- Free allowance
- Permissionless GPU network of 128 subnets where a subnet slot is bought by burning TAO: the cost is 'potentially thousands of TAO', doubles after each registration, decays linearly, and 'becomes the new subnet's initial TAO pool reserve, a sunk cost, not a refundable deposit'.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThere is no free lane: a subnet slot costs 605.7 TAO at the 2026-10-22 chain state, and mining needs a GPU a user does not own, so capital fails before identity does.
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Permissionless GPU network of 128 subnets where a subnet slot is bought by burning TAO: the cost is 'potentially thousands of TAO', doubles after each registration, decays linearly, and 'becomes the new subnet's initial TAO pool reserve, a sunk cost, not a refundable deposit'. Miner registration is separate and clamped between 0.0005 TAO and 100 TAO per subnet. unit none; metered on wall-clock; kind not stated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) There is no free lane: a subnet slot costs 605.7 TAO at the 2026-10-22 chain state, and mining needs a GPU a user does not own, so capital fails before identity does. source
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| Identity | card not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | A rented GPU pointed at an uncontested subnet is the only route without owned hardware: the burn is then 0.0005 TAO, but emission depends on that subnet's incentive mechanism, which varies per subnet and is not published in one place. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | 605.7 TAO at USD 256.94 is USD 155,629 for one subnet slot; the maximum miner burn of 100 TAO is USD 25,694 on the most contested subnet. The registration cost is a third-party chain read rather than a vendor page, so the dollar figure rests on a dashboard plus a price quote. Per-subnet emission rates were not read. |
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