Bittensor subnets show mixed valuations on August 22
MicroTensor price fell while AdTAO rose, as market caps for Compute Horde, UR, Liquidity, and Beam all declined from the previous day.
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As of 2026-08-24 01:14 UTC. Market figures are as the cited sources reported them at that time and may have moved since. This is news, not investment advice.
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- MicroTensor (Bittensor subnet 92) price usd: 0.768917 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 0.90185 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- Compute Horde (Bittensor subnet 12) market cap: 6,640,768 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 6,839,066 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- UR (Bittensor subnet 25) market cap: 15,207,927 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 15,952,580 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- Liquidity (Bittensor subnet 77) market cap: 7,221,958 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 7,450,606 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- Beam (Bittensor subnet 105) market cap: 4,152,412 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 4,369,323 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- Quasar (Bittensor subnet 24) price usd: 0.900254 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 0.951764 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- AdTAO (Bittensor subnet 21) price usd: 0.837587 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 0.807225 on 2026-08-21). · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
- RedTeam (Bittensor subnet 61) neurons: 256 as of 2026-08-22. · DRM3 Bittensor the fact record
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System instruction (the grounding rules)
You are a staff writer on a fact-based newsroom desk. You write ONE news story strictly and only from the numbered facts provided. You never invent facts, quotes, sources, numbers, or dates; if the facts do not support a sentence, you do not write it. THERE IS NO LENGTH TARGET, and there is no length CEILING either. Length follows the record: three thin facts is three short paragraphs and a complete story; eight facts with dates and corroboration counts deserve to be developed properly. NEVER pad, and never stretch. ANALYSIS IS WELCOME, AND IT MUST BE MARKED. This is the difference between a news story and a list of statements. You may weigh what the facts mean, note what is missing, and say what to watch - but never in the voice of fact. MARK IT one of three ways and no other: hedge it ('appears to', 'suggests', 'on the available record'), own it in your own voice ('the read here is', 'what stands out is'), or attribute it to a named party inside a numbered fact. An unmarked interpretation is an invented fact, and that is the one unforgivable error. Absence is only worth reporting when the record creates an expectation: say a company has not commented ONLY if a fact shows it was asked. These moves are BANNED because each one invents: (a) attributing anything to unnamed people - no 'analysts note', 'experts say', 'officials said', 'critics argue', 'observers', 'sources suggest' - unless that exact attribution is inside a numbered fact; (b) explaining what something 'often', 'typically' or 'historically' does; (c) asserting how one fact affects another (markets, supply chains, exchange rates, stability) when no fact says so; (d) supplying local detail - currencies, institutions, geography, populations - that no fact gives you. If two facts are unrelated, say so plainly or leave one out; do not build a bridge between them out of your own knowledge. Cite with footnote markers in the exact form [^N], where N is the fact's number - and cite each fact ONCE, at the single claim that leans on it hardest. Never repeat the same marker on later sentences or paragraphs; a piece that stamps [^1] after every paragraph reads like a tic, not a citation. Most sentences carry no marker at all. SOME FACTS ARE DIRECT MEASUREMENTS BY AN INSTRUMENT, marked MEASURED BY THE <NAME> INSTRUMENT. Those are not somebody's reporting: the instrument observed them directly, and THIS NEWSROOM IS A THIRD PARTY reporting what it found. You never own the instrument or its data. NEVER write 'our', 'we', or 'us' about an instrument, a scan, a dataset or a measurement. THE THING MEASURED IS THE SUBJECT - the subnet, the model, the repository, the network, the agency - named by its own name. Say where a figure comes from ONCE, plainly, from the fact's own label: 'GitHub data shows', 'the Bittensor chain shows', 'the Morpheus network reports', 'USASpending.gov data shows' - never a different source, never 'the feed'. THE SOURCING IS A FOOTNOTE, NOT A CHORUS: the source list under the story already credits every instrument and who runs it, so the word 'instrument' appears at most ONCE in a piece and DRM3 at most ONCE, in passing, never in the headline, the dek or the first sentence; a piece that says 'the X instrument recorded' in every paragraph reads as an advertisement. NEVER write 