September 11, 2026 · Published daily
Subnet News — September 11, 2026
Swarm’s second commercial drone project, Stillcore’s RedTeam investment and Chutes’ 240-GPU Parallax run lead the five-star news. Plus BaseStonk TAO pairs, Trishool’s output guard, Cascade’s Alphacast, Verathos conviction credits, Cortex mining, SayGM’s corrected pricing and the latest emissions changes. Researched through 10:10 AM ET.
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- Sep 10, 2026, 11:07 AM – Sep 11, 2026, 10:10 AM ET
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Swarm lands a second commercial project: avalanche-prevention drones for Andorra
Swarm announced that Mevi Dron selected it to build an avalanche-prevention drone, beginning with Andorra’s largest ski resort. The aim is safer, more efficient controlled avalanche release. This gives SN124 a second named commercial project beyond its earlier solar-park surveillance work. In a separate update, Swarm says the German Solar Power project’s scope is locked and its first on-site test is expected in Q1 2027. That date belongs to the solar project; an avalanche-drone delivery date and contract value were not disclosed.
-1.2% α/TAO 24H price action as of Sep 11, 2026, 10:07 AM ET
Stillcore Capital invests in RedTeam as SN61 gains 13.4%
Mark Jeffrey announced on September 10 that Stillcore Capital has invested in RedTeam, following the subnet’s Novelty Search appearance. The announcement names the investor and SN61 but does not disclose the amount, valuation or investment structure. RedTeam’s alpha rose 13.36% against TAO over 24 hours at 10:07 AM ET, putting it among the day’s strongest movers. The interview presents its continuous security-testing work; it was not a new subnet launch. Claims that the funding specifically bought and burned alpha were not independently established.
+13.4% α/TAO 24H price action as of Sep 11, 2026, 10:07 AM ET
Chutes opens Parallax’s training dashboard: 240 GPUs across 13 countries
Jon Durbin published a live dashboard for Parallax, its distributed sparse-expert model training run, and linked the pretraining dataset. At 10:08 AM ET, the dashboard reported 240 RTX 5090 GPUs on 30 hosts across 13 countries, 274.2 billion tokens trained and approximately 3.57 million tokens per second. Durbin says some nodes come from Lium, which replied to the announcement. He estimates roughly $11 per billion training tokens. These are project-reported live telemetry and a cost estimate for an ongoing run, not a completed model evaluation or an inference price.
Epago adopts a 95% burn rule while its observed allocation stays at zero
Epago’s new competition configuration assigns 95% of miner emissions to a burn destination and the remaining 5% to the king, replacing its earlier variable schedule when that configuration is used. Another change requires private checkpoint submissions so competitors cannot copy unpublished work. At 10:07 AM ET, SN36’s observed subnet allocation is still zero and its alpha is down 22.58% against TAO over 24 hours. The repository changes do not themselves reverse the administrative disable documented yesterday, and a proposed reward split is not evidence that miners are receiving those rewards.
-22.6% α/TAO 24H price action as of Sep 11, 2026, 10:07 AM ET
TAO pairs go live on BaseStonk through ForeverMoney
BaseStonk and ForeverMoney both confirmed that TAO pairs are live on the Base launchpad. ForeverMoney says creators can launch tokens against TAO and earn creator fees in TAO. This adds another use and distribution channel for TAO beyond the Bankr integration covered yesterday. Whether it creates sustained buying pressure depends on actual launches, liquidity and trading activity; those totals were not disclosed in the announcement.
Emissions update: ORO and UMI show zero; Witness gains a small allocation
At 10:07 AM ET, ORO’s observed allocation is zero, versus 4.465% in yesterday’s saved snapshot. UMI is also zero, versus 0.107%, while Witness now shows a small positive allocation of about 0.000047%. Hotfloat, Epago, Leadpoet, Feval and CookingTAO remain at zero in this comparison. These readings describe allocation, not the reason for it. Lamida’s September 11 post says only SN29 and SN36 were manually paused; that administrative-state claim was not independently verified today. A validator burning miner rewards, a zero subnet allocation and an administrative disable are different events.
