Top Story: Teutonic's new regime fights the field
A week ago Subnet 3 changed hands through the protocol's own mechanics, the second or third conviction takeover ever done clean. This week the aftermath: the new owners opened their first big competition, and the channel spent a day accusing them of self-mining.
The competition itself is a statement. Teutonic-II-110B, a 110B model on the MiMo sparse mixture-of-models architecture, start block 8914379, already running. Uploads go straight to Cloudflare R2, so shipping a model stopped being the bottleneck, and the base model sits on Hugging Face for anyone who wants to start from genesis. Then the king's loss numbers looked too good. Irony, who says he trained two days on four 8xB300s, put it plainly: "there's no way the loss stays that low when the newly added datasets are part of the eval too." The room spent the day calling the king a team alt, a dataset leak, an unfair advantage. 150 messages in one channel, the biggest crowd on the network this week. CMs had to hand out warnings.
The team answered the same day. Hux from Dendrite: "There is no self-mining on the subnet. Every model we upload to the network is signed with our official coldkey, so our submissions can be clearly identified and verified." On Kyle, the king: "not, and never was our teammate." The standing offer is the public dataset manifest, live on R2, every source and proportion listed, SHA-256s included. Anyone can check it and decide for themselves.
That's the uncomfortable math of a fair fight: winners look lucky, and this subnet just got taken over by the rules. The channel is split, the evidence is a manifest away, and the team is posting receipts instead of bans.
the fight in one frame: Vex's accusation, Hux's signed-coldkey denial, Irony's reply.
Subnet Spotlight: Chutes opened its books, then published a year of traffic
Someone asked Chutes (SN64) where the revenue page went. The answer was numbers, pasted straight into the channel: $14,982 on Aug 25, 337 new subscribers, $11,206 of it from pay-as-you-go compute. Four days of those rows add up past $52K, sitting in plain text.
Same week, the arXiv paper landed. Chutes engineers plus University of Chicago and Harvard researchers released a full year of unsampled production serving data: 6.12B requests from 314,970 users across 9,174 models, the biggest workload trace of its kind to go public. The findings are worth the read: request-level prefix-cache hits are bimodal, heavy users cluster hard, and load balancing spreads work across instances but shreds cache locality. That last one is a live design tension every inference network will have to answer.
Not many subnets hand you four days of receipts when you ask.
the revenue-page thread: $14,982, 337 subscribers, the pay-as-you-go line.
Subnet Spotlight: Swarm closed its first family and opened the office
Swarm (SN124) has been chasing a 0.999 Interceptor bar for weeks. It finally fell: UID 236 scored 0.9992 across the full 1,100-seed benchmark, the first family Swarm has ever closed, winning controller open-sourced, crown final, no new submissions.
Same day, the replacement went up: Office Interceptor. Your drone hunts a fleeing one through a digital twin of the team's office, 18m × 7.6m, 60 seconds to catch it. The map flies an 87g Tello, a light training drone, not a simulator. Repos were queued before the deploy thread went up. One family closed, the next taking submissions, and the leaderboard is public at swarm124.com/benchmark if you want to watch the second wave land.
the 0.9992 coronation and the Office Interceptor deploy thread.
Sentiment Roundup
Hot:
Score (SN44) — latency checks are now verifiable: every run signed by a hotkey, immutable, independently checkable. Then it spotted weird spikes and loosened the bar to 2 of 10 tests over target while it investigates. Noticed a problem, said so out loud, changed the rule before anyone scored unfairly. New competitions are being prepped.
KubeTEE (SN90) — recycled its first sayGM mining payout into its own token: 134.45 SN28 alpha → 52.58 SN90 alpha, extrinsic 8907772-0011 if you want receipts. GLM-5.3-Flash and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next went live on sayGM the same week.
Perturb (SN26) — 40K alpha locked under the Conviction mechanism in one day, buybacks feeding the market, Yuma now validating. Four active validators.
Synth Ultra (SN50) — rewards are on: top 10 miners already receiving incentives, 100 → 1,000 paths per request. The sandbox batch is paid and the next pulls in.
Ditto (SN118) — three hires in one day after a miner asked for a marketer: a stronger screener policy v10, a marketing lead, "we will be tweeting every day & more fun stuff." Help arrived the same day it got asked for.
Albedo (SN97) — the dev spent the day in the channel with a wrench: pre-eval fixed, disk filled, re-fixed, faster providers pinned, 3-5 minutes shaved off every check.
Cold / under pressure:
OxMarkets (SN35) — the hack is confirmed: LP funds are in the hacker's hands. Tracing with AMLBot, claims still open, scores frozen so nobody loses standing, and the alpha that already accumulated goes out as a partial offset weighted by position. The room: "we want the money we worked so hard to earn."
TrajectoryRL (SN11) — the dev found a week of unfair scores in his own logs, 36 submissions re-queued, and miners pushed the audit over a wider window than the team flagged. Numbers on the table.
IOTA (SN9) — Train at Home payouts went dark: the billing service that held miner mnemonics is gone, infra rebuild 50% done, target before end of week. Macrocosmos answered without spin.
