchains, with most of them following a trend of surging first and then plummeting to near-zero value.
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Markets currently view the probability of the Republican Party securing a landslide victory in the midterm elections as low as just 11%.
According to data from Predict.fun, in its prediction market for the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections, the current probability of a "Democratic landslide" is as high as 51%, the probability of Republicans winning the Senate and Democrats holding the House is currently reported at 35%, while the probability of a "Republican landslide" is only 11%.
AI-themed tokens have recently seen renewed capital rotation. Bittensor [TAO] is in the middle of fresh market demand. In fact, the market cap of AI coins jumped by 5% to $19 billion while trading volume skyrocketed by 18% to $3.97 billion.
Amid this sector-wide capital flow, TAO has shown strong upside pressure, extending its upsurge after previously flipping $250 to reach a high of $277. The coin has not reached these levels since June.
As of this writing, Bittensor was trading around $272, up 13.4% on the daily charts. At the same time, market cap crossed $3 billion while the trading volume rose 164% to $558 million.
TAO pumped strongly as it went live on Raydium. The integration connected decentralized AI infrastructure with Solana’s DeFi capital. Since Raydium leverages Solana’s user base, with the integration, TAO now has a wider user base.
One area that TAO benefits the most is integration with memecoin launchpads, especially StonkFun. In fact, after it went live, a Bittensor memecoin was launched on Solana called BUTT.
BUTT’s market cap rose to over $6 million. However, BUTT’s holders had to swap to TAO first, which in turn drove the price for TAO.
Demand for Bittensor on the rise again Incentivized by the expanded reach, investors have increased capital deployment significantly. On the Spot side, for example, the market has recorded a positive delta for five consecutive days.
Source: Coinalyze Coinalyze data showed that Bittensor recorded 265k in buy volume with the buy/sell delta rising to 24k. This indicated buyer dominance on the Spot market.
On the derivatives side, traders have also increased participation. In fact, the altcoin’s Open Interest surged $428 million, marking a four-month high.
Source: CoinGlass With OI rising to May levels, it suggests traders have opened new positions, both shorts and longs, a clear sign of increased speculation.
Historically, strong speculative demand and Spot accumulation have strengthened momentum, leading to more gains on the price charts.
Is the uptrend sustainable? Bittensor is under strong bullish pressure amid renewed market interest and capital rotation. The expanded user base with the memecoin launch on Raydium has strengthened the uptrend.
A look at the MACD showed that the momentum indicator formed a bullish crossover and climbed to 10. At the same time, the Awesome Oscillator rose to 22, holding green for two consecutive days.
Source: Tradingview Rising MACD and AO reflect buyer dominance in the market. Often, such a setup has resulted in some more gains.
Therefore, if the market conditions hold, Bittensor will close above $280 and eye the $300 resistance level. However, if the speculation around Raydium integration fades, TAO will retrace to $234.
Final Summary TAO surged 13%, to reach a three-month high of $277, then retraced to $267 at press time. The main catalysts were Raydium’s integration and the launch of BUTT memecoin, which brought in more demand.
Bittensor Commons has confirmed the full details of Exploit Summit 2026, the Bittensor ecosystem’s native conference, taking place at New City Gas in Montreal on September 28 and 29.
The two-day programme covers talks, debates, workshops, and live subnet demonstrations, organised around what the network is built on: game-theoretic competitive design, in which independent miners compete against validator scoring mechanisms and are rewarded by results.
Speakers confirmed to date include include Jacob Steeves (Affine), Marcus Graichen (Taostats), Rob Myers (Manifold Labs, Subnet 4 Targon), Jon Durbin (Chutes, Subnet 64), Micaela Bazo (Metanova Labs, NOVA, Subnet 68), Will Squires and Steffen Cruz (Macrocosmos), Max Sebti (Score), Ken Jon Miyachi (BitMind), Ben James (404Gen), Bob Wold (Quantum Rings), Yoav Cohen (Tao.com), Miguel Enrile (Swarm), Wouter Haringhuizen (Zeus), Mamad Anghari (Minos), John Yu (Bitsec), Jose Caldera (Yanez), Gavin Zaentz (Leadpoet), Tom Lynch (Actual Computer) and Jean-Thomas Ledore (PwC France).
Further speakers will be announced. The full speaker roster is available on the event website.
Platinum sponsors are Affine, Chutes, the Opentensor Foundation, Proof of Talk, Taostats, and Manifold. Gold tier: Lium, Score, and KubeTEE. Titanium: Dendrite.
Silver-tier sponsors are 404gen, Bitcast, BitMind, Gradients, Openroboto, Leadpoet, Mentat Minds, and Yanez AI. Additional support comes from Bitstarter, McGill AI Lab, Subnets for Good, BTLabs, and Vidaio.
Organisers cite Montreal’s role in the development of deep learning, the concentration of Canadian contributors in the Bittensor community, and the city’s accessibility from Europe and across North America as the reasons for the location. The venue, New City Gas, is a restored 19th-century industrial complex in Griffintown.
“Exploit is not a showcase. It is the ecosystem in one room, arguing. Subnets demo, people push back, and the network gets better for it. That is how Bittensor works, so that is how the conference works.” – Etienne Leroy, Director, Opentensor Foundation
Sponsorship opportunities remain available, and speaker proposals are open, both via [email protected]. Tickets are on sale via the event’s registration page and are non-refundable but transferable, with name changes handled by the organisers.
ABOUT EXPLOIT SUMMITExploit Summit is Bittensor’s native conference, held at New City Gas in Montreal on September 28-29, 2026. Across two days of talks, debates, workshops, and live demonstrations, the event gathers builders, researchers, and operators working at the intersection of machine learning, incentive design, and distributed networks. More at exploitsummit.com
About Bittensor
Bittensor is a decentralised incentive network designed to coordinate global contributors to build machine intelligence collaboratively rather than behind closed doors. More than 100 subnet teams currently operate on the network. https://bittensor.com
About Bittensor Commons
Bittensor Commons is a non-profit initiative dedicated to the visibility, understanding, and adoption of Bittensor, run by and for the community. It produces Exploit Summit.
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Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, one of the largest open-source simulation datasets for Franka arm manipulation, with the full dataset, training code, and benchmarks publicly available. V1 is built from more than 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks and 60,000+ scene variants on a simulated Franka Research 3 arm.
This dataset drew over 160,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded open-source simulation Franka manipulation dataset on Hugging Face. In benchmarks, continual pretraining on V1 lifted π0.5 and beat a volume-matched RoboCasa baseline, with every result open and verifiable.
Axis Robotics is building the ultimate compounding data engine for Physical AI, a vertically integrated system spanning large-scale simulation, egocentric real-world capture, humanoid loco-manipulation, and human-gated DAgger post-training. The company raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and angel investors.
A Bet Against “Clean Data Only”A common assumption in robotics is that demonstrations must be near-optimal to begin with — filter down to expert trajectories, standardize the setup, and discard anything noisy before it is safe to imitate. Axis’s thesis runs the other way: data quality lives at the distribution level, not the single trajectory. When a large and diverse enough crowd produces noisy, suboptimal trajectories and their errors are uncorrelated, the noise averages out and a working policy survives during training.
Axis Sim Dataset V1 puts that thesis to a public test. Its trajectories span pick-and-place, stacking, pouring, articulated-object manipulation, and tool use, all collected through Axis’s browser-based teleoperation platform, Axis Hub, by a distributed crowd rather than a single expert team. The dataset was built with researchers from UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan, and other institutions.
Results That ScaleOn LIBERO-Plus, continual pretraining on V1 lifts π0.5 from 83.9% to 88.8% success and outperforms a volume-matched RoboCasa365 baseline by 37.3%. Performance improves consistently as pretraining data scales from 25% to 100% of the dataset, with no saturation in sight, evidence that the gains come from diversity and coverage rather than a one-off bump. The largest improvements appear under camera, sensor-noise, and layout perturbations, the exact axes Axis randomizes during generation.
The team says V2 is already underway, scaling to 1.2 million trajectories across 1,200 tasks, with cross-embodiment generalization and results across multiple VLA models showing that suboptimal simulation data trains robust policies.
The Engine Behind the DatasetThe dataset is one output of a larger, actively compounding data engine. Where a traditional data vendor collects to a fixed spec and stops, Axis uses model performance and failure cases to determine what should be collected next, so every training round informs the next. That engine runs on a hybrid strategy across four data lines, and all four now run at scale:
Simulation: over 200,000 distributed contributors on Axis Hub, a top-3 dApp on Base, producing 4.7M+ trajectories across 13 embodiments. Egocentric: a managed network of 1,000+ full-time, QC-trained collectors capturing first-person activity in real homes and businesses across 14 industries: 200,000+ hours already banked and growing by 4,000+ hours every day, with Vicon-verified hand pose. Loco-manipulation: 500+ hours combining mobility and dexterity on real humanoids (Unitree G1, Booster T2) through hardware-agnostic teleoperation. Human-gated DAgger post-training: 500+ hours of human-in-the-loop correction targeted at deployment edge cases. Every task and trajectory is recorded on-chain on Base for provenance, and contributors are rewarded for verified work quality.
From Open Data to Commercial DeploymentBeyond open-sourcing simulation data, Axis works directly with robot embodiment companies to build customized, embodiment-specific data pipelines and model priors.
As Booster Robotics’ first sim-data partner, Axis rebuilt Booster’s real workspace as a task-aligned digital twin, had distributed contributors collect 42,000+ simulation episodes on it, and distilled them into a Booster-specific model prior. With just 30 real-robot demos, that prior reached 87.5% success versus 37.5% for an out-of-the-box π0.5, matching π0.5 using half the real-world demonstrations.
Other partners span embodiment companies (Feagine Robotics), model companies (Manycore Tech, Dexmal) and industrial automation (Lotus Cars, Geely Auto). Axis also supplies on-chain robotics networks: BitRobot on Solana and OpenRoboto on Bittensor.
Redefining Physical AI’s Data Foundation“The future of Physical AI isn’t a static dataset you download once,” said Chris Feng, founder of Axis Robotics. “It’s an engine that keeps producing the data the model needs next. Scale gets you broad coverage. Diversity keeps the noise unbiased. The closed loop turns every failure into progress. That’s what compounds.”
Axis was founded by researchers from UC Berkeley, CMU, Georgia Tech, and SJTU, alongside serial founders who have scaled consumer platforms to over 30 million users. Its research is advised by Jiachen Li, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech.
Leading artificial intelligence (AI) tokens surged on September 7, showing strong gains following new industry developments. Bittensor (TAO) soared to $270, reaching its highest value since mid-June and marking an increase of 50% from its July low.
Major AI tokens post sharp gainsNear Protocol (NEAR) climbed to $2.49, a level not seen since June 16, while Venice Token (VVV) rallied to $18.67, reflecting over 90% growth from its lowest July valuation. Other top AI coins, including Akash Network (AKT) and Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET), also recorded notable increases.
These gains come as interest in AI-based cryptocurrencies accelerates, with traders focusing on the sector’s rapid expansion and the latest product launches.
Anthropic IPO sparks optimismThe rally in TAO, NEAR, and VVV is largely attributed to news about the upcoming initial public offering (IPO) of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence safety and research company. Anthropic is reportedly preparing to appoint Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriters for its IPO. Additional participating banks include Barclays and JPMorgan.
According to the report, Anthropic may publish its S-1 prospectus as early as this week, followed by a marketing roadshow targeting institutional investors. The IPO itself could take place later in September or in October.
Details of Anthropic’s IPO, including the possible publication of the S-1 filing this week, have contributed to the sharp rally in AI-related tokens as investors anticipate renewed interest in the sector.
Industry observers noted similar trading momentum in AI tokens before other major IPO events such as the SpaceX offering.
TokenCurrent PriceJuly LowChange (%)Bittensor (TAO)$270$180+50%Near Protocol (NEAR)$2.49$1.42+75%Venice Token (VVV)$18.67$9.82+90%Mini dictionary: Anthropic is a US-based AI company focusing on safety research and development of advanced language models, competing with firms like OpenAI in large-scale artificial intelligence.
OpenAI Astra launches amid IPO speculationThe positive sentiment for AI tokens was further lifted by OpenAI’s launch of Astra, its most recent AI model designed to compete with Anthropic’s latest releases. Astra’s GPT-6 model features a 1 million token context window and an artificial intelligence index rating of 55, just slightly below Anthropic’s 57.
