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Bittensor Documentation

Bittensor is an open source platform where participants produce best-in-class digital commodities, including compute power, storage space, artificial intelligence (AI) inference and training, protein folding, financial markets prediction, and many more.

Bittensor is composed of distinct subnets. Each subnet is an independent community of miners (who produce the commodity), and validators (who evaluate the miners' work).

The Bittensor network constantly emits liquidity, in the form of its token, TAO (τ\tau), to participants in proportion to the value of their contributions. Participants include:

  • Miners—Work to produce digital commodities. See mining in Bittensor.
  • Validators—Evaluate the quality of miners' work. See validating in Bittensor
  • Subnet Creators—Manage the incentive mechanisms that specify the work miners and validate must perform and evaluate, respectively. See Create a Subnet
  • Stakers—TAO holders can support specific validators by staking TAO to them. See Staking.
Browse the subnets

Browse the subnets and explore links to their code repositories on Taostats' subnets listings.

Bittensor frequently asked questions (FAQ)
Everything you are afraid to ask about Bittensor.
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Learn Bittensor concepts
Start by learning the Bittensor concept, building blocks and incentive mechanism.
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Guide to Bittensor tools
Opentensor Foundation maintains open source tools for the Bittensor ecosystem, including the Python SDK and `btcli`.
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Subnet Listings
Subnets on taostats.io
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Bittensor media assets
Media assets

Participate

You can participate in an existing subnet as either a subnet validator or a subnet miner, or by staking your TAO to running validators.

Staking and Delegation
Get to know how staking and delegating in the Bittensor network.
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Mining in Bittensor
Get ready to mine on Bittensor subnets
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Mining in Bittensor
Get ready to validate on Bittensor subnets
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Emissions
Learn how emissions are calculated.
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Governance
Learn how the Bittensor governance works as it transitions into full community-ownership over time.
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Senate
Understand what Senate is, requirements to participate in a Senate and how voting works.
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Running a subnet

Ready to run your own subnet? Follow the below links.

Basic subnet tutorials
Learn how to run a simple subnet locally or on testchain or mainchain.
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Create a subnet
Step-by-step instructions for creating a local subnet or a subnet on testchain or mainchain.
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OCR subnet tutorial
Shows how to convert your Python notebook containing validated code for an incentive mechanism into a working subnet.
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Subnet hyperparameters
Get to know subnet hyperparameters and how to use them effectively. As a subnet creator, your success depends on this knowledge.
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Bittensor CLI, SDK, Wallet SDK

Use the Bittensor CLI and SDK and Wallet SDK to develop and participate in the Bittensor network.

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