{"schema_version":2,"updated":"2026-10-24T07:57:30.278Z","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","cite_as":"Own Your Mind, \"Decentralised AI Freedom and Returns score dataset\", https://ownyourmind.ai/integrity/","attribution":"Own Your Mind (ownyourmind.ai). Link the specific project review when citing a single project.","integrity_notice":{"summary":"Each integrity record carries its own record_type, verdict and assessment_level. A 'claim' record quotes the project's own published statement; a 'reported' value is that claim, not a verified fact, unless verdict is 'match'. A 'finding' record is our own measurement and grades no one's claim. assessment_level 'not-assessed' means unchecked, never clean. Findings are dated snapshots, not a live feed.","verdicts":{"match":"verified against independent data","inflated":"reported higher than independent data shows","understated":"reported lower than independent data shows","outdated":"was accurate when reported; on-chain reality has since moved","established":"our own independent measurement; there is no project claim to grade","unverified":"independently checkable, not yet checked","unverifiable":"checked, could not independently confirm"},"record_types":{"claim":"the project's own published statement, quoted verbatim, graded against independent data","finding":"our own measurement for a score dimension; no claimant and never a verdict on a claim"},"methodology":"https://ownyourmind.ai/resources/integrity-checks/"},"slug":"bittensor","markdown":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/bittensor.md","title":"Bittensor","token":"TAO","category":"platform","freedomScore":5.3,"returnsScore":6.5,"freedomGrade":"D","returnsGrade":"C","url":"https://ownyourmind.ai/projects/bittensor/","integrity":{"assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","last_assessed":"2026-10-06","emission_honesty":{"classification":"inflationary","reason":"Network runs on TAO emission, derived on-chain from the TotalIssuance delta. Revenue in three tiers: settled by a third party (Chutes on OpenRouter) is a few $M/yr; the subnets' own current figures sum to under 5% of the emission budget, with Lium's billing corroborated by its on-chain payouts; adding stale claims for subnets with no current figure stays under 8%. Participant rewards remain overwhelmingly inflation-funded."},"reconciliations":[{"metric":"permissionless_subnets","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"outdated","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"The cost doubles each time anyone registers a subnet, then decays linearly back over the lock-reduction interval (100,800 blocks, ~2 weeks), floored at NetworkMinLockCost – 1,000 TAO by default.","source_url":"https://www.bittensor.com/docs/guides/subnets","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Anyone can register a subnet at a floating lock cost, floored at 1,000 TAO","source":"Bittensor docs, Running a subnet","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Subnet creation is permissionless and price-gated as described, but both documented parameters have moved on chain. Read 2026-09-24 from Subtensor finney storage: NetworkMinLockCost = 1,000,000,000 rao (1 TAO, not 1,000 TAO), NetworkLockReductionInterval = 115,200 blocks (~16 days, not 100,800), NetworkLastLockCost = ~508.7 TAO. 129 registered subnets. Emission is not permissionless: Bittensor's own subnet guide says new subnets register with subnet_emission_enabled off and only root can switch it on.","source":"Subtensor finney mainnet via the bittensor SDK; computed output src/data/bittensor-subnets.json"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"low"},{"metric":"governance_control","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"inflated","claim_holds_up":false,"claim":{"quote":"If it has preferences itself, they are openness and decentralization, which are immutably written into its code.","source_url":"https://www.bittensor.com/charter","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Openness and decentralisation immutably written into Bittensor's code","source":"The Bittensor Delegates Charter (bittensor.com/charter)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Read off the runtime on 2026-09-18 (block 9,088,526): finney carries 28 pallets and none of them is a Triumvirate, Senate, Collective, Council, Democracy or membership pallet, while Sudo.Key holds 5DcSqBNqCmfdJZRGFSwwcRb2dZdJHZuKK8Tb1Gx8gbmF5E8s. Privileged operations, runtime upgrades included, dispatch through that key. On 2026-09-25 the chain showed that key is a 2-of-3 multisig: the address derives from signers 5GRCukV2rZmSVfJhAXoLjcrU1pMVCf2Ra1ydbiCFZdaQXDXo, 5E7RCRrPVS8TckCDjr92B5ciGziwz2kfvxe4URy3L7AgirGJ and 5FevFjov8435t5XC2MUSRpFYxtthE8pZy1toHpgAAia3ZphG at threshold 2, and the spec 468 setCode at block 9,117,748 executed through it with two approvals (via a Proxy.proxy from a 2-of-2 multisig that includes the sudo key itself). Bittensor's own validator documentation names the signers