The 18 subnets highlighted in the widely-shared subnet primer report — plus #19, Lium, which earned its bonus slot. What each one does in plain English, the traction numbers that matter, and why it’s worth knowing. Live market data from the chain as of Aug 28, 2026.
$25.3Mmarket cap
Decentralized genomic variant calling. HelixForge manufactures realistic practice DNA with answers built in — solving the 'answer key' problem for training mutation-detection AI. OpenAI examined 8 genomics tools and singled out Minos's HelixForge as the most ambitious.
OpenAI genomics report feature
Aug 1, 2026
Rounds
72-min, winner-take-all
Storage
Hippius SN75 + R2 + S3
Whitepaper
20 pages
Worth knowing: OpenAI examined 8 genomics AI tools and singled out Minos's HelixForge as THE most ambitious. Bittensor miners are analyzing DNA and detecting disease mutations — and OpenAI noticed.
139.6 𝜏/day ($32,508)
chain emissions
$39.5Mmarket cap
Verified inference API with cryptographic TOPLOC proof on every response — no TEEs needed. Earth's lowest-cost access to Kimi K3 at exactly half the official price. 4 models live, 28+ miner nodes, 98.87% uptime.
Kimi K3
$1.50/$7.50 per 1M — half official
DeepSeek V4 Flash
$0.045/$0.09 per 1M
Uptime
98.87%
Drop-in
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes
Worth knowing: Kimi K3 at HALF the official price — a 2.8-trillion-parameter frontier model running on gaming GPUs, with cryptography proving you got the real model.
29.6 𝜏/day ($6,893)
chain emissions
$36.4Mmarket cap
Private AI inference on your own hardware. One binary install, end-to-end encrypted relay — the company itself cannot read your prompts. 9 models in registry. Native Hermes Agent integration.
Models
9 (DeepSeek V4 Flash, Gemma 4, Qwen3.6, Nemotron)
Relay
end-to-end encrypted
Integration
Native Hermes Agent (Aug 2026)
APIs
OpenAI + Anthropic compatible
Worth knowing: Hermes Agent by Nous Research runs natively on your own Actual-powered hardware — private frontier models with no VPN, no tailscale, no PyTorch babysitting.
early stage
chain emissions
$12.9Mmarket cap
Text-to-3D generation that democratizes 3D content creation. Web app for prompting 3D models (~1 minute each), a catalog of generated Gaussian splats, and plugins for Blender and Unity.
Generation
~1 minute via web app
Blender plugin
v0.8.0 on Gumroad
Unity plugin
v0.3.0 on Unity Asset Store
Format
Gaussian splats catalog
Worth knowing: Ships downloadable plugins for Blender AND Unity — the two most-used 3D/game engines in the world. A Bittensor subnet wired straight into the workflows of millions of game developers.
9.7 𝜏/day ($2,260)
chain emissions
$6.0Mmarket cap
Agentic data marketplace — llms.txt indexes plus processed podcast datasets, making the web machine-readable. 10K+ domains, 300K+ HuggingFace downloads, 2M+ enrichment points.
Domains
10,000+ indexed
HF downloads
300K+
Enterprise customers
Ipsos, Gelt, Archway
Cost
660x cheaper than MTurk
Worth knowing: 10,000+ domains indexed and searchable in real time, 300K+ HuggingFace downloads, 3 named enterprise customers — at 660x cheaper than Mechanical Turk.
5.0 𝜏/day ($1,173)
chain emissions
$52.1Mmarket cap
Vision AI research company making every camera intelligent. Its Manako product turns any camera network into real-time 'systems of action' — no new hardware required. Co-selling alliance with PwC France & Maghreb.
PwC co-selling
8-month vetting, enterprise distribution
Paris Blockchain Week
won vs ~1,000 competitors
Projection
$40M ARR (per CEO, Apr 2026)
Mentat Lend
first credit market on Bittensor
Worth knowing: A Big 4 consulting giant (PwC, $57B revenue, 86% of the Fortune 500) is now actively SELLING a Bittensor subnet's tech to enterprise clients. Projecting $40M ARR in 2026.
39.4 𝜏/day ($9,163)
chain emissions
$6.8Mmarket cap
AI code-vulnerability detection. Its ScaBench benchmark covers 31 real audit projects and 555 bugs from Code4rena/Cantina/Sherlock. Runs free security triage on all ~128 subnets. Delivered a paid audit (MegaTao, Feb 2026).
