Why will the Bittensor ecosystem be a major winner?

1 ) $TAO emissions effectively subsidize the operational cost of the miners that create the digital commodity a subnet is designed for (basically create the product). Subnet owners also generate revenues from emissions, which in combination provides a much better basis for high gross margins on product-level compared to web2 competitors.

2 ) Bittensor is turning into an indie dev paradise with projects like

@getmasafi providing free APIs to scrape tweets, while @chutes_ai by @rayon_labs allows you to run AI models like DeepSeek R1 for $0 via API (through OpenRouter). Nineteen provides high-throughput inference, and Gradients is an AutoML platform that allows anyone to train their own models, while the entire ecosystem keeps expanding rapidly.

What does it mean?

As Bittensor is gaining mindshare and people start to better understand the underlying mechanics, the baked-in incentive models will lure in top talent to advance open-source AI development on decentralized rails, contributing to existing subnets, and launching new ones with their own incentive mechanisms and digital commodities.

The availability and accessibility that Bittensor creates for crucial DeAI infra on the other hand, will empower many developers to build AI-driven products (e.g. apps & agents), leveraging the subnets built on Bittensor.

Highly recommend to DYOR.