as Rao Foundation, which we record as their statement, since the chain shows accounts, not who holds them. Block production remains authority-based, and OTF has used a root override before (SN28).","source":"Subtensor finney runtime metadata + Sudo.Key, read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"fair_launch","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Thus, the team elected to have a fair launch – that is, no pre-mined tokens or ICOs, ensuring each TAO reflected real machine learning work.","source_url":"https://blog.bittensor.com/tao-token-economy-explained-17a3a90cd44e","archive_url":null,"date":"2023-09-20"},"reported":{"value":"Fair launch: no pre-mined tokens, no ICO","source":"Opentensor Foundation blog, TAO Token Economy Explained (20 September 2023)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Issuance is mining-based from genesis (January 2021); no sale or pre-mine tranche exists beside the emission schedule.","source":"documented allocation + on-chain emission model"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"ownership_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Stake on most covered subnets is concentrated: on the median subnet a single coldkey holds a majority of the stake.","independent":{"value":"Across the covered subnet set on 2026-09-18 (block 9,088,526) the median subnet has a single coldkey holding 57.26% of its stake, the worst holds 97.84%, and 10 of 15 have one coldkey with an outright majority. Per-subnet capture moves in both directions: Templar (SN3) has gone from 95.6% to 98.32% while Targon (SN4) has fallen from 88.3% to 52.35%.","source":"Subtensor mainnet via the bittensor SDK (our own index), block 9,088,526, 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"permissionless_registration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Admission is governed entirely by price, with no registration windows","source_url":"https://www.bittensor.com/docs/guides/mining/burn","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Miner registration gated only by a floating burn price","source":"Bittensor docs, Registration burn","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Registration is permissionless on-chain (gated only by a TAO burn); no protocol content filter. Caveat: OTF demonstrated a root-level override (SN28), so entry is open but the root can intervene.","source":"Subtensor on-chain registration path + the SN28 intervention"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"local_execution_self_custody","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Whoever holds the mnemonic owns the funds.","source_url":"https://www.bittensor.com/docs/concepts/wallets","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Self-custodial coldkey/hotkey wallets","source":"Bittensor docs, Wallets and keys","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"The coldkey/hotkey wallet model is self-custodial on-chain, and the runtime exposes no custody pallet. Miners run models on their own hardware.","source":"Bittensor wallet architecture (on-chain accounts) + network design"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"open_source","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Bittensor's core code is public on GitHub, but a third of the org's own repositories carry no licence file and most have not been pushed in six months.","independent":{"value":"Re-read 2026-09-18: 35 non-fork public repositories in github.com/opentensor (50 public, 15 forks), 11 with no licence file and 33 not pushed in 180 days. Core code is open (MIT); the Subtensor runtime is public - we read the PR #2781 Rust diff directly this cycle. Caveat: no formal security audit of the core chain.","source":"GitHub REST API (orgs/opentensor/repos), re-read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"token_utility","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"TAO is required on-chain to stake, to register miners and subnets, and to enter each subnet's alpha market.","independent":{"value":"Staking, registration-burn, and the dTAO subnet-token mechanism are all on-chain and load-bearing for participation.","source":"Subtensor on-chain mechanics + verified emission/dTAO logic"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"value_accrual","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Dynamic TAO derives emission values from the market prices of subnet-specific tokens that trade against TAO on Constant Product AMMs.","source_url":"https://www.bittensor.com/dtao-whitepaper","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"Emission allocation derived from subnet token market prices","source":"Bittensor, Dynamic TAO whitepaper (design document)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Accrual is stake/emission-based via dTAO market pricing; there is no protocol fee distribution or fee-burn to holders. Measured, honestly disclosed.","source":"On-chain emission + dTAO mechanism (PR #2781 