Subnet MetricsIssue 328 September 2026

The week on chain

Across 128 subnets, the week was sharply dispersed: “for sale” led at +58.4%, while Prometheon fell -42.9%. SOMA gained +29.8% and RedTeam lost -34.2%, reinforcing the uneven picture. The top five held 32.5% of value and the top 10 held 48.0%, with median root proportion at 0.16. The most interesting finding is zero verified burns despite 16 subnets claiming buybacks on register, while only 11 had on-chain evidence within 30 days. If that gap persists, allocators will need to distinguish stated mechanisms from transactions visible on-chain.

Panel depth
582
Subnets
128
Burned this week
0τ
Top-5 share
32.5%
Median root prop
0.16
Finding 01 · Verified burns

Verified alpha burns: none this week

No indexed AlphaBurned or AlphaRecycled event was found in the window.

Alpha burned per day, valued in τ
Indexed AlphaBurned and AlphaRecycled event outcomes, by UTC day, over the last 90 panel days. Each subnet's alpha is valued at the panel's latest price for that subnet, so the height is comparable across days at today's prices, not the price on the day.
Finding 02 · Concentration

Where subnet value sits

The five largest subnets hold 32.5% of subnet market cap and the ten largest 48.0%. Over the last 90 days the top-5 share moved +3.2% (from 29.3% on 2026-06-23) and the top-10 share +4.4%.

Top 5 shareTop 10 share
Share of total subnet market cap (root excluded) held by the five and ten largest subnets, one reading per panel day.
Finding 03 · Root

How much of validation still comes from root

The median subnet's root proportion is 0.16, -0.013 against 0.173 on 2026-06-23. Root proportion is the share of a subnet's stake weight that comes from root (netuid 0) rather than its own alpha; as it falls, the subnet's own token carries more of its validation.

Median root proportion
The median across all subnets of the root share of stake weight, one reading per panel day.
Finding 04 · Movers

Biggest movers

Market-cap change over the week, excluding subnets under 2,000τ where a large percentage move carries no information.

Subnet7dMarket cap (τ)
SN112+58.4%11,382τ
SN114+29.8%30,162τ
SN66+26.7%16,384τ
SN41+19.3%26,387τ
SN126+15.1%6,826τ
SN108-42.9%2,578τ
SN61-34.2%57,256τ
SN78-34.0%3,899τ
SN93-26.8%72,964τ
SN90-24.8%9,313τ

How these numbers are made

One snapshot per day, unbroken since dTAO opened, plus a direct chain read of owner wallets for the buyback figures. Nothing here is estimated, modelled or sourced from a disclosure. It is what the chain showed. Where a figure has a known limit, the limit is stated next to it rather than in a footnote.