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Bittensor TAO

Staking and incentive asset coordinating Bittensor subnets

TAO price today$224.61+2.80% over 24 hoursFresh ·

Bittensor price chart

Observed USD price+3.07% in view
$226$223$219$216$21305:00 AM01:00 PM08:00 PM04:00 AM
24 5-minute observations · UTCFull selected-window coverage
Market cap
$2.59B
24h volume
$202.44M
Volume / market cap
7.82%
Tracked market-cap share
0.10%
Global dominance
0.10%
Market pairs reported
326
CryptoDigest market read

What TAO is doing relative to the market

Calculated from CryptoDigest’s 50-asset published research universe—not a claim about the entire crypto market.

24-hour momentum#17 of 50

TAO is 0.00 percentage points above the AI network average in our tracked set.

Trading intensity#20 by turnover

Reported 24-hour volume equals 7.82% of market cap and 0.13% of tracked-universe volume.

Observed range17% up the range

505 hourly candles retained; maximum peak-to-trough move observed was -21.99%.

Returns

TAO performance by period

PeriodReturnContext
1 hour+0.53%Provider snapshot
24 hours+2.80%Rank #17 of 50
7 days-12.35%Rank #50 of 50
30 days+17.05%Live market snapshot
60 days+14.26%Live market snapshot
90 days-2.34%Live market snapshot

Against Bitcoin: TAO performed 1.99 percentage points better over 24 hours.

Valuation & supply

What the headline valuation includes

Circulating supply
11.522M TAO
Total supply
21M TAO
Maximum supply
21M TAO
Fully diluted value
$4.71B
24h volume change
-0.74%
Supply model
Bitcoin-inspired maximum of 21 million TAO with halving-style issuance and subnet-level token economics

Fully diluted value applies the current price to the provider’s reported eventual or total supply. It is a scenario, not a forecast.

Primary-source asset brief

What is Bittensor?

Bittensor is a network of subnets that reward different forms of machine intelligence or digital services. Subnet miners produce outputs, validators evaluate them and protocol incentives distribute TAO according to the resulting weights; TAO is also staked and used in subnet market mechanics.

The system does not objectively prove that every rewarded output is useful or uniquely artificial intelligence. Each subnet defines its own evaluation game, so validator incentives, copied outputs, scoring quality and subnet liquidity must be assessed rather than treating aggregate emissions as product revenue.

Common misconception

Owning TAO is not ownership of a single AI model or a claim on revenue from every Bittensor subnet.

Current intelligence

What may be moving TAO

Detector output is shown only when evidence crosses a materiality threshold; price movement alone is not treated as a cause.

UnknownNew
Materiality 42

TAO moved materially; cause not established

TAO registered a material price-anomaly signal.

Relevant to the broader market state
Interpretation

Cause not established

Alternative context

Available approved sources do not support a specific catalyst.

Inspect 0 evidence items
    Event confidence 20%Causal confidence 10%
    UnknownNew
    Materiality 39

    TAO moved materially; cause not established

    TAO registered a material price-anomaly signal.

    Relevant to the broader market state
    Interpretation

    Cause not established

    Alternative context

    Available approved sources do not support a specific catalyst.

    Inspect 0 evidence items
      Event confidence 20%Causal confidence 10%

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      Live quote

      Price, market cap and 24-hour volume come from normalized provider snapshots, timestamped Sep 17, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC.

      History

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      Our calculations

      Ranks, sector deltas and shares use the 50 assets in CryptoDigest’s published research universe. Turnover is volume ÷ market cap.

      Source boundary

      Supply and extended returns come from the live market-data feed; network facts link to project documentation. Nothing here is investment advice.