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

2026-11-06 UTC, as of ≈15:57 UTC (block 9,448,080)

Price, today so far: 0.003541 τ
Volume, today so far: 88.08 τ
Market cap incl. burned, today so far: 12.11K τ
TAO in pool, today so far: 9.60K 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

257/257Competitive

Validators

10/6454 open

Economics

Owner Cut

18.00%

Weights

Commit-Reveal

Enabled (v3, 1 epochs)

Liquid Alpha

Disabled

Weights Version

Weights Range

1–65535

Timing

Tempo

1800~6.0h

Immunity Period

65,535~9.1d

Activity Cutoff

25,000~3.5d

Market & Economics

Market

Market Cap

10.22K τ

FDV

21.71K τ

TVL

19.20K τ

Lifetime Volume

901.49K τ

Holders

1,866

Owner Locked

375,000.0000 σ(12.99% of circulating)Perpetual

14d price

Revenue / Recycle

4.62×

last day · Net positive

Emissions

0.03%of network emissions

TAO emitted to this subnet

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

1.1086 τ/day

1.1086 τ per day

Daily distribution

Alpha paid out each day, valued at the pool price

7,200.0000 σ/day

≈ 25.4987 τ·25.4987 τ per day

Miners44.06%

3,171.9616 σ ≈ 11.2334 τ/day

Validators37.95%

2,732.0714 σ ≈ 9.6756 τ/day

Owner18.00%

1,295.9670 σ ≈ 4.5896 τ/day

Stake 1,000 τ here

284.6573 σ/day≈ 1.0081 τ·1.0081 τ per day

From the validator share, before commission

33.68%staker APY

· 30d avg 33.68% · Stable

90d

Pool emits 1.0000 σ/block at 0.003541 τ/σ. Yield varies with stake weight, pool price, and emission rate.

For Miners

44.06% of emission

Slots

257/257Competitive

Burn Cost

1.0000 τ

Est. per Miner

29.3700 σ/epoch≈ 0.1040 τ

Pool / Epoch

792.9904 σ≈ 2.8084 τ

For Validators & Stakers

37.95% of emission

Validator Slots

10/6454 open

Est. per Validator

68.3018 σ/epoch≈ 0.2419 τ

Registration Activity

Neuron registration trends

This Interval

24h: 1 registration (1 burn · 0 PoW)

Target / Interval

Slots Available

Competitive

257/257

Neurons

257

Development Activity

Orpheus-AI/ZeusJupyter Notebook

39286 contributors1 commits/30dLast commit 22d ago

MIT

bittensorclimate-forecastingweather-forecasting

Top Contributors

wouterharinghuizen57

EricOrpheus35

vasilisvyth-orpheus16

champagne-loving-elf10

dylanuys7

kenobijon1

Recent Releases

v2.1.460d ago v2.1.277d ago v2.1.0143d ago v2.0.4170d ago v2.0.3196d ago

What Zeus does

Environmental forecasting powers energy markets, trading desks, and grid operators—yet it remains expensive and slow. Traditional physics-based numerical weather prediction (NWP) requires massive computing infrastructure and hours of simulation time per forecast, limiting frequency, resolution, and accessibility. Data-driven machine learning alternatives promise speed and cost savings, but they need competitive incentive structures to attract diverse modeling talent and drive continuous improvement.

A decentralized, incentive-driven network of forecasters solves this by allowing miners to compete on prediction accuracy under the same challenge rules using publicly available ERA5 data. Validators verify forecasts against ground truth using standardized metrics, rank miners transparently, and allocate emissions based on verified performance—creating a market where the best models earn sustainable rewards and weaker approaches naturally exit.

Zeus (SN18) implements this on Bittensor.

Miners precompute and commit SHA256 hashes of compressed global weather predictions to the blockchain four times daily, then reveal full forecasts for validators to score. Validators run hourly 49-hour and 15-day predictions across four ERA5 variables (2m temperature, 100m wind, surface solar radiation) on a global 0.25° grid (721 × 1440 points). Scoring applies latitude weighting and geographic scalars (Europe 1.5×, Germany 2.5×) to reflect market demand, stores rank history in SQLite, and emits weights from rolling rank averages via a background thread. On-chain commitments prevent relay mining; dynamic burn from a performance API deters weight-copying validators.

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

About

active

Zeus (SN18) is a decentralized environmental forecasting subnet that incentivizes miners to produce hourly weather predictions for ERA5 variables (2m temperature, 100m wind components, surface solar radiation) across a global 0.25° grid for 49-hour and 15-day horizons. Validators score predictions against ground truth using RMSE and MAE, applying latitude weighting and geographic scalars (Europe 1.5x, Germany 2.5x), and set subnet weights from rolling rank averages with dynamic burn to prevent weight copying.

How it works

The subnet operates on a 6-hour challenge schedule (00:30, 06:30, 12:30, 18:30 UTC). Miners precompute and commit SHA256 hashes of compressed float16 predictions to the blockchain for 4 ERA5 variables and 2 horizons (49 and 361 hourly steps) covering the full Earth (721×1440 grid at 0.25° resolution). Validators run three phases: (1) hash commit read from Subtensor Commitments pallet; (2) query best miners for top-k long-horizon reveals 1+ hours post-commitment; (3) final scoring when ground truth is available (after ERA5 data is complete, typically 5–7 days).

