Subnet MetricsIssue 412 October 2026

The week on chain

The week’s most interesting result is Almanac: it led verified burns at 143 TAO while falling -12.9%, showing that a leading burn total can coexist with a substantial price decline. Across 128 subnets, returns ranged from Unknown’s +438.0% to Beam’s -19.1%, while the top5 held 33.6% of market cap. Direct chain reads verified 443 TAO in burns across 10 subnets; buyback claims alone do not establish burning. If this pattern continued, holders allocating across subnets would face sharply divergent returns, and verified burns would remain insufficient on their own to explain price performance.

Panel depth
594
Subnets
128
Burned this week
443τ
Top-5 share
33.6%
Median root prop
0.156
Finding 01 · Verified burns

Verified alpha burns

Indexed AlphaBurned and AlphaRecycled outcomes this week: 40,970 α ≈ 443.3τ across 10 subnets. Actual emitted alpha amounts; TAO values use panel prices.

SubnetNameα burnedτ valueUSDBurnsWallets
SN41Almanac19,450143.4τ–11
SN8Vanta3,623106.4τ–1561
SN53engy1,96477.8τ–11
SN11TrajectoryRL8,45064.3τ–16966
SN62Ridges2,08319.6τ–109189
SN33ReadyAI4,62216.5τ–11
SN80OpenRoboto3037.8τ–3614
SN90KubeTEE3095.8τ–41
SN34BitMind1241.5τ–33
SN46Instant420.2τ–21
Alpha valued at the panel's latest price for that subnet. Actual emitted burn/recycle amounts are used, including combined buy-and-burn operations; requested amounts are not used.

Where the 16 published buyback claims stand. 10 show on-chain evidence in the last 30 days and 6 show nothing the method can see. Unverified, not false: alpha bought and held, or bought from an unpublished wallet, leaves no trace here.

SubnetNameα burned this week30-day trail
SN41Almanac19,450A2 · B1/B2 · C3
SN33ReadyAI4,622A2 · B1/B2 · C3
SN8Vanta3,623A4 · B1/B2 · C3
SN53engy1,964A2 · B1/B2 · C3
SN34BitMind124A2 · B1/B2 · C3
SN4Targon0A1 · B3 · C3
SN19blockmachine0A4 · B1/B2 · C3
SN51lium.io0A2 · B1/B2 · C3
SN93Bitcast0A1 · B1/B2 · C3
SN110Green Compute0A1 · B3 · C3
SN21AdTAO0A4 · C3
SN50Synth0A4 · C3
SN54Yanez0A4 · C3
SN56Gradients0A4 · C3
SN64Chutes0A4 · C3
SN118Ditto0A4 · C3
A: how the alpha was acquired. B: what happened to it. C: where the funding came from, cited and never verified. A4 with no B is no on-chain evidence, not zero. The classification.
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 33.6% of subnet market cap and the ten largest 48.6%. Over the last 90 days the top-5 share moved +4.8% (from 28.8% on 2026-07-05) and the top-10 share +6.0%.

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 0.156, -0.017 against 0.173 on 2026-07-05. 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)
SN82+438.0%3,393τ
SN116+333.0%6,729τ
SN58+72.0%7,596τ
SN21+38.4%26,788τ
SN109+29.9%4,829τ
SN105-19.1%13,944τ
SN78-18.6%5,366τ
SN87-18.0%5,907τ
SN66-13.8%15,259τ
SN41-12.9%33,540τ

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.