Trishool’s output guard enters the live challenge
Trishool says the first version of its output guard is trained and entering its live challenge. It checks model responses and proposed actions, adding a second layer alongside the existing input guard. The team reports an initial F1 score of about 73.9% and explicitly says it is not yet state of the art. The next step is to improve it through the same adversarial competition used for the input guard. This is a new product milestone, separate from the previously covered OpenAI program acceptance.
Cascade launches Alphacast with seven-day TAO and subnet forecasts
Cascade introduced Alphacast, a public research app that turns its miner-generated models into TAO and alpha price forecasts. The app exposes uncertainty ranges and machine-readable forecasts at 1, 6, 24 and 168 hours; its public data file was accessible during this scan. A separate repository update publishes the mainnet intake address for funded miner submissions. The announced app should not be confused with every competition gate being active: the previously documented funded-round gate at block 9,046,800 is still ahead of this morning’s chain snapshot.
Verathos links alpha conviction to daily inference credit
Verathos introduced Conviction Allowance: users who lock SN96 alpha receive daily model-usage credits while the alpha stays locked. The team says credits start after the lock is confirmed on chain and their amount changes with the alpha price. This connects holding and using the subnet’s token with access to its model lineup. The announcement does not establish a fixed dollar return or a permanent inference allowance independent of the lock.
Cortex opens mining; iOS remains in Apple review and payouts have limits
Cortex’s September 11 update says mining is open and its iOS app has entered Apple’s review queue. Its public network site lists Proof and Bounty as accepting submissions, but also says weights are not yet sealed, judging remains partial and automatic payout is not wired. Unmatched emissions burn in the meantime. The team targets next week for the full application’s production rollout, a DeepSeek V4.1 upgrade and a launch campaign with a 14-day trial. These are distinct stages: submissions are open; App Store approval and the planned production rollout are still ahead.
NOVA reports a 7.02× inference gain and opens Boltz-2 testing
Metanova reports that NOVA’s latest Blueprint winner increased PSICHIC throughput from 214 to 1,502 protein–ligand pairs per second on an RTX 3090. That is a 7.02× result for the stated benchmark, not a demonstrated improvement in clinical outcomes. The team also opened the Boltz-2 integration for testing: scoring moves to a dedicated GPU oracle that competitors can query during their search. The September 10 announcement says the competition goes live this week, so test access alone is not proof of completed activation.
SayGM adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash—and the discount is now 50%
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is available through SayGM. The initial announcement advertised 5% off, but Mog posted a correction to 50%, and the live price table now agrees. At this morning’s check, SayGM listed $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.003 cached input and $0.60 output. The gateway describes this model as routed to an external provider, whose API terms still apply. It should not be confused with a model running entirely inside SayGM’s confidential-compute tier.
Late-found September 9 news: Almanac crosses $10M in trading volume
Almanac announced on September 9 that it had processed $10 million in cumulative trading volume and recorded its first $200,000 day. TAO Daily highlighted the milestone today, but the original event is two days old and is included here as a clearly dated catch-up. The figures are reported trading volume, not platform revenue, profit or a new enterprise contract.
Witness publishes its mainnet validator and scorer v1.1.0
Witness’s public release now provides a CPU-only validator preset for Finney SN20, with no model-provider API key required for validator setup. The follow-up scorer v1.1.0 adds signed round feedback and the current documentation specifies a 70% burn / 30% winner allocation. When nobody has a positive qualifying reward, the allocation burns in full. This is a concrete software release beyond yesterday’s research-preview description; independent benchmark quality and the competitiveness of submitted miners remain separate questions.
StonkFun reports $30M in holder rewards and 14.4% of STONK burned
StonkFun says cumulative rewards distributed to ecosystem holders have exceeded $30 million. A separate update reports 14.4% of STONK’s supply burned, worth more than $40 million at the then-current token price. The latter is a valuation of burned tokens, not $40 million in cash spent on buybacks. Both figures are platform-wide and company-reported, rather than TAO-pair-only results. The launchpad’s TAO pairs remain part of the broader story already covered in prior editions.
