Library

Explainers & reference

The evergreen half of the publication: pieces written to stay true, not to stay fresh. Each one explains a piece of how Bittensor works.

Mechanics

What dTAO actually is

Alpha, pools and the emission loop, from first principles.

Drafting
Mechanics

Reading an emission

Where TAO goes each block, and why two subnets with the same score can behave nothing alike.

Planned
Mechanics

Locks, conviction & commitment

What locking alpha signals, and what it conspicuously does not.

Planned
Reference

Glossary

Netuid, alpha, pools, dTAO, miner burn, deregistration — defined plainly.

Planned
Method

How to check our numbers

Read a subnet straight off the chain yourself, without trusting us.

Mining

A miner's first subnet

Registration economics and what “real work” looks like in the data.

Planned
Publishing order is TBD. Evergreen explainers ship first — they rank, and they don’t rot while the data pipeline matures.