Crypto’s other halving: Bittensor’s first 4-year cycle seen as ‘maturation’ milestone
Bittensor’s first token halving arrives Dec. 14, cutting TAO issuance in half as the AI-focused network adopts a Bitcoin-style fixed supply model.
With Bitcoin now in its fourth quadrennial halving, other decentralized projects have adopted similar supply-cut cycles — and Bittensor is approaching its first since launching in 2021.
Bittensor, a decentralized, open-source machine-learning network built around specialized “subnets” that incentivize marketplaces for AI services, is expected to undergo its inaugural halving on or around Dec. 14. At that point, issuance of its native token, TAO (TAO), will drop to 3,600 per day from the current 7,200.
Grayscale Research analyst William Ogden Moore called the event a “key milestone in the network’s maturation as it progresses toward its 21 million token supply cap,” matching Bitcoin’s (BTC) fixed limit.