The cost per token for Astra stands at $2.57, which is significantly lower than the $6.12 price of Fable 5.1, another AI product on the market. OpenAI aims for Astra’s launch to narrow the competitive gap with Anthropic, particularly after losing market traction in recent months.
OpenAI is reportedly considering an IPO later in the year or early next year, after deciding to postpone its previous timeline due to stalled revenue growth and ongoing strategic initiatives.
Mini dictionary: S-1 prospectus is an official SEC filing required by companies planning to go public in the United States, providing comprehensive details about the company’s business and financials.
AI stocks rebound and investor sentiment improvesMajor AI cryptocurrencies such as Venice AI, Near Protocol, and Bittensor are climbing as capital flows back into AI-related equities. Shares of prominent AI hardware and semiconductor manufacturers like Nvidia, Micron, and SanDisk have rallied in recent weeks. Similarly, international tech giants SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics have also registered strong gains.
Increased optimism for the AI sector is reflected in robust web traffic for Venice AI, which recorded over 17 million visits in August compared to 15 million the previous month. The surge in engagement prompted the burning of VVV tokens valued at more than $700,000.
Stronger risk appetite in the crypto market has also supported the ongoing rally in AI tokens, with the Crypto Fear and Greed Index now signaling a shift toward greed.
Analysts indicate that these developments suggest continued momentum for the AI token sector if broader market conditions remain favorable.
Bittensor (TAO) is trading in the green on Monday, continuing a steady upward trend over the last five days, with a 25% gain. Social chatter surrounding Bittensor is increasing amid a similarly named meme coin launched on Solana and the release of ChatGPT-6 Astra. The technical outlook for TAO is bullish as momentum strengthens and buyers target the $300 breakout.
Solana’s meme coin and ChatGPT-6 Astra boost Bittensor’s social volumeBittensor is gaining retail strength and social volume following its 16% rally last week. A Bittensor-parody meme coin named Buttensor (BUTT) launched on Raydium, a Solana-based Decentralized Exchange (DEX), on Monday, paired against TAO. The parody meme coin follows the official launch of the TAO token on Raydium the previous day.
Meme coin's setup directs transaction fees to automatically buy TAO tokens and distribute them to BUTT meme coin holders. This constant buying pressure is driven by retail demand, and speculation funnels capital inflow into the Bittensor ecosystem through direct purchases and indirectly through the meme coin.
In addition, the release of ChatGPT-6 Astra renews demand for AI tokens in the cryptocurrency market. Santiment data shows the Social Dominance of TAO rose to 0.05% on Thursday upon Astra’s release and has since increased to 0.12%, driven by the emergence of the Buttensor meme coin.
TAO social dominance data. Source: SantimentOn the derivatives side, CoinGlass data shows that TAO Open Interest (OI) stands at a three-month high of $428.57 million, suggesting a steady build in positions.
TAO Open Interest chart. Source: CoinGlassTechnical outlook: Could TAO extend gains above $300?Bittensor edges higher on Monday after a 12% rise the previous day, extending a strong bullish bias as the price trades at a two-month high. The AI-token trades well above the 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs), which are clustered between roughly $221 and $236.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) at 70 on the daily chart shows overbought conditions, signaling vulnerability to a cooling phase, while the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) remains positive above its signal line, suggesting upside momentum is intact.
The immediate resistance for TAO aligns with the $300 psychological threshold, where a confirmed breakout could open the path toward the September 13, 2025 high at $369.
TAO/USDT daily price chart.On the downside, initial support appears at the 200-day EMA near $236, with additional demand seen around the 100-day EMA at $222 and the 50-day EMA at $220, if a deeper pullback unfolds.
(The technical analysis of this story was written with the help of an AI tool. Know more.)
Five altcoins carry more near-term upside than Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) or XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) heading into Q4, according to a widely-followed cryptocurrency influencer.
Why the Macro Sets Up the Alt TradeAltcoin Daily argued in a YouTube video on Thursday that the debasement trade driving Bitcoin higher creates the conditions for altcoin outperformance in Q4.
Pantera Capital’s Dan Morehead noted in the video that the US Treasury is printing roughly $2 trillion in excess annually, making hard assets and crypto the logical beneficiaries.
The Five Altcoins Worth Watching1. Hyperliquid (CRYPTO: HYPE) — US market entry talks with Kraken’s parent Payward are advancing through subsidiary Bitnomial. Trump publicly endorsed a compliant US pathway, and Grayscale’s Hyperliquid Staking ETF (NASDAQ:HYPG) crossed $123 million in AUM within 30 days of launch.
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2. Chainlink (CRYPTO: LINK) — The US Department of Commerce is now using Chainlink to bring official GDP, PCE, and economic data on-chain across 10 blockchains, giving applications live access to US government figures in real time.
3. Bittensor (CRYPTO: TAO) — DCG founder Barry Silbert argues the rush to acquire open-source AI will eventually point investors toward TAO, citing Nvidia’s reported acquisitions of Poolside for $6 billion and Hugging Face for $122.9 billion as proof of concept.
4. Uniswap (CRYPTO: UNI) — Record activity with 7 million swaps in a single day and 82 swaps per second across all chains, fueled by Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) Chain volume. The protocol also upgraded its tokenomics to direct more revenue into buybacks.
5. Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) — On-chain tokenized equity holders reached a record 1.9 million, up 134% month over month from under 100,000 just 10 months ago, with users trading real-world assets around the clock.
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How Bittensor allocates $TAO across its AI subnetsBittensor is a decentralized network built around competing AI subnets, each one focused on a specific digital commodity: compute, inference, storage, or prediction. To fund that competition, the protocol mints new $TAO continuously. Those tokens are then divided among the active subnets, but not equally.
In other words, the market's appetite for a subnet's work directly shapes how much that subnet earns. Subnets that attract genuine demand see their token price rise, which in turn draws a larger slice of the emission pool.
That said, price alone does not determine outcomes. The protocol runs results through an emission gate that sharply reduces the shares assigned to weaker or underperforming subnets, concentrating rewards where real output is being produced. New subnets also face a deliberate ramp-up period of roughly four weeks, which blunts the effect of speculative launch pumps on emission allocations.
Where the rewards go once they reach a subnetOnce a subnet's share of the block reward is established, the split inside that subnet follows a fixed structure. Validators score miner outputs and submit those assessments on-chain.
The design is intended to be self-correcting. Meanwhile,
The broader result is a network where funding flows toward AI services that the market actually values, rather than being distributed by committee or predetermined formula, according to @opentensor's documentation.
Sources:
Bittensor Emission Documentation, LearnBittensor
Bittensor Official Emissions Docs, Bittensor.com
What Is Bittensor (TAO)? Decentralized AI Explained, Bitcoin.com
Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, one of the largest open-source simulation datasets for Franka arm manipulation, with the full dataset, training code, and benchmarks publicly available. V1 is built from more than 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 manipulation tasks and 60,000+ scene variants on a simulated Franka Research 3 arm.
This dataset drew over 160,000 downloads, making it the most downloaded open-source simulation Franka manipulation dataset on Hugging Face. In benchmarks, continual pretraining on V1 lifted π0.5 and beat a volume-matched RoboCasa baseline, with every result open and verifiable.
Axis Robotics is building the ultimate compounding data engine for Physical AI, a vertically integrated system spanning large-scale simulation, egocentric real-world capture, humanoid loco-manipulation, and human-gated DAgger post-training. The company raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and angel investors.
A Bet Against “Clean Data Only” A common assumption in robotics is that demonstrations must be near-optimal to begin with — filter down to expert trajectories, standardize the setup, and discard anything noisy before it is safe to imitate. Axis’s thesis runs the other way: data quality lives at the distribution level, not the single trajectory. When a large and diverse enough crowd produces noisy, suboptimal trajectories and their errors are uncorrelated, the noise averages out and a working policy survives during training.
Axis Sim Dataset V1 puts that thesis to a public test. Its trajectories span pick-and-place, stacking, pouring, articulated-object manipulation, and tool use, all collected through Axis’s browser-based teleoperation platform, Axis Hub, by a distributed crowd rather than a single expert team. The dataset was built with researchers from UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan, and other institutions.
Results That Scale On LIBERO-Plus, continual pretraining on V1 lifts π0.5 from 83.9% to 88.8% success and outperforms a volume-matched RoboCasa365 baseline by 37.3%. Performance improves consistently as pretraining data scales from 25% to 100% of the dataset, with no saturation in sight, evidence that the gains come from diversity and coverage rather than a one-off bump. The largest improvements appear under camera, sensor-noise, and layout perturbations, the exact axes Axis randomizes during generation.
The team says V2 is already underway, scaling to 1.2 million trajectories across 1,200 tasks, with cross-embodiment generalization and results across multiple VLA models showing that suboptimal simulation data trains robust policies.
The Engine Behind the Dataset The dataset is one output of a larger, actively compounding data engine. Where a traditional data vendor collects to a fixed spec and stops, Axis uses model performance and failure cases to determine what should be collected next, so every training round informs the next. That engine runs on a hybrid strategy across four data lines, and all four now run at scale:
Simulation: over 200,000 distributed contributors on Axis Hub, a top-3 dApp on Base, producing 4.7M+ trajectories across 13 embodiments. Egocentric: a managed network of 1,000+ full-time, QC-trained collectors capturing first-person activity in real homes and businesses across 14 industries: 200,000+ hours already banked and growing by 4,000+ hours every day, with Vicon-verified hand pose. Loco-manipulation: 500+ hours combining mobility and dexterity on real humanoids (Unitree G1, Booster T2) through hardware-agnostic teleoperation. Human-gated DAgger post-training: 500+ hours of human-in-the-loop correction targeted at deployment edge cases. Every task and trajectory is recorded on-chain on Base for provenance, and contributors are rewarded for verified work quality.
From Open Data to Commercial Deployment Beyond open-sourcing simulation data, Axis works directly with robot embodiment companies to build customized, embodiment-specific data pipelines and model priors.
As Booster Robotics’ first sim-data partner, Axis rebuilt Booster’s real workspace as a task-aligned digital twin, had distributed contributors collect 42,000+ simulation episodes on it, and distilled them into a Booster-specific model prior. With just 30 real-robot demos, that prior reached 87.5% success versus 37.5% for an out-of-the-box π0.5, matching π0.5 using half the real-world demonstrations.
Other partners span embodiment companies (Feagine Robotics), model companies (Manycore Tech, Dexmal) and industrial automation (Lotus Cars, Geely Auto). Axis also supplies on-chain robotics networks: BitRobot on Solana and OpenRoboto on Bittensor.
Redefining Physical AI’s Data Foundation “The future of Physical AI isn’t a static dataset you download once,” said Chris Feng, founder of Axis Robotics. “It’s an engine that keeps producing the data the model needs next. Scale gets you broad coverage. Diversity keeps the noise unbiased. The closed loop turns every failure into progress. That’s what compounds.”
Axis was founded by researchers from UC Berkeley, CMU, Georgia Tech, and SJTU, alongside serial founders who have scaled consumer platforms to over 30 million users. Its research is advised by Jiachen Li, Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech.
Bittensor [TAO] extended its bullish run with three consecutive days of gains.
The rally followed a breakout from a bullish flag pattern that had constrained price action since mid-March.
Open Interest increased, while long positions comprised 69% of total market exposure. That created a stronger bullish setup, but also raised liquidation risks.
Why did TAO break out? TAO broke above its bullish flag after several months of consolidation.
The breakout gave buyers control over the short-term trend and supported three consecutive days of gains.
If TAO remains above the pattern’s resistance, the bullish structure could stay intact. That could support further upside in the short term.
Source: TradingView TAO’s daily chart also showed improving technical momentum. The token traded above its major EMAs as buyers gained control. At press time, TAO was testing the 200-day EMA near $237.
A sustained move above these EMAs could improve the token’s chances of reaching $290.
Is rising Open Interest supporting Bittensor? TAO’s derivatives market also became more active during the rally.
Open Interest increased over the past 24 hours, suggesting traders added exposure as the token moved higher. Rising Open Interest during a bullish breakout often signals fresh capital entering the market. It could strengthen the continuation setup.
However, sustained price gains would remain necessary. Otherwise, rising leverage could become a source of downside volatility.
Source: CoinGlass Long positions accounted for approximately 69% of total market exposure. Shorts represented the remaining 31%. That imbalance showed that most derivatives traders expected further gains.
