August 18, 2026 · Published daily
Subnet News — August 18, 2026
Forty percent of subnet markets were rising at the daily snapshot, led by RedTeam, while Teutonic absorbed a concentrated 816 TAO wallet outflow. Fresh subnet work included Reliquary's new Qwen3-4B DAPO profile, Lium GPU power-cap verification, Ridges Kubernetes verifier permissions, Score's image-size scoring fix, and new operating clarifications from NIOME and Cascade. Two separate Quasar conviction reductions above 50,000 alpha were recorded as real same-day on-chain actions, not assumed sales or guaranteed cliff releases.
- Coverage window
- Aug 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – 10:00 AM ET
- Subnets checked
- 128
- Subnets with updates
- 8
What matters first
Top signals
Forty percent of subnet markets rise as RedTeam leads the daily tape
SubnetRadar's August 18 issue showed 40% of subnet markets positive, with RedTeam up 17.5% and SN70 down 13.9%. The live Shizzy snapshot taken after the cutoff still showed more declining than advancing markets. These are market observations, not predictions or recommendations.
Seven tracked wallets remove 816 TAO from Teutonic before cutoff
At 9:05 UTC, SubnetRadar recorded seven historically profitable wallets removing a combined 816 TAO from SN3, led by one 286-TAO movement. The provider labels and transactions are observable, but they do not establish coordination, motive or future price direction.
Forward calendar
Unlock watch
Conviction unlocks are not always one-day token cliffs. When a lock switches to decaying mode, alpha releases progressively on the chain unlock curve. Dates and amounts below show the best public schedule available and carry an explicit confidence label.
Quasar
A Quasar hotkey reduced its conviction lock by approximately 130,300 alpha through a real on-chain action. The same dashboard also records new Quasar locks in the period, so this is reported as a gross reduction rather than a guaranteed cliff release or evidence that the alpha was sold.
Quasar
A second Quasar hotkey reduced its conviction lock by approximately 103,000 alpha through a separate on-chain action. A nearby 150,300-alpha lock on that hotkey means the event must not be described as a simple one-day token cliff or assumed sale.
Organized by SN#
Subnet desk
Score
Score corrects image dimensions used by its polygon scorer
Score replaced placeholder one-by-one image dimensions with dimensions read from the real frame when available, adding tests around the adaptive intersection-over-union path. The fix addresses a concrete scoring-input defect; its effect on live rankings was not independently measured by cutoff.
lium.io
Lium verifies GPU persistence after applying power caps
Lium now reads back both the applied GPU power limit and persistence mode after changing a cap. It warns when persistence is off because the cap can revert after a driver unload, while avoiding false warnings when the field is unavailable. This extends yesterday’s hardware-truth work with a new operational safeguard.
NIOME
NIOME clarifies its 720-block task cadence and pool separation
The team said one scoring interval lasts 720 blocks, roughly 2.4 hours, and miners should expect new tasks at that cadence. It also recommended keeping cas9 and cas12a work in separate pools to avoid skewed result distribution. These are new operating clarifications, distinct from yesterday’s consistency-score dispute.
Ridges
Ridges adds narrowly scoped Kubernetes capabilities for verifier cleanup
Ridges added DAC_OVERRIDE, FOWNER and CHOWN to the root verifier container so it can reset agent-owned worktrees, while documenting that a non-root agent process does not retain those capabilities. Tests now pin the intended capability set. This changes verifier execution plumbing, not miner rewards.
Reliquary
Reliquary ships a Qwen3-4B Base DAPO v4 protocol profile
Reliquary merged a large v4 profile centered on Qwen3-4B Base, expanded to sixteen trajectories per prompt, and added protocol, admission, training, verifier and integrity changes with new tests and runbooks. The public merge is verified; production training results were not yet independently available.
cascade
Cascade documents its shipped mainnet competition settings
Cascade updated its public documentation to match the live configuration: roughly one-hour heats, a 4M live final size, a tenure-decaying dethrone margin from 2% to 0.5% over eight rounds, and geometric reward decay across the current king and four prior kings. This clarifies already-shipped mechanics rather than announcing a new launch.
