RaoFoundation/subtensor
Bittensor
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 91 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a Substrate-based blockchain that coordinates decentralized subnets producing digital commodities and manages staking, consensus, and token emissions.
- Ensures end-to-end consistency by integrating the blockchain runtime, Python SDK, CLI, and documentation in a single monorepo with metadata-driven code generation.
- Use for building and operating decentralized networks where independent participants contribute compute, inference, or storage and are rewarded proportionally.
- Use for developing and deploying interoperable EVM and ink! smart contracts alongside native Substrate extrinsics on a unified blockchain platform.
- Use for creating custom incentive mechanisms and staking models within subnets to govern validator behavior and token economics in a modular blockchain environment.
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
The Bittensor monorepo. It contains the subtensor chain (a Substrate-based blockchain), the Python SDK and
btcli, the documentation, and the website that renders it — all in one place so a single change can be validated end-to-end before it ships.That site is the source of truth for using Bittensor: install, wallets, staking, subnets, EVM, every transaction and query, error codes, and contributor guides. The markdown lives in
docs/and is published bywebsite/.Bittensor is an open network where independent subnets produce digital commodities — compute, inference, storage, prediction — and the chain pays participants in TAO in proportion to the value they contribute. Miners produce, validators score, subnet owners define incentive mechanisms, and stakers back validators.
The subtensor chain is the trust layer: it runs consensus, records subnet and neuron state, handles staking and emissions, and moves value. Work itself happens off-chain inside subnets; the chain coordinates and pays for it. Subtensor also exposes a full EVM (Frontier) and ink!/wasm smart contracts alongside native Substrate extrinsics.
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Forks
356+25
Open issues
83+36
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| Category median | 16.8K | — | 60 | — |
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