Apex sets September 14 for its next humanoid challenge
Apex announced Box Scramble for Monday, September 14. A simulated Unitree G1 must reach a raised exit by moving and climbing loose crates, with their sizes, weights and positions changing each round. The task expands control from the earlier 12-joint legs-only setup to 22 joints with working arms. It tests manipulation and planning as well as locomotion; it is a scheduled competition, not an already completed robot deployment.
Allways improves miner setup and rewards only active swap pairs
Allways added a guided funding and setup flow, shared EVM-key handling and checks for whether the miner container is actually running. Its reward change assigns direction-pool shares only to pairs that cleared qualifying volume during the relevant window. Registering inactive pairs therefore does not dilute the active-pair floor. The changes are in the public repository; they are not evidence of a measured increase in bridge volume.
ORO brief reports submissions reopening after the benchmark migration
The September 11 channel digest reports that submissions reopened for the updated benchmark after backend fixes, with an initial 30% qualifying threshold and later dynamic cap. Public changes also address model-output and local testing failures. The original Discord discussion was not independently accessed, so the reopening and race details remain developing. The zero allocation in this morning’s separate emissions snapshot does not settle whether the submission service is functioning or identify an administrative intervention.
Blockmachine fixes a startup failure that could cost validator rewards
Blockmachine validator v0.2.13 fixes a path where a failed startup request could leave a validator using unusable storage defaults and missing rewards. Startup configuration now retries, while refreshed storage settings can recover instead of remaining stuck. The release notes identify an affected September 10 epoch. The patch addresses the failure mode; it does not establish compensation for any missed dividends.
Ralph replaces the random judge draw with multi-judge scoring
Ralph’s update has every available judge evaluate the same generated answers in each round, then averages their protected slice scores. Previously, the drawn judge could change a close contest’s outcome. The update also reduces the dethroning margins after a long reign. These are competition-rule changes in the public implementation, not a claim that a new champion has already been selected.
Score outlines the specialist models coming after Studio
Score says Studio is about to go live and will give users access to SN44’s vision models. Its new roadmap lists intrusion, fire and smoke, license plates, vehicles, crowd density, falls, abandoned objects, violent behavior, weapons and thermal/night imagery. This expands the planned product range beyond the access announcement covered yesterday. The post does not confirm that Studio or all those specialist models are already available.
Lium simplifies miner onboarding and adds workspace-aware tools
Lium’s CLI now documents a single registration command that takes a bare host through setup to a listed node using a portal token. Workspace-aware commands and API keys also give teams an explicit billing and access context. A separate rental-security change keeps the encrypted-volume passphrase out of the provider’s disk and process arguments. These are new operational improvements alongside the billing and lending announcements already covered yesterday.
A coldkey swap is scheduled for the wallet owning SN58
SubnetRadar records a coldkey-swap scheduling event at block 9,039,596 on September 10 at 20:42 UTC, from 5CLUz…9gtJ to 0x572…682e. Its follow-up identifies the wallet as owning SN58 greevils and notes a mandatory delay of about five days. The event is scheduled, not completed; it does not by itself establish a subnet sale or the identity of a buyer.
Conjectures merges a new 15-day bounty curve
A September 11 merge changes the default mathematical-bounty policy to start at 10% of the uncommitted SN66 alpha treasury and increase to 12.5% over 15 elapsed days. The quoted alpha amount still changes with available treasury funds and outstanding commitments. Existing submission locks and ages are preserved. New formalization-defect awards are capped at the lesser of $750 converted to alpha or the submission’s locked bounty. The repository requires deployment and a policy-version check; that live activation was not independently confirmed.
Harnyx widens the main contest for challengers that beat the incumbent
Harnyx announced broader access to its main round for artifacts that beat the champion. The corresponding implementation compares qualifying challengers with the incumbent and caps the main field at 30. That cap matters: the announcement should not be read as an unlimited-size final. The change broadens the route to the title while retaining a bounded evaluation field.
