Comparative analysis
Subnet 69 vs Buttnet 69
Bittensor already has a Subnet 69. It's called Herald, and it "only pays for genuine media coverage". We felt the ecosystem deserved to know how the two compare.
| Subnet 69 — Herald | Buttnet 69 — $BUTT69 | |
|---|---|---|
| Chain | Bittensor | Solana, paired with TAO |
| Purpose | An on-chain marketplace that only pays for genuine media coverage | Only pays for genuine holding |
| Miners | Journalists, publishers, people who write things | Traders. Thank you for your service. |
| Validators | Score the coverage | Hold the bag |
| Work required | Produce verifiable, genuine coverage | Sit |
| Emissions | SN69 alpha, from TAO emissions to the subnet | TAO, from a 3% tax on every transfer |
| Emission schedule | Every block, per the dTAO mechanism | Whenever the platform runs a cycle, historically about hourly |
| Registration | Burn TAO to register a hotkey; wait out the immunity period | Buy the token. There is no immunity period. No risk to your bag. Some risk to your butt. |
| Deregistration | Fall to the bottom of emissions and get pruned | Sell. That's it. That's deregistration. |
| Subnet owner | The Herald team | A bottom-weight visionary |
| Owner take | 18% of subnet emissions, per protocol | 0%. |
| Consensus | Yuma consensus | Yeah consensus. Everyone agrees the number is funny. |
| Roadmap | Presumably | Traders mine. Holders validate. Emissions in TAO. |
| Media coverage | Paid for, if genuine | Free, if funny |
| Affiliation | With Bittensor, formally | With nobody. |
| Whitepaper | Probably good | ehhh… |
Disclosure
Herald is a real subnet run by real people who have nothing to do with this. Everything in the left column is drawn from public descriptions of what it does and from how Bittensor subnets work in general. If any of it is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it. If any of it is funny, that was us.
Conclusion
Both subnets pay for something genuine. One of them requires you to write. The other requires you to not sell. We leave it to the reader to decide which is harder.