SOMA
OwningSubnet 114
SOMA is a Bittensor subnet built by Dendrite that compresses context and chain-of-thought before they reach the model, reducing token usage while preserving output quality.
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About
We Are Building Across Bittensor
We mine across Bittensor, operate our own subnet and help you build yours. Each network we work on deepens the engineering experience we bring to the next.
Let's build your subnet“In the way that the internet was the world wide web of information, Bittensor is creating the world wide web of intelligence”
Barry Silbert, Founder & CEO of Digital Currency Group (AUM ~$45B)
Bittensor
The Bittensor Ecosystem
Bittensor is a decentralized protocol that turns artificial intelligence into a global commodity, replacing centralized control with an open marketplace for building and trading AI resources permissionlessly.
It scales through specialized subnets - independent networks dedicated to specific AI tasks, where miners contribute algorithms and compute while validators ensure quality to earn performance-based rewards.
Inspired by Bitcoin, the TAO token has a fixed 21 million supply cap and no pre-mine, distributing ownership strictly through value creation.
SOMA
SOMA subneta compression layer for AI agents and LLMs
Dendrite is building SOMA, a Bittensor subnet that compresses context and chain-of-thought before they reach the model - fewer tokens in, the same output quality out. AI teams today pay for repeated context, not better intelligence.
Access is open and production-grade: a free API key, a public dashboard for tracking savings, open-source code on GitHub, and ready-made tools such as SOMARIZER for document summarization.
Problem
When a measure becomes a target,it ceases to be a good measure.
Goodhart's Law
- 1. Network pays for the fix
- 2. Miner solves the problem
- 3. Miner gets paid
- 4. Miner creates another problem
AI commodities
Setting the Standardfor AI Commodity Production
- Inception Date
- Q3 2022
- Total TAO Generated
- 150k+
Inception Date
Total TAO Generated
Subnets We’ve Worked On
Teutonic
DevelopingSubnet 3
Teutonic is a decentralized pretraining platform that runs a king-of-the-hill competition where miners train large language model checkpoints and compete to produce the single best model on the subnet.
Albedo
DevelopingSubnet 97
Albedo is a trajectory-distillation king-of-the-hill Bittensor subnet
Conjectures
DevelopingSubnet 66
Conjectures rewards solvers for tackling open mathematical problems with AI and other tools. Proofs are verified in Lean and reviewed before bounties are paid.
RidgesAI
MinedSubnet 62
Decentralized platform where open-source AI agents compete to solve real-world software engineering tasks, with top performers winning daily cash prizes.
404-GEN
MinedSubnet 17
404-GEN provide a platform to accelerate the creation of 3D assets, ultimately empowering creators of all skill levels to build immersive virtual worlds, games, and AR/VR/XR experiences.
Zeus
MinedSubnet 18
Zeus provides low latency, high performance weather forecasts via a secure and robust decentralized system designed for seamless integration.
Numinous
MinedSubnet 6
Numinous is a decentralized self improving forecasting network whose goal is to aggregate agents into superhuman LLM forecasters.
Gaia
MinedSubnet ex-57
Gaia harnesses AI and decentralized networks to deliver next-generation geophysical forecasting, enabling accurate, transparent, and collaborative predictions.
Our story
Future core team behind Dendrite meet in high school in 2015. Since late 2022, it has grown from a small mining setup into one of the largest and most specialized operators within the Bittensor network.
2015
The future core team met in high school, laying the foundation for what would become Dendrite.
2017
Expansion of high-performance cryptocurrency mining infrastructure (Ethereum).
2022
Strategic pivot to Decentralized AI. Dendrite enters the Bittensor ecosystem, identifying it as the future of machine intelligence.
2023
Acquisition of the first subnet slot for BitTranslate. The core team expands to 8 specialists.
2024
Rapid scaling of operations to support simultaneous deployment across multiple subnets. The team grows to nearly 40 engineers.
2025
The team is expanding to 50+ experts as Dendrite begins developing its own subnet - SOMA SN114.
2026
The official launch of SOMA SN114 and the co-creation of the Teutonic SN3, Conjectures SN66, and Albedo SN97.
Testimonials
Trusted byEcosystem Builders
“The Dendrite team has been an incredible partner in building Conjectures from the ground up. They've shaped the subnet's design and turned ambitious ideas into working systems fast, staying flexible as the project and our goals evolved. I don't think we could have moved at this pace without them.”
“The Dendrite team bring a rare mix of talent, professionalism, and integrity. As a subnet, we value miners that operate as true partners, and consistently think about what’s best for the subnet long term. Their contributions have improved our incentive design, advanced our product through state of the art 3D AI work shared openly with the community, and they approach everything with the broader Bittensor ecosystem in mind - exactly the kind of team you want building alongside you.”
“It’s amazing to see a team excel in so many areas including weather forecasting, and the Dendrite team has been incredibly helpful with their input on Zeus. Personally, I really appreciate working together with them”
Geardici
Founder of Gaia ex-SN57
“The Dendrite team have been incredibly helpful and active participants of our subnet, contributing bugfixes, optimization ideas, and consistently helpful feedback as we iterate through many prototypes. We really appreciate teams like these, they take a collaborative approach to subnet development where many do not”
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