However, an overcrowded long market could increase liquidation risks during a sharp reversal.
Source: Coinalyze Can TAO reach $290 next? The bullish flag breakout and EMA recovery strengthened TAO’s upside outlook. Improving derivatives positioning added further support to the setup.
A continued rise in Open Interest could help TAO approach $290 if leverage remains controlled. A short-term correction remained possible, especially with long exposure already elevated.
The Liquidation Map showed a $53.59 million liquidity cluster near $290. That made the level a key target for TAO bulls.
Source: CoinGlass Final Summary TAO’s breakout attracted leverage before the market proved the move could last. Fresh Open Interest supported the rally, but crowded longs created a fragile structure.
Bittensor [TAO] gained more than 10% in the past 24 hours, at press time, extending TAO’s weekly gains to more than 21%. Social Insights on CoinMarketCap showed that the mindshare of TAO surged by 23%, with mentions and engagements surpassing 12.44K.
Notably, a resurgence in the AI narrative and more liquidity exposure drove this shift in social sentiment.
Is the AI narrative back as TAO surges 10%? Typically, news surrounding tech stocks fuels the AI narrative, as it reflects overall market sentiment. As such, the Q2 earnings report indicated Nvidia [NVDA] had record revenue of $96.20 billion.
This reading fueled tokenized NVDA to climb to around $221 with over $131 in daily volume. The strength spread across the AI sector, with Bittensor and Venice Token [VVV] benefiting.
Additionally, Bittensor expanded its liquidity by more than $600K after the TAO-USDC pool went live on Aerodrome [AERO]. This means the token is now exposed to Base Chain users. As a result, token trading volume has surged significantly in August, with the average surpassing $300 million in mid-month.
Source: Token Terminal Moreover, there was an organic social growth. The ecosystem was expanding with 128 subnets as of press time.
In general, the market cap of the AI sector was up slightly, with TAO being the most standout. Still, this AI narrative resurgence is not convincing enough to trigger a full bull reversal.
What do TAO bulls need to trigger a full reversal? On the daily chart, TAO is trading above a descending trendline that has been a resistance since late March. The altcoin has also flipped the 200-day EMA at $236.5, reinforcing the shifting market structure. TAO’s multi-month trendline breakout was confirmed with a retest at the $225 level.
At the time of writing, the Funding Rate was also leaning toward buyer dominance with a reading of 0.0055%. Additionally, the Relative Volatility Index (RVI) was at 72.77, indicating volatility was rising with the prices.
Source: TAO/USDT on TradingView Despite the bullishness in TAO, an analyst warned that a full reversal hinged on a level in the 3-day chart, noting,
If $TAO breaches over the $260 range will be absolutely ready to trigger the full bullish reversal.
If that becomes the case, TAO may break subsequent levels at $290, $350, or even above $450, as levels above $450 were last visited in November.
Otherwise, if a rejection happens at $260, TAO may retest the broken trendline or even trade back into the consolidation pattern.
Final Summary Bittensor rallied by 10% amid record Q2 earnings for Nvidia, triggering an uptick in the broader AI sector. TAO cleared a multi-month trendline resistance and confirmed the breakout with a retest.
Bittensor (TAO) has shown renewed bullish momentum after breaking out of a prolonged consolidation phase and regaining a critical support area. The token’s technical indicators point to further upside potential, with analysts monitoring key levels for confirmation of this trend.
Breakout above key resistance zoneCrypto With Gopal, a recognized crypto analyst, stated that Bittensor successfully broke out of a lengthy rectangle consolidation pattern, indicating a return of trading activity after months of sideways movement. The token advanced back above the $240 to $250 area, signaling increased buying interest and a possible trend reversal.
At the time of writing, Bittensor changes hands at $234.70. The project recorded a 24-hour trading volume of $249.38 million and now maintains a market capitalization of $2.64 billion. Despite a decline of 5.96% in the last 24 hours, TAO has preserved an improved price structure and retains the potential for a bullish reversal as demand builds.
The immediate target for bullish traders is the $290 mark, which stands as a major resistance level. Surpassing this price point could open the door to further gains, with the next milestone possibly around the $400 zone. Securing the $240–$250 support area remains crucial for sustaining the bullish setup.
Bittensor has reclaimed the $240–$250 zone, pointing to renewed interest from buyers after a period of sideways trading. If demand continues to increase, this could indicate that a broad reversal in the trend is beginning.
Technical indicators reinforce positive outlookAccording to data from TradingView, TAO rebounded from the $190–$200 area and climbed above the middle Bollinger Band, which currently sits at $214.33. The token attempted to reach the upper band at $251.39 before pulling back to the $234.61 level. However, technical signals continue to support a constructive outlook in the short term as buyers remain active at higher support levels.
The MACD indicator reinforces the bullish bias; the MACD line is at 11.13, above the signal line at 7.54. The histogram reflects growing upward momentum, signaling that buyers retain control over the current trend.
For the trend to hold, TAO should remain above the $250–$255 range. Should the price fall below the middle Bollinger Band at $214.33, Bittensor could experience further correction.
Persistence above $250–$255 could encourage another test of the $290 resistance. Breaking and maintaining price action above this level will likely trigger the next upside move to the $400 range, while a drop below $214.33 may intensify downward pressure.
Market monitoring becomes essential for tradersWith volatile conditions and technically significant patterns such as the rectangle consolidation and crucial support levels, traders are increasingly seeking efficient ways to react swiftly to market changes. In a market where a single Fed decision or a sudden altcoin listing can change everything in seconds, jumping between different apps for charts, news, and portfolio tracking is costing investors money. Smart traders are now utilizing privacy-first tools like CryptoAppsy to consolidate everything. Without even the hassle of creating an account, you get real-time charts, smart price alerts, coin-specific news, and critical macro data all on one screen.
Bittensor’s price action and technical setup will remain in focus, as traders continue watching to see if support levels can be defended and if further upside will materialize in the coming sessions.
PONS's market cap briefly rebounded to cross $350 million, trading at $0.352 at press time.
According to GMGN market data, PONS' market capitalization has briefly rebounded to surpass $350 million, with its current price standing at $0.352.
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Fireblocks Custody moved 30 million USD1 tokens to Binance over the past 15 hours.
According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Fireblocks Custody transferred 30 million USD1 tokens to Binance again over the past 15 hours. Note: USD1 is a stablecoin backed by a Trump-associated project.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that Iran's armed forces launched an attack on a U.S. military base in Jordan in retaliation for the U.S. strike on Iran's Larak Island. The ministry emphasized that Iran's armed forces will not hesitate to exercise their inherent right to self-defense and will take appropriate, resolute responses to any military aggression by the enemy. The U.S. strike on parts of Larak Island violated Iran's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and constituted a clear violation of the UN Charter. It called on the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary-General to fulfill their duties to maintain international peace and security and hold the aggressor accountable. Iran's Foreign Ministry also stated that the U.S. and all parties supporting its military operations bear full responsibility for the consequences of the escalating situation. It further noted that the U.S. base in Jordan was used to launch and support the attack on Larak Island, adding that the U.S.'s new act of aggression, along with the ongoing impacts of its maritime blockade and economic war against Iran, are the full responsibility of the U.S. and all parties involved in planning and executing the relevant actions. Earlier reports showed that Tasnim News Agency cited Iran's military as claiming to have launched dozens of drones at the UAE's Al Minhad Air Base. Separately, Iran's state television reported that the Iranian military carried out a drone attack on the Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE earlier on Monday.
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Latest Assessment by US VCs After China Visit: AI Capabilities Need to Cross the Pacific Twice to Be Sold to US Clients
Beating AI Insight News Brief: U.S. venture capital firm Dimension spent a week in China, visiting AI labs, investors, and founders, then wrote a 5-page internal letter to its limited partners (LPs). The firm previously conducted research in Shanghai last year; this trip covered Beijing and Shanghai, with the goal of recalibrating its assessment of China’s AI sector. A key finding highlighted is that China’s open-weight models have entered the production pipelines of U.S. AI companies. For example, Cursor’s Composer 2 was further trained on Kimi K2.5, while legal AI firm Harvey’s Tenet model underwent post-training on Kimi K3. Dimension summarized this cross-Pacific value chain as a "two-way trans-Pacific flow": U.S. labs first train cutting-edge models, Chinese labs absorb these capabilities and release open-weight models, then U.S. application companies further train on the Chinese models to build products sold to U.S. enterprises. However, despite surging usage, revenue has not accrued proportionally to Chinese model firms. Dimension summed this up in one sentence: "China is getting Western workloads, not Western revenue." Open-weight models can be deployed across multiple platforms, with U.S. inference firms like Fireworks, Baseten, and Modal capturing the bulk of service fees. Chinese models drive down costs, ultimately benefiting U.S. cloud providers, inference platforms, and AI application companies as well. Dimension’s final assessment is that it is no longer feasible to simply split China and U.S. AI into two separate systems. Hardware like chips is being decoupled: the U.S. faces constraints from power and grid infrastructure, while China lacks advanced chips. Yet models, data, inference services, and software frameworks continue to flow across borders. Debating "which side is winning the China-U.S. AI race" in simplistic terms no longer reflects the real industrial chain.
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Midday close of A-shares: The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.2%, and the ChiNext Index dropped 1.29%.
This morning session of A-shares saw the three major indexes open lower, rebound in volatile trading, then retreat toward the end of the session. By midday close, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.2%, the Shenzhen Component Index dropped 1%, and the ChiNext Index declined 1.29%. The AI corpus sector moved higher amid volatility. The combined turnover of Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses in the morning session was approximately 1.31 trillion yuan, a decrease of around 112.1 billion yuan from the same period of the previous trading day.
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Hyperliquid launches PONS perpetual contract, now trading at $0.33.
According to official announcements, Hyperliquid has launched Pons (PONS) perpetual contracts, with a maximum leverage of up to 3x. The current mark price is 0.32999, and the contract open interest stands at $524,866. The current funding rate for the PONS contract is -0.0823%.
Bittensor (TAO) is maintaining its key support levels, as buyers continue to defend the long-term price structure. The project’s recent expansion to the Base network, facilitated by Chainlink‘s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), is bringing its decentralized AI technology closer to decentralized finance (DeFi) users and supporting growth in the onchain AI sector.
Bittensor price activity and growthAs of the latest data, TAO is trading at $232.32, with a 24-hour trading volume of $217.92 million and a market capitalization of $2.61 billion. The token’s price recorded a 5.78% gain in the past day, which analysts view as a sign of a potential bullish reversal supported by network expansion and resilient market structure.
Crypto analyst Etherealist noted that TAO consistently finds buyers near the $200 zone, even during extended periods of weak sentiment. This consistent support is seen as a key factor for a possible trend reversal. The analyst suggested that if TAO breaks past its current resistance level, further rallies toward $500 could become likely.
Analysts emphasized that while TAO often struggles to attract attention at current levels, a robust move toward $500 could change market sentiment, with $1,000 and even $1,500 becoming realistic targets if upward momentum continues.
ForeverMoney reported that Bittensor’s decentralized AI network now includes Base, connecting the project’s AI offerings such as compute, code, vision, and prediction with Layer-2 DeFi infrastructure and a rapidly expanding user base.
Deeper integration through Chainlink CCIPThe use of Chainlink CCIP enables secure and reliable cross-chain communication between Bittensor and Base. This integration allows Bittensor’s decentralized AI features to be more accessible for DeFi users and traders active on Base, broadening the project’s reach within the crypto ecosystem.
By bridging Bittensor and Base, Chainlink CCIP allows for transactions and data flow between the networks, enhancing interoperability between AI and DeFi sectors. The collaboration signals a growing intersection of blockchain interoperability, artificial intelligence, and decentralized finance.
Looking at market dynamics, traders are reminded that, in a landscape where a single Federal Reserve policy move or an unexpected altcoin listing can rapidly shift valuations, switching between multiple apps for price charts, news, and portfolio management creates missed opportunities. Increasingly, investors are using all-in-one platforms like CryptoAppsy, which offer privacy-first access to real-time charts, smart price alerts, coin-specific news, and macro data on a single screen, often without the need for an account.
Support levels and future outlookTAO’s key support remains at $200. If this level holds and the token breaks above the $500 resistance, the path toward higher targets, such as $1,000 and potentially $1,500, may open. However, falling below $200 would likely challenge any bullish reversal and signal renewed downward pressure.
