Mark & Siam clear the rumour mill: they have helped broker Subnet 71 for a new team (funding + intros + “stabilisers”), official comms coming from the team soon.

Guest Sam (Subnet 10) then lays out SN10’s mission: kill the onboarding friction. Today, a typical newcomer wrestles with wallets, TAO, bridges, and hours of steps. SN10’s cross-chain swap fixes that.

In a live Revenue Search special, Shak (Ridges) explains how they’ll shift incentives from benchmarks to real user impact: the product itself will decide who earns emissions. Ridges V1 ships as a Cursor/VS Code extension on Oct 30, 2025, priced around $12/mo (with an opt-in data tier near $8).

Under the hood, validators still run SWEBench/Polyglot, but an additional step silently swaps in challenger agents for a slice of users; miners get paid only if those users accept more suggestions, need fewer fixes, and stay engaged.

Recent mixed-set scores dropped from ~88% to ~17–18% when Polyglot was added, then rebounded to ~41% by Oct 6—evidence, Shaq says, that iteration speed is their edge. A full platform rewrite lands this week (stability, parallel evals, dual-sandbox on device, limited internet excluding benchmark content) and USD payouts are returning to attract company-scale competitors.

Goal: grow users fast, reach revenue > emissions (targeting by January) to both disincentivize gaming and potentially fund buybacks—while remaining far cheaper than rivals.

In this episode, Revenue Search digs into Subnet 41’s Sportstensor with Leo and Stephen (Neuromancer).

Hosted by Mark and Siam, this episode unpacks how their new mechanism rewards only winning, conviction-backed flow routed to prediction markets. They lay out a Polymarket partnership where Sportstensor builds a layer on top and charges a 1% fee on traded volume, using those fees to buy back alpha and, if needed, burn it. The incentive design is anti dilutive - miners never receive more in alpha than the fees generated by their qualified volume. The team cites real results from last year’s models, plus how they previously pushed roughly half a million dollars of volume to Polymarket. Expect plain talk on guard rails, why tiny or reckless bets do not count, and why opening mining to skilled traders beyond Bittensor matters. It is a candid strategy session on aligning incentives with truth seeking markets.

• NBA season result cited: 14% ROI, with MLB averaging about 5 - 6% ROI
• Partnership detail: route trades to Polymarket, charge 1% on volume, fees fund alpha buybacks and burns
• Mechanism claim: anti dilutive payouts capped by fees, with proof over promises and skin in the game only