TAO (Bittensor) — the network, measured

Generated 2026-10-12T05:02:48Z from live ClickHouse queries against this estate's ledger. Held inventory: 30,297 observations · 43 distinct series · 9 upstream sources · first row 2026-08-09 23:24:26 · newest row 2026-10-12 04:58:01 · 30,297/30,297 rows carry a verify_url. 37 series refreshed in the last 24h (629 fresh rows). Nothing on this page is cached, estimated, or remembered.

Provenance — where every number comes from

9 source families feed this network's ledger. Every row they wrote carries its own source, as_of and verify_url; this table is the live rollup of that.

30-day history — headline series (daily last-value, live)

One row per series: latest value, a 30-day sparkline of daily last-known values (scaled to the series' own min→max), day count, and window change. Series absent from the 30-day window are omitted from this table, not zero-filled.

Market reference — CoinGecko coin page, as held

Market-data reference rows: price, supply, capitalisation, diluted valuation, and the published change columns including ATH/ATL. These are the coin-page reference's own numbers — the estate does not model, smooth, or forward-fill them. The change columns / rank / ATH-ATL / high-low series start later in the archive than the price rows (each metric's caveat in the full inventory states its own first-held row) and are shown from their first held row. The circulating and total/max supply rows are different quantities (circulating vs total vs cap) and are never netted against each other or against the chain-side TOTAL_ISSUANCE read in the chain-telemetry section below — different measurements from different endpoints, shown side by side.

Chain telemetry — Bittensor's own chain, read directly (first-party class)

Direct reads of Bittensor's own chain endpoint (entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai, Substrate JSON-RPC) by this estate's collectors: the finalized block height and two storage reads of Bittensor's SubtensorModule pallet — TotalNetworks (TOTAL_SUBNETS, u16) and TotalIssuance (TOTAL_ISSUANCE, u64 rao → TAO by /1e9 unit normalisation). (The RPC node's peer count, which this page used to call the chain's own, is withheld since 2026-10-06 (quality incident substrate_rpc_peers_one_rpc_node_not_network_20261006): it is the answering RPC node's own peer count, bounded by that node's limit, not the network's.) This is the strongest provenance class in the ledger: the upstream is the network's own chain, and each row's verify command re-runs the exact RPC call the collector ran (storage keys are twox128("SubtensorModule") ++ twox128(item) — the derivation is self-tested in the collector against the known Substrate constant 26aa394eea5630e07c48ae0c9558cef7, and the TotalNetworks key was decoded live by this generator before the page shipped). finalized_block_height also has ONE archived legacy row under the first_party_api family (2026-08-10), published under its own source, never merged into the current family's rows or back-filled. Individual Bittensor subnets are catalogued under separate SN# symbols elsewhere in this estate; a subnet is not a network, and none are counted in this section.

Chain TVL — DefiLlama, as held

DefiLlama's chain-level TVL for the chain named "Bittensor": value locked in the chain's ecosystem as DefiLlama measures it, from the same /v2/chains endpoint the collector reads. A different quantity from market capitalisation and from chain issuance — shown side by side with them, never netted. Cumulative figures are published raw — never differenced into rates.

Full metric inventory — 43 measured series, each with provenance

Every series held for TAO with rows in the last 30 days: latest value, when it was observed, which source observed it, how many rows we hold, how many of the last 30 days it reported, its comparability grade, and the origin link. "days/30" counts distinct dates with at least one row in the window.

Revision ledger — 0 backward revision(s) recorded for TAO

Backward revisions are values upstream later replaced for a date we had already archived. The before-value is retained — that retention is the only reason a rewrite is detectable, and it is the part every overwriting vendor discards.

The ledger query ran during generation and returned 0 rows for TAO. Zero here is the live query result, not a gap — the ledger itself is at /v1/revisions.

Verify any cell yourself — the exact commands

No account, no key, no trust required. Commands 1–3 hit the same upstream endpoints our collectors do — Bittensor's own JSON-RPC endpoint (POST, the collector's exact call shapes, including the two SubtensorModule storage reads with their keys and decoders inline), DefiLlama's chains endpoint, and the CoinGecko programmatic markets endpoint (the coingecko.com browser coin page 403s plain curl, so the programmatic endpoint is given, id bittensor); command 4 hits this estate's public API, where every row carries the same source / as_of / verify_url fields. One polite call per endpoint, no hammering.