Further integration with Base and continued network growth could strengthen adoption within the DeFi and AI ecosystems.
The collaboration between Bittensor, Base, and Chainlink CCIP could accelerate onchain AI use case development and enhance cross-chain connectivity, potentially supporting long-term value for the TAO token.
While current indicators point to a possible bullish trajectory, analysts caution that future rallies depend on sustained demand and broader market conditions. Investors are urged to remain vigilant in a volatile environment.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Bittensor [TAO] briefly crossed $205 on August 12 before retreating towards $200, extending its recovery from the August lows without confirming a breakout.
Futures open interest approaching $300m implies traders are already building positions, but capital flowing out and a weak trend mean the move has not attained conviction levels and is yet to broaden.
TAO crypto struggles above $200 TAO was trading at around $199.65, down 0.95% after reaching $205.56 earlier today.
The daily rally briefly carried the price above $203.75, but it could not stay there. Even after the price fell, however, TAO remained above $195.01, leaving the recovery intact for now.
But buyers still need a daily close above the $204–$206 area, and if they get it, $220 would become the next level on the chart.
Below the current price, $195 is doing most of the work. Losing that level would put TAO back under the middle Bollinger Band, with the lower band at $186.27 offering the next reference.
Source: TradingView Other indicators also did not paint a positive picture, with the Chaikin Money Flow [CMF] at -0.06, showing that capital flows remained slightly negative.
The strength of the trend was also limited, with the Average Directional Index [ADX] at 19.40, with readings in the 20s and 30s normally associated with a more established trend.
Bittensor Open Interest approaches $300M Data from CoinGlass showed TAO futures open interest was approaching $300 million as at August 12.
Rising open interest shows that traders are adding positions but does not say whether those positions are predominantly bullish or bearish.
Funding shows something more interesting about this setup. TAO’s open-interest-weighted funding rate was near 0.006%, indicating that long-position holders were paying shorts.
That could make the next move sharper. Above the range, attention would turn to $220; below it, $186 remains the main downside level.
Final Summary TAO briefly cleared $205, but weak CMF and an ADX reading below 20 left the breakout unconfirmed. Open interest is nearing $300 million, increasing the chance of a larger move once TAO leaves the $195–$205 area.
Wintermute, a London-based algorithmic trading company and liquidity provider, is planning to invest roughly $1 billion in high-frequency trading and Artificial Intelligence (AI) data centers over the next five years.
Meanwhile, crypto tokens in the AI sector, including Bittensor (TAO) and Near Protocol (NEAR), are showing mild recovery signs at the time of writing on Wednesday.
Wintermute eyes diversification in traditional marketsWintermute’s $1 billion bet on AI data centers and high-frequency trading environments signals the firm’s ambition to diversify its services across equities, commodities and foreign exchange, a Bloomberg report highlighted.
The investment expected over the next five years will bring Wintermute into direct competition with renowned firms such as Jane Street Group and Citadel Securities.
"We are now going up against firms that have spent decades optimizing their technology and infrastructure for these markets, so obviously the level of investment required is significant," Evgeny Gaevoy, founder and CEO, said in an interview with Bloomberg.
Wintermute expects to finance the investment with retained earnings. Gaevoy said that the privately held company was profitable in 2025 and is set to do the same this year.
The broader cryptocurrency market is stuck in a bearish trend, with Bitcoin trading around $64,000, far from the record high of $126,200. Altcoins mirror Bitcoin’s lethargic price action, as Ethereum (ETH) hovers around $1,900 and Ripple (XRP) at $1.02.
Meanwhile, top AI coins are exhibiting signs of a short-term recovery led by Bittensor above $200 and Near Protocol roughly at $1.65.
Technical analysis: Bittensor builds momentum Bittensor trades at $203 and remains in a bearish near-term structure as it holds below the 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs). The spot price is also contained under the upper Bollinger Band at $205 and remains well beneath the descending trendline reference at $243, suggesting rallies are still constrained despite a constructive backdrop in momentum, with the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) above the zero line and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) around 55.
TAO/USDT daily chartImmediate resistance aligns at the upper Bollinger Band near $205, coinciding with the 50-day EMA. A daily close above this cluster would be needed to ease selling pressure and open the way toward the 100-day EMA at $220 and the 200-day EMA at $239, ahead of the broader bearish trendline break level at $243. On the flip side, initial support emerges at the Bollinger middle band around $195, with stronger demand expected near the lower band at $186, where buyers may attempt to defend the lower edge of the current volatility envelope.
Near Protocol bulls attempt breakout NEAR trades roughly at $1.65, keeping a bearish near-term bias as it holds beneath a dense cluster of major moving averages, suggesting rallies are likely to be capped while the price remains below this band.
Momentum is mixed, with the MACD indicator turning marginally positive and hinting at a tentative recovery, but the RSI near 42 reinforces that directional pressure still favors sellers rather than a sustained bullish reversal.
NEAR/USDT daily chartInitial structural support is seen around the downward-sloping trendline break level at $1.59, where buyers could attempt to defend the recent base if selling resumes. On the topside, a move higher would first face resistance at the 200-day EMA at $1.78, followed by the 50-day and 100-day EMAs at $1.80. Only a decisive daily close above this stacked resistance zone would start to weaken the current bearish framework and open the way for a more constructive medium-term tone.
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Bittensor [TAO] has recorded a three-day bullish run, with yesterday’s aggressive surge pushing the token above the 20-day and 50-day EMAs while clearing the $202.50 resistance that had held for weeks.
However, TAO remains within a bullish flag pattern that has held since March. With whale activity increasing, spot buyers dominating, and Open Interest climbing, could TAO extend its recovery toward $240?
TAO breaks above key resistance TAO surged above the $202.50 resistance and the 20-day EMA before briefly testing the 50-day EMA around $205.82.
The move strengthens the bullish setup, although the token remains inside its broader bullish flag, making the $205-$220 zone the next key zone for buyers.
A sustained break above the 50-day EMA could expose TAO to the 100-day EMA at $220.62, while a successful move beyond this level would put the $240 resistance in focus.
Source: TradingView Could the positive on-chain metrics accelerate the bullish run? Recent Futures Average Order Size data shows that large whale orders are increasing around TAO’s current trading price, signaling greater participation from larger market players.
Bitternsor’s continued accumulation near $200 could provide additional demand and help buyers defend the recent bullish gains.
Source: CryptoQuant Moreover, TAO’s Spot Taker CVD data also indicates a stronger buyer dominance, suggesting that aggressive buyers are increasingly absorbing available sell-side liquidity.
If this buying pressure persists, it could provide the spot-market confirmation needed for TAO to maintain its bullish momentum and challenge higher resistance.
Source: CryptoQuant Moreover, TAO’s Open Interest has surged 12% to $140.2 million, highlighting a sharp increase in capital entering the derivatives market during the latest price recovery.
Usually, rising Open Interest alongside price gains suggests traders are positioning for a further bullish rally. The increasing open positions in the market could provide the required volatility to keep the momentum running toward $220.62 and eventually $240.
Source: Coinalyze Volume strengthens the move TAO’s trading volume has climbed to $128 million, confirming stronger market participation behind the recent three-day rally.
The altcoin’s sustained volume at elevated levels could help validate the breakout and give buyers enough momentum to challenge the upper boundary of the bullish flag.
With TAO holding above $202.50, rising whale activity, buyer-dominated spot flows, and growing OIcould keep the bullish setup intact. A break above the 100-day EMA at $220.62 could open the path toward $240.
Source: Santiment Final Summary TAO clears $202.5 resistance as bullish momentum accelerates toward the $240 target. Rising whale orders, Spot CVD, Open Interest, and volume strengthen TAO’s breakout setup.
Bittensor (TAO), a decentralized blockchain network focused on artificial intelligence, is showing early signs of a bullish reversal as buyers continue to defend key price levels after a period of accumulation. The recent price action follows significant developments within the Bittensor ecosystem, notably the introduction of OpenRoboto’s new robotics AI subnet.
TAO price rebounds amid accumulationTAO is currently trading at $199.09, reflecting a 3.02% gain over the past 24 hours. The token’s 24-hour trading volume stands at $92.31 million, with a total market capitalization of $2.23 billion. These figures suggest renewed interest among participants following a recent downtrend and subsequent period of accumulation.
Crypto analyst logical observed that TAO is in a potential bullish transition phase, supported by decisive moves out of previous downtrends and buyer support at key levels. Continued demand from buyers during periods of selling suggests underlying confidence in the network’s value proposition.
Market watchers have identified the $750 level as a significant barrier for TAO. A sustained move above this resistance could indicate a broader trend reversal, potentially opening the door to further gains toward the $1,500 mark.
Despite frequent reselling during upward moves, buyers continue to hold key levels, indicating steady demand. A decisive break above $750 would likely validate a long-term shift in market sentiment and strengthen the bullish outlook for TAO.
Analysts caution, however, that a failure to overcome this resistance could lead to additional consolidation before a clear trend is established.
OpenRoboto introduces Subnet 80 for robotics AI innovationOpenRoboto, a research-focused group advancing artificial intelligence for robotics, has unveiled Subnet 80 on the Bittensor network. This launch aims to accelerate decentralized robotics innovation by providing an open-source platform that integrates collaborative model development, publicly available datasets, and transparent performance benchmarks.
OpenRoboto stated that the newly launched Subnet 80 combines open-weight AI models, shared datasets, and standardized benchmarks, enabling researchers and developers to collaboratively build and improve robotics projects. The initiative leverages Bittensor’s decentralized network to coordinate continued improvements in robotics AI performance.
OpenRoboto shared its vision by emphasizing the importance of combining open weights, open data, and open benchmarks, coordinated through Bittensor to drive ongoing advancements in robotics models.
The project represents a step forward in uniting decentralized technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics to foster open and accessible research environments.
Mini dictionary: OpenRoboto, a specialized group in robotics AI, focuses on integrating open-source AI development with decentralized blockchain networks like Bittensor to promote collaborative innovation in the robotics field.
Key levels and outlookThe coming days will see market participants closely watching TAO’s price action, especially in relation to the $750 resistance level. A breakout above this mark could attract additional interest and set the stage for testing the $1,500 resistance.
Conversely, a rejection at this resistance may result in a return to consolidation, with the direction dependent on broader market trends and the adoption rate of new projects like OpenRoboto’s Subnet 80.
LevelSignificance$200Current support following the recent recovery$750Main resistance, potential trend reversal if broken$1,500Next target in case of a sustained breakout above $750Interest in both Bittensor’s price performance and OpenRoboto’s new robotics subnet underscores the ongoing intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence development. As market sentiment shifts, the impact of decentralized robotics AI on the TAO ecosystem is expected to draw further scrutiny.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
9 August 2026 | 10:41 Bittensor has moved back above its 50-day simple moving average after spending nearly two months below it.
TAO was trading around $205 at the time of writing after reaching $210 earlier in the session. Today’s close will show whether the latest move can hold after weeks of resistance from the 50-day average.
Key Takeaways TAO’s first task is keeping the 50-day SMA underneath price. A clean $206 reclaim would improve the path toward $225. Enterprise testing offers the strongest fundamental support for the rebound. Grayscale improves institutional visibility but does not prove persistent demand. Testing the 50-Day SMA TAO had remained below its 50-day SMA since mid-June before finally closing back above the average yesterday.
The moving average currently sits near $203 and is now being tested as potential support. Just above it, the 0.786 Fibonacci retracement close to $206 remains the immediate resistance.
TAO/USD daily price chart highlighting key Fibonacci levels and market indicators. TAO traded through that Fibonacci level intraday but had fallen back below it at the time of writing.
That leaves price between two closely spaced levels with different roles: the 50-day SMA needs to hold underneath price, while $206 still needs to be reclaimed.
A close above $206 followed by price holding the area on a pullback would make the roughly $203-$206 band much more convincing as support.
The next important Fibonacci level sits at the 0.618 retracement near $225.
Beyond that, TAO would face another difficult area around $232-$233, where the 100-day SMA near $232 and the 200-day SMA around $233 are clustered.
Daily RSI has also improved to roughly 57, above neutral but still well below overbought territory.
Enterprise Pilots Add Fundamental Weight Recent developments inside the Bittensor ecosystem give the recovery a fundamental angle beyond the chart.
The OpenTensor Foundation said five additional enterprise platforms with more than $22 billion in combined value are testing technology developed by Bittensor’s RedTeam subnet.
