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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 ( $\tau$ ), 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 validators 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 TAO.app's subnets listings.

Bittensor frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Everything you were afraid to ask about Bittensor.

Subnet Listings on TAO.app

Discover the subnets that power Bittensor and browse real-time tokenomic data and analytics.

BTCLI Live Coding Playground

Try out some BTCLI functionality right in the browser.

Introduction to Bittensor

Learn fundamental Bittensor concepts

Guide to Bittensor tools

Opentensor Foundation maintains open source tools for the Bittensor ecosystem, including the Python SDK and `btcli`.

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.

Mining in Bittensor

Get ready to mine on Bittensor subnets

Validating in Bittensor

Get ready to validate on Bittensor subnets

Emissions

Learn how emissions are calculated.

Governance

Learn how the Bittensor governance works as it transitions into full community-ownership over time.

Senate

Understand what Senate is, requirements to participate in a Senate and how voting works.

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.

Create a subnet

Step-by-step instructions for creating a local subnet or a subnet on testchain or mainchain.

OCR subnet tutorial

Shows how to convert your Python notebook containing validated code for an incentive mechanism into a working subnet.

Subnet hyperparameters

Get to know subnet hyperparameters and how to use them effectively. As a subnet creator, your success depends on this knowledge.

Bittensor CLI, SDK, Wallet SDK

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

looking for legacy bittensor 7.4.0 docs?

See Legacy Bittensor 7.4.0 Documentation.

Bittensor CLI

Bittensor SDK

Wallet SDK

Participate​

Running a subnet​

Bittensor CLI, SDK, Wallet SDK​

Participate

Running a subnet

Bittensor CLI, SDK, Wallet SDK