Patriot of Permissionless Decentralized intelligence. Author of The Asymmetric Mind. Bittensor miner. $TAO Allocator. SN78 UMI / Co-Founder
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Turning observed human motion into contextual meaning, intent and calibrated uncertainty across time…
Building @umi_sn78
What’s your weekend look like?
Michael Parker retweeted
Bittensor is not a failure at all, like some people think on CT.
Over the last 5 years it inspired and supported at least 100+ teams who are building useful products in the name of decentralization
Its revenue has 50x’d in the last 2 years.
That momentum is real.
$TAO
Michael Parker retweeted
@Jason knows, but I still think he's thinking too small.
Has humanity ever had a real free-market before? What do free-markets do?
Michael Parker retweeted
👀
🚨 $TAO | GRAYSCALE - NEW SEC FILING
On October 23, 2026, Grayscale filed Amendment No. 2 to its S-1 registration statement for the Grayscale Bittensor Trust.
This is more than a simple ETF rumor.
Key developments:
• Grayscale intends to rename the trust Grayscale Bittensor ETF upon registration effectiveness and NYSE Arca listing.
• The proposed ETF would hold actual $TAO, providing traditional investors with exposure to Bittensor without directly managing tokens.
• The structure involves institutional infrastructure including BitGo, Coinbase Custody, BNY Mellon and Coinbase Prime.
• Staking is contemplated, subject to regulatory and operational conditions.
Why does this matter?
Bittensor is progressively building bridges between decentralized AI and traditional financial markets.
An ETF could expand access to $TAO, attract new categories of investors and potentially create additional demand for the underlying asset.
But let's be clear: this is NOT an ETF approval, and no launch date has been confirmed.
The regulatory process is progressing. What happens next matters.
@DCGco , could you provide more clarity on the remaining regulatory steps, the potential timeline and the conditions for enabling staking?
The Bittensor community would certainly appreciate an update.
Source: SEC Form S-1/A, filed October 23, 2026.
#Bittensor #TAO #GTAO #ETF
Source: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
SignVision™ pre-orders
are officially OPEN. 👓
Smart glasses that translate American Sign Language into English so you can read the words in your view and hear them through the glasses.
For conversations with Deaf family, friends, and colleagues. More connection. Fewer barriers.
Our first release is limited to 500 people. Reserve your pair:
bitsign.ai/signvision#preord…
Michael Parker retweeted
SignVision™ pre-orders are officially OPEN. 👓
Smart glasses that translate American Sign Language into English so you can read the words in your view and hear them through the glasses.
For conversations with Deaf family, friends, and colleagues. More connection. Fewer barriers.
Our first release is limited to 500 people. Reserve your pair:
bitsign.ai/signvision#preord…
#SignVision #BitSign #ASL #SmartGlasses #Accessibility
Michael Parker retweeted
A week more with UMI AMA with Sam
- Mon, 19 Oct 2026
- 5 PM UTC
- Discord
Bring your questions on:
• Current model quality
• Scoring methodology
• How impressive our miners are becoming
Set your reminder: discord.gg/9XWwhYn5z?event=1…
AMA with Sam, on the 19th of October 2026 by 5pm UTC.
We'll be covering current model quality, our scoring methodology, and just how far our miners have come.
Drop your questions, join us live.
discord.gg/9XWwhYn5z?event=1…
Michael Parker retweeted
AI can look at a photograph
and tell you what it sees.
But show it someone communicating through continuous human movement, and the challenge changes completely.
Can it distinguish a subtle finger movement? Track meaning across hundreds of frames? Understand how handshape, facial expression, timing, and spatial relationships form an entire language?
Recognizing an image isn't the same as understanding motion.
That's the frontier we're pushing at @umi_sn78
We're combining things like RGB computer vision, 3D geometry, temporal intelligence, and language models, training them together to learn how humans communicate through movement.
Not just identifying what the camera sees. Learning what the human is actually saying.