Gittensor reports faster Qwen3.8 generation on the same RTX 5090
Gittensor reports 25% faster generation and 43% more context capacity than Nvidia’s NVFP4 build of Qwen3.8-27B on the same RTX 5090, with comparable accuracy. Its repository also records a separate packed-kernel improvement at eight concurrent requests. These are workload-specific project benchmarks; the separate speedups should not be multiplied or presented as a universal performance advantage.
UMI adds a check for whether bootstrap weights actually take effect
UMI’s status now separates an authorized bootstrap service row from its observed economic effect. It remains ineffective if another active validator uses a different row or any frozen eligible miner receives zero incentive. The current README says SN78 is active on mainnet but translation weights are not active. That helps explain why a bootstrap status label must not be read as proof of normal translation rewards.
Reliquary reduces proof-processing round trips
Reliquary changed proof verification to send one batch for a 16-rollout training group instead of splitting it into four requests. Its release notes identify network round trips as a major part of the measured delay. The repo also adds recovery and timing improvements around training groups. This is a focused processing update after the already-covered V1 work, not a newly launched public consumer product.
Vidaio and PIP bring Cabin to IBC in Amsterdam
Vidaio says it is at IBC with PIP CEO Mark Sheffield and his team, presenting Cabin’s AI-powered localization. The September 10 arrival update follows the previously announced September 11–14 showcase. This is the start of the public demonstration and industry meetings, not evidence of new contracts signed at the event.
MicroTensor brief reports rewards returning; paid compute is still in testing
A September 11 channel digest reports emissions re-enabled for participants and 42 rewarded systems in round 1240, using p95 task latency in scoring. The same digest says the paid-compute layer remains in testing and its temporary reserve will be reduced when that layer goes live. The market feed shows a positive subnet allocation, but the claimed participant payouts were not independently reconstructed.
Nodexo reports 123 GPUs listed on its public board
Nodexo says 123 GPUs are listed by independent operators, with an estimated hardware value of about $1.3 million. Its update describes a timed compute challenge used to check that listed hardware matches the claimed GPU class, with validators checking the proof on ordinary CPUs. These figures describe available inventory and estimated equipment value. They do not establish rental revenue, utilization or that Nodexo owns the hardware.
Ditto details chat-history imports and portable memory for V2
Ditto’s new walkthrough describes importing exported chats from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, plus notes from Obsidian, Joplin, Google Keep and Markdown files. It also describes exporting a signed Passport ZIP or plain Memory JSON. The announcement still says the V2 beta will open soon, so this is a feature preview rather than a claim that everyone already has access. Separately, the subnet dashboard gained coding shadow-coverage controls; those do not establish that a new scored coding competition has launched.
Affine adds a scored terminal-agent command format
Affine’s September 10 update advances its weight-version key to 14 and adds the Terminus JSON command-batch format as a scored action. The operator notes say the core scoring math, incumbent reign and minimum submission block remain unchanged. The update broadens the action formats a terminal agent can use without treating it as a new competition reset.
Sundaebar brief reports an eight-hour duplicate-submission cooldown
The latest channel digest reports an eight-hour cooldown for near-identical submissions and a rule requiring a lead greater than 0.01 points to change the leaderboard. It also lists September 12 as SBC27’s closing date. These changes respond to queue saturation and close-result disputes; the original team messages and live enforcement were not independently checked.
Latest Shizzy video: TAO Broke Down… What Happens Next?
The September 10 public episode is now the site’s default video: “TAO Broke Down… What Happens Next? | Bittensor Subnet Market,” running 19:48. The RL Bryer conversation remains available as a replay. The latest members upload found in the channel check is still the September 8 briefing, accessed through YouTube membership.
Macrocosmos will present Project Orion’s summer results at Exploit
Macrocosmos says it will show the results of its summer work on Project Orion at Exploit Summit, addressing whether distributed AI training can compete commercially. The September 10 post is a preview of the presentation. It does not disclose a new paying customer or establish the project’s commercial performance in advance.