Actual
Actual governance debate escalates while mining remains pending
Official-channel discussion focused on founder engagement, partial venture funding and communication with token holders. Team members defended a product-first approach, but no firm mining launch date or product release was supplied. The debate is verified as community activity; the competing governance claims remain developing.
Ditto
Ditto moves v11 agent review into an active moderation phase
With v11 active, the team confirmed ongoing manual agent review and requests to examine unusually high memory scores. Moderators also applied temporary timeouts over unsupported cheating accusations. Review activity is verified, but individual cheating claims remain unproven.
No material update found: SN1, SN2, SN3, SN4, SN5, SN6, SN7, SN8, SN9, SN10, SN11, SN12, SN13, SN14, SN15, SN16, SN17, SN18, SN19, SN20, SN21, SN22, SN23, SN24, SN25, SN26, SN27, SN28, SN29, SN30, SN31, SN32, SN33, SN34, SN35, SN36, SN37, SN38, SN39, SN40, SN41, SN42, SN43, SN45, SN46, SN47, SN48, SN49, SN50, SN52, SN53, SN54, SN56, SN57, SN58, SN59, SN60, SN61, SN63, SN64, SN65, SN66, SN67, SN68, SN69, SN70, SN71, SN72, SN73, SN74, SN75, SN76, SN77, SN78, SN79, SN80, SN82, SN83, SN84, SN85, SN86, SN87, SN88, SN89, SN90, SN92, SN93, SN94, SN96, SN97, SN98, SN99, SN100, SN101, SN102, SN103, SN104, SN105, SN106, SN107, SN108, SN109, SN110, SN111, SN112, SN113, SN114, SN115, SN116, SN117, SN119, SN120, SN121, SN122, SN123, SN124, SN125, SN126, SN127, SN128.
Beyond one subnet
Ecosystem desk
Network conviction reaches 29.54 million alpha while the perpetual share holds at 86%
SubnetRadar showed 29.54 million alpha locked across 123 subnets, with 25.41 million perpetual and 4.13 million decaying. Network conviction fell 0.5% over 24 hours. Decaying positions release continuously on their curves; the separate Quasar reductions appear only in Unlock Watch.
One fewer subnet sits in the 90%-plus miner-burn band
The daily count moved from 43 to 42 of 128 reporting subnets with miner burn at or above 90%. No completed alpha halving, new registration, deregistration or slot replacement was independently verified inside the window.
Audit trail
Coverage notes
Searched
- Public X indexing queries by active SN# and subnet name, grouped across SN1 through SN128
- SubnetRadar August 18 tape, current briefs, live moments and conviction event ledger
- TAO Daily, TaoStats, tao.com, official Bittensor sources and the Subtensor repository
- Public GitHub repositories attached to active subnets, with focused review of commits inside the coverage window
- TAOMarketCap market-cap table compared by SN# against the live Shizzy screener before publication
- Every dated report from August 9 through August 17 for exact and semantic duplicate exclusion
- All observed and announced alpha unlocks of at least 50,000 alpha, conviction changes, miner burn, halvings, registrations and deregistrations
Public-data gaps
- Public X indexing returned no reliable complete result set for all grouped subnet searches; private, deleted, login-gated and rate-limited material could not be exhaustively reviewed.
- Many original Discord messages require Bittensor server membership or login. Community claims are marked developing and linked through the corresponding SubnetRadar brief.
- The TAOMarketCap table exposed its 15 ranked rows in the rendered comparison surface. Every exposed row matched the Shizzy value within the five-percent gate; the remaining virtualized rows could not be independently extracted in the same pass.
- No supported future scheduled alpha unlock of at least 50,000 alpha was found. Today's two Quasar entries are completed gross lock reductions with nearby relocks, not future cliffs.
- No material new Subtensor specification merge, exchange announcement or confirmed security exploit surfaced inside the window.
- No material new public update was verified for subnets with empty update arrays. Unchanged stories and repeated descriptions from the prior ten reports were excluded. This report is informational and not financial advice.