Overview
- The scheduled halving cuts rewards from 1 to 0.5 TAO per block and reduces new issuance to about 3,600 TAO a day as the protocol advances toward a 21 million cap.
- TAO has shown a price reaction, including an 11% rise reported this week, and recently traded around the $300 level.
- The ecosystem features about 129 active subnets offering services such as compute, inference, AI agents, and deepfake detection, according to Taostats.
- Investment structures like dTAO have opened direct exposure to subnet performance as funds from Yuma Asset Management and Stillcore Capital launched and public treasuries emerged, including TAO Synergies with roughly $12 million in TAO.
- Reported subnet valuations vary widely, with CoinGecko tallying over 100 subnets above $850 million in market cap versus Taostats’ roughly $3 billion estimate for 129 subnets.