Designing, operating, and improving 5 subnets is challenging to say the least. But it also yields valuable insights about building on the Bittensor eocystem.
Will Squires and Steffen Cruz, co-founders of Macrocosmos, spoke with Ventura Labs to share what they’ve learned about incentives, network design, and intelligence itself.
Timestamps:
0:37 - Introduction
1:23 - Incentive Mechanism Design
5:19 - Balancing Determinism and Innovation
8:31 - Incentivizing Collaboration Among Miners
15:48 - Distribution Curve for Emissions
21:56 - Reusable Incentive Mechanisms
26:18 - Dynamic Desirability
31:58 - Foundation for Subnets
35:32 - Synthetics vs. Organics
39:48 - Freedom within Validation
51:35 - Benchmarking Era
57:39 - Advice for Developers
Watch: Co-founders Will and Steffen speak on Ventura Labs' podcast