verified)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"hard_cap_supply","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Every token is hard-capped at 21 million – TAO and each subnet's alpha alike.","source_url":"https://www.bittensor.com/docs/concepts/money","archive_url":null,"date":null},"reported":{"value":"21,000,000 TAO hard cap","source":"Bittensor docs, Money","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"21,000,000 hard cap, with 11,525,470 TAO issued as at 2026-09-18, 54.88% of it. Read from SubtensorModule.TotalIssuance and cross-checked against Balances.TotalIssuance, which agree. CoinGecko max_supply = total_supply = 21,000,000; circulating ~9.6-10.7M depending on staking treatment. Bitcoin-modelled emission with supply-milestone halving (first halving ~Dec 2025).","source":"CoinGecko + Bittensor emission model, 2026-08-09"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"emission_subsidised_economics","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Subnet participant rewards are overwhelmingly funded by TAO emissions; measured demand revenue covers a small fraction of the minted budget.","independent":{"value":"Emission budget 3,576 TAO/day (1.31M TAO/yr), derived from the on-chain TotalIssuance delta. Revenue in tiers, read 2026-10-12: settled by a third party, $0.59-3.69M/yr (OpenRouter's token series for Chutes, SN64), 0.16-1.0% of the budget; the subnets' own current figures, $19.0M/yr (Lium's September billing, corroborated by its on-chain provider payouts, plus Chutes' list-price usage and Bitcast's dashboard), 5.2%; adding Targon's year-old $10.4M claim, a generous ceiling of $29.4M/yr, 8.0%. Chutes' measured token volume is down 73% since January. Participant rewards are overwhelmingly inflation-funded on every tier.","source":"Emission budget derived on-chain (Subtensor finney TotalIssuance delta); measured leg from OpenRouter's per-model token series for Chutes; self-published legs from Lium's and Chutes' own APIs; Lium's payouts from our read of SN51 StakeTransferred events; computed output src/data/bittensor-subnet-revenue.json"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"lium_payouts_match_billing","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Lium's daily provider payouts on chain match the gross billing it publishes, so its self-reported revenue is backed by money that actually left the subnet.","independent":{"value":"Lium reported $1,295,273 of billing for September 2026 ($15.5M/yr), and the in-month figure to 7 October was $288,131. Its payer coldkey's SN51 stake transfers at the documented 17:00 UTC payout averaged 136 TAO/day across 7/7 days in early October, which at that run's TAO price and the documented 95% provider share implied $15.9M/yr, within 3% of the reported figure. Re-read 2026-10-18, payouts averaged 178 TAO/day across 7/7 days, implying $19.3M/yr; Lium's billing feed has returned HTTP 403 since 7 October, so the October billing it should match cannot be read. Monthly billing grew 1.41x from August to September, so the higher payout run-rate fits continued growth, but it is not yet reconciled. Lium's monthly billing was $437,737 in September 2025, so 3.0x year on year.","source":"Subtensor finney archive node, SN51 StakeTransferred events (our read); lium.io/api/billing/revenue-for-validators (Lium's own figure, tested); docs.lium.io/providers/rewards (95% share, 17:00 UTC schedule); computed output src/data/lium.json"},"assessed_date":"2026-10-06","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"lium_payouts_funded_by_emission","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Lium pays its providers' rental share from SN51 emission routed to its own payout key, and spends renter TAO buying and burning SN51 alpha.","independent":{"value":"Lium's validator config routes every burn slot to UID 47 ('All burn emission slots route to UID 47 (Datura payout key)', expected coldkey 5G694c15…), and on chain UID 47 is owned by the payout coldkey and takes most of SN51's miner incentive (82.8% on the 12 October read, 77.5% on 6 October, moving with the unrented share). That coldkey's SN51 stake rises each tempo and falls at the 17:00 UTC payout, so the provider share is paid from emission. Small TAO transfers from many wallets reach the owner coldkey 5FqACM…, which bought and burned SN51 alpha with 3,737.7 TAO (9 Sep 2026), 701.0 TAO (18 Sep) and 1,230.5 TAO (25 Sep), and none since to 12 October. The 30-day burn total therefore fell from 5,669 to 1,931.5 TAO as the 9 September burn left the window, while 2,887.8 TAO of inflow sat in the owner's balance (250 to 1,206 TAO), enough to buy back about 45% of the alpha routed to the payout key.","source":"Subtensor finney archive node (SN51 metagraph incentive; payout coldkey stake sampled hourly; owner coldkey StakeAdded + AlphaBurned events); github.com/Datura-ai/lium-io neurons/validators/src/core/config.py (commit 6b91718, 2026-10-06); docs.lium.io/providers/rewards/emission (pool described as burn); computed output