Bittensor is an open-source decentralized protocol where participants produce and compete across digital commodity markets, including machine intelligence, compute, storage, protein folding and financial-market predictions. Bittensor's Twitter Score is 23 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #42,517 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Bittensor was co-founded by Jacob Steeves and Ala Shaabana and is affiliated with the Opentensor Foundation. The network launched via a fair launch of its native token, TAO, in January 2021. TAO serves as a transferable, censorship-resistant token that connects the network's submarkets under a unified framework, with participants earning TAO based on their contributions to the network.
Bittensor introduced the Dynamic TAO upgrade, which added subnet-specific alpha tokens and constant-product TAO/alpha liquidity pools; the upgrade deployed to mainnet in February 2025. In July 2024, developers temporarily halted blockchain transactions while investigating a suspected exploit affecting multiple user wallets. Bittensor has received backing from Polychain Capital, dao5 and Digital Currency Group. The account has published 139 posts and has been mentioned by 203 accounts a total of 331 times, with 17,089 followers as of September 2026 on the platform.
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Bittensor draws a broad range of followers from across the crypto and technology space. The accounts that follow Bittensor include 104 founders, 31 angel investors and 76 influencers, among them Laura Shin, Gmoney, Jason, DEGEN NEWS, Cuy Sheffield and 0xSammy.