Miners return base64-encoded blosc2-compressed predictions. Validators verify hashes, compute RMSE/MAE with area and regional weights, maintain per-challenge rank history in SQLite, and emit weights from rolling rank averages via a dedicated background WeightSetter thread. Dynamic burn fetched from a performance API discourages weight-copying validators.

Incentive mechanism

Predictions are scored using (RMSE + MAE) / 2 after normalization by latitude-based area weights and regional scalars. Miners are ranked competitively; ties on RMSE share the same rank. Weights derive from rolling averages of per-challenge ranks, with the best-ranked miner receiving the majority of a challenge's weight and remainder distributed logarithmically.

Variable weights (2m_temperature 0.2, 100m_u_component 0.3, 100m_v_component 0.3, surface_solar_radiation 0.2) and time-window weights (short-term 0.2, long-term 0.8) are combined. Shape errors, non-finite values, missing responses, hash mismatches, and collusion result in penalties. On-chain commit-reveal prevents relay mining.

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

Zeus

Sigma · Greek letter · pronounced “sigma”

Pushing weather forecasts beyond state-of-the-art

Owner: 5GgvC…7WKh
Hotkey: 5DCSy…oWyG
Owner Cut: 18.00%

Registered: 3 years ago(Oct 30, 2023)
Block: 1,604,679
Slot history: Every subnet in SN18
Neurons: 257/257
Tempo: 1800 blocks

Website

URL: https://www.zeussubnet.com/ (zeussubnet.com, opens in a new tab, external site)
Status: Up200
TLS: Valid
Title: Zeus
Checked: 2026-11-06 04:00 UTC

Domain registered after this subnet started · Jan 17, 2025

Changes (10)

2026-11-06 04:00 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-11-05 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-11-04 04:00 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-11-03 04:02 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-11-02 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-11-01 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-10-31 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-10-30 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-10-29 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus
2026-10-28 04:01 UTCUp200Zeus

Subnet History

SubnetIdentitySet 2025-07-30 12:13 UTC

Block 6,110,265Extrinsic

SubnetIdentitySet 2025-03-25 13:30 UTC

Block 5,205,884Extrinsic

SubnetIdentitySet 2025-03-07 14:53 UTC

Block 5,076,699Extrinsic

Subnet registered 2023-10-30 14:06 UTC

Block 1,604,679Extrinsic

Recent Activity

SubnetIdentitySet Block 6,110,265 Extrinsic2025-07-30 12:13 UTC
SubnetIdentitySet Block 5,205,884 Extrinsic2025-03-25 13:30 UTC
SubnetIdentitySet Block 5,076,699 Extrinsic2025-03-07 14:53 UTC
NetworkAdded Block 1,604,679 Extrinsic2023-10-30 14:06 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

GPUNot required

RAM16 GB

Storage10 GB

CPU Cores4

OSUbuntu 20.04

Networkdownload 100 Mbps, upload 20 Mbps

GPU not required for inference; GPU recommended for training. A GPU is required for training (unless you want to wait weeks), but is not required for inference.

Validator

GPUNot required

RAM8 GB

Storage100 GB

CPU Cores2

OSUbuntu 20.04

Networkdownload 100 Mbps, upload 20 Mbps

Not yet verified: Notes

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 28 Sep 2026

Miner Setup

Clone the Zeus repository and navigate to the folder

git clone https://github.com/Orpheus-AI/Zeus.git && cd Zeus

Create a Conda virtual environment with Python 3.11

conda create -y -n zeus python=3.11

Activate the virtual environment

conda activate zeus

Run the setup script to install dependencies

chmod +x setup.sh && ./setup.sh

btcli s register --netuid 18 --wallet.name [wallet_name] --wallet.hotkey [wallet.hotkey] --subtensor.network finney

Create and configure miner.env with NETUID, SUBTENSOR_NETWORK, WALLET_NAME, WALLET_HOTKEY, AXON_PORT

cp miner.env.example miner.env && nano miner.env

Launch the miner

conda activate zeus && ./start_miner.sh

Validator Setup

Clone the Zeus repository

git clone https://github.com/Orpheus-AI/Zeus.git && cd Zeus

Install Python 3.11 (or use system package manager for your OS)

sudo dnf install python3.11 -y

Create and activate a Python virtual environment

python3.11 -m venv zeus-venv && source zeus-venv/bin/activate

Run the setup script to install dependencies

./setup.sh

btcli s register --netuid 18 --wallet.name [wallet_name] --wallet.hotkey [wallet.hotkey] --subtensor.network finney

Create and configure validator.env with CDS_API_KEY, WALLET_NAME, WALLET_HOTKEY, AXON_PORT, PROXY_PORT, PROXY_API_KEY, optional DISCORD_WEBHOOK

cp validator.env.example validator.env && nano validator.env

Launch the validator

source zeus-venv/bin/activate && cd Zeus && ./start_validator.sh

Run a local Subtensor node to minimize outages and improve performance (see Subtensor documentation)

Ensure local Subtensor node is running

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

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Zeus (SN18) implements this on Bittensor.

What moved the price

Overview

Today so far

Subnet Configuration

Market & Economics

For Miners

For Validators & Stakers

Registration Activity

Development Activity

What Zeus 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 Zeus does

About

Website

Subnet History

Hardware Requirements

Miner Setup

Validator Setup