An AI Just Built a Top-3 Bittensor Subnet | Bittensor Weekly Ep. 9

Описание: An autonomous AI agent called Arbos just built, launched, and operates its own subnet on Bittensor — and Distil (SN97) has already climbed to #3 in emissions. This week we cover the full story: how Arbos used Chutes (SN64) for inference, wrote a purpose-built Rust CLI, and runs 120-prompt training epochs to distill Qwen 3.5-35B into small models under 5.25B parameters — with a winner-takes-all reward structure and a live public endpoint at chat.arbos.life.

We also look at why Bittensor staking inflows bucked the sector-wide trend, with TAO stakers adding capital while Ethereum, Solana, and most major networks saw declines. Plus a deep Q1 report card: ~$43M in revenue, a +21.57% quarterly close to ~$251, and 128 active subnets at the hard cap.

Rounding out the episode: the Conviction upgrade (BIT-0011) phased rollout, a quick look at Verathos (SN96), and the Alpha Portfolio with three watches for the week.

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:30 The Weekly Wrap
0:36 Story #1: An AI Agent Built Subnet 97
1:02 Subnet 97 Hits #3 in Emissions
1:14 The First Business Run by an Agent
1:27 Story #2: Capital Rotated INTO Bittensor
1:53 What It Means
2:18 Story #3: The Q1 Report Card
2:52 Q1 by the Numbers
3:03 Story #4: Conviction (BIT-0011) Phased Rollout
3:35 Market Levels
4:04 Institutional / ETF
4:17 Quick Mover: Verathos SN96
4:35 SUBNET SPOTLIGHT: Distil
4:45 Arbos: The Agent Loop
5:08 The Goal: "Build a Subnet"
5:34 What Distil Does
5:50 Each Epoch
6:16 Winner Takes All
6:23 Query the King
6:39 Why It Matters
7:17 ALPHA PORTFOLIO — Three Watches
8:34 The Broader Picture
8:49 Outro

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