The challenge is enormous. The technology is real. And we're building it on Bittensor bittensor:native
Michael Parker retweeted
UMI EVENT HORIZON
[ motion intelligence has left orbit ]
Compeititon drove the breakthrough.
A Major Leap across Both benchmarks!
+41.3% OVERALL TRANSLATION BENCHMARK QUALITY 🚀
+35.5% CONTINUOUS SIGNING BENCHMARK QUALITY ☄️
We built an AI model to begin translating one of the most complex forms of human communication: a language expressed through movement itself.
Then we opened the frontier to fierce Bittensor competition.
14 models entered. 9 broke through our original benchmark.
And the leading model didn't just inch forward.
In a single competition, decentralized intelligence pushed beyond the foundation we built.
And here's where the story gets extraordinary.
Every stronger model raises the challenge for the next. Every breakthrough creates a new standard to surpass. Competition becomes the force pulling more intelligence, more research, and more possibility toward a frontier we're only beginning to explore.
This is bigger than recognizing ASL.
It's the pursuit of machines that can understand human movement as meaningful information across space, time, and context.
We didn't just move the benchmark. We moved the frontier.
And if this is what the network can accomplish at the beginning…
Imagine the gravity of what comes next.
@umi_sn78
umi /universal motion intelligence
Michael Parker retweeted
A leap like this changes the conversation.
@umi_sn78 latest competition didn’t just produce incremental progress it showed what happens when Bittensor decentralized intelligence starts compounding.
+41.3% overall translation
benchmark quality
+35.5% continuous-signing
benchmark quality
That means the frontier moved.
We’re building AI that learns to understand human movement as meaningful information across hands, face, timing, and motion through time.
14 models entered. 9 beat the baseline.
And the strongest model pushed far beyond where we started.
This is what happens when you open the proving ground and let intelligence compete.
And this is only the beginning.
@umi_sn78
🤖 Made with AI
A leap like this changes the conversation.
@umi_sn78 latest competition didn’t just produce incremental progress it showed what happens when Bittensor decentralized intelligence starts compounding.
+41.3% overall translation
benchmark quality
+35.5% continuous-signing
benchmark quality
That means the frontier moved.
We’re building AI that learns to understand human movement as meaningful information across hands, face, timing, and motion through time.
14 models entered. 9 beat the baseline.
And the strongest model pushed far beyond where we started.
This is what happens when you open the proving ground and let intelligence compete.
And this is only the beginning.
@umi_sn78
🤖 Made with AI
Michael Parker retweeted
UMI EVENT HORIZON
[ motion intelligence has left orbit ]
Compeititon drove the breakthrough.
A Major Leap across Both benchmarks!
+41.3% OVERALL TRANSLATION BENCHMARK QUALITY 🚀
+35.5% CONTINUOUS SIGNING BENCHMARK QUALITY ☄️
We built an AI model to begin translating one of the most complex forms of human communication: a language expressed through movement itself.
Then we opened the frontier to fierce Bittensor competition.
14 models entered. 9 broke through our original benchmark.
And the leading model didn't just inch forward.
In a single competition, decentralized intelligence pushed beyond the foundation we built.
And here's where the story gets extraordinary.
Every stronger model raises the challenge for the next. Every breakthrough creates a new standard to surpass. Competition becomes the force pulling more intelligence, more research, and more possibility toward a frontier we're only beginning to explore.
This is bigger than recognizing ASL.
It's the pursuit of machines that can understand human movement as meaningful information across space, time, and context.
We didn't just move the benchmark. We moved the frontier.
And if this is what the network can accomplish at the beginning…
Imagine the gravity of what comes next.
@umi_sn78
umi /universal motion intelligence
base:0x6e2feee56bc5f0db2104ab1dac2cf1fb0334eb49
UMI EVENT HORIZON
[ motion intelligence has left orbit ]
Compeititon drove the breakthrough.
A Major Leap across Both benchmarks!
