Bittensor’s 18/41/41 emission split has never had an exception. eTAO and Gamma would change that, but neither addresses the “too much liquidity” problem. Only permissionless lending targets it. Here are my thoughts.

Stitch3 has me at #69 of 799 Bittensor voices on Twitter. Top 15%, apparently. I started talking about Bittensor in May of this year, which is short relative to some voices in the ecosystem. But a ranking like that typically measures output. How much someone posts about subnets, and how far it travels. What it can't tell you is whether any of it was right. Those are different claims, and I'd rather keep them apart than take the number as a verdict on something. So if the number is worth anything, it's as an index. Here's what you can actually check instead. · The Actual (SN95 - @actualinc) article rests on things anyone can verify for themselves. What the subnet was collecting in emissions, whether anything was locked in conviction, and where mining stands. I didn't need you to trust me on any of it, it's all on-chain. · The Carbon (SN116 - @carbonphysicsai) article went up before Carbon had a subnet number. With no subnet slot yet, there was no hype to lean on, only the results, the team’s track record, and the mechanism. · OpenRoboto (SN80 - @openroboto) was the one where I interviewed the team. The value was in the team’s operating model, not in my opinion of it. Those are just a few of the things I've written about in Bittensor. I've talked about other SNs, as well as the protocol's mechanisms, governance, and updates. What none of the popularity metrics prove is that I'm right about what happens next. What the work does show is how I reached my conclusions. I like to be transparent about how I got to where I am, in terms of conviction and belief. You can disagree with every conclusion I've drawn and still check the sources I used, or what path I went down to find what I did. And that's exactly how I prefer things. So if you want to know whether a "voice" ranking means anything, don't just count the posts or how "connected" someone seems. Go ahead and actually check my work. My goal is super simple; to learn as much as I can about Bittensor. The more I know, the more I can share with everyone else. Both within the ecosystem, and outside it. Underneath everything is a principle I care about: "freedom," especially around information and knowledge. I want decentralized AI to succeed. I care about the idea more than any single subnet, group of subnets, or team. And that's why I do what I do.