Recently, 5 more enterprise platforms worth $22B+ combined have been testing @_redteam_’s technology. They reach 900M+ accounts and handle 1B+ weekly transactions.
RedTeam is set to unveil a new immune system built to anticipate cyber threats.
Here’s how Bittensor powers it: pic.twitter.com/9xUVIYGFQ4
— Openτensor Foundaτion (@opentensor) August 8, 2026
OpenTensor said those platforms collectively reach more than 900 million accounts and process more than one billion transactions per week.
The important point is not the size of the companies alone. The pilots show that businesses are evaluating technology developed inside the Bittensor ecosystem against real workloads.
That is more meaningful for the network than a short burst of social attention, although the evidence is still preliminary. Testing is not the same as production deployment and does not automatically create sustained demand for TAO.
The development becomes more relevant if those pilots progress into production use and generate measurable economic activity inside the Bittensor ecosystem.
For now, the pilots strengthen the case that Bittensor’s subnet model is attracting interest outside crypto-native trading.
Grayscale’s Institutional Footprint TAO also remains a major component of Grayscale’s decentralized-AI exposure.
According to Grayscale’s latest multi-asset fund rebalance, TAO represented 29.15% of the Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund as of August 3, making it the fund’s second-largest holding.
The rebalance involved reducing the fund’s NEAR position and reallocating proceeds across existing components, including TAO.
That reinforces TAO’s position as one of the main assets through which Grayscale provides exposure to decentralized AI.
It does not establish that Grayscale buying caused the latest rally. Without comparing the size of those purchases with TAO’s broader trading volume, the price impact cannot be isolated with confidence.
The stronger takeaway is institutional visibility. TAO remains heavily represented in a product built specifically around crypto exposure to artificial intelligence, which can support the broader investment narrative even if the rebalance itself was a one-off event.
Downside Risk Below $203 The downside case begins with the 50-day SMA near $203.
A daily close back below the moving average would weaken the breakout after TAO spent almost two months underneath it.
The first area to watch would then sit around $195, where price consolidated repeatedly before the latest move higher.
Below $195, the next important zone sits around $183-$187, where selling stalled during both the June decline and the late-July selloff. The Fibonacci structure itself is anchored near $183.
A break below that area would put TAO beneath the lows that have contained the correction since June.
Methodology: This analysis uses the TAO/USD daily chart, 50-day, 100-day and 200-day simple moving averages, Fibonacci retracement levels and RSI. Fundamental context is based on Grayscale’s Q2 2026 fund-rebalancing disclosure and OpenTensor Foundation updates. Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Cryptocurrency markets are highly volatile, and technical levels or fundamental developments can fail to produce the expected price reaction. Author
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
Yapay zeka alanında merkeziyetsiz bir ekosistem oluşturmayı hedefleyen Bittensor, farklı yapay zeka projelerini, geliştiricileri ve hesaplama kaynaklarını tek bir ağ altında bir araya getiriyor. Projenin temel amacı, yapay zekâ modelleri, veri ve hesaplama gücünün yalnızca merkezi şirketler tarafından kontrol edilmesi yerine açık ve teşvik mekanizmasına dayalı bir ağ üzerinden geliştirilmesini sağlamak. Bu yapı, TAO’yu yalnızca bir yapay zeka tokenı olmaktan çıkararak merkeziyetsiz AI ekonomisinin önemli parçalarından biri haline getiriyor.
Bittensor Nasıl Çalışıyor? Bittensor ekosisteminin en dikkat çekici özelliklerinden biri subnet yapısıdır. Ağ içerisindeki her subnet, farklı bir yapay zeka problemine veya kullanım alanına odaklanabiliyor. Böylece geliştiriciler kendi uzmanlık alanlarında çözümler üretirken, başarılı performans gösteren katılımcıların ağ tarafından ödüllendirilmesi hedefleniyor. Bu model, Bittensor’un tek bir yapay zekâ ürününe bağlı kalmadan büyümesine imkan sağlıyor. Ekosistemin gelişmesiyle birlikte farklı subnet’lerin daha fazla kullanıcı ve geliştirici çekmesi, ağdaki ekonomik aktivitenin de artmasına katkıda bulunabilir.
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TAO’nun token ekonomisi de projenin temel hikayesinde önemli bir yere sahip. Maksimum arzın 21 milyon token ile sınırlandırılması, Bitcoin’e benzer şekilde sınırlı arz yapısının oluşmasını sağlıyor. Bunun yanında Bittensor’un ödüllendirme mekanizması, kaynakların ve sermayenin başarılı subnet’lere yönelmesini teşvik ediyor. Yapay zeka sektörünün büyümeye devam etmesi ve Bittensor üzerindeki subnet’lerin gerçek kullanıcılar ile gelir üretmeye başlaması, TAO’nun uzun vadeli temel değer önerisini güçlendirebilir.
TAO İçin Teknik Görünüm Teknik açıdan bakıldığında TAO, 360 dolar seviyesinden başlayan düşüş trendinin ardından 186 dolar civarında dip oluşturdu. Bu bölgeden gelen tepkiyle yükseliş gösteren TAO, ardından yatay bir hareket sergilemeye başladı. 186 dolar bölgesi şu aşamada önemli destek konumunda bulunuyor. Fiyatın bu seviyenin üzerinde kalması, alıcıların bölgeyi savunduğunu gösteriyor. Ancak günlük kapanışların 186 doların altında gerçekleşmesi halinde satış baskısının yeniden güçlenmesi ve fiyatın 160 dolar seviyelerine doğru geri çekilmesi gündeme gelebilir. Yukarı yönde ise ilk önemli direnç 220 dolar seviyesinde bulunuyor. TAO’nun bu bölgeyi aşması halinde toparlanmanın güç kazanması ve fiyatın düşüş trendinin üst bölgelerine doğru hareket etmesi mümkün olabilir.
Bittensor ve TAO İçin Gelecek Beklentisi Bittensor’un en güçlü tarafı, yapay zekâ sektöründeki büyümeyi merkeziyetsiz bir ekonomik modelle birleştirmeye çalışması. Ancak projenin uzun vadeli başarısı yalnızca AI anlatısının güçlü olmasına bağlı değil. Subnet’lerin gerçek kullanıcı kazanması, gelir üretmesi ve sürdürülebilir bir ekonomik faaliyet oluşturması kritik önem taşıyor. Genel değerlendirmede TAO’nun temel hikayesi güçlü görünürken, teknik tarafta 186 dolar desteği ve 220 dolar direnci yakından takip edilmesi gereken seviyeler olarak öne çıkıyor. 186 doların korunması toparlanma ihtimalini desteklerken, 220 doların aşılması daha güçlü bir yükseliş senaryosunun önünü açabilir.
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The cryptocurrency market is stabilizing on Friday as prospects for de-escalation in Middle East geopolitical tensions improve. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused tokens such as Chainlink (LINK), Near Protocol (NEAR), and Bittensor (TAO) continue to face selling pressure, yet are defending key technical support levels.
Iran, Oman advance talks on Strait of Hormuz agreementIran and Oman are reportedly nearing a deal aimed at resuming commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. However, according to CNN, the agreement does not guarantee an immediate reopening of the strategic waterway. Meanwhile, Iran’s deputy foreign minister has denied any direct negotiations with the United States (US).
Risk appetite has seen only a slight uptick, with the Fear & Greed Index rising to 29 (Fear) from 25 (Extreme Fear) on Thursday. While sentiment remains cautious, a continued improvement could enhance the appeal of risk assets for investors and increase the likelihood of a sustained market recovery.
Crypto Fear & Greed Index | Source: AlternativeChainlink gains momentum as 50-day EMA limits further gainChainlink trades near $8.25, retaining a mildly bearish near-term bias as price slips back under a stack of moving average resistance. The 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $8.26, the 100-day EMA at $8.54 and the 200-day EMA at $9.58 all sit overhead, suggesting the recent rebound is losing traction below these dynamic barriers.
Momentum is lackluster, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovering near the midline and the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) with a negative histogram, hinting that sellers still have the upper hand.
LINK/USDT daily chartInitial support lies at the SuperTrend line near $7.80, which marks the first structural floor if bearish pressure extends. On the topside, immediate resistance appears at the 50-day EMA at $8.26, followed by the 100-day EMA at $8.54 and then the 200-day EMA at $9.58. A sustained break above this clustered moving-average zone would be needed to shift the bias back toward a more constructive bullish outlook.
NEAR sellers tighten grip as support holdsNEAR trades around $1.6550, keeping a bearish near-term tone as price holds beneath the descending trendline break level at $1.7145 and all key moving averages. The 200-day EMA at $1.7982, together with the 100-day EMA at $1.8265 and the 50-day EMA at $1.8404, forms a layered overhead barrier that suggests rallies are likely to struggle while below this cluster.
Momentum conditions stay soft, with the RSI near 38 on the daily chart hovering in bearish territory and the MACD histogram marginally below zero, hinting that downside pressure remains dominant despite the recent stabilization in price.
NEAR/USDT daily chartInitial resistance appears at the descending trendline break around $1.7145, where any recovery would first be tested. A sustained move above this level would expose the 200-day EMA at $1.7982, followed by the 100-day EMA at $1.8265 and the 50-day EMA at $1.8404, which together define a broader supply zone capping the medium-term recovery potential. On the flip side, investors may look to psychological round numbers and recent swing lows at $1.6200 and $1.6000 for potential re-engagement if the sell-off persists.
Bittensor eyes break above $200 in breakout attemptBittensor holds below the short and medium-term moving averages, with the 50-day EMA near $206, the 100-day EMA around $221 and the 200-day EMA close to $241, all acting as overhead resistance and keeping the broader tone bearish despite the recent rebound from sub-$190 levels.
The Parabolic SAR at about $186 sits beneath the spot price and offers the nearest dynamic support, while a positive MACD histogram and an RSI just below the midline hint at improving but still tentative upside momentum within a capped environment.
TAO/USDT daily chartInitial resistance lies at the 50-day EMA around $206. A daily close above this level would expose the 100-day EMA near $221, with the 200-day EMA at $241 and the descending resistance trendline around $248 forming a broader supply band higher up. On the downside, immediate support is provided by the Parabolic SAR at $186. A break beneath this level would likely re-open the path toward the recent swing lows at $190 and $180, reinforcing the prevailing bearish bias.
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Cryptocurrency prices FAQs Token launches influence demand and adoption among market participants. Listings on crypto exchanges deepen the liquidity for an asset and add new participants to an asset’s network. This is typically bullish for a digital asset.
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Macroeconomic events like the US Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates influence crypto assets mainly through the direct impact they have on the US Dollar. An increase in interest rate typically negatively influences Bitcoin and altcoin prices, and vice versa. If the US Dollar index declines, risk assets and associated leverage for trading gets cheaper, in turn driving crypto prices higher.
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TLDR: Grayscale rebalanced its DeFi Fund, selling Uniswap and boosting Ondo to a 25.44% weighting. The Smart Contract Fund now holds BNB at 30.6%, surpassing both Ether and Solana positions. Grayscale’s AI Fund sold NEAR Protocol shares, redirecting proceeds into Bittensor and Render tokens. Both DEFG and GSC Funds distribute components to cover expenses, reducing per-share holdings over time. Grayscale Investments has completed its second-quarter 2026 rebalancing across three multi-asset funds, adjusting component weightings for the DeFi Fund, Smart Contract Fund, and Decentralized AI Fund.
The Stamford, Connecticut-based firm confirmed the changes align with respective index methodologies.
Grayscale describes itself as the largest digital asset-focused investment platform by assets under management.
DEFG Fund and GSC Fund See Notable Shifts Grayscale adjusted the Decentralized Finance Fund by selling Uniswap holdings entirely from its active purchase basket.
The proceeds were redirected toward other existing components based on their proportional weightings. Following the update, Uniswap remained the largest holding at 34.16%, trailed by Ondo at 25.44%.
Aave, Ethena, Curve, and Lido DAO rounded out the remaining allocation, each holding smaller shares.
The Smart Contract Fund underwent a different type of adjustment during the same review period. Grayscale sold portions of existing components proportionally and used the cash to buy BNB.
This move pushed BNB to the top position at 30.6% of the fund. Ether followed closely at 29.47%, with Solana nearly matching that figure at 29.15%.
Smaller allocations within the Smart Contract Fund included Cardano, Hedera, Avalanche, and Sui. These four assets combined represented less than 11% of total fund weighting.