Affine (SN120) — the duel queue sat empty for a day. Miners want the crown margin at 0.001 so a crown changes hands daily; players asking the house to loosen its own bar.
Minos (SN107) — the week's second self-mining accusation; one accuser timed out for a week by a CM, the team calls it "100% false." Chromosomes 16 and 17 went live regardless, seven targets total now.
NeverPlayAlone (SN98) — three winners carrying identical source code has the room asking whether one coldkey owns them all.
Vocence (SN78) — called a scam twice in one day. New leadership says a full protocol redesign is underway: "you're just early. Give us a minute to build it before calling it a scam."
Niome (SN55) — miners ran their own forensics on the scoring: honest ceiling around 0.108 for the consistency metric against a board at 0.35-0.45. Team's reply: "if there is a problem in the pipeline, we will fix it."
One more mechanic-level debate worth your time: a root validator's claim_root fill sold 5,587 SN90 alpha in 24 seconds and SN90 finished the day around -21.5%. The room spent the evening arguing whether Root Reborn's claim mechanism is a loophole or just selling pressure that used to dribble out block by block.
Numbers That Matter
150 — messages in Teutonic's channel the day the self-mining fight broke
0.9992 — the score that closed Swarm's first Interceptor family
$14,982 / $52K+ — Chutes' best single day, and four days of receipts
6.12B / 314,970 / 9,174 — requests, users, models in Chutes' year of serving data
134.45 → 52.58 — SN28 alpha recycled into SN90 alpha, first KubeTEE buyback
5,587 / 24s — SN90 alpha sold by one root claim, and how long it took; SN90 down ~21.5% on the day
0.108 vs 0.35–0.45 — Niome's measured consistency ceiling versus the leaderboard's top
40K — alpha Perturb locked in one day under Conviction
2 of 10 — latency checks Score now allows over target while it investigates
Notable Quotes
"There is no self-mining on the subnet. Every model we upload to the network is signed with our official coldkey, so our submissions can be clearly identified and verified."
— Hux, Dendrite (SN3)
"Trust me when I say that this is as painful for you as it is for us."
— brian, Macrocosmos (SN9), on the Train at Home payout outage
"We need a proper solution, not the detailed report, we want the money we worked so hard to earn."
— 24 (SN35), to the OxMarkets team mid-hack
Human Moment
The Instant (SN46) channel had the most understated big moment of the week. After the subnet split, the SN46 holders handed their keys to SN118. Voluntarily. Without being asked.
"Shoutout to SN46 holders! They voluntarily handed over the keys to SN118 post-split, showing great integrity."
Seby, the lead, answered shorter: "The way it should be. Thanks for noticing."
Someone asked whether the praise was bought. Seby laughed it off. Another regular: "Full faith in seby." In a market where keys vanish all the time, this community handed theirs over and the room called it integrity instead of drama.
The same spirit showed up in Nepher (SN49). The winner of the Humanoid Run Jump Challenge got his prize cut for a rules break, missing training scripts and unrealistically clean jumps. He shared the scripts anyway, free, for everyone. The team published the entry despite the penalty. Nobody had to, and both did.
the handover shoutout and "The way it should be. Thanks for noticing."
Coming Up
Score (SN44): a pass across all existing models first, new competitions right after. Accuracy plus the new latency metric.
CookingTAO (SN122): v1 Beta wrapped, mainnet feasibility proven. Next up: v2 Beta, more subnets, DPP + Hackathon, MMP, then the SN122 mainnet.
Conjectures (SN66): submissions now 0.25 TAO, about half price, with dynamic bounty caps and card payments in the same commit. The hunt for the $18M "AI for math" grant round continues, and the verification pitch is the strong one: the proof compiles or it doesn't, no human referee needed.
Synth Ultra (SN50): first batch paid, next batch pulls in off the form list.
Finsight (SN109): three incentive tiers start delivering within the next week and a half, September's booked, team heading to Exploit.
Green Compute (SN110): the Stitch3 campaign closes today, Aug 28.
Worth Your Time
arxiv.org/abs/2608.13573 — "A Year in LLM Serving": Chutes' unsampled production trace with UChicago and Harvard co-authors. 6.12B requests, and the cache-versus-load-balancing tension every inference network will have to answer.
taodaily.io/minos-adds-chromosomes-16-and-17-taking-sn107-to-seven-live-targets — Minos (SN107) is up to seven live chromosomes; 16 and 17 cover regions tied to cancer, kidney disease, and blood disorders. Sharp, current on-chain coverage.
swarm124.com/benchmark — Swarm's live leaderboard for the new Office Interceptor family. Watch submissions land and the crown move as it happens.
pub-fedac496355c4edc9aed57189e6e190f.r2.dev/datasets/manifest.json — Teutonic-II-110B's public dataset manifest: three sources, proportions, token counts, SHA-256s. The document in the middle of the self-mining fight; check it yourself before picking a side.
doc.connito.ai/miner/prerequisites/ — Connito's (SN102) miner prerequisites page, the exact link a newcomer got pointed at this week. Registration, setup, what to run.
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