The chart follows the alpha price in τ. Each period starts at its opening price and steps through the mechanisms below, in a fixed order, to its closing price: a step that rises pushed the price up, one that falls pushed it down, and its height is how far it moved the price. A thin line carries each close into the next period’s open; it is dashed where the two differ. The faint candle behind each period is the market’s own open, high, low and close, for context.

With many periods on screen (90 days, or hours), the steps would be too thin to read, so the chart draws the price as a line instead and colours each period by the mechanism that moved it most. Hover a period for the full step-by-step breakdown.

Protocol buy: The chain spending excess emission TAO to buy alpha from the pool. A permanent protocol buyback; it pushes the price up.
Root sell: Root-dividend claims sold into the pool; they push the price down.
User buy / sell: Staking into and unstaking from this subnet.
Cross-subnet: Swaps from other subnets routed through this pool.
Residual: What the decomposition cannot attribute to a mechanism. It is always shown, never folded into another part.

Not here, because they do not move the spot price: the per-block TAO injection into the pool, and burns.

All figures are log changes, not simple percentage changes, so the parts add up exactly to the total; on big moves the two differ (a 10% log fall is a 9.5% price fall).

Today so far

2026-11-04 UTC, as of ≈20:56 UTC (block 9,435,173)

Price, today so far: 0.0029 τ
Volume, today so far: 324.17 τ
Market cap incl. burned, today so far: 6.27K τ
TAO in pool, today so far: 2.17K τ
Emission share, today so far: —not available yet

The day isn’t over yet, so these figures keep changing. They are in no daily total, average or rank.

Subnet Configuration

Pool & Mechanism

AMM Pool

Balancer

Mechanism

dTAO

Access

Registration

Open

Neurons

256/256Competitive

Validators

7/6457 open

Economics

Owner Cut

18.00%

Weights

Commit-Reveal

Enabled (v3, 1 epochs)

Liquid Alpha

Disabled

Weights Version

Weights Range

1–65535

Timing

Tempo

360~1.2h

Immunity Period

5,000~16.7h

Activity Cutoff

5,000~16.7h

Market & Economics

Market

Market Cap

3,814.3351 τ

FDV

8,439.2842 τ

TVL

4,334.9481 τ

Lifetime Volume

420.76K τ

Holders

1,499

Owner Locked

11,733.7239 დ(0.89% of circulating)Perpetual

14d price

Revenue / Recycle

> 1,000×

last day · Net positive

Emissions

0.00%of network emissions

TAO emitted to this subnet

Sent into its pool each day: its share of network emissions

0.0000 τ/day

0 τ per day

Daily distribution

Alpha paid out each day, valued at the pool price

7,200.0000 დ/day

≈ 20.8783 τ·20.8783 τ per day

Miners46.94%

3,379.4865 დ ≈ 9.7997 τ/day

Validators35.06%

2,524.5464 დ ≈ 7.3206 τ/day

Owner18.00%

1,295.9670 დ ≈ 3.7580 τ/day

Stake 1,000 τ here

1,164.7413 დ/day≈ 3.3775 τ·3.3775 τ per day

From the validator share, before commission

76.90%staker APY

· 30d avg 76.90% · Stable

90d

Pool emits 1.0000 დ/block at 0.0029 τ/დ. Yield varies with stake weight, pool price, and emission rate.

For Miners

46.94% of emission

Slots

256/256Competitive

Burn Cost

0.0005 τ

Est. per Miner

—

Pool / Epoch

168.9743 დ≈ 0.4900 τ

For Validators & Stakers

35.06% of emission

Validator Slots

7/6457 open

Est. per Validator

18.0325 დ/epoch≈ 0.0523 τ

Registration Activity

Neuron registration trends

This Interval

24h: 0 registrations (0 burn · 0 PoW)

Target / Interval

Slots Available

Competitive

256/256

Neurons

256

Development Activity

CortexLM/cortexPython

160173 contributors65 commits/30dLast commit 1d ago

Apache-2.0

Top Contributors

echobt776

github-actions[bot]150

cursoragent45

Recent Releases

v3.3.3155d ago v3.3.3055d ago v3.3.589d ago v3.2.0100d ago v3.1.2115d ago

What Cortex does

Organizations running research competitions face scalability and trust challenges: managing distributed contributors, validating work reproducibility, preventing fraud, and fairly allocating rewards require centralized infrastructure. A decentralized network where independent miners compete under transparent rules and validators verify all results can distribute both the computational and governance burden.

Cortex implements this by providing operators with a framework to define research challenges with measurable objectives, letting miners submit solutions that challenge containers score automatically, and requiring independent validators to verify sealed epoch bundles before on-chain payment. The master gateway records one score per miner per challenge, seals all scores into a merkle-rooted bundle, and publishes it; validators independently verify hashes, challenge profile membership, and recompute final weights before submission to Bittensor.

This ensures no single operator can forge results: miners get transparent scoring rules, validators can audit the full chain of evidence, and contributors are paid only when the sealed bundle passes cryptographic verification and chain submission.

Auto-generated from the GitHub repository and may not reflect the latest changes.

About

active

Cortex is an autonomous research network on Bittensor subnet 100 where miners compete in challenges to improve models and detectors. The master operator seals each epoch into an unsigned bundle verified by validators who submit weights on-chain. Two live challenges are Bounty (vulnerability reporting) and Hypertrain (decentralized LLM pretraining), with Proof as the scoring framework for research topics.

How it works

Cortex uses a centralized master gateway with independent validators. Miners submit work to challenge containers or Proof. The master runs the gateway, Proof scoring engine, and challenge containers via challenge-supervisor.

