Bittensor Founder: Full Decentralization 18 Months Away
The protocol's ownership and ecosystem are already distributed, but core dev and immutability still sit with a small leadership group, and that is the gap the next 18 months are meant to close.
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The protocol's ownership and ecosystem are already distributed, but core dev and immutability still sit with a small leadership group, and that is the gap the next 18 months are meant to close.
CoinFund founder Jake Brukhman argued that decentralized AI networks are emerging as a structural counterweight to the…
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