+41.3% OVERALL TRANSLATION BENCHMARK QUALITY 🚀
+35.5% CONTINUOUS SIGNING BENCHMARK QUALITY ☄️
We built an AI model to begin translating one of the most complex forms of human communication: a language expressed through movement itself.
Then we opened the frontier to fierce Bittensor competition.
14 models entered. 9 broke through our original benchmark.
And the leading model didn't just inch forward.
In a single competition, decentralized intelligence pushed beyond the foundation we built.
And here's where the story gets extraordinary.
Every stronger model raises the challenge for the next. Every breakthrough creates a new standard to surpass. Competition becomes the force pulling more intelligence, more research, and more possibility toward a frontier we're only beginning to explore.
This is bigger than recognizing ASL.
It's the pursuit of machines that can understand human movement as meaningful information across space, time, and context.
We didn't just move the benchmark. We moved the frontier.
And if this is what the network can accomplish at the beginning…
Imagine the gravity of what comes next.
@umi_sn78
umi /universal motion intelligence
AI can look at a photograph
and tell you what it sees.
But show it someone communicating through continuous human movement, and the challenge changes completely.
Can it distinguish a subtle finger movement? Track meaning across hundreds of frames? Understand how handshape, facial expression, timing, and spatial relationships form an entire language?
Recognizing an image isn't the same as understanding motion.
That's the frontier we're pushing at @umi_sn78
We're combining things like RGB computer vision, 3D geometry, temporal intelligence, and language models, training them together to learn how humans communicate through movement.
Not just identifying what the camera sees. Learning what the human is actually saying.
The challenge is enormous. The technology is real. And we're building it on Bittensor bittensor:native
Michael Parker retweeted
AI can see. But understanding what it sees is an entirely different frontier.
Sign language isn't a collection of gestures. It's a complete language expressed through intricate handshapes, facial expressions, spatial relationships, and movements unfolding through time.
A subtle change in finger position can change meaning. The direction of movement matters. Timing matters. Context matters.
Teaching AI to understand all of this is an extraordinary challenge.
That's what we're tackling at UMI.
We're bringing together some of the most powerful technologies in computer vision and language intelligence:
Seeing the visual details that movement tracking can miss.
Mapping the geometry of hands, face, and body.
Learning how motion and meaning evolve across time.
Translating complex visual sequences into natural language.
Specialized intelligence for precise fingerspelling recognition.
And now we're training visual perception, motion understanding, and language processing together pushing these systems to learn from one another.
Because recognizing movement is one thing.
Understanding the language within it is another.
We're building toward that future, one layer of intelligence at a time.
UMI From motion to meaning.
$TAO Bittensor base:0x6e2feee56bc5f0db2104ab1dac2cf1fb0334eb49
Michael Parker retweeted
PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATION
UMI x BRILLIANT LABS
AI becomes meaningful
when it reaches people.
We’ve partnered with Brilliant Labs to bring SignVision to life, open orders Q4.
Our intelligence. Their hardware.
One purpose: help people be understood.
Integration underway. First wave in development.
Pre-orders opening soon.
@brilliantlabsAR & @umi_sn78 base:0x6e2feee56bc5f0db2104ab1dac2cf1fb0334eb49
Michael Parker retweeted
I knew that open source always beats closed source, given enough time.
I did NOT know that AI was going to make closed source completely obsolete and no longer even an option.
Closed source is dead.
REA lets Claude Code or Codex take apart any app, all the way down to the binary, and explain exactly how a feature works.
- Native apps, Electron apps, websites, APKs, firmware, even smart contract bytecode
- Shows the evidence for every claim
- Then builds its own version of the feature
25,000+ GitHub stars in a single day. 100% open-source.
github.com/morluto/rea
Michael Parker retweeted
$TAO will do it in 10 years
Exploitative. Dirty. Manipulative.
Meh…Ordinary ambition.
His post tells institutions to move, tells them he will brief them in London next month, and tells his own chain to accelerate the plan HE already OWNS. That is a man pulling the future toward HIS work. Status, the speaking slot, the thing he wants built.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.