# RaoFoundation/bittensor

Internet-scale Neural Networks

Repository: https://github.com/RaoFoundation/bittensor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bittensor
Homepage: https://www.bittensor.com/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: neural-networks, machine-learning, p2p-network, substrate, polkadot, blockchain, cryptocurrency, ai, deep-learning, p2p, torch, pytorch
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-07-10T17:43:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 90, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2227, "days_push": 54, "days_rel": 69, "gap_med": 8.0, "n_releases_24m": 53}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1468, forks 473 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:48.955084+00:00)

## What it is
The Bittensor Python SDK and btcli CLI for interacting with the Bittensor decentralized machine intelligence network, where subnets produce digital commodities and participants are rewarded in TAO. This repository is archived; development moved to the subtensor monorepo shipping as Bittensor 11.

## Use cases
- build a subnet miner that earns TAO for machine intelligence
- run a subnet validator to score miners on the Bittensor network
- create a wallet and stake TAO from Python
- query the Bittensor blockchain for axon and subnet information
- write a decentralized commodity market on Bittensor
- interact with the Bittensor chain from the command line with btcli

## When to choose
- you want to build miners, validators, or subnets on the Bittensor network
- you need programmatic wallet, staking, and transaction operations against the Bittensor chain
- you are pinned to a legacy v10 SDK release

## When to avoid
- you want actively maintained code - this repo is archived and no longer maintained
- you need the current SDK - use the subtensor monorepo's Bittensor 11 package instead
- you want a general-purpose ML framework rather than a blockchain network SDK

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: machine-learning, deep-learning, blockchain, sdk, cli, p2p
- domain: artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, blockchain, deep-learning, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: bittensor, tao, decentralized-ai, subnets, pytorch, polkadot, substrate, archived, mining, validators, cryptocurrency, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- RaoFoundation/bittensor (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:48.955084+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:34:55.542402+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/RaoFoundation/bittensor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:48.955084+00:00, sha d1e9c6267d38)
  - homepage: https://www.bittensor.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:43:01.414343+00:00, sha 69bed7cdb15c)
  - site_page: https://www.bittensor.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T11:43:01.423280+00:00, sha 57f25ef10ea7)
  - site_page: https://www.bittensor.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:43:01.425743+00:00, sha 2770eb04a847)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.