Canonical TAO on Solana. Check the mint. Bridge to the Bittensor wallet you hold.
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SOLTENSOR retweeted
Fair to be cautious.
Lots of things in this space look off at first glance. The core product is a non-custodial bridge + staking route for canonical TAO already sitting in a Solana wallet. One signature derives a Bittensor coldkey (and temporary transit account) that only you hold.
TAO bridges over LayerZero, gets unwrapped, and is staked to root or a subnet you choose.
There is no soltao contract holding funds, no receipt token, and the keys never leave your browser.
Open source: github.com/RYthaGOD/soltao
Live page: soltao.xyz/stake
$SOLTAO is a separate token I launched (with the usual launchpad dynamics). You do not need it to use the route. Others sold it; I kept building the actual tool. Real funds have gone through (including from wallets that aren’t mine), and the resulting stake is visible independently on Taostats. Happy to walk through a small test or answer specific questions about the code or flow. Check it yourself if you’re interested.
Appreciate the post. Happy to answer any questions.
We actually enjoy building this stuff. Code is open source and it works. Proof is on chain if anyone wants to look.
Something about @SOLTENSOR just doesn't sit right with me.
My gut is screaming red flags. I've seen enough in crypto to know when something feels off, and this one definitely does.
Not calling it a scam, but I wouldn't trust it with my money.
Just my opinion. Be careful. bittensor:native
Colosseum is done. We're still building.
New: eTAO allocation tooling and a root-TAO vault prototype, with 21 offline tests passing.
Next: cross-chain share issuance, redemption testing and security review. Receipt token not live yet.
soltao.xyz/stake/
eTAO snapshot: What we actually checked
We pulled a finalized block (9,336,573) on runtime 482 and looked at three subnets that had already changed their splits.
Subnet 8: 0% owner / 50% validators / 50% miners
→ ~5.5% to Root, ~44.5% left for alpha validators
Subnet 41: 10% owner / 40% validators / 50% miners
→ ~5.7% to Root, ~34.3% left for alpha validators
Subnet 47: 18% owner / 12.6% validators / 69.4% miners
→ ~12.5% to Root, ~0.15% left for alpha validators
The last one is the important part.
On subnet 47 the validator bucket is only 12.6%. After Root takes its baseline, almost nothing is left for alpha validators and their stakers. A UI that just shows “validator share: 12.6%” would hide how extreme that is.
Root is protected first. Alpha stakers only get whatever remains after that. On some subnets that remainder can be very small.
These numbers are from one block. They can change. We’re treating them as a snapshot, not a permanent rule.
We’re building the view so you can see the full split (including what’s actually left for alpha stakers) before you bridge and stake from Solana.
One signature. Your keys. No custody.
Attention moves to whatever is loud and visible.
A green candle. A new narrative. Whatever’s pumping this week.
That’s all most people track.
They don’t see the capital that never left Solana. Millions in TAO sitting idle because the only ways to put it to work meant handing it over or routing it through a CEX.
They see the surface. Not the fact that none of it was usable under your own keys.
@soltensor is the part that doesn’t trend until it works: one signature, your Bittensor wallet, canonical TAO goes home and stakes. No pool. No receipt token. No one else holding it.
The cut is what gets attention. The roots are what compound.
soltao.xyz
IRL stuff kept me offline for a week. Still here, still working, still connecting after Colosseum.
10k+ TAO on Solana and the Bittensor eco doing cool things = still a lot of potential. We’re focused on making the non-custodial path between the two useful.
soltao.xyz
SOLTENSOR retweeted
PENS DOWN 🇦🇺
@colosseum is now closed!
Team Australia showed up 👏👏👏
Every late night. Every broken build. Every demo video re-recorded one more time. You shipped it.
We couldn’t be prouder of every Aussie team that hit submit 💛
Congratulations legends 👇
TAO on Solana should not need a CEX detour to get home.
soltao.xyz keeps the route self-custodial: one Solana signature, a user-held Bittensor wallet, and fees shown before signing.
SOLTENSOR retweeted
Been using the @SOLTENSOR bridge and tech is actually pretty impressive.
I had canonical TAO sitting in my Solana wallet (some of which I recieved from holding $SOLTAO) and wanted to stake it on a Bittensor subnet.
So I tried it with real funds.
Started here:
FXNTL46d5zJP415fh25b7UciNyZBbCUdb9qdRhD57Lp8
Bridge TX:
5LCEXpTtsUnffgK6pq5uutFtBkjJazQPfHiHr2nwAG24gnH3xQbD2KeZ9hJt4XDPYRFJpMfUzomMU3MNL5aqgZi2
The process was basically:
canonical $TAO on Solana → $SOLTAO bridge → native $TAO on Bittensor → stake into Targon SN4 (@TargonCompute)
During setup @SOLTENSOR generated a Bittensor wallet for me and gave me the 12-word recovery phrase to store myself.
Once the bridge finished, the TAO was unwrapped on the Bittensor side and staked into $Targon.
Bittensor address:
5D5cC13NsGXa4mWcDAWpcaSanxqLwBSD4pDaYAfSwvy5d7w1
Final result:
2.380288 staked on SN4
0.023367 $TAO left liquid
I then put the Bittensor address into Taostats completely separately from SOLTAO and there it was, same position, sitting on-chain against my wallet.
That's the bit I like.
I'm not looking at a balance inside the @SOLTENSOR app or taking their word for it. I can follow my funds from the Solana TX and then independently see the resulting stake on Bittensor.
I started with TAO in a Solana wallet and finished with an actual Alpha position on a Bittensor subnet.
No messing around setting up Bittensor wallets beforehand, moving TAO around manually or working out subnet staking.
