Hi Bittensor Fam! 👋
Happy last Tuesday of 2025! We made it. The turkey is gone, the wrapping paper is shredded, TaoFlows launched and The Halving is officially behind us. 🥂 Hope you had a fantastic holiday, while you were hopefully enjoying some downtime.
Santa brought a late gift in the form of a massive Nvidia x Groq rumor that has the AI sector buzzing again. 🤖🎄 We are ending 2025 with emissions slashed, scarcity kicking in, and the institutional gates open in Stockholm.
It’s the end of the year, and our goal hasn't changed: turn everyday curious folks into TAO fans—one quick, addictive Flow at a time.
We break down Bittensor & decentralized AI like chatting with a buddy at a backyard BBQ: no tech jargon, no complicated code, just straight facts, fresh alpha, and the odd killer meme.
Grab your coffee (or champagne leftovers) and let’s flow into the last update of 2025! 🌊
Bittensor network updates (December 29th, 2025)
📊TAO-kenomics
1 TAO = $221.3 USD
1 TAO = 0.002540 BTC
1 BTC = 393.5 TAO
Circulating supply: 10.55M
7d: 0.5% | Market cap: $2.3B
**All data as of Dec 29th @ 9 pm EST
🌊WTF - What The Flow?
Wrapping up the year, one TAO gets you about $220 in holiday gifts (down 2% this week). one TAO It's equal to 0.0025 Bitcoin (or reverse: 1 Bitcoin scores you roughly 395 TAO if you're balling). The full ecosystem rings in at $2.30 billion market cap. Sitting pretty at rank 35 among all cryptos.
⚡ TOP 5 SUBNETS BY EMISSIONS
These are the top five Bittensor projects making the most money each day right now, like the hottest holiday toys flying off shelves while the knock-offs gather dust. Emissions show real cash pouring in.
Subnet | Emissions | Price (USD) | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
Chutes | 6.60% | $18.10 | 👑King of Hill |
Affine | 5.18% | $13.88 | ❄️Cooling Down |
Vanta | 4.32% | $9.48 | 🔥Heating Up |
Ridges | 2.92% | $10.15 | 🔥Heating Up |
Lium.io | 2.77% | $12.14 | -Stable |
Chutes This subnet is literally peaking the sub-count by churning out AI visuals like a 24/7 lo-fi stream on steroids—absolute visual cracked-ness.
Affine It’s farming the DeFi meta harder than a speedrunner on a glitch-less run, making liquidity look like child's play for the whole chat.
Vanta They've got the crystal ball and the chat is absolutely spamming PogChamp because they’re calling market moves like a pro analyst.
Targon Absolute unit of a rig that’s hosting the community's big-brain data without even breaking a sweat on the CPU—no lag, just gains.
Lium Broadcasting high-IQ content and carrying the whole lobby with decentralized brainpower that’s simply built differently.
🌊WTF - What The Flow?
The competition in the Bittensor ecosystem is fierce! Subnets are constantly jockeying for the top spots based on performance. The rankings shift in real-time as miners and validators prove their value. This week, the most successful subnets are those delivering the highest quality AI services, attracting the most validators, and earning the biggest slice of the TAO pie! 🥧
🤔 What the Heck isTAO?
New here? No sweat! Imagine Bittensor is a giant, global brain for AI, made up of thousands of computers all working together. 🤖🌐
Now, how do you get all those different parts to cooperate and do useful things? You reward them! TAO is the "brain food" 🌮. It's the special currency that pays the best-performing parts of the brain (called "subnets") for providing valuable AI services, like creating images or analyzing data. The better the service, the more TAO they earn. Simple, right?
🌊WTF - What The Flow?
Imagine if Bitcoin wasn't just solving random math problems, but was actually building a global supercomputer. TAO is 'Digital Intelligence.' It connects thousands of computers worldwide to train AI models together. Instead of mining for gold, they mine for knowledge. It’s a decentralized 'World Brain' that pays people to make it smarter—owned by everyone, controlled by no one.
Bittensor Basics
🚀 BIGGEST STORY: Nvidia & Groq Save Christmas 🎄
HO HO HO-ly moly! Christmas Day brought more than just presents. Just as the post-halving blues were setting in, Jensen Huang (Santa) dropped a present down the chimney. Chip giant Nvidia announced a $20 billion deal with AI chipmaker Groq, and the entire AI world felt the shockwaves. ⚡
Why does this matter for TAO? While not a direct partnership with Bittensor (yet!), this news sent the entire Decentralized AI (DeAI) sector flying. Investors are betting that as Nvidia expands its reach into specialized chips (Groq's LPU), the demand for decentralized networks to run these models will explode.
The Link: Bittensor subnets like Chutes (SN64) and Targon (SN4) rely heavily on decentralized inference and diverse hardware architectures.
The Reaction: The market saw this as a massive validation for inference-centric architectures—the exact thing Bittensor is building.
TAO jumped 6% on Christmas Day, outpacing Bitcoin in hopes that AI narratives are still the kingmaker in this ecosystem. The "Halving Hangover" might just be cured by the "GPU Gold Rush." ⛏️💎
This move validates the entire thesis that a decentralized, competitive market for AI is not just a dream, it's the future. The pressure is now on for subnets to capture this momentum!
🗞️ Hot Takes from the TAOverse
Quasar (Subnet 24) Hits Bitstarter with TAO-Friendly Terms: Quasar joins Bittensor's crowdfunding platform with early access rules tailored for subnets, streamlined raises for AI projects.
Bittensor Leads DePIN Social Buzz: TAO tops DePIN projects in 24-hour chatter, signaling fresh momentum in decentralized infrastructure talks.
Two-a-Day Partners with Score for Vision AI in Fruit Production: Real-world use case—vision AI optimizing agriculture via Bittensor subnets.
Grail v0 Ushers New Era for Decentralized AI Post-Training: Major upgrade signaling advanced capabilities in distributed model refinement.
TAO vs. HBAR: A new report highlights TAO's revenue-to-valuation edge over Hedera for 2026. They argue permissionless subnets > corporate councils. We agree. 😉
More TAO waves 🌊
✨The Halvening Happened! On Dec 15, daily TAO rewards were cut in half. New TAO is now twice as scarce! 0.5 TAO per block (~3,600/day). Inflation dropped from ~26% to ~13%. Scarcity mode: ON
🥇 Flow-Based Emissions are LIVE: The most useful subnets now get the most rewards, making the system more merit-based.
📉 Price Dip Post-Halving: A classic "sell the news" moment combined with shaky market conditions. Smart money is watching the fundamentals.
🏆 Subnet 17 Wins Big: Huge congrats to Subnet 17 (404-gen)! Their game, "The Dream," took home first prize at the prestigious Chroma Awards, proving that top-tier applications can be built on Bittensor in record time.
⚔️ Cross-Subnet AI Training: Massive breakthrough! Tplr (SN3) and Gradients (SN56) completed the first decentralized LLM training run across two different subnets. This proves we don't need centralized clusters.
👀 Subnet Cap to 256? Rumors are swirling that the Foundation is looking to double the subnet cap from 128 to 256 in 2026 to accommodate the "High-Impact" initiative.
😂 MEME OF THE FLOW
That's all for this week's Flow! Stay curious, stay engaged, and we'll catch you next time for more TAO-rrific updates! 👋✨
@TAOFlows
P.S. Forward to one friend who still thinks ChatGPT is the only AI.
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