# Into: VoidAI VoidAI wants to plug Bittensor's alpha tokens into Solana's deeper DeFi pools, paying miners to keep that cross-chain liquidity flowing. Right now the subnet's own chain readings show that engine mostly idling. // Bittensor liquidity, bridged to Solana --- > New to Bittensor? Start here. Experienced users can skip to the full analysis. ### What is VoidAI? VoidAI (SN106) is a Bittensor subnet built around moving liquidity between Bittensor and other chains, mainly Solana. Per its repository, the design rewards people for supplying concentrated liquidity to wrapped-alpha and wrapped-TAO trading pairs on Solana, so Bittensor's subnet tokens can trade inside a much larger DeFi market. **The simple version:** It is like building currency-exchange booths between two countries, then paying the people who keep those booths well stocked. Here the countries are Bittensor and Solana, and the currencies are wrapped versions of TAO and subnet alpha tokens. **Centralized equivalent:** A cross-chain bridge paired with a liquidity-incentive program, similar to what a centralized exchange market-making desk or a bridge like Wormhole would run, but coordinated through a Bittensor subnet. **How it works:** - **Miners** bridge TAO and alpha tokens to Solana, provide concentrated liquidity to wAlpha/wTAO pairs on Raydium, stake the resulting position NFT, and earn based on how tight and well-placed the position is (per the SN106 README). - **Validators** fetch the staked liquidity positions, score them on concentration and proximity to the current market price, and set weights roughly every 20 minutes (per the SN106 README). --- ### Why This Matters - **The problem it solves:** Bittensor alpha tokens mostly trade inside each subnet's own AMM pool, which can be thin. Routing them onto Solana's deeper venues could widen access and improve liquidity for subnet tokens. - **The opportunity:** Cross-chain liquidity for an ecosystem of well over a hundred subnets, each with its own alpha token, is a real gap if it can be made to work safely. - **The Bittensor advantage:** Incentivizing liquidity provision permissionlessly through emissions, rather than paying a single central market maker, is the kind of coordination Bittensor is built for. - **Traction signals:** Be honest here. As of June 2026, TaoSwap shows the subnet at 0% emission share with no active miners, and the public repo's most recent changes route validator weight away from miners. Live participation looks minimal right now, so the design is clearer than the current on-chain activity. --- ## Full Analysis **Category:** Other (Cross-Chain Liquidity and DeFi Infrastructure) | **Centralized Competitor:** Wormhole, centralized exchange market-making desks Bittensor's dynamic TAO model gave every subnet its own alpha token and AMM pool, but those pools live entirely inside Bittensor. VoidAI's premise is that alpha and TAO become more useful if they can also move onto chains like Solana, where deeper DeFi infrastructure already exists. The subnet's on-chain description frames this as multi-chain interoperability, and the repository describes the concrete first step: a wAlpha/wTAO liquidity market on Solana. **Mechanism:** According to the SN106 README, miners bridge TAO and alpha to Solana through a VoidAI bridge, supply concentrated liquidity to wAlpha/wTAO pairs on Raydium's CLMM, and stake the position NFT to an SN106 contract. Validators pull those positions, score them on concentration, price proximity, and size, and submit weights to Bittensor roughly every 20 minutes. The README also lists Ethereum and Base support as coming soon, so today the live surface it describes is Solana only. There is an unresolved inconsistency in the primary source that a reader should know about. The README's validator section states a distribution policy of "Burn disabled (0%). 100% of weight is allocated to miners." But the repository's own most recent commits, merged on 2026-02-27, are titled "burn miner emissions" and "allocating all weight to netuid 0," and TaoSwap reads 100% miner-emission burn with zero active miners. The repo therefore disagrees with itself on how rewards currently flow, and the on-chain state matches the newer commits rather than the older README text. We are not resolving that here. What miners would actually earn today is not clear from the sources, and this writeup is held for review until VoidAI clarifies it. On the market side, the readings are small and quiet. Price sits around 0.00381 TAO, market cap is roughly 15,500 TAO, and the pool holds about 7,309 TAO of depth. Net 7-day flow was mildly positive at around +49 TAO, while emission share rounds to 0%. The public GitHub repository's last commit was on 2026-02-27, via a live GitHub API check. Public commit cadence has slowed since then, though this may reflect a move to private work, an internal build phase, or reduced public activity rather than the full picture. Six contributors appear in the repository's history. The TAO.app about page for this subnet is not populated, so there is no team or roadmap detail to cite from it, and Desearch surfaced general descriptions of VoidAI's cross-chain goal but no dated product or release activity in the past month. --- ### Risk Factors - **Reward-distribution ambiguity:** The README says miner-emission burn is disabled and 100% of weight goes to miners, but the repo's latest commits and on-chain readings show miner emissions burned and weight routed to netuid 0. Until VoidAI clarifies which is current, what miners actually earn is unclear. - **Deregistration:** The subnet is past its 4-month immunity window and currently shows a 0% emission share with a low market cap near 15,500 TAO. Bittensor auto-deregisters the subnet with the lowest EMA price among non-immune subnets, so a small, low-emission slot carries real deregistration exposure. - **Public development cadence:** The public repository's last commit was 2026-02-27 (live GitHub API check). Slower public commits reduce the external signal available, even if internal work continues out of view. - **External dependency and execution:** The design leans on infrastructure outside Bittensor's control, a bridge plus Solana and Raydium, with Ethereum and Base listed only as coming soon. Cross-chain liquidity systems carry bridge and smart-contract risk on top of the usual execution risk. --- We'll revisit VoidAI once the reward-distribution question is settled on-chain and in the repo.