src/data/lium.json"},"assessed_date":"2026-10-06","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"liquidity_depth","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"TAO trades across a broad set of exchanges, led by KuCoin, Binance and WhiteBIT.","independent":{"value":"72 tickers on CoinGecko, re-read 2026-09-24 (82 on 2026-09-18, when KuCoin, Binance and WhiteBIT led 24-hour volume).","source":"CoinGecko (tickers + market_data), 2026-08-09"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"thesis_largest_network","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Bittensor is a live network with 129 subnets registered on-chain.","independent":{"value":"129 subnets registered on-chain, read from the Subtensor finney subnet set.","source":"Subtensor on-chain subnet set"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"thesis_decentralisation","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Control over Bittensor's chain is centralised: one sudo key dispatches privileged operations and blocks come from authority nodes.","independent":{"value":"Read off the runtime on 2026-09-18 (block 9,088,526): finney carries 28 pallets and none of them is a Triumvirate, Senate, Collective, Council, Democracy or membership pallet, while Sudo.Key holds 5DcSqBNqCmfdJZRGFSwwcRb2dZdJHZuKK8Tb1Gx8gbmF5E8s. Privileged operations, runtime upgrades included, dispatch through that key. On 2026-09-25 the chain showed that key is a 2-of-3 multisig: the address derives from signers 5GRCukV2rZmSVfJhAXoLjcrU1pMVCf2Ra1ydbiCFZdaQXDXo, 5E7RCRrPVS8TckCDjr92B5ciGziwz2kfvxe4URy3L7AgirGJ and 5FevFjov8435t5XC2MUSRpFYxtthE8pZy1toHpgAAia3ZphG at threshold 2, and the spec 468 setCode at block 9,117,748 executed through it with two approvals (via a Proxy.proxy from a 2-of-2 multisig that includes the sudo key itself). Bittensor's own validator documentation names the signers as Rao Foundation, which we record as their statement, since the chain shows accounts, not who holds them. Block production remains authority-based, and OTF has used a root override before (SN28). Stake is heavily captured per subnet: the median covered subnet has one coldkey holding 57.26% of its stake and 10 of 15 have an outright majority holder. dTAO added market allocation of emissions, and root control did not move with it.","source":"Subtensor finney runtime + metagraphs, read 2026-09-18"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"thesis_demand_funded","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Emissions fund the overwhelming majority of subnet participant rewards, even with every self-reported revenue figure added.","independent":{"value":"The network mints 3,573 TAO/day (1.30M TAO/yr) to pay participants, derived on-chain, about $397M/yr at the run's TAO price. Revenue a third party settles is $0.85-5.19M/yr. The subnets' own current figures sum to $18.8M/yr (4.7%), most of it Lium, whose billing its on-chain payouts corroborate. Even with Targon's stale claim added, $29.2M/yr (7.4%): emissions fund the overwhelming majority of participant rewards.","source":"Emission budget derived on-chain (Subtensor finney TotalIssuance delta); demand revenue from OpenRouter's published per-model token series for the Chutes provider, priced at Chutes' own listed OpenRouter rates; computed output src/data/bittensor-subnet-revenue.json"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"high"},{"metric":"thesis_fair_hard_capped","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"The number of new TAO created each year is automatically halved over time until issuance halts completely with a total of 21 million TAO in existence.","source_url":"https://blog.bittensor.com/tao-token-economy-explained-17a3a90cd44e","archive_url":null,"date":"2023-09-20"},"reported":{"value":"Halving issuance, 21 million TAO total","source":"Opentensor Foundation blog, TAO Token Economy Explained (20 September 2023)","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"21,000,000 hard cap, with 11,525,470 TAO issued as at 2026-09-18, 54.88% of it. Read from SubtensorModule.TotalIssuance and cross-checked against Balances.TotalIssuance, which agree. Issuance is mining-only, with no sale or pre-mine tranche; the first halving occurred in December 2025.","source":"CoinGecko + emission model + allocation, 2026-08-09"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"emission_allocation_mechanism","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"claim","verdict":"match","claim_holds_up":true,"claim":{"quote":"Each subnet's share of the TAO block emission is proportional to: root_proportion_i * price_i * (1 - miner_burned_i) normalized over emit-enabled subnets","source_url":"https://github.com/opentensor/subtensor/pull/2781","archive_url":null,"date":"2026-06-22"},"reported":{"value":"Subnet emission share proportional to root_proportion x moving price x (1 - miner_burned), replacing the TAO-flow method","source":"Subtensor PR #2781, Price-based emissions with miner-burn scaling, merged 2026-06-22","self_reported":null},"independent":{"value":"Read at runtime spec 