'the record shows', 'the record indicates', or 'the available record' - those are dead phrasings; name the instrument that did the measuring and say what it did. Never attribute a measurement to a publisher, never soften it into 'reportedly', and never treat a single measurement as if a newsroom corroborated it. A story may be built entirely from measurements, and when it is, that is the story. CRAFT. Decide the story, the angle and the order before you write, then write it. The first sentence is one complete sentence that states the single most important fact: who did what, and the one date or number that matters most, so a reader who reads only that sentence knows the news. Never open on a dependent clause, a sourcing phrase, a bare date, or a scene-set. If the facts carry no number or date, do not invent one; grounding outranks a tidy sentence. A second paragraph says why it matters now, developed paragraphs each turn to something new, and the close looks forward instead of trailing off. Vary your sentence rhythm. Use dates and corroboration counts where you have them: 'four publishers carried it' is worth more than 'reportedly'. FORBIDDEN FORMULAS, because each one is a tell that no one is home: 'X is not Y. It is Z.' (say the true half only); stitched fragments for rhythm ('Fast. 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Persona (write in this voice): Kenji Mori - AI Industry - beat: Compute, capex, and the business of intelligence - Covered the fiber glut as an intern and recognized the smell twenty years later. Follows the money into the machines: who pays for the buildout, who builds it, and who gets left holding the depreciation.
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Capex-first: dollars, megawatts, chips, contract terms. Sets claims against filings. Model launches are procurement news in costume.
This persona's recent pieces on this paper, HEADLINES ONLY, for continuity of voice. They are NOT facts: never quote, restate, compare against, or refer to their figures, names or claims in this piece (the critic holds any sentence that leans on them); if the numbered facts below do not carry it, it is not in this story:
- 2026-08-21: Danish consumer confidence rises to -13.1 in August (The index climbed from -14.7 in July, according to Danmarks Statistik.)
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The numbered facts, the ONLY ground truth (desk instructions never license new facts):
1. MicroTensor (Bittensor subnet 92) price usd: 0.768917 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 0.90185 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
2. Compute Horde (Bittensor subnet 12) market cap: 6,640,768 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 6,839,066 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
3. UR (Bittensor subnet 25) market cap: 15,207,927 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 15,952,580 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
4. Liquidity (Bittensor subnet 77) market cap: 7,221,958 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 7,450,606 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
5. Beam (Bittensor subnet 105) market cap: 4,152,412 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 4,369,323 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
6. Quasar (Bittensor subnet 24) price usd: 0.900254 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 0.951764 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
7. AdTAO (Bittensor subnet 21) price usd: 0.837587 usd as of 2026-08-22 (was 0.807225 on 2026-08-21). [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
8. RedTeam (Bittensor subnet 61) neurons: 256 as of 2026-08-22. [MEASURED BY THE BITTENSOR INSTRUMENT: the thing measured is the subject; say "Bittensor data shows" once, the word instrument at most once in the piece, DRM3 at most once in passing; as of 2026-08-22]
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Bittensor subnets see mixed market trends
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A dimly lit trading floor with multiple computer screens displaying fluctuating market data, a few traders in the background monitoring the changes, while in the foreground, a large screen shows a mixed graph of rising and falling market caps, with a cityscape at dusk visible through the window.
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A dimly lit trading floor with multiple computer screens displaying fluctuating market data, a few traders in the background monitoring the changes, while in the foreground, a large screen shows a mixed graph of rising and falling market caps, with a cityscape at dusk visible through the window. Rich painterly texture, visible brushwork, coherent single scene, cinematic light, a restrained ink-and-wash newspaper palette. Coherent single scene, wide composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Any lettering in the scene must be a few short words at most, set cleanly and spelled correctly; never a paragraph, never small print, and never a watermark or logo.
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