Results for every scored submission: api.bringyour.com/competition/v2/rounds/01a1855… UR Research: ur.xyz/research Competition link: apex.macrocosmos.ai/competitions/15
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Round 1 of our competition on @Apex_SN1 has a winner! Entrants were scored on p95 request time, which tracks the slow end, basically the long waits that make a connection feel stuck In testing, the winning code cut that from 19.6 to 7.1 seconds, a 63% drop. Larger downloads also ran about twice as fast The winning code is now the starting point for round 2 Thanks to everyone who contributed so we can bring these gains to everyone using UR
Great thread from Lithos on encryption and the trail of data left behind in your online footprint Appreciate you taking the time to dig into what we're building with UR We don't solve everything but believe we can make everyday privacy more accessible Privacy for everyone
Quoting @Lithos_eth
you can encrypt almost everything you do online and still leave a trail of where you've been your messages might be private your passwords might be protected but your internet connection can still reveal information about your browsing activity this is a part of digital privacy we don't talk about enough let's get into it
Validator Crucible Labs (5CAQ…7FmJ) scheduled a child-key change on 4 subnets
Validator hotkey 5CAQAgXxoU3NPo1YG5VQKz4Ackh7goNx3TvPD9A6LoqA7FmJ announced new child keys on SN25, SN55, SN72, SN94, applying at block 9,450,479 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,443,266 and 9,443,326
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Validator Kiln (5F7d…r6LW) scheduled a child-key change on 2 subnets
Validator hotkey 5F7dvCS7mdzJU4o9bAUx4LPgpF3XeMM1XEz9nVqVNga9r6LW announced new child keys on SN25, SN107, applying at block 9,426,697 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,419,440 and 9,419,501
Validator 5EqY…oaUf scheduled a child-key change on 2 subnets
Validator hotkey 5EqYdsxW1EYfb7PdJrazCYd1JuunqhABtHSWKh34jPbQoaUf announced new child keys on SN25, SN107, applying at block 9,426,700 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,419,440 and 9,419,501
Validator Kiln (5F7d…r6LW) scheduled a child-key change on SN25
Validator hotkey 5F7dvCS7mdzJU4o9bAUx4LPgpF3XeMM1XEz9nVqVNga9r6LW announced new child keys on SN25, applying at block 9,418,603 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,411,340 and 9,411,407View subnet →
Validator 5EqY…oaUf scheduled a child-key change on SN25
Validator hotkey 5EqYdsxW1EYfb7PdJrazCYd1JuunqhABtHSWKh34jPbQoaUf announced new child keys on SN25, applying at block 9,418,606 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,411,340 and 9,411,407View subnet →
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Validator 5HK2…YYXr scheduled a child-key change on SN25
Validator hotkey 5HK2LZRrvj581VjyxuFxb6ehFZoNi5PqAg3Y2HsmYPhGYYXr announced new child keys on SN25, applying at block 9,411,406 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,404,176 and 9,404,236View subnet →
Validator 5HK1…RJAK scheduled a child-key change on 2 subnets
Validator hotkey 5HK1Ubcg6MBwDGW7Td4RtAvE1FNyvkHvXKfwymW9q1BCRJAK announced new child keys on SN20, SN25, applying at block 9,411,403 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,404,176 and 9,404,236
Validator Kiln (5F7d…r6LW) scheduled a child-key change on 2 subnets
Validator hotkey 5F7dvCS7mdzJU4o9bAUx4LPgpF3XeMM1XEz9nVqVNga9r6LW announced new child keys on SN25, SN88, applying at block 9,411,106 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,403,872 and 9,403,933
Validator 5EqY…oaUf scheduled a child-key change on 2 subnets
Validator hotkey 5EqYdsxW1EYfb7PdJrazCYd1JuunqhABtHSWKh34jPbQoaUf announced new child keys on SN25, SN88, applying at block 9,411,109 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,403,872 and 9,403,933
SN25 large sell: 891.9 τ
Where you go online says a lot about you, and a VPN doesn't solve this Here's the TLDR in two minutes, for everyone who bookmarked our article and never went back to it Full read is below for all the details
Quoting @urnetwork
One of the most common myths about VPNs is that they guarantee privacy In reality, it just moves the view from your ISP to the VPN company, and you have to trust them not to log your data On UR, privacy is in the design and the code is open source x.com/i/article/2113598831505842176
@Apex_SN1 Full PR on our investor centre: ur.xyz/investors/apex-competition This is the link for the competition but it won't be active until it goes live at 00:00 UTC apex.macrocosmos.ai/competitions/15
Linkur.xyzur.xyz/investors/apex-competitionUR (SN25) has launched an open competition on @Apex_SN1, going live in a few hours (00:00 UTC) The competition opens UR's routing and provider-matching algorithms to anyone who wants to compete for SN1 alpha These algorithms decide how fast and reliable the network is for the 350k people using it each month How it works: 1. Six rounds, one week each 2. Submissions are scored against a branch of the UR code 3. The winning submission becomes the next baseline Improvements that pass the benchmark will be adopted into the production protocol Good luck!