# 1) Bittensor's OWN chain — the collector's exact JSON-RPC calls (keyless, as of 2026-10-12T05:02:48Z):
#    (finalized block height) curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "chain_getHeader", "params": []}' "https://entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai"
# SubtensorModule.TotalNetworks storage read — the collector's exact
# query (key = twox128("SubtensorModule") ++ twox128("TotalNetworks")):
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"state_getStorage","params":["0x658faa385070e074c85bf6b568cf05555f3bb7bcd0a076a48abf8c256d221721"]}' "https://entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai" | python3 -c "import sys,json; h=json.load(sys.stdin)['result']; print('TOTAL_SUBNETS:', int.from_bytes(bytes.fromhex(h[2:]),'little'))"
# SubtensorModule.TotalIssuance (u64, rao — divide by 1e9 for TAO):
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"state_getStorage","params":["0x658faa385070e074c85bf6b568cf055557c875e4cff74148e4628f264b974c80"]}' "https://entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai" | python3 -c "import sys,json; h=json.load(sys.stdin)['result']; rao=int.from_bytes(bytes.fromhex(h[2:]),'little'); print('rao:', rao, 'TAO:', rao/1e9)"
# 2) Chain TVL (DefiLlama — the collector's endpoint):\n# DefiLlama chain-level TVL (the collector's endpoint — one request,
# all chains; this filter extracts the "Bittensor" row):
curl -s "https://api.llama.fi/v2/chains" | python3 -c "import json,sys; [print(c) for c in json.load(sys.stdin) if c.get('name')=='Bittensor']"
# 3) Market reference (CoinGecko public API — the coingecko.com browser\n#    coin page 403s plain curl, so the programmatic endpoint is given):\n# CoinGecko public markets API (the endpoint family our collector
# reads for the price/supply/cap rows) — the coingecko.com browser
# coin page 403s plain curl, so the programmatic endpoint is given
# (id: bittensor):
curl -s "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/markets?vs_currency=usd&ids=bittensor" | python3 -m json.tool
# 3b) Human-view check of the verify_url target (the browser coin page 403s plain curl — that is the documented 403, the programmatic command above is the verification path):\ncurl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" "https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bittensor"
# 4) This estate's public API row for TAO:\ncurl -s "https://kairossignal.com/v1/network/TAO" | python3 -m json.tool | head -60

Method & honesty notes. All counts are queries against the live ledger at generation time, not restamped copy — this page is regenerated by gen_deep_dive_tao.py and the hourly claim_drift_check.py run grades its claims against the live API like every other published surface. Comparability grades come from the served canonical-metric system via its own resolver: total_supply maps to token_supply_total (question-verified). The remaining series are TAO-native chain/market metrics with no cross-network concept; grading them would be fabrication, so they are labelled "tao-native (unmapped)". There is no token-contract section because the catalog holds no token address for TAO — Bittensor is a native Substrate chain — and we do not publish zeros for gaps. The chain-telemetry family reads Bittensor's own endpoint with the collector's documented call shapes; SubtensorModule storage keys derive as twox128(pallet) ++ twox128(item), the derivation is self-tested in the collector against Substrate's known System-pallet constant, and at generation time the upstream probes ran as follows — probe decoded TotalNetworks=129 live in this process. TOTAL_ISSUANCE (chain-side issuance) is a different measurement from the CoinGecko circulating reference and from the CoinGecko total/max supply references; all three are shown side by side and never netted. chain_tvl_usd is DefiLlama's measure of value locked on the chain — not a supply measure — and is never netted against any of them. The one archived first_party_api row is published under its own source, shown from its held row, never back-filled into the current families. Individual Bittensor subnets are catalogued under separate SN# symbols elsewhere in this estate; a subnet is not a network, and this page counts none of them. The estate grades are published exactly as the engines served them, unflattering parts included, and are not re-derived from any series on this page. Where a section has no data, it is absent — we do not publish zeros for gaps. Upstream probes ran serially by this generator immediately before rendering: CoinGecko markets API (bittensor) HTTP 200; opentensor entrypoint chain_getHeader (POST) HTTP 200; opentensor entrypoint system_health (POST) HTTP 200; opentensor entrypoint state_getStorage TotalNetworks (POST) HTTP 200; opentensor entrypoint state_getStorage TotalIssuance (POST) HTTP 200; DefiLlama /v2/chains HTTP 200; estate /v1/network/TAO HTTP 200.