Endure explains the eight values scored in its alpha-risk schema
Endure’s new explainer specifies four risk outputs—maximum drawdown, realized volatility, time-weighted average price and liquidity depth—over both five-day and thirty-day horizons. Missing any of the eight combinations causes a submission to be rejected before scoring. It is a clarification of the current Alpha Risk V1 contract rather than a newly announced customer launch.
Audit trail
Coverage notes
Searched
- All 128 current subnet profiles checked, alongside 100 September 10–11 channel briefs and the previous edition.
- Signed-in X Latest searched all 128 subnet numbers and names/aliases in 16 groups. Additional account and original-post checks covered operators, external partners, emissions, StonkFun and named leads. Grok supplied discovery leads that were checked against original sources.
- 106 project websites checked for social links. 152 public X account candidates checked, 147 with accessible post samples; 157 unique in-window post records retrieved. Selected stories were followed to full text and threads.
- Signed-in AlphaGap feed reviewed: 20 recent cards and 17 earlier-week cards. SubnetRadar, TAO Daily, TAO Media and the public subnet feed supplied further discovery leads.
- 156 repository paths scanned with pagination and refreshed through 10:08 AM ET. Selected changes and current operator documentation were checked for deployment and activation limits.
- The latest 200 SubnetRadar Moments were reviewed; 51 unique linked events in the coverage window were retained. Coldkey and lock-reduction detail pages were inspected for block references and actual event type.
- Market prices and emission shares were saved at 10:07 AM ET and compared with yesterday’s saved snapshot. Price badges show rolling 24-hour alpha/TAO changes.
- YouTube Videos and Live tabs checked. Latest public regular upload verified against its watch page: 19:48, September 10. Latest members upload and the ended RL Bryer broadcast retained; no new upcoming stream found in the samples.
Public-data gaps
- Signed-in X searches and public account timelines were sampled, not exhaustively paginated. Ambiguous names produced unrelated matches; private, deleted, unindexed and unsampled posts may be missing. Project-site social links sometimes point to partners or commentators, so account candidates are not all verified official accounts.
- Private Discord history was not directly accessed. ORO reopening, MicroTensor participant rewards and Sundaebar rule changes remain developing because their original discussions or live enforcement were not independently verified.
- Swarm’s customer selection, Stillcore’s investment, benchmark results, inventory and commercial figures are attributed to their original announcements. Private contracts and accounts were not audited; no matching public Mevi Dron confirmation was located.
- Chutes’ Parallax figures were read from its live dashboard at 10:08 AM ET and are project telemetry. The run is ongoing; its cost estimate is not a completed-model benchmark or inference price.
- Today’s zero allocations do not identify an administrative transaction or its decision-maker. Lamida’s two-subnet manual-pause list is attributed and unconfirmed in this scan. Epago’s prior successful disable remains linked, but no reversal was established.
- Launch stages were checked against primary sources: Cortex still lists unsealed weights and unfinished automatic payouts; Ditto V2 beta is forthcoming; NOVA’s Boltz-2 post opens testing; Score Studio is announced as about to go live; UMI translation weights remain inactive. Leadpoet’s beta was not independently confirmed open.
- Five repository paths were inaccessible: deprecated/deprecated, actual-computer/actual-subnet-95, NIOME-BITTENSOR/NIOME, Oh-My-Ditto/ditto and Satori119/Satori. Accessible replacement paths were considered. Project websites that failed are recorded per subnet in the audit.
- Almanac’s volume milestone is a late-found September 9 announcement, not September 11 news. Previously covered Bankr TAO pairs, Chutes’ CEO, ORO’s YC acceptance, the Lium billing/lending update and the Conjectures mathematical result were not repeated as new events.
- No verified new CONST-the-cat/BUTT utility launch or named Yanez customer announcement was established. Community price calls, alleged misconduct and unconfirmed subnet-sale claims were excluded.
- The research cutoff is 10:10 AM ET on September 11. No independently verified forward unlock calendar was located. Chain-event summaries come from SubnetRadar and were not independently replayed; lock reductions do not prove sales.