454 and re-checked 2026-09-18: the chain is now on spec 466, so the source this finding was read from has been superseded by at least one upgrade. The finding itself is unchanged and is now WIRED to the spec version, which is the only cheap signal that the function it rests on may have moved. Code diff (pallets/subtensor/src/coinbase/subnet_emissions.rs) confirms get_shares() switched from get_shares_flow() (net-flow / Tao Flow) to get_shares_price_ema() weighted by root_proportion * (1 - miner_burned) and renormalized, i.e. effective emission proportional to root_proportion_i * moving_price_i * (1 - miner_burned_i); the prior price-EMA path was un-deprecated. Live on finney mainnet: runtime specVersion 440 at block 8760464 (2026-08-03) contains the PR #2781 merge commit 6016381e (ancestor of the v440 release tag, ahead_by=0 = contained and not reverted; first shipped in spec 422 / v3.4.7-422 on 2026-06-23). On-chain emission share resolvable as price-weighted (moving_price) across 128 subnets; top-10 = 39.70% (corroborating, consistent with the price-based path).","source":"GitHub PR #2781 code diff (subnet_emissions.rs, read directly); Subtensor finney mainnet via the bittensor SDK (get_all_metagraphs_info + runtime spec_version), block 8760464; GitHub compare API commit-ancestry check (v440 vs 6016381e)."},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"},{"metric":"network_emission_concentration","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"The ten largest subnets take roughly two-fifths of network emissions.","independent":{"value":"Top-10 subnets take 40.05% of emissions on the chain read, up from 33.2% at an earlier read.","source":"Subtensor mainnet, price-weighted emission share, block 8362435 (2026-06-08)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"medium"},{"metric":"chain_tvl","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","record_type":"finding","verdict":"established","claim_holds_up":false,"finding":"Capital in DeFi on the Subtensor chain is largely subnet-token liquidity.","independent":{"value":"$530,508,929 of DeFi TVL on the Bittensor chain, re-read 2026-10-20 as our sum of DeFiLlama's per-protocol Bittensor TVL (Bittensor dTAO about 90% of it, Chutes most of the rest; CEX and bridge entries excluded). DeFiLlama's own chain total for Bittensor now reads $0 and the chain has left /v2/chains, so the published chain figure is unusable. $618,984,441 on 2026-09-29; the step from about $47M to $514M on 19 September was DeFiLlama adding the 'Bittensor dTAO' protocol (subnet-pool liquidity), not new capital.","source":"DeFiLlama /protocols (chainTvls.Bittensor, summed by us)"},"assessed_date":"2026-09-24","severity":"info"}],"facts":[{"metric":"stake_concentration_sn3_templar","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"concentration","positive_control":false,"severity":"high","detail":"Templar (SN3) alpha stake is 95.6% held by a single coldkey (top-5 = 100%), with only 2 validators. Incontestable on-chain fact, block 8362435.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"},{"metric":"stake_concentration_sn4_targon","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"concentration","positive_control":false,"severity":"high","detail":"Targon (SN4) 88.3% held by one non-owner coldkey; 6 validators. On-chain, block 8362435.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"},{"metric":"owner_self_capture_cluster","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"concentration","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"Six of 15 subnets have the owner coldkey holding the plurality/majority of their own subnet's alpha stake: Metanova 76.8%, TAOHash 75.3%, Affine 67.3%, Hippius 61.9%, Synth 61.4%, Nineteen 51.6%. Owner self-stake means these owners earn validator dividends in addition to the 18% owner take. The dividend accrual is mechanical and follows from holding stake regardless of intent. High owner self-stake is consistent with both extractive self-capture and genuine owner bonding to their own subnet; the chain settles the stake share, not the motive.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"},{"metric":"distributed_subnets_positive_control","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"measured","flag":"concentration","positive_control":true,"severity":"info","detail":"Positive controls, recorded with equal weight to the capture findings: Ridges (SN62) 29.1% and Score/SIRE (SN44) 29.2% top-1 coldkey, near-zero owner self-stake - the most distributed validator bases in scope. Not every subnet is captured.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"},{"metric":"subnet_output","assessment_level":"onchain-reconciled","kind":"limit","flag":"unmeasurable","positive_control":false,"severity":"medium","detail":"Whether a subnet produces genuinely useful off-chain AI work cannot be verified on-chain; the chain records emission, stake and weights, not service quality. Emission capture is settleable; 'real work' is not.","assessed_date":"2026-06-08"}]}}