The structure reflects the CoinDesk Smart Contract Platform Select Capped Index methodology that governs the fund. Grayscale reviews these compositions quarterly to reflect market conditions.
Both funds operate without generating income for shareholders, according to the announcement. Instead, they regularly distribute fund components to cover ongoing operational expenses.
This distribution process means the number of underlying assets represented by each share gradually declines. Investors should factor this expense structure into long-term holding decisions.
AI Fund Rebalancing Reflects Sector Focus Grayscale’s Decentralized AI Fund also received quarterly adjustments following its own dedicated methodology.
The firm sold NEAR Protocol holdings and reinvested the proceeds across remaining fund components. Despite the sale, NEAR Protocol still led the fund with a 31.35% weighting after the transaction settled.
Bittensor claimed the second-largest position within the AI Fund at 29.15%. Render followed with a 21.59% allocation, while Filecoin rounded out the basket at 17.91%. These four assets now form the complete composition of Grayscale’s AI-focused investment vehicle.
Unlike the DeFi and Smart Contract funds, the AI Fund follows a methodology set directly by Grayscale as fund manager.
This structure allows the company flexibility in selecting or removing components each quarter. Holdings and weightings remain subject to change based on ongoing evaluation.
All weighting figures reflect end-of-day valuations recorded on August 3, 2026. Grayscale emphasized that investors cannot directly invest in the underlying indexes referenced. The company directed interested parties toward its official website for additional fund details.
Bittensor just reimagined what staking looks like on its network, and the result reads less like a protocol upgrade and more like the launch of an on-chain asset management layer.
The Root Reborn upgrade, tagged as runtime v441, transforms root staking from a passive dividend machine into a competitive allocation system. Validators no longer just sit there collecting rewards. They now build curated “baskets” of subnet alpha holdings, reinvesting dividends instead of dumping them for TAO at regular intervals. TAO’s price jumped roughly 5% on the announcement.
How Root Reborn actually works Root Reborn flips the old system entirely. Validators now set public root weights to determine how capital gets distributed among Bittensor’s various AI-focused subnets. They pick which subnets to allocate to, with a minimum of 8 destinations when the feature is enabled, and their stakers ride along.
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Stakers subscribe TAO to a validator’s fund and accrue yield automatically as a fraction of that fund. The default mode lets dividends compound without triggering trades. That eliminates the forced selling that was dragging on subnet token prices. It also sidesteps what the proposal identifies as adverse tax implications for stakers, since unrealized gains sitting in a basket aren’t taxable events in most jurisdictions the way recurring token swaps might be.
The proposal was architected by a developer known as “unconst” and unveiled on June 17. It targets several structural problems simultaneously: persistent sell pressure on subnet tokens, the loss of optionality for early subnet investors who got locked into a rigid dividend schedule, and the general inefficiency of treating all subnets equally regardless of performance.
The fund manager dynamic Validators are no longer passive infrastructure. They’re active capital allocators making public bets on which subnets will outperform. The protocol provides transparent tracking tools covering basket composition, net asset value, and lifetime returns.
What this means for TAO holders The headline number from the proposal is a projected reduction of up to 33% in mechanical sell pressure on TAO tokens. That’s the direct result of eliminating the automatic sell-for-TAO cycle that the old dividend system enforced.
Under Root Reborn, dividends stay invested in subnet positions, growing the basket’s value over time, rather than being converted and distributed as under the old system. Stakers can redeem their positions and move TAO between validators at any time.
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The broader cryptocurrency market maintains risk-off sentiment ahead of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate decision on Wednesday. Bitcoin (BTC) holds above $63,000 on Wednesday, while Bittensor (TAO) and Cardano (ADA) sustain gains from the previous day.
US Fed rate decision raises concerns in the crypto marketCoinMarketCap’s Fear and Greed Index is at 35, stabilizing after reversing from the neutral zone boundary at 40 on Sunday. This suggests market sentiment is slipping toward a risk-off stance. Santiment data reaffirms fears linked to the US Fed rate decision on Wednesday at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, with social volume of a rate hike reaching 171, while the rate cuts or stays the same are down to 53 and 65, respectively.
Taken together, crypto market sentiment is bearish, anticipating a potential rate hike on Wednesday that could reduce liquidity in high-risk assets.
Fear and Greed Index. Source: CoinMarketCap
Social volume data. Source: SantimentTechnical outlook: Will Bitcoin avoid a steeper correction?Bitcoin keeps a bearish near-term tone as price holds below the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at roughly $64,950 and well under the 200-day EMA near $74,211. This configuration suggests the broader trend remains pressured, with momentum subdued.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) at 48 hovers near the neutral midline, and the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) shows a downward slope after crossing below its signal line, hinting at lingering downside bias.
On the topside, initial resistance is defined by the 50-day EMA around $64,950, and a stronger cap emerges at the 200-day EMA near $74,211, ahead of the prior uptrend-line break region around $76,971, where sellers would likely regroup on any sharp rebound.
BTC/USDT daily price chart.With no nearby structural supports, a steeper correction in Bitcoin could test the $60,000 mark.
Technical outlook: Bittensor and Cardano show mild recoveryCardano maintains a bearish near-term tone as price remains below the 50- and 200-day EMAs at roughly $0.1738 and $0.2665. The pair also remains under the descending resistance trend line projected around the $0.1754 break area, underscoring persistent topside supply.
The MACD crosses marginally below its signal line while the RSI at 46 hovers below the midline, hinting at waning momentum rather than a sustained recovery.
Initial resistance is seen at the 50-day EMA near $0.1738, reinforced by the descending trendline around $0.1754. A daily close above this cluster would be needed to ease immediate downside pressure.
ADA/USDT daily price chart.On the downside, the next notable technical floor does not emerge until the June 25 low at $0.1382, leaving the pair vulnerable to further weakness if sellers regain control below recent lows.
TAO trades below $200 on Wednesday, maintaining a bearish near-term bias as price remains below a descending resistance line near $200. The AI token is capped by the 50-day EMA at about $211, reflecting a broader bearish trend.
That said, the MACD holds marginally above the signal line, extending the upward trend, while the RSI at around 46 suggests downside momentum is softening rather than accelerating.
On the topside, initial resistance aligns at the downtrend line around $200, where a daily close above would be needed to ease immediate selling pressure, followed by the 50-day EMA near $211 as a more distant bullish trigger zone.
TAO/USDT daily price chart.Looking down, the June 6 low at $183 emerges as the key structural support floor.
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Training a competitive AI model typically requires the kind of GPU budget that makes venture capitalists weep. Quasar, operating as Subnet 24 on the Bittensor network, thinks it has a workaround: let a decentralized army of miners do it instead, at a fraction of the cost.
The project, developed by SILX AI under the SILX Labs umbrella, has built an open marketplace where independent miners can operate and refine AI models through a competitive evaluation system. Miners who improve model performance get rewarded. Those who don’t, well, they get outcompeted.
What Quasar is actually building At its core, Quasar is focused on a specific pain point in AI: long-context foundation models. Quasar is targeting context lengths of approximately 2 million tokens or more. To get there, the team is deploying what it calls Quasar Attention, a novel methodology paired with hybrid architecture approaches designed to push the boundaries of what decentralized training can produce.
The Quasar-3B architecture launched in April 2026, following the release of the Quasar-Preview model as a Mixture-of-Experts checkpoint on Hugging Face. It’s computationally efficient, which matters a lot when your training infrastructure is spread across a decentralized network rather than sitting in a single data center.
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The real headline number: Quasar claims a 99.5% reduction in pre-training costs compared to traditional centralized methods.
The 10-trillion-token ambition Quasar has laid out plans for a 10-trillion-token decentralized training run, split into two phases of 5 trillion tokens each.
For context, GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion tokens. A 10-trillion-token run would put Quasar in the conversation with the largest training efforts ever attempted, except this one would be executed by a distributed network rather than a single corporate entity.
Cross-subnet collaboration Quasar announced a collaboration with Subnet 56, known as Gradients, and Subnet 3 for integrated long-context model training. This partnership, formed around July 2026, points to an emerging pattern within Bittensor where subnets are starting to function less like isolated experiments and more like interconnected components of a larger system.
The competition-and-reward mechanism is central to how Quasar maintains quality. Miners submit model improvements, validators evaluate them, and rewards flow to the contributors producing genuine enhancements.
What this means for investors For anyone watching the intersection of AI and crypto, Quasar represents an interesting test case. The TAO token, which powers the broader Bittensor network, stands to benefit if projects like SN24 can demonstrate that decentralized training produces models competitive with centralized alternatives.
Investors should watch two things closely. First, whether the Quasar-3B model produces benchmark results that hold up against comparable centralized models. Second, whether the 10-trillion-token training run actually launches and progresses on schedule.
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Bittensor (TAO) experienced a modest gain on Monday, July 27, 2026, yet technical signals suggest weakening momentum after the token failed to overcome a significant resistance level. This development raises the possibility of a deeper pullback unless buying pressure returns swiftly and decisively.
TAO struggles after failed resistance breakTAO is currently trading at $197.24, reflecting a 3.11% increase over the last 24 hours. Market activity has intensified, with trading volume posting a notable 51.87% surge to $99.38 million. Over the previous week, TAO’s price saw only a slight increase of 0.47%, according to CoinMarketCap.
Market analysts are observing a struggle for TAO after its breakout attempt above the $214 resistance failed. The unsuccessful effort triggered a decline, though the token avoided sliding to its next major support at $167.43.
CryptoTXG observed that TAO could revisit the $167.43 support level following its inability to sustain a move above $214. The analyst emphasized the importance of reclaiming $214 to reverse current downside risks.
The short-term market outlook remains cautious. CoinCodex, a digital asset prediction platform, forecasts a 25.02% fall for TAO over the next month, targeting $147.09 as the potential bottom by the period’s end.
If this forecast is realized, TAO would significantly underperform its current price range, suggesting broader uncertainty among traders.
MetricCurrent ValueSupport/Resistance1-Month ProjectionTAO price$197.24$167.43 / $214$147.0924h volume$99.38 million——Technical indicators and trading signalsCoinGlass analytics show that TAO futures volume climbed by 21.07% to $220.69 million, while open interest dropped by 9.80% to $255.48 million. The OI-weighted funding rate held at a positive 0.0006%. This pattern—higher volume alongside lower open interest—can indicate increased short-term activity without strong conviction for longer positions.
TradingView charts highlight that TAO is trading below key short-term exponential moving averages (EMAs). The 20-day EMA is recorded at $200.30, and the 50-day EMA at $214.10. Both indicators remain above the current price, with differences of $2.90 and $16.70, respectively.
On a longer-term basis, the 100-day EMA stands at $229.10, and the 200-day EMA at $247.60, both exceeding TAO’s current level. The sequence of ascending EMAs suggests a broader uptrend remains intact, despite the recent dip.
Bollinger Bands data presents a middle band at $200.50, an upper band at $214.80, and a lower band at $186.10. TAO is now $3.10 below the middle band, $17.40 beneath the upper band, and $11.30 above the lower band, indicating its position within a compressed trading range.
The current price action and technical indicators point to shrinking bullish momentum for TAO with rising caution among traders following the failed breakout attempt.
Bittensor is a decentralized machine learning protocol that incentivizes the creation and sharing of artificial intelligence models using blockchain technology. Its native token, TAO, is used for governance, staking, and rewards within the network.
Mini dictionary: Bollinger Bands, a technical indicator consisting of three lines (upper, middle, and lower bands) plotted relative to a security’s price. They measure price volatility and help identify overbought or oversold conditions.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Bittensor’s native token TAO is experiencing declining momentum after failing to break a critical resistance level, raising concerns about a possible pullback. The technical setup suggests that unless buyers reassert control and drive TAO above the key level, a further downturn could unfold.
TAO Struggles at Resistance, Analyst Sees Risk of PullbackTAO is currently trading at $197.24, a 3.11% gain over the last 24 hours, with trading volume surging by 51.87% to $99.38 million. Despite this short-term uptick, over the past week, the price has risen only 0.47%, according to CoinMarketCap.
Market observers note that the token encountered heavy rejection at the $214 resistance level. Analyst CryptoTXG emphasized the significance of this failed breakout, which led TAO lower. The price eventually stabilized before reaching the $167.43 support, but the analyst expects that this level will likely be tested unless the token regains momentum.
