Bittensor

aid: bittensor
name: Bittensor
description: 'Bittensor is an open, decentralized machine-intelligence network built on a Substrate blockchain (subtensor).
  Contributors earn the TAO token by supplying useful work to specialized subnets — miners produce, validators score, and
  stakers back them — with emissions distributed by Yuma Consensus. Developers do not consume a hosted REST API; they interact
  with the chain through the official lean Python SDK (import bittensor) and the btcli command line, which together perform
  every user-facing operation: wallets and keys, staking and pools, subnet creation, mining, validating, weights, proxies,
  multisig, and an EVM layer. The developer surface is agent-native: machine-readable catalogs of write intents, chain reads,
  and errors are published for discovery, with a plan/execute model, Policy guardrails, and typed results.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bittensor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- polychain
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://github.com/opentensor.png
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Blockchain
- Decentralized AI
- Machine Learning
- Cryptocurrency
- Web3
- SDK
- CLI
- DePIN
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai
- Blockchain
- Decentralized AI
- Machine Learning
- Cryptocurrency
- Web3
- SDK
- CLI
- DePIN
- Machine-Learning
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Bittensor Chain SDK & CLI
  description: 'The unified Bittensor v11 package — a lean Python SDK (import bittensor) plus the btcli command line — for
    every operation on the subtensor Substrate chain: reading chain state and submitting state-changing transactions (staking,
    registration, weights, subnets, proxies, multisig) against a mainnet or testnet RPC entrypoint.'
  humanURL: https://www.bittensor.com/docs
  baseURL: wss://entrypoint-finney.opentensor.ai:443
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs/quickstart
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs/tx
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/bittensor-llms.txt
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bittensor-error-codes.yml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/bittensor-mcp.yml
    note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list
      derived from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported
      mcp_server correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
  - type: Packages
    url: packages/bittensor-packages.yml
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/bittensor-packages.yml
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/bittensor-cli.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bittensor-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bittensor-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bittensor-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bittensor-conformance.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bittensor-data-model.yml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/bittensor-agentic-access.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://bittensor.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs/quickstart
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.bittensor.com/docs/tx
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/opentensor
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bittensor.com/releases
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bittensor-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bittensor-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/bittensor-cli.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/bittensor-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bittensor-llms.txt
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bittensor-error-codes.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bittensor-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bittensor-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bittensor-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bittensor-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bittensor-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bittensor-domain-security.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/bittensor-data-model.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bittensor-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence