Exploit Summit
@ExploitSummit
Bittensor's Native Conference.
September 28-29, 2026.
New City Gas, Montreal, Canada.
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If you’ve wondered what “mining Bittensor” actually means, this is your session - just before Day 2 of Exploit begins.
@hunter_tensor + @hux_dendrite of @DendriteHQ take you step-by-step through choosing a subnet, understanding what validators reward, the hardware + setup involved, and getting started.
Hubert has mined across 15 subnets; Dendrite has been building on Bittensor since 2022. Get ready:
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Every AI model you use forgets you the moment you leave.
At #Exploit#, @peytonspencer of @heydittoai explains why memory should belong to the user - not the lab - how SN118 makes persistent agent memory portable across models, and what they’re announcing next for Bittensor 🔥
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Exploit doesn’t start with the first keynote - and it doesn’t end when the stages close.
We’ve got a full run of side events across Montréal: community drinks + quiz night, beginner sessions, the Exploit party and a handful of intimate private dinners.
Some are limited capacity, so register early. Free to all Exploit ticket-holders ->
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Post-training is where frontier models get sharper - and where compute gets expensive.
At Exploit, @0xgrizzz + @RomAI__ of @reliquary_ai show how SN81 turns reinforcement learning into an open market: miners hunt for training signal, prove the work + compete to improve the next checkpoint:
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Name one other pitch competition where:
you invest in the teams
while they pitch
live on stage
...and see their fundraise fulfil in real time.
Only on #Bittensor#. Only at @ExploitSummit.
Can token and equity coexist? Is Bittensor changing too fast or too slow? Research or revenue?
Three debates worth being in the room for.
Exploit Summit. Montreal. Sept 28–29.
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Frontier-scale training has belonged to labs with giant GPU clusters. @ConnitoAI is trying to break that model.
At Exploit, @isabella618033 shows how we can turn distributed training model into a business model that we can sell to scale:
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The full Exploit lineup is now LIVE⚡
Two days of launches, live demos, adversarial debates, workshops + experiments across AI training, robotics, agents, compute, privacy and more.
New products. Hard questions. Big bets. The pioneers of distributed AI, all in one place.
See what’s coming ↓
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Two machine learning teams. One #Bittensor# subnet slot. You decide who gets it.
At pitchtensor, hosted by @bitstarterAI, two aspiring teams pitch to @macrocrux, @KeithSingery, @maxsebti, @EvanMalanga + @willobrien - then you choose the winner in a live crowdfund, online + in the room.
Live from the Exploit stage:
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300M scientific papers. Almost none are structured for machines to reason over.
@PKoellinger + @nashgambit of @DeSciClaims show how miners can extract claims + evidence, validators verify them, and incentives turn the literature into trusted, AI-ready data.
Catch them at Exploit:
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The TAO Pill is coming to Exploit.
@GordonFrayne has built one of Bittensor’s most substantive interview series - getting founders to unpack the technology, incentives + business models behind the network’s most ambitious projects.
As an official Media Partner, he’ll be interviewing Exploit speakers throughout the summit for a special run of TAO Pill episodes.
Two days. One room. A lot of conversations you won’t get anywhere else:
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AI is going to be one of the greatest social equalizer of all time and Sharif Virani is building the kind of AI infrastructure Canada aims to own.
As CEO of SPUR Innovation Center, he leads a 700,000 sq ft former @BlackBerry campus combining sovereign GPU compute, venture building + AI education.
He'll be exploring what it means to be sovereign in the age of AI, live on the Exploit stage:
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Privacy is easy to argue for. Building the infrastructure that actually delivers it is much harder.
At Exploit, @xcolwell of @urnetwork, @haitzu of @KhalaResearch + @KeithSingery of @taodotcom bring three perspectives - builder, investor/researcher + Bittensor operator - to what an open, encrypted internet needs to look like in practice:
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Four years of mining on Bittensor teaches you where the incentives break.
On the Exploit stage, @pbarbachowski of @DendriteHQ shares lessons from the move from major miner to subnet operator: what miners exploit, where teams go wrong, and what it takes to build a sustainable subnet:
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. @askyoav has been building the rails that bring #Bittensor# to a much bigger market.
As co-founder of @taodotcom, he’s helped turn #TAO# into something people can actually access + use - most recently taking canonical TAO onto @solana and opening the network to a new pool of users and liquidity.
At Exploit, he'll be representing the 'move slower' side against @0xcarro in our debate on how fast the protocol should change...
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Robotics has a flywheel problem: better robots need better data, better training + better evaluation - all feeding each other.
At Exploit, @quack_builder of @openroboto shows how Bittensor can connect that loop: from human demonstrations → open model competition → working robots in the real world:
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New to #Bittensor#? Start here.
In exactly one week, Exploit opens with Bittensor 101, led by @TAOTemplar + @mcjkula of @learnbittensor - a high-level map of how the network works, where subnets fit + how to navigate the ecosystem.
Get the foundations in place before two days of big conversations.
📅 Monday 28 September · 9–9:45am
Register here → (free to Exploit guests)
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🔉 Exploit Summit 2026 is one week away.
We’re proud to announce @SubnetSummerTAO as a livestream partner for @ExploitSummit .
We’ll be streaming the event live from the Subnet Summer X account, covering talks, debates, workshops, and live demos from New City Gas in Montréal.
We’ll also be on the ground hosting 2 podcasts at the event, bringing builders, subnet teams, and operators into the conversation as it happens.
Whether you’re in Montréal or watching from anywhere in the world, turn on notifications and stay with us for live coverage and exclusive conversations.
Break it down. Build it better.
See you at Exploit.
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The cloud asks you to trust whoever owns the machine. KubeTEE is built so you don’t have to.
At Exploit, @pamanseau of @KubeTEEAI shows how confidential Kubernetes can run AI across decentralized GPU clusters while keeping models + data hidden - even from the host:
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. @TAOTemplar has spent years making Bittensor easier to understand - from mining + dTAO to subnet mechanics.
A software developer with 15 years’ experience, he built TAOFlute and one of the ecosystem’s best-known education channels.
At Exploit, he’ll lead our Bittensor 101 session:
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