This is actually really useful for me as I deal mainly in SOL, before I was having to send my SOL to Kracken to swap it to TAO and stake it insane Talisman.
The @SOLTENSOR bridge has removed one layer of friction.
Seriously undervalued tech.
Please give it a try as @Moneybag_Fin is looking for feedback and ways to improve his product.
$SOLTAO
SOLTENSOR retweeted
Been using the @SOLTENSOR bridge and tech is actually pretty impressive.
I had canonical TAO sitting in my Solana wallet (some of which I recieved from holding $SOLTAO) and wanted to stake it on a Bittensor subnet.
So I tried it with real funds.
Started here:
FXNTL46d5zJP415fh25b7UciNyZBbCUdb9qdRhD57Lp8
Bridge TX:
5LCEXpTtsUnffgK6pq5uutFtBkjJazQPfHiHr2nwAG24gnH3xQbD2KeZ9hJt4XDPYRFJpMfUzomMU3MNL5aqgZi2
The process was basically:
canonical $TAO on Solana → $SOLTAO bridge → native $TAO on Bittensor → stake into Targon SN4 (@TargonCompute)
During setup @SOLTENSOR generated a Bittensor wallet for me and gave me the 12-word recovery phrase to store myself.
Once the bridge finished, the TAO was unwrapped on the Bittensor side and staked into $Targon.
Bittensor address:
5D5cC13NsGXa4mWcDAWpcaSanxqLwBSD4pDaYAfSwvy5d7w1
Final result:
2.380288 staked on SN4
0.023367 $TAO left liquid
I then put the Bittensor address into Taostats completely separately from SOLTAO and there it was, same position, sitting on-chain against my wallet.
That's the bit I like.
I'm not looking at a balance inside the @SOLTENSOR app or taking their word for it. I can follow my funds from the Solana TX and then independently see the resulting stake on Bittensor.
I started with TAO in a Solana wallet and finished with an actual Alpha position on a Bittensor subnet.
No messing around setting up Bittensor wallets beforehand, moving TAO around manually or working out subnet staking.
This is actually really useful for me as I deal mainly in SOL, before I was having to send my SOL to Kracken to swap it to TAO and stake it insane Talisman.
The @SOLTENSOR bridge has removed one layer of friction.
Seriously undervalued tech.
Please give it a try as @Moneybag_Fin is looking for feedback and ways to improve his product.
$SOLTAO
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13 · @SOLTENSOR 🧠
Canonical TAO on @solana. Bridge to the Bittensor wallet you hold with one signature. No pool, no receipt token.
soltao.xyz
Important clarification on the “where does the yield go?” question.
When you use the Solana side, you’re still holding the actual Lium in your own Bittensor wallet. No vault, no wrapped receipt token, no custody risk. Pure self-custody with bridging rails.
@SOLTENSOR is building the connection the right way.
Building in crypto is mostly a distribution problem.
You can ship a useful product and still get almost no attention if you don’t have an existing audience or a token that creates one. A token genuinely helps with distribution. It gives people a reason to pay attention, talk about the project, and spread it. The catch is that most of that attention immediately collapses into price. Once the number stops moving up, the interest disappears, even if the underlying thing is still working.
We’ve already delivered a non-custodial route that lets someone take canonical TAO from a Solana wallet, bridge it, and stake it to root or any subnet in a Bittensor wallet only they control. One signature. No custody. No receipt token. It lowers the barrier for Solana users to actually participate in Bittensor instead of just holding a representation of TAO. That sits between two ecosystems and solves a real friction problem.
Most people would rather chase the next narrative than support something that has already shipped and is useful to both sides. That’s fine. We’ll keep developing it anyway. The need for a clean, non-custodial path between Solana and Bittensor doesn’t disappear because the token isn’t mooning.
The token itself could be more than a coupon if the incentives around it rewarded actual usage and product improvement instead of just price speculation. Right now a lot of people treat it as if it should automatically be valuable without that feedback loop.
Distribution is hard. Shipping something real is harder. We’re doing the second part regardless.
I’ve always stood by my projects. This will be the last time I do this.
Tokens invite opinions, but they also create distribution.
$SOLTAO was always about lowering friction so holders could actually use Bittensor, giving them solana:taoC6xyv2v8tDLcev4uaGUgV4vdQsWJrGft2kcBRrBY and a one-signature route from a Solana wallet into a coldkey only they control.
The token was, in my view, how we achieved over 10K in solana:taoC6xyv2v8tDLcev4uaGUgV4vdQsWJrGft2kcBRrBY bridged back to Bittensor with one click.
Colosseum is not a classic hackathon. I treated it like a business and built accordingly as a solo founder.
The result is a live, non-custodial route: one Solana signature bridges canonical TAO via LayerZero and stakes it on root or any subnet, in a wallet only you hold. No custody, no receipt token, no contract in the middle.
soltao.xyz/stake/
There’s been some discussion around $SOLTAO price and exposure.
The core product is the bridge at soltao.xyz. It lets you take canonical TAO from a Solana wallet and stake it on Bittensor with a single signature, in a wallet only you control. No custody and no receipt token.
The token itself is not the focus of the business or how revenue is generated. The priority has always been building a useful, non-custodial route between Solana and Bittensor.
The most meaningful way to support the project is to try the route and share the experience. That kind of real usage and feedback is what drives long-term relevance.
Soltao.xyz · Submission · Colosseum
Officially submitted to Colosseum! ✅
Huge thanks to everyone who supported us. We’re just getting started, feedback is always welcome as we continue building at the intersection of Solana and Bittensor.
Our mission: Bring users the best of both ecosystems. 🤝
colosseum.com/arena/projects…