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TAO Daily

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25 août à 12h29

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https://taodaily.io/on-bittensor-outbidtao-puts-a-price-on-getting-noticed/

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<div id="bsf_rt_marker"></div> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Outbidtao</strong> went live offering the simplest visibility mechanism ever built on the Bittensor network to date.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The entire product <strong>runs on</strong> one publicly enforced rule: <strong>whoever pays the most sits at #1</strong>, and <strong>rankings descend</strong> from there <strong>by bid size</strong>.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="460" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-163-1024x460.png" alt="" class="wp-image-24181" style="aspect-ratio:2.2285714285714286;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-163-1024x460.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-163-300x135.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-163-767x345.png 767w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-163.png 1550w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://outbidtao.ai/">Outbidtao Website</a></figcaption></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Any subnet, product, wallet, tool, builder, or individual person can list themselves for a starting bid of just 0.03 $TAO (roughly $0.90 today).</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">No accounts, no gatekeepers, and no marketing approval process stand between the bid and the ranking anywhere on the board.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Discovery Problem Every Builder Faces</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Getting noticed on Bittensor grows harder every quarter as more subnets launch competing for the same finite attention pool.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-167-1024x576.png" alt="" class="wp-image-24185" style="aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-167-1024x576.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-167-300x169.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-167-678x381.png 678w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-167-768x432.png 768w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-167.png 1672w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Discovery Problem on Bittensor</figcaption></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Over 128 subnets currently compete for eyes across the network:</strong> New projects launch weekly, and most stay invisible even after shipping something genuinely useful to their target audience.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>Twitter ads and paid placements never fit the culture:</strong> The Bittensor community responds poorly to promotional pushes that arrive from outside the ecosystem&#8217;s own communication channels.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>Marketing budget size beats product quality regularly:</strong> Loud teams with cash to spend outshine quieter teams shipping better work but lacking a promotion machine internally.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Discovery has been a black market run by connections since dTAO launched, and nobody built a permissionless answer to fix it.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">How Outbidtao Fixes It</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Outbidtao converts visibility into a market where the highest bidder claims the top position without needing approval from anyone else.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>The board ranks entirely by what someone paid to appear on it:</strong> No editorial board decides who deserves the spotlight, only the size of your bid decides your position.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img decoding="async" width="1024" height="315" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-165-1024x315.png" alt="" class="wp-image-24183" style="aspect-ratio:3.25;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-165-1024x315.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-165-300x92.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-165-767x236.png 767w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-165.png 1452w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Overall Rankings Across Bittensor</figcaption></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>Entry costs 0.03 $TAO to place any listing at any rank:</strong> Any newcomer can put themselves on the leaderboard for less than a coffee costs today.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="652" height="313" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-164.png" alt="" class="wp-image-24182" style="aspect-ratio:2.08;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-164.png 652w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-164-300x144.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Outbidtao’s Minimum Bid</figcaption></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>Anyone can outbid anyone at any time whatsoever:</strong> Someone at #1 today gets replaced tomorrow the moment another party pays more than their current bid amount.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>19 categories give every kind of Bittensor project a home:</strong> Subnets, agents, wallets, storage products, developer tools, media outlets, and individual people each have their own separate leaderboard.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="468" src="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-166-1024x468.png" alt="" class="wp-image-24184" style="aspect-ratio:2.1894736842105265;width:624px;height:auto" srcset="https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-166-1024x468.png 1024w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-166-300x137.png 300w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-166-767x350.png 767w, https://taodaily.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-166.png 1877w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph"><a href="https://outbidtao.ai/categories">Categories on Outbidtao</a></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">5. <strong>Payment works flexibly across three different asset types:</strong> $TAO directly, alpha from any subnet, or Conviction-locked alpha all cost the same at checkout time.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The mechanism turns visibility into something anyone can participate in immediately rather than something reserved for well-connected teams alone.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Practical Rules Worth Knowing Before Bidding</h2> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The mechanics stay simple, though a few specific details shape how bidding plays out on the board itself.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">1. <strong>Taking #1 costs at least 0.05 $TAO above the current top bid amount:</strong> The premium prevents endless one-cent overbid wars from making the top position pointless to defend.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">2. <strong>Raising your own listing only costs the difference between bids:</strong> Going from 0.10 to 0.15 $TAO costs 0.05 $TAO more.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">3. <strong>No refunds under any circumstance whatsoever:</strong> Once a payment finalizes, the rank belongs to the bidder until someone else outbids them at their current price.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">4. <strong>Chat groups and invite links cannot be listed on the board:</strong> Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, and Signal invite URLs all fail eligibility