CoinCodex projects a further decline for TAO, forecasting a 25.02% drop over the next 30 days to $147.09. This outlook reflects concerns about weaker short-term momentum and the possibility of continued selling.
Analysts highlight that TAO must recover the $214 level to reduce the risk of deeper losses. Should buyers fail to drive the price above this resistance, the likelihood of a pullback becomes increasingly probable.
The current technical outlook is reinforced by trading data from platforms like CoinGlass, which reports a 21.07% increase in futures volume to $220.69 million, while open interest fell 9.80% to $255.48 million. The OI-weighted funding rate remains slightly positive at 0.0006%, suggesting some optimism among traders despite recent volatility.
Technical Indicators Point to CautionTradingView analysis indicates that TAO is trading below the short-term exponential moving averages (EMAs), with the 20-day EMA at $200.30 and the 50-day EMA at $214.10. The token also lags behind the 100-day and 200-day EMAs, which are set at $229.10 and $247.60, respectively. These moving averages form an ascending sequence, yet all remain above the current price, signaling continued bearish pressure.
Bollinger Bands data shows a middle band at $200.50, with the upper and lower bands at $214.80 and $186.10. TAO is now trading $3.10 below the middle band and $17.40 below the upper band, while remaining $11.30 above the lower band. This positioning within the bands further suggests that market momentum favors the downside as long as resistance levels hold.
Given these technical patterns, many traders are closely watching for either a decisive rebound or confirmation of a deeper correction. Monitoring market developments and key support levels remains crucial for participants.
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CoinCodex forecasts that TAO could reach $147.09 by the end of 30 days, projecting a significant pullback from current levels if current trends persist.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Bittensor (TAO) is under pressure following a failed attempt to break above a significant resistance level, prompting concerns about a potential deeper retracement. The token shows signs of weakening momentum at the start of the week, with key support levels coming into focus for traders and analysts alike.
Sliding momentum raises possibility of further lossesAs of Monday, Bittensor (TAO) is trading at $197.24, up 3.11% in the past 24 hours. Daily trading volume has jumped 51.87% to reach $99.38 million. While the weekly gain stands at a modest 0.47%, recent price movements suggest instability around current levels.
Price projections from CoinCodex anticipate a 25.02% decline over the next month, with a target of $147.09 for the TAO token. These forecasts highlight caution for the near term, signaling a risk of the price moving well below current levels if buyers fail to assert control.
Current PriceProjected 30-Day PricePercentage Change$197.24$147.09-25.02%Analyst CryptoTXG has stated that TAO recently failed to clear a resistance level at $214, suffering a strong rejection and triggering a downward move. Despite the drop, the pullback halted above a critical support at $167.43.
The $167.43 support is expected to be retested, and the token needs to reclaim $214 to avoid further losses. If TAO cannot break above this resistance, a renewed pullback appears likely.
Technical signals reinforce downside riskData from CoinGlass shows that futures volume increased by 21.07% to $220.69 million, while open interest dropped by 9.80% to $255.48 million. The OI-weighted funding rate is slightly positive at 0.0006%. The rise in trading activity alongside a decline in open positions points to a cautious sentiment in the derivatives market.
Short-term technical signals reveal that TAO is trading below key exponential moving averages (EMAs). The 20-day EMA is at $200.30, and the 50-day EMA stands at $214.10, both above the current price. The 100-day and 200-day EMAs, at $229.10 and $247.60 respectively, are positioned even higher and form an ascending sequence, underlining broader upward momentum that has stalled in the short run.
EMALevelDifference from Current Price20-day$200.30+$3.0650-day$214.10+$16.86100-day$229.10+$31.86200-day$247.60+$50.36Bollinger Bands provide further context, with the middle band at $200.50, the upper band at $214.80, and the lower band at $186.10. TAO is currently $3.10 below the middle band and $11.30 above the lower band, while trailing $17.40 below the upper band.
Bittensor is an open-source protocol focused on decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, designed to enable a global peer-to-peer neural network. The TAO token powers its network and incentivizes participants contributing computational resources and models.
Mini dictionary: Bollinger Bands (BB), a technical analysis indicator that plots volatility bands above and below a moving average, helping traders identify overbought and oversold conditions.
If momentum continues to weaken and resistance levels remain unbroken, TAO could face a significant pullback toward lower support levels in the coming weeks.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Bittensor’s native token TAO is showing signs of weakening momentum after failing to overcome key resistance levels. As of July 27, 2026, TAO trades at $197.24, reflecting a 3.11% gain in the last 24 hours. The token’s trading volume has surged by 51.87% to $99.38 million, while its weekly price performance edges up 0.47%, according to CoinMarketCap.
Price forecast: Downside scenario in focusAnalytics platform CoinCodex projects that TAO could decline by 25.02% within the next month, targeting $147.09 by the end of the 30-day period. The platform’s outlook suggests persistent short-term weakness for Bittensor unless bullish momentum returns quickly.
Should this scenario play out, TAO would fall well below both current market price and recent short-term support zones.
TAO risks a deeper pullback after failing to surpass key resistance. Unless buyers regain momentum quickly, a possible drop toward $147 may unfold, based on projections by CoinCodex.
Failed breakout prompts support retestCryptoTXG, a market analyst, highlighted that TAO was rejected at the $214 resistance, stalling its breakout attempt. Following this rejection, the token’s decline halted before touching the $167.43 support level.
The analyst indicated $167.43 as a crucial level. Recovery above $214 remains critical for TAO to avoid further downside, according to CryptoTXG. If TAO fails to regain these levels, the risk of a renewed pullback increases.
Bittensor (TAO) operates as the utility token for a decentralized machine learning protocol, rewarding users for contributing computational resources and AI models.
Mini dictionary: Exponential moving average (EMA), a trend-following technical indicator that smooths price fluctuations, often used to gauge momentum and support/resistance zones in cryptocurrency trading.
Technical analysis: Indicators remain bearishCoinGlass data shows TAO futures volume up 21.07% to $220.69 million, while open interest fell 9.80% to $255.48 million. The open interest weighted (OI-weighted) funding rate remained slightly positive at 0.0006%.
Rising trading volume alongside falling open interest signals heightened activity, but may also reflect short-covering or risk reduction under uncertain conditions.
Technical indicators on TradingView reveal that TAO trades below its main short-term exponential moving averages. The 20-day EMA stands at $200.30 and the 50-day EMA at $214.10, with current price levels trailing by $2.90 and $16.70, respectively. The 100-day and 200-day EMAs, at $229.10 and $247.60, continue to form a bullish ascending sequence, but both remain above the current spot price.
IndicatorCurrent ValueTAO Price Difference20-day EMA$200.30-$2.9050-day EMA$214.10-$16.70100-day EMA$229.10-$31.86200-day EMA$247.60-$50.36Bollinger Bands currently show the middle band at $200.50, the upper band at $214.80, and the lower band at $186.10. TAO trades $3.10 below the middle band and $11.30 above the lower band, while remaining $17.40 under the upper boundary.
Ongoing rejection near resistance and bearish technical alignment suggest TAO could face additional downside unless renewed buying pressure leads to a clear breakout above short-term averages.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Bittensor (TAO) experienced reduced upward momentum on Monday, July 27, 2026, as the cryptocurrency failed to overcome a crucial resistance point and faced renewed selling pressure. The asset’s inability to retake this level has increased the likelihood of a more significant pullback in the days ahead.
Bittensor Price Performance and Market ActivityAs of publication, TAO trades at $197.24, reflecting a 3.11% rise over the past 24 hours. Trading volume registered a significant 51.87% increase, reaching $99.38 million, signaling elevated activity among buyers and sellers. Over the previous week, the price advanced a modest 0.47%, data from CoinMarketCap shows.
Despite this incremental weekly gain, technical factors point toward increased downside risk for Bittensor in the short term. CoinCodex forecasts that TAO may decrease 25.02% over the next 30 days, projecting the token could reach $147.09 by the end of that period. Such a move would leave TAO trading well below its current price level.
CoinCodex expects weaker momentum for TAO, estimating a significant drop to $147.09 within the next month if bearish conditions persist. The platform highlights a cautious one-month scenario amid the current price action.
Analyst CryptoTXG highlighted that TAO failed to breach resistance at $214 and faced a forceful rejection, triggering a subsequent pullback. Despite this, the retracement halted before reaching the $167.43 support area.
Technical Signals Indicate Cautious OutlookAccording to CryptoTXG, the $167.43 support remains a critical level. The analyst suggests that regaining momentum above $214 could reduce the risk of deeper losses, but the likelihood of a continued pullback increases if TAO remains below this threshold.
CoinGlass data reveals that futures trading volume has surged by 21.07% to total $220.69 million, while open interest dropped 9.80% to $255.48 million. The OI-weighted funding rate remains slightly positive at 0.0006%. This pattern of rising volume coupled with declining open interest and marginally positive funding suggests a short-term shift in sentiment.
Looking at key moving averages, the 20-day EMA sits at $200.30 and the 50-day EMA at $214.10, both above the present TAO price. The 100-day and 200-day EMAs are positioned at $229.10 and $247.60, respectively, maintaining an upward sequence across these timeframes but remaining beyond the asset’s current value.
Bollinger Bands data locates the middle band at $200.50, with upper and lower bands at $214.80 and $186.10. TAO trades $3.10 under the middle band and $11.30 above the lower band, while still standing $17.40 below the upper boundary, underscoring continued price compression within a narrowing range.
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TradingView charts confirm that TAO continues to move below the short-term EMAs, reinforcing the cautious near-term outlook forecasted by technical analysts. Volume and price action point towards a potential retest of lower support unless the trend reverses decisively.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Bittensor [TAO] is approaching a decisive moment as weeks of selling pressure begin to lose momentum. Since peaking near $292.2 in late June, the token has steadily retreated. However, each successive decline has become less aggressive.
That slowdown has formed a falling wedge, a pattern that often reflects weakening bearish conviction rather than fresh selling pressure. Consequently, at press time, TAO traded around $198.3, as it nears the pattern’s apex near the critical $182.5 support.
Buyers have defended that level several times since January, making it the foundation of the current structure. Meanwhile, the failure to reclaim $244.7 has kept the overall trend biased towards the sellers, as that previous support has turned into solid resistance.
Source: TAO/USDT on TradingView Additionally, momentum indicators show the bearish trend is waning. At the time of writing, the RSI has rebounded to 45.23 but still hasn’t reached the price’s recent lows. This shift indicates a reduction in selling momentum below the surface.
Notably, the MACD reinforces this view. While both lines of the MACD continued to converge on the zero line, the histogram has made a slight positive turn. Despite that, volume remains very light compared to what was seen during the sharp sell-off that occurred in mid-July.
That lack of follow-through suggests sellers are no longer entering with the same conviction. Therefore, a breakout above the wedge and a reclaim of $244.7 would likely confirm a bullish reversal and expose $292.2.
Yet, losing $182.5 would invalidate the setup and shift momentum back toward the February low near $150.
Do the latest upgrades support TAO’s recovery? While the technical setup suggests selling pressure is fading, Bittensor’s latest upgrades strengthen the network’s long-term foundation. Previously, subnet owners could secure their position with a one-time commitment, making it harder for new participants to compete.
Source: Bittensor.com The new conviction mechanism changes that by rewarding users who keep their TAO locked over longer periods. It also allows committed challengers to replace inactive subnet owners after a year.
As a result, operators must continue contributing instead of relying on an early advantage. Meanwhile, Spec 437 reduces miners’ upfront costs by locking part of the registration fee instead of burning it completely.
Miners can recover those locked tokens only by remaining active and earning rewards. This approach encourages continuous participation but deters spam and short-term speculation.
All in all, if these upgrades increase demand, it could be enough to provide the demand needed to break above the resistance zone of $205-$220.
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Bittensor just made a quiet but consequential move: it redesigned its entire documentation layer so that AI agents, not just human developers, can parse it, understand it, and act on it. The OpenTensor Foundation announced the upgrade on July 21, 2026, framing it as infrastructure for what it calls an “agentic world.”
The documentation overhaul goes well beyond reformatting existing pages. Bittensor rolled out a five-minute Quickstart guide, an expanded Software Development Kit, updated Command Line Interface guides, and migration materials for developers transitioning from older versions of the platform.
The docs now cover wallet management, staking TAO (Bittensor’s native token), mining, validating, and subnet operations. All of it is structured for both human readability and machine consumption.