Validator Rizzo (Insured) (5FtB…izzo) scheduled a child-key change on SN25
Validator hotkey 5FtBncJvGhxjBs4aFn2pid6aur9tBUuo9QR7sHe5DkoRizzo announced new child keys on SN25, applying at block 9,391,225 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,383,972 and 9,384,030View subnet →
Validator TrustedStake (5DkF…M7Fn) scheduled a child-key change on 4 subnets
Validator hotkey 5DkFEQdEwE5ZcJbv2efF4F5nRTxuEdYhLHqd2EfdR3aLM7Fn announced new child keys on SN25, SN37, SN84, SN104, applying at block 9,385,292 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,378,069 and 9,378,146
Full report, with all 39 experiments, how we tested them and what's still open ur.xyz/research/2026-q3-report
Linkur.xyzur.xyz/research/2026-q3-report39 experiments in two months, all with one goal: the best encryption and the best speed, for everyday use Privacy often comes with a cost to speed. We're always running research on our code to improve and make that tradeoff disappear Ideally you don't even have to think about it Our new report collects the last couple of months of that research, with every experiment on a timeline showing what it measured and whether we kept it. Even failed tests are valuable to learn from A few that stood out: - in our phone tests, a Wikipedia page went from 2.5-4 seconds to about half a second - a local test link hit gigabit-class speeds after we changed how much data is kept in flight - a tighter memory limit actually hurt speeds by about a third, so we killed that change Full report below

Persistent AI Joins UR to Add IP Privacy to AI Inference on Bittensor SN25
Private Inference will use UR’s shared connections to shield users’ IP addresses alongside its private chat and payment features.
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UR is partnering with @Persistent_AI. Through its product @P_Inference, Persistent AI is joining UR as our newest Network Operator. Every AI request exposes three things about the person sending it: 1. Their identity 2. What they asked 3. Where they are connecting from Private Inference has been building private AI that solves the first two. It gives people access to leading models such as GPT and Claude without storing their chats, and lets them pay privately. UR solves the third. As a Network Operator, Persistent AI will route Private Inference's traffic over UR, where it is encrypted and sent out through connections shared by people globally, keeping users' IP addresses private. Network Operators are where demand for SN25 alpha comes from. They pay for the traffic they use in alpha, so every new operator brings new demand to the subnet. Both teams are passionate about AI and privacy, and the network is the first thing we are working on together. Keep the internet private

One of the most common myths about VPNs is that they guarantee privacy In reality, it just moves the view from your ISP to the VPN company, and you have to trust them not to log your data On UR, privacy is in the design and the code is open source x.com/i/article/2113598831505842176
Validator Yuma, a DCG Company (5DXd…L1S1) scheduled a child-key change on SN25
Validator hotkey 5DXdHixxtCvoa6GHKs2Jgrdzc61882Ftx1zN2sYFQuwgL1S1 announced new child keys on SN25, applying at block 9,348,612 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,341,378 and 9,341,437View subnet →
Validator Crucible Labs (5CAQ…7FmJ) scheduled a child-key change on 2 subnets
Validator hotkey 5CAQAgXxoU3NPo1YG5VQKz4Ackh7goNx3TvPD9A6LoqA7FmJ announced new child keys on SN6, SN25, applying at block 9,348,461 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,341,210 and 9,341,378
"If you cannot grow [and make money], then you die... and so you should" We hold UR to that standard Over the years, privacy has been taken from all of us, piece by piece - your searches, your location, the sites you visit, all bought and sold Our mission is to give it back to people Great technology at scale changes lives, so we are building for billions
Validator Kusanagi (5Csz…gMUV) scheduled a child-key change on 44 subnets
Validator hotkey 5CszMVts9ueMUSKdAwLFSLT7u4oyxN7fUBpo8Z3ETw1ggMUV announced new child keys on SN1, SN2, SN4, SN8, SN9, SN10, SN14, SN17, SN24, SN25, SN39, SN42 and 32 more, applying at block 9,342,864 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,335,649 and 9,335,704
Great piece from Shayon TL;DR: - training data is a one-off purchase per model run - agents search the web every time they act, so retrieval is the far bigger market - a lot of that traffic gets through more reliably on residential connections That's the network we've been building for the last 3 years. We have over 100k providers, giving us a diverse range of residential IPs around the world, and each one makes the network stronger Agents can already use it too, with the same benefits people get, and our MCP server makes it easy to plug in Usually, what an agent reads can be traced back to whoever is running it. On UR, that traffic is encrypted across the network, and sites see a provider's connection, not who's behind the request Privacy for humans and agents alike
Quoting @shayonsengupta
Validator Neuralteq.com (5Fy3…hQCY) scheduled a child-key change on 20 subnets
Validator hotkey 5Fy3MjrdKRvUWSuJa4Yd5dmBYunzKNmXnLcvP22NfaTvhQCY announced new child keys on SN6, SN8, SN20, SN22, SN25, SN31, SN41, SN48, SN51, SN56, SN60, SN63 and 8 more, applying at block 9,334,254 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.
Between blocks 9,327,051 and 9,327,111
Most startups don't make it to the 5 year mark We have already been around for 3 years and are focused on building something that's useful for every day users, while being sustainable "We've already gotten to a million networks... let's get to 10 million in the next year" Our mission is to build a success story around privacy encryption infrastructure that works