The Taostats Blog

Protocol deep dives, network research, and product updates from the team behind Bittensor's data & analytics platform.

What Makes a Bittensor Validator Perform

A short primer on how Bittensor validators earn: stake, weight-setting, and vTrust consensus — and why agreement with other validators is what actually pays.

· Taostats

Welcome to the Taostats Blog

Why we're starting a blog, what we'll write about, and how it fits alongside the Taostats explorer and docs.

· Taostats

Bittensor Shorting, Explained

A plain-English walkthrough of Bittensor's Fixed-Liability Covered Continuous-Unwind shorting model (PR #2764, v3.6.1): what a covered short is, how you open one, the daily carry cost, and how you win or lose.

· Rufus