Missed Exploit Summit Day 1? Catch the key Bittensor updates from Montreal, including Gamma tokens, AI training, drug discovery, robotics, drones, and new subnet incentives. […]
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bittensor’s first ecosystem conference, <a href="https://taodaily.io/60-speakers-36-subnets-two-stages-unveiled-as-exploit-summit-nears/">Exploit Summit</a>, opened in Montreal on September 28 at New City Gas, bringing together builders across decentralized AI.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Day one featured subnet teams, researchers, founders, and developers sharing ideas, progress, and products being built across the Bittensor ecosystem.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sessions ran across the <strong>OTF</strong> and <strong>RAO</strong> stages, covering Gamma tokens, AI training, drug discovery, robotics, drones, and incentive design.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">OTF Stage Highlights</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Gamma Tokens Could Create a Market Between Subnets</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/consts-keynote-at-exploit-summit-harness-the-exploit-build-a-mind-outside-the-state/">Jacob ‘Const’ Steeves</a> introduced the idea of <strong>Gamma tokens</strong>, a proposed system that would allow subnets to use part of their emissions to buy products and services from other subnets.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-tao-daily wp-block-embed-the-tao-daily"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="mo6xsr774V"><a href="https://taodaily.io/gamma-tokens-could-turn-subnets-into-customers-of-each-other/">Gamma Tokens Could Turn Subnets Into Customers of Each Other</a></blockquote><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;" title="“Gamma Tokens Could Turn Subnets Into Customers of Each Other” — The TAO Daily" src="https://taodaily.io/gamma-tokens-could-turn-subnets-into-customers-of-each-other/embed/#?secret=tTvS3ZZyEa#?secret=mo6xsr774V" data-secret="mo6xsr774V" width="500" height="282" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> </div></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Gamma could create a deeper internal economy where one subnet becomes a customer of another, without having every subnet operating independently.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>Macrocosmos Introduces the IOTA SDK and Liquid Compute</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/macrocosmos-opens-project-orions-live-ai-training-pipeline-to-public-view/">Macrocosmos</a>’ <a href="https://taodaily.io/an-interview-with-will-squires-from-macrocosmos/">Will Squires</a> and <a href="https://taodaily.io/eyes-on-ai-training-ai-without-data-centres/">Steffen Cruz</a> announced the <strong>IOTA SDK</strong> (Software Development Kit) and <strong>Liquid Compute</strong>, tools designed to make distributed AI training easier across machines that are not located inside the same data center.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">This builds on the team’s work around training large models across geographically distributed hardware and could make decentralized training more accessible to developers.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <div class="embed-x"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">⚡️ Steffen Cruz, CTO of Macrocosmos, on Orion-100B at Exploit Summit:<br><br>“The most impressive thing about Orion-100B is the cost of doing it compared to colocated compute.”<br><br>“We were able to train it 3× cheaper than if we had simply reserved a node in a data center and trained it… <a href="https://t.co/zJVa3FRxTb">pic.twitter.com/zJVa3FRxTb</a></p>— The TAO Daily (@taodaily_io) <a href="https://x.com/taodaily_io/status/2104601940294340972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>Metanova Moves Drug Candidates Into the Lab</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/metanova-labs-a-stellar-first-year-in-decentralized-drug-discovery/">Metanova Labs</a>’ CEO, Micaela Bazo, shared that drug candidates produced through its Bittensor competitions have now moved beyond digital modelling and into <strong>physical laboratory synthesis</strong>.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The team also announced plans for another competition focused on <strong>ADME modelling</strong>, which studies how potential drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted by the body.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">It is another step toward connecting subnet competitions with real-world drug development.</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <div class="embed-x"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🧬 Metanova Labs CEO, Micaela Bazo, says the subnet is developing a drug candidate across several indications, including depression, erectile dysfunction, female sexual dysphoria, ADHD and PTSD.<br><br>The depression indication has already received approval, while development continues… <a href="https://t.co/x52a4pHa5n">pic.twitter.com/x52a4pHa5n</a></p>— The TAO Daily (@taodaily_io) <a href="https://x.com/taodaily_io/status/2104626005507711027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2026</a></blockquote><script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>Targon Reports 27,000+ Confidential Workloads</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://taodaily.io/targon-backs-cascade-with-compute-credits-for-bittensor-subnet-91-research/">Targon (SN4)</a> noted it has deployed more than 27,000 confidential workloads this year and reached a $12 million annualized revenue run rate.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">That means its current revenue pace would equal about $12 million over a full year if the same pace continues unchanged. Confidential computing lets organizations process sensitive data on external infrastructure while keeping that information protected throughout the entire computation process itself.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">5. <strong>Dendrite Takes Aim at Reward Gaming</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dendrite, owners of <a href="https://taodaily.io/soma-bittensor-subnet-114-an-app-store-for-ai-agents/">SOMA (SN114)</a>, focused on one of the hardest problems in decentralized incentive systems. Whenever miners are rewarded according to a benchmark, some will naturally search for shortcuts that maximize their scores without necessarily solving the intended problem.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dendrite’s approach centers on stronger ground truths and transparent scoring systems that are more difficult for miners to manipulate.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">6. <strong>KubeTEE (SN90) Wants Customers to Verify Trust Themselves</strong></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">KubeTEE discussed <strong>verifiable attestation</strong>, where customers can independently confirm that confidential infrastructure is operating as promised. KubeTEE lets people run AI on shared GPUs while keeping their data and models private from the machines hosting them.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="378" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-293-1024x378.png" alt="" class="wp-image-25151" style="aspect-ratio:2.7012987012987013;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-293-1024x378.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/image-293-300x111.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/imag