News·SN114 SOMA @SomaSubnet·Aug 19, 2026, 13:10 UTC

Everyone building on language models pays per token. Few can explain what a token is, how it gets counted, or why input tokens dominate agent workloads. We wrote it out from the bottom up, tokenizer to invoice: https://t.co/jhUbitDyY1

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SN114 SOMA at a glance

SN114, SOMA (α token Є), 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 0.016217 τ (≈ $5.09), against 7,510 τ of pool liquidity. On-chain, the best-delegated validator on it yields about 53.8% APR, emissions add 0.004940 τ to the pool each block, epochs run every 360 blocks. It was registered at block #7,312,241.

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X · 10h ago

SOMA × ENGY is live. The best ecosystem integrations are the ones that end up in production. When you use @engyai through SOMA, we compress the context and they run the model. Compress. Pay less. https://t.co/YvRwtJtUQy

X · 14h ago

Join us on the next episode of Novelty Search to find out how you can spend less running your AI agents. @oli_soma will show you how to save money with SOMA’s context compression. You’ll also hear from @Hedgehog_ai about @DendriteHQ’s story and what’s next. Thursday :: 5PM EDT https://t.co/iehpdLXhkR

X · 2d ago

100% agree ☀️ https://t.co/rdaXojNDbr

X · 4d ago

@say_gm_ Plug SOMA into your agent: https://t.co/CF6bySe17P

X · 4d ago

SOMA × GM is live. We compress context and route agent requests to @say_gm_. They provide the model inference. Two Bittensor subnets working together, with real traffic flowing through the integration. Compress. Pay less. https://t.co/rfMqxsGPw1

X · 7d ago

Fruit Fly learned how to pay less for AI agents. You can learn it too. Plug in SOMA today: https://t.co/CF6bySeyXn Compress. Pay less. https://t.co/uI4ZMGcfNv

X · 11d ago

Plug SOMA into your pipeline: https://t.co/etBanUYNgi

X · 11d ago

39.7% cheaper input with SOMA. We tested our context compressor against GPT-6 Astra. The original prompt used approximately 12,937 tokens, with an estimated input cost of $0.1294. We then took the exact same prompt, compressed it with SOMARIZER at a 0.60 compression ratio, and https://t.co/fEUmLbzM0B

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