At epoch end, the master records one score leaf per miner per challenge, seals all leaves into a bundle with merkle root and final weight vector, and publishes it at /v1/weights/latest. Validators fetch the sealed bundle, verify its hashes and merkle root against the gateway-served challenge profile and chain snapshot, independently recompute the final weight vector, and submit it to Bittensor. Challenge containers never sign leaves; integrity rests on content hashes, merkle proofs, and the gateway's TLS trust anchor.

The Proof VM host is a dedicated KVM-capable machine running Firecracker guests for topic setup and paid miner evaluation, communicating with the master over authenticated HTTPS. Validators verify but never run challenge containers or Proof evaluation.

Incentive mechanism

Each challenge returns weights for its participants. The master converts weights to merkle leaves using the formula: floor(10^12 * weight / max(total_weight, full_share_mass)) under algorithm 3. Proof topics use a winner-take-all (wta) or discovery policy: wta awards topic mass to the best result, while discovery divides a pass-floor pool among eligible miners and a novelty pool for improvements over baseline.

Validators recompute the final weight vector from leaves and verify it matches the gateway's aggregation before on-chain submission. Missing or failed challenges emit NoScore leaves and their share burns.

The sections above were auto-generated from the GitHub repository and may not reflect the latest changes. View repository (github.com, opens in a new tab, external site)

On-Chain Identitysigned on-chain by subnet owner

დ

Cortex

Don · Georgian letter · pronounced “don”

The open alternative to frontier AI | Efficient autonomous research

Owner: 5FX6k…XiWU
Hotkey: 5ExuW…H5HH
Owner Cut: 18.00%
Contact: [email protected]

Registered: 1 year ago(Oct 19, 2025)
Block: 6,693,448
Slot history: Every subnet in SN100
Neurons: 256/256
Tempo: 360 blocks

Website

URL: https://network.cortex.foundation/ (network.cortex.foundation, opens in a new tab, external site)
Status: Up200
TLS: Valid
Title: Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
Checked: 2026-11-04 04:03 UTC

Changes (10)

2026-11-04 04:03 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-11-03 04:06 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-11-02 04:04 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-11-01 04:05 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-10-31 04:04 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-10-30 04:04 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-10-29 04:04 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-10-28 04:04 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-10-27 04:05 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work
2026-10-26 04:05 UTCUp200Cortex SN100 — the network that pays for verified work

Subnet History

SubnetIdentitySet 2026-09-08 16:05 UTC

Block 9,023,835Extrinsic

SubnetOwnerHotkeySet 2026-09-03 21:04 UTC

Block 8,989,385Extrinsic

SubnetOwnerHotkeySet 2026-08-29 14:03 UTC

Block 8,951,286Extrinsic

SubnetIdentitySet 2026-08-26 02:55 UTC

Block 8,926,346Extrinsic

SubnetIdentitySet 2026-08-26 02:52 UTC

Block 8,926,329Extrinsic

Recent Activity

SubnetIdentitySet Block 9,023,835 Extrinsic2026-09-08 16:05 UTC
SubnetOwnerHotkeySet Block 8,989,385 Extrinsic2026-09-03 21:04 UTC
SubnetOwnerHotkeySet Block 8,951,286 Extrinsic2026-08-29 14:03 UTC
SubnetIdentitySet Block 8,926,346 Extrinsic2026-08-26 02:55 UTC
SubnetIdentitySet Block 8,926,329 Extrinsic2026-08-26 02:52 UTC

This information was auto-extracted from the GitHub repository and may be incomplete or out of date. Always refer to the subnet's GitHub repository (github.com, opens in a new tab, external site) for the latest instructions.

Hardware Requirements

Miner

GPU—

OSLinux, Python 3.12 or 3.13

Not yet verified: Network, Notes

Validator

Not yet verified: GPU, OS, Network

No GPU or KVM required; validators never run challenge containers or VM evaluation

Machine-extracted from the subnet's repository docs; may be wrong or out of date. Check the repository before buying or renting hardware. Open the repository (github.com, opens in a new tab, external site) · Extracted 26 Oct 2026

Miner Setup

Install libsodium cryptographic library

sudo apt-get install libsodium23

Install Python dependencies including Bittensor chain support

uv sync --locked --extra chain

Verify miner CLI installation and view available commands

uv run cortex miner --help

View Proof submission help with configured gateway and wallet(optional)

uv run cortex miner --gateway "$GATEWAY" --wallet-name research --wallet-hotkey miner proof-submit --help

Validator Setup

Install libsodium cryptographic library

sudo apt-get install libsodium23

Install Python dependencies including Bittensor chain support

uv sync --locked --extra chain

Run one verification without submitting weights to test setup

scripts/run-validator.sh --verify-only

Set environment variables for validator wallet and hotkey

export WALLET_NAME=validator WALLET_HOTKEY=default

Run validator in continuous mode to verify and submit weights each epoch

scripts/run-validator.sh

No hardware? Back this subnet by staking instead New to mining? Start with the setup guide Validator setup guide

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What moved the price

Overview

Today so far

Subnet Configuration

Market & Economics

For Miners

For Validators & Stakers

Registration Activity

Development Activity

What Cortex does

About

Website

Subnet History

Recent Activity

Participate

Hardware Requirements

Miner Setup

Validator Setup

What moved the price

Today so far

Subnet Configuration

Market & Economics

For Miners

For Validators & Stakers

What Cortex does

About

Website

Subnet History

Hardware Requirements

Miner Setup

Validator Setup