Bittensor co-founder: Covenant AI founder betrays the community, plans to introduce staking and restart related subnets.

According to Foresight News , Bittensor founder Jacob Robert Steeves responded to the recent actions of Covenant founder Samuel Dare, apologizing to investors who suffered losses and stating that Covenant AI's actions betrayed TAO holders and subnet participants. To address such risks and measure the team's commitment, Bittensor plans to introduce a protocol-layer feature called "staking," which measures the developer's long-term commitment through a combination of time and staking, increasing transparency to protect investors. Furthermore, for the affected subnets 3, 39, and 81, the miner community and former Covenant members are currently working to restart them using open-source code, with the vision remaining unchanged. A public meeting is planned for next Thursday on the Bittensor Discord channel to discuss the design and gather feedback. He emphasized that Bittensor aims to become a decentralized AI protocol and will continue to train a model with 1 trillion parameters.