ScaBench
31 projects, 555 bugs
Coverage
free triage, all ~128 subnets
Paid audit
MegaTao, Feb 2026
Model
audit/bug-bounty marketplace
Worth knowing: Free triage agents already catch Tenex-style exploit classes — and the subnet turned that reputation into its first paid audit. Security as a competition.
0.5 𝜏/day ($120)
chain emissions
$106.7Mmarket cap
Leading decentralized serverless AI compute. Trillions of tokens per month, 13 live SOTA models all on Intel TDX confidential compute, new models live within minutes of release. Accepts USD and TAO.
Throughput
trillions of tokens/month
Models
13 SOTA, all Intel TDX
Docs
119 pages
Partners
OpenRouter, Kilo, FetchAI, Phala
Worth knowing: New SOTA models live within minutes of release, at ~85% below AWS pricing — and its Parallax framework proved decentralized training works with only ~0.6% quality loss vs a datacenter.
74.8 𝜏/day ($17,412)
chain emissions
$28.5Mmarket cap
Crypto-native drug discovery platform. Merit-based ML competitions screen a 3.2-billion+ molecule library against 30 protein targets, scored by the PSICHIC oracle. Hits flow to a robotic synthesis lab for real-world validation in days.
Screened
102,932 / 3.2B molecules (live counter)
Targets
30 protein targets
Whitepapers
3 (V1–V3, 2025)
Partners
OnePot.AI (robotic synthesis), Yalotein
Worth knowing: 102,932 molecules screened from a 3.2-billion-compound library, with hits synthesized by OnePot.AI's robotic lab for real wet-lab validation — in days, not months.
22.8 𝜏/day ($5,302)
chain emissions
$6.4Mmarket cap
B2B lead generation finding high-intent buyers from 12+ real-time signal sources. Secured an enterprise sales pilot with Dropbox — validation from a category-defining Fortune 500 company.
Meetings booked
142
Conversion
38 (27% rate)
ARR
~$1M
Pilot
Dropbox (Jul 30, 2026)
Worth knowing: Dropbox is now piloting LeadPoet's AI sales intelligence. 27% conversion rate, 142 meetings booked, ~$1M ARR — real revenue from real enterprise customers.
early stage
chain emissions
$22.9Mmarket cap
Decentralized cloud storage: files are split into 30 Reed-Solomon shards across independent miners (any 10 reconstruct your file, tolerating 20 simultaneous failures). Per-object NaCl encryption, S3-compatible API — no wallet required.
Erasure coding
any 10 of 30 shards rebuild
Price
$0.003/GB/month — ~30x cheaper than S3
Egress
free
Apps
desktop app; HippChat demo
Worth knowing: 30x cheaper than AWS S3 with free egress, per-object encryption, files split into 30 shards — and third-party apps (HippChat, Chutes, Minos) already build on it.
19.7 𝜏/day ($4,579)
chain emissions
$6.8Mmarket cap
Open robotics VLA-model competition on π0.5/LIBERO. Evaluation reproduces official 96.8–97.2% benchmark scores. Anti-overfitting via 10,030 perturbed task variants — object-position swaps collapse model success 99% → 25%, proving it rewards generalization, not memorization.
Benchmark
reproduces official 96.8–97.2%
Anti-overfit
10,030 perturbed task variants
Generalization test
99% → 25% on position swaps
Stage
early
Worth knowing: Object-position swaps collapse model success from 99% to 25% — proving the subnet rewards generalization, not memorization. Bittensor isn't just software — it's training AI for physical robots.
1.6 𝜏/day ($369)
chain emissions
$6.0Mmarket cap
Zero-knowledge proof-of-humanhood and proof-of-uniqueness for the agentic economy. Beta (Q2 2026). Integrations claimed with Google PST, Visa TAP, Stripe MMP, and W3C DIDs — the KYC-free trust layer for AI-agent-authorized payments.
Proof
ZK humanhood + uniqueness
Integrations (claimed)
Google PST, Visa TAP, Stripe MMP
Standards
W3C DIDs
Stage
beta, pre-revenue
Worth knowing: In a world of AI agents, how do you prove you're human? Yanez does it cryptographically — on Bittensor — with Google, Visa, and Stripe integrations claimed.
0.9 𝜏/day ($221)
chain emissions
$20.0Mmarket cap
Decentralized content marketing expanding beyond Web3 into AI, SaaS, fintech, dev tools, cybersecurity. New products: Outfold (enterprise YouTube marketing with a living intelligence layer) and Stitch3 (real-time X ecosystem intelligence). Now accepting fiat AND crypto.
Campaigns
114 delivered
Creators
880+ onboarded
Audience
10.3M (Web3 alone)
Revenue
$320K → 58% recycled into buybacks
Worth knowing: 114 campaigns, 880 creators, 10.3M audience in Web3 alone. Now expanding to enterprise tech, taking fiat payments — with 58% of revenue recycled into token buybacks.
20.4 𝜏/day ($4,753)
chain emissions
$27.5Mmarket cap
Private frontier-model gateway (Claude/GPT/Gemini) routed through an Intel TDX secure enclave on Phala. 30+ models at or below maker prices, drop-in for Cursor/Cline/Claude Code. Prompts decrypted only inside the enclave — invisible to the model maker, the host, AND gm itself.
Models
38 live (all TEE-verified)
Privacy
decrypted only inside enclave
Drop-in
Cursor, Cline, Claude Code
Pricing
at/below maker prices
Worth knowing: 38 frontier models — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Qwen 3.5-397B — through ONE API, verified by Intel's silicon. Even the gateway operator can't read your prompts.
20.0 𝜏/day ($4,646)
chain emissions
$79.9Mmarket cap
Bittensor's flagship decentralized AI inference subnet (by Manifold Labs), serving popular open-source LLMs through an OpenAI-compatible REST API. Miners run inference, validators verify responses. Evolved into a Confidential Compute Cloud for GPU/CPU rentals.
GitHub
72★, 61 forks — most-forked subnet repo
API
api.targon.com (OpenAI-compatible)
Backed by
OSS Capital (lead) + DCG
Privacy
TVM confidential compute
Worth knowing: 72 GitHub stars and 61 forks — one of the most community-adopted Bittensor codebases in existence. Backed by DCG and OSS Capital. The oldest living subnet (SN4).
55.7 𝜏/day ($12,968)
chain emissions
$40.4Mmarket cap
Distributed LLM pretraining across permissionless machines, by Macrocosmos. Published arXiv paper. Currently training a 1.5B model, scaling toward 100B. 'Train at Home' app lets anyone with a GPU join the swarm.
Project Orion
LIVE — 256+ distributed GPUs
In training
62B/16B; Orion-100B in progress
Paper
arXiv:2507.17766
Parent
Macrocosmos runs 3 subnets
Worth knowing: Training a 100-BILLION-parameter model across 256 decentralized GPUs that nobody owns — and it works. Published arXiv paper. Train-at-home app for anyone with a GPU.
early stage
chain emissions
$4.5Mmarket cap
Decentralized bandwidth coordination network using Proof-of-Bandwidth. Completed the first decentralized subnet-to-subnet data transfer: 107GB from Cloudflare R2 to Hippius in ~6 minutes. Beam Tunnels connect private enterprise infrastructure securely.
Miners
1,247
Aggregate
847 Gb/s
Volume
2.4 PB
Integrations
S3, R2, GCS, Snowflake, Salesforce, MCP
Worth knowing: The first decentralized subnet-to-subnet transfer in Bittensor history — 107GB from Cloudflare R2 to Hippius in ~6 minutes. Boring, real, billable internet infrastructure.
13.3 𝜏/day ($3,095)
chain emissions
$110.4Mmarket cap
The #2 subnet on Bittensor by market cap ('Airbnb for GPUs'): 1,286 GPUs live, 874 rented (68% utilization). First agent-first compute provider. Confidential Compute with TEEs live (Jul 2026). Listed on Kraken and MEXC. The most aggressive deflationary tokenomics in the ecosystem.
Daily auto-burn
~$20K/day (1,412 owner tokens per 24h, on-chain verified)
Single buyback-and-burn
$700K, Apr 2026 — 100% revenue-funded
Sept 2025
$3M+ burned
Rank
#1 of ALL subnets for buybacks/burns within 3 days of launch
Worth knowing: Lium burns ~$20,000 of its own token EVERY DAY, on-chain, forever — and ranks #1 of all 128 subnets for buybacks-and-burns. Revenue up, supply down. 874 GPUs actively rented = real paying demand; revenue funds the burns; burns support the price.
85.2 𝜏/day ($19,833)
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