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What is Bittensor? IOTA SN9 and shared AI training

About SN9 iota

Understand Bittensor through IOTA SN9: how miners, validators and token incentives can organize shared AI training. Based on the July 2025 research proposal.

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SN9 iota at a glance

SN9, iota (α token ι), is one of the independent markets on the Bittensor network, each with its own α token and its own price. Its α currently trades at 0.023226 τ (≈ $5.18), against 52,788 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 35.90% APR (simple) and 43.19% APY (compounded), emissions add 0.003051 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #1,489,797.

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