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This matters because Bittensor’s network runs on subnets, which are specialized markets that create and trade digital commodities like computational power, AI inference, and storage solutions. If an AI agent can read the documentation, discover what a subnet does, and start participating in it without a developer manually wiring everything together, you’ve fundamentally changed the speed at which the ecosystem can grow.
The update arrived just three days after the v431 network upgrade on July 18, 2026, which introduced improved security measures and launched the Conviction mechanism for subnet ownership. That upgrade was designed to lower barriers for programmatic and agent-driven participation in subnets. The documentation refresh is essentially the instruction manual that makes the v431 features accessible to both humans and their AI counterparts.
With machine-readable documentation, an AI agent can theoretically do most of that work itself. It loads the docs, identifies available operations, understands the parameters required, and starts making calls. The human developer becomes a supervisor rather than a line-by-line coder.
If machine-readable docs successfully lower the barrier for AI agents to participate in Bittensor’s subnets, the logical consequence is more network activity. More activity means more demand for TAO, since operations on the network, from staking to mining to subnet interactions, require token usage.
Community feedback on the update has been notably positive, with developers highlighting reduced friction and praising the platform’s AI-native infrastructure approach.
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MEXC has opened Bittensor’s TAO staking to its reported 40 million users through validator Yuma, adding exchange-based access to rewards from one of the largest decentralized artificial intelligence networks.
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MEXC has launched TAO staking for its reported 40 million users through Yuma. Yuma will provide the validator infrastructure and manage staking allocations across Bittensor. The launch follows Yuma’s criticism of Bittensor’s proposed Root Reborn governance overhaul. Yuma announced on Tuesday that its validator infrastructure now powers TAO staking on MEXC, allowing the exchange’s customers to delegate the token without moving their holdings to a separate Bittensor-compatible wallet.
Bittensor $TAO staking is now live for all MEXC users.
We've partnered with @MEXC to expand access to the Bittensor ecosystem. MEXC's 40 million users across 170+ countries can now access TAO staking through the exchange, powered by Yuma's Bittensor-native validator… pic.twitter.com/O9A0I6jJxq
— Yuma (@YumaGroup) July 21, 2026 Under the integration, Yuma will operate the validator infrastructure behind the service while MEXC provides the customer-facing staking product. The companies said the arrangement is designed to increase participation in Bittensor and make its staking system easier to access through a centralized exchange.
MEXC reports serving more than 40 million users in over 170 countries and regions. CoinMarketCap describes the company as a global exchange founded in 2018, while MEXC says its platform lists more than 3,000 cryptocurrencies across spot and derivatives markets.
For TAO holders, the new service removes several steps normally required to stake directly on Bittensor. According to Taostats documentation, direct staking involves transferring TAO to a supported wallet, selecting a validator and completing the delegation on the network.
Yuma’s role extends beyond processing those delegations. Within Bittensor, validators assess the output of miners across different subnets and assign weights that influence how the protocol distributes token emissions.
Each subnet operates as a specialized market for a particular digital service. According to Bittensor, those services can include machine-learning inference, model training, computing power, storage and prediction systems.
Exchange access removes barriers to TAO staking Bittensor uses TAO as both its incentive token and the main asset supporting its staking system. Holders can delegate TAO to validators, which use their stake to participate in the network’s consensus process and allocate capital among subnets.
Rewards depend partly on validator performance and how those validators position stake across the network. Yuma’s infrastructure will handle that process for the TAO committed through MEXC, although the announcement did not disclose an expected annual yield, lock-up period, or minimum staking amount.
According to Bittensor’s network description, independent subnets compete to produce digital commodities while validators continually assess their relative value. The protocol calls this process Yuma Consensus, a system intended to align the incentives of token holders, validators and miners.
Bittensor’s ecosystem currently contains 128 subnets, according to the company. Individual projects focus on services including AI inference, coding assistants, financial modeling and model training, with token emissions distributed according to their measured contribution to the network.
The exchange integration also gives users an alternative to native subnet staking. CoinGecko explains that direct participation typically requires investors to buy TAO on an exchange, transfer it to a compatible wallet and then use a Bittensor interface to select a validator or exchange TAO for a subnet’s Alpha token.
MEXC and Yuma did not state whether users staking through the exchange would receive exposure to individual Alpha tokens. Their announcement identified TAO staking as the available product, with Yuma providing the underlying validator connection.
TAO traded near $199 at the time of writing, according to CoinMarketCap data supplied with the announcement. The price gave Bittensor a market capitalization of about $1.91 billion, placing the token among the largest crypto assets linked to decentralized AI.
Governance concerns remain part of TAO’s market backdrop Yuma’s partnership with MEXC follows its public criticism of Root Reborn, a proposed Bittensor governance overhaul intended to change how validators allocate capital and reduce continued selling of subnet tokens.
During TAO’s June pullback, Yuma argued that the proposal could turn validators from neutral network operators into active capital managers. The validator group warned that the model could encourage collusion, preferential treatment and frontrunning while pushing subnet developers to focus more heavily on validator relationships.
“Such a change could fundamentally alter the role of validators,” Yuma wrote in its assessment of the proposal.
Supporters of Root Reborn have presented the proposal as a possible response to pressure within Bittensor’s token structure. Critics, including Yuma, have raised concerns about concentrated governance power, strained liquidity and possible regulatory complications.
Those disagreements emerged as TAO suffered a sharp reversal in June. Crypto.news data showed that the token fell nearly 20% from its June 15 peak of about $283, reaching roughly $225 on June 19 as governance concerns, derivatives liquidations and weaker risk appetite weighed on the market.
Despite its objections to Root Reborn, Yuma has continued to support Bittensor as a validator. Its MEXC integration places the group behind a staking channel that can connect millions of exchange accounts to the network’s reward system, while the unresolved governance debate continues to shape how validators may operate in the future.
MEXC adds Bittensor TAO staking for its global user baseThe integration with validator Yuma gives millions of MEXC users access to Bittensor, an AI-focused blockchain whose ecosystem now spans 128 specialized subnets.
Cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has launched staking support for Bittensor’s native TAO token, allowing users to earn rewards by helping secure one of the largest decentralized artificial intelligence networks.
Bittensor validator Yuma announced Tuesday that MEXC has integrated its validator infrastructure to support TAO staking for the exchange’s reported 40 million users. Yuma participates in Bittensor’s consensus mechanism by evaluating the performance of network subnets — specialized AI applications that perform specific machine learning tasks — and assigning weights that help determine how staking rewards are distributed.
The companies said the integration is intended to expand access to the Bittensor ecosystem and increase participation in the network.
Bittensor is a decentralized network that coordinates the development of AI models and services through subnets, which compete for token rewards based on their performance and usefulness to the network. TAO holders can stake tokens to validators, who allocate stake across subnets and earn rewards based on those allocations.
The Bittensor ecosystem currently consists of 128 subnets that specialize in tasks such as AI inference, model training, coding assistants and financial modeling. The ecosystem has expanded as interest in decentralized AI grows, with advocates arguing that open networks such as Bittensor are less susceptible to government or corporate restrictions than proprietary AI models. That argument gained renewed attention after the US Commerce Department restricted public access to certain Anthropic models due to national security and export control concerns.
TAO was trading at around $199 at the time of writing, giving it a market capitalization of roughly $1.916 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.
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MEXC adds Bittensor TAO staking for its global user baseThe integration with validator Yuma gives millions of MEXC users access to Bittensor, an AI-focused blockchain whose ecosystem now spans 128 specialized subnets.
Cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has launched staking support for Bittensor’s native TAO token, allowing users to earn rewards by helping secure one of the largest decentralized artificial intelligence networks.
Bittensor validator Yuma announced Tuesday that MEXC has integrated its validator infrastructure to support TAO staking for the exchange’s reported 40 million users. Yuma participates in Bittensor’s consensus mechanism by evaluating the performance of network subnets — specialized AI applications that perform specific machine learning tasks — and assigning weights that help determine how staking rewards are distributed.
The companies said the integration is intended to expand access to the Bittensor ecosystem and increase participation in the network.
Bittensor is a decentralized network that coordinates the development of AI models and services through subnets, which compete for token rewards based on their performance and usefulness to the network. TAO holders can stake tokens to validators, who allocate stake across subnets and earn rewards based on those allocations.
The Bittensor ecosystem currently consists of 128 subnets that specialize in tasks such as AI inference, model training, coding assistants and financial modeling. The ecosystem has expanded as interest in decentralized AI grows, with advocates arguing that open networks such as Bittensor are less susceptible to government or corporate restrictions than proprietary AI models. That argument gained renewed attention after the US Commerce Department restricted public access to certain Anthropic models due to national security and export control concerns.
TAO was trading at around $199 at the time of writing, giving it a market capitalization of roughly $1.916 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.
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Bittensor price has slipped and reached $199. TAO’s market structure is dominated by sellers. Bittensor (TAO) opened the month of July under pressure as the bears took over the overall market direction. The digital asset’s momentum is attempting to cross the red line, attracting the bulls into the charts, which is landing on the same page, failing.
Moreover, looking at the recent trading pattern, the trend remains negative, with the asset continuing to trade within an established downtrend. Thus, the bearish price alignment confirms that the sellers dominate the entire market conditions of TAO.
Only the buyers who enter with steady momentum would make the current market tendency turn bullish. Notably, Bittensor is currently trading within the $199.15 threshold after losing 3.61% in value over the last 24 hours. Also, the asset’s daily high is noted at $208.61.
Bittensor’s Key Price Levels to Watch A few upcoming price ranges are highly dependent on Bittensor’s short-term movements. If the immediate support is found at $198.02, the level to follow is likely sitting at $196. A crucial zone observed after the emergence of a death cross could be between $195.21 and $193.17. This area decides whether the price stabilises or continues to fall.
On the flip side, a sudden recovery might take the TAO price toward the $200 range. With a stronger push on the upside, the potent bulls could wake, and the price moves above $202.53, showing stronger momentum. Assuming the formation of a golden cross, the next resistance levels are expected to be between $203.11 and $205.69.
Analysing the Technical Setup of TAO The four-hour trading chart setup reflects a strong bearish trend with aggressive downward momentum. Both the Moving Average Convergence Divergence and signal lines are below zero; the market structure is dominated by sellers.
The MACD line crossing and staying below the signal line indicates that sellers are actively driving the price lower. The TAO market is in a clear distribution phase, and traders wait for the trend to show bullish divergence before looking for a bounce.
In addition, the daily Relative Strength Index (RSI) value resting at around 31.75 hints that Bittensor is knocking at the oversold territory. The bears have been in complete control, pushing the price down significantly over the last several candles.
The downward move is highly mature. This is a cautious zone, and most dedicated traders will watch the asset closely. Furthermore, waits for a definitive bounce off the 30 line to signal that the selling momentum is exhausted.
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Venice AI is pulling in $70 million in annualized recurring revenue through its integration with Bittensor subnet 11, powered by roughly 1.7 million daily API calls.
Delphi Digital, the crypto research firm, projects Venice AI’s total ARR at approximately $200M based on a recent three-week window of subscriber data tracking.
Inside the revenue machine Subnet 11, which previously operated under the name Dippy and has since evolved into TrajectoryRL, specializes in roleplay, companion AI, and prompt optimization. The 1.7 million daily API calls flowing through this subnet translate into revenue-backed demand for subnet tokens.
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TrajectoryRL itself documented roughly $50,000 in revenue during a single month. Scale that across the broader Venice ecosystem and you start to see how the $200M ARR projection from Delphi Digital isn’t just wishful math.
Venice AI distinguishes itself by running a privacy-focused, uncensored AI platform. Its flagship model, Venice Uncensored 1.2, was trained using compute from Bittensor’s Targon subnet. The platform offers chat, image generation, and coding tools.
The token economics behind the curtain Venice’s native token, VVV, began trading in January 2025 and has experienced significant price appreciation amid the broader AI narrative sweeping crypto markets. Holders can stake VVV for API access and earn DIEM credits that translate into computational resources on the network.
The broader Bittensor ecosystem reported approximately $43 million in revenue during Q1 2026 across all subnets.
What this means for investors NVIDIA has been engaging with the decentralized AI market. Institutional interest in decentralized AI infrastructure has been quietly building.
For investors evaluating the VVV token or the broader Bittensor ecosystem, the key metric to watch is sustained API call volume. Revenue projections based on three-week windows, however carefully tracked by firms like Delphi Digital, can be volatile.
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