With the amount of new subnets being added it can be hard to get up to date information across all subnets, so data may be slightly out of date from time to time
With the amount of new subnets being added it can be hard to get up to date information across all subnets, so data may be slightly out of date from time to time
CookingTAO is Bittensor Subnet 122 (SN122), built around a single mission captured in its GitHub tagline: “Democratizing Bittensor.” Rather than requiring deep technical expertise to participate in the Bittensor network, CookingTAO operates as a marketplace for Bittensor mining code — a platform where developers submit miner implementations and everyday users can deploy them with a single click.
The core mechanism works as follows: developers write and submit miner code to the CookingTAO marketplace. Validators on SN122 assess the quality and performance of submitted code, and the subnet’s incentive mechanism routes TAO rewards to developers only when their code actually performs — creating a pay-for-performance model that aligns the interests of code authors with the users running their miners.
On the user side, CookingTAO lowers the barrier to entry for Bittensor mining to virtually zero. A user who wants to earn TAO emissions from any supported subnet can browse the CookingTAO marketplace, select a miner, and deploy it with a single click — no CLI experience, no infrastructure management, no deep familiarity with a subnet’s incentive logic required. CookingTAO handles the complexity of deployment and ongoing operation.
The subnet actively curates supported opportunities across the Bittensor ecosystem. In one example, the team announced the addition of SN33 (ReadyAI) to its 1-click mining lineup, publishing estimated daily earnings and operational costs so users can evaluate the opportunity before committing. This transparent, marketplace-style presentation of mining opportunities is central to CookingTAO’s product philosophy.
CookingTAO is Bittensor Subnet 122 (SN122), built around a single mission captured in its GitHub tagline: “Democratizing Bittensor.” Rather than requiring deep technical expertise to participate in the Bittensor network, CookingTAO operates as a marketplace for Bittensor mining code — a platform where developers submit miner implementations and everyday users can deploy them with a single click.
The core mechanism works as follows: developers write and submit miner code to the CookingTAO marketplace. Validators on SN122 assess the quality and performance of submitted code, and the subnet’s incentive mechanism routes TAO rewards to developers only when their code actually performs — creating a pay-for-performance model that aligns the interests of code authors with the users running their miners.
On the user side, CookingTAO lowers the barrier to entry for Bittensor mining to virtually zero. A user who wants to earn TAO emissions from any supported subnet can browse the CookingTAO marketplace, select a miner, and deploy it with a single click — no CLI experience, no infrastructure management, no deep familiarity with a subnet’s incentive logic required. CookingTAO handles the complexity of deployment and ongoing operation.
The subnet actively curates supported opportunities across the Bittensor ecosystem. In one example, the team announced the addition of SN33 (ReadyAI) to its 1-click mining lineup, publishing estimated daily earnings and operational costs so users can evaluate the opportunity before committing. This transparent, marketplace-style presentation of mining opportunities is central to CookingTAO’s product philosophy.
The CookingTAO product is a mining-as-a-service marketplace for the Bittensor ecosystem. At its core, it provides two interfaces: a developer-facing marketplace where miner code authors publish their implementations, and a user-facing deployment layer where non-technical participants can launch miners across multiple Bittensor subnets without any manual setup.
For developers, CookingTAO offers a performance-based revenue channel. Developers who write strong miner code can submit it to the platform and earn TAO whenever their code is deployed and produces meaningful results for users. This creates a new class of Bittensor participant: the miner-code author, who contributes intellectual work rather than raw compute, and who shares in the subnet’s emissions proportionally to real-world performance.
For end users, the product functions like a curated app store for Bittensor mining. CookingTAO surfaces opportunities across the Bittensor subnet landscape — displaying potential daily earnings, operational costs, and hardware requirements — so users can make informed decisions and deploy with a single action. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for the average person who wants to earn TAO but lacks the technical background to independently set up and manage a miner.
Technically, the SN122 incentive mechanism is designed to reward both the quality of submitted miner code and the performance of deployed miners. Validators evaluate submitted code and its real-world emissions output, and the subnet’s Yuma Consensus-based weighting ensures that only code that genuinely performs rises to the top of the marketplace. The whitepaper describing the full incentive mechanism was published to the CookingTAO GitHub organization in late June 2026, shortly after the subnet launched.
CookingTAO was incubated by Lamida Global, a Bittensor-focused venture firm that identifies, funds, and co-builds subnets within the TAO ecosystem. The subnet operates under a revenue milestone framework, with a check-in deadline of November 15, 2026, reflecting Lamida’s conviction-based incubation model where performance accountability is built into the launch structure.
The CookingTAO product is a mining-as-a-service marketplace for the Bittensor ecosystem. At its core, it provides two interfaces: a developer-facing marketplace where miner code authors publish their implementations, and a user-facing deployment layer where non-technical participants can launch miners across multiple Bittensor subnets without any manual setup.
For developers, CookingTAO offers a performance-based revenue channel. Developers who write strong miner code can submit it to the platform and earn TAO whenever their code is deployed and produces meaningful results for users. This creates a new class of Bittensor participant: the miner-code author, who contributes intellectual work rather than raw compute, and who shares in the subnet’s emissions proportionally to real-world performance.
For end users, the product functions like a curated app store for Bittensor mining. CookingTAO surfaces opportunities across the Bittensor subnet landscape — displaying potential daily earnings, operational costs, and hardware requirements — so users can make informed decisions and deploy with a single action. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for the average person who wants to earn TAO but lacks the technical background to independently set up and manage a miner.
Technically, the SN122 incentive mechanism is designed to reward both the quality of submitted miner code and the performance of deployed miners. Validators evaluate submitted code and its real-world emissions output, and the subnet’s Yuma Consensus-based weighting ensures that only code that genuinely performs rises to the top of the marketplace. The whitepaper describing the full incentive mechanism was published to the CookingTAO GitHub organization in late June 2026, shortly after the subnet launched.
CookingTAO was incubated by Lamida Global, a Bittensor-focused venture firm that identifies, funds, and co-builds subnets within the TAO ecosystem. The subnet operates under a revenue milestone framework, with a check-in deadline of November 15, 2026, reflecting Lamida’s conviction-based incubation model where performance accountability is built into the launch structure.
CookingTAO was built by a team of experienced Bittensor miners who have been active in the ecosystem since 2024. The project was announced in June 2026 as the first incubation project of Lamida Global, a Bittensor-focused firm that invests in, incubates, and co-builds scalable subnets. Lamida operates as a full-service TAO ecosystem builder — designing incentive mechanisms, running miners and validators, and supporting subnet teams through launch and growth. The firm is led by Krishna Dahal.
The CookingTAO team itself does not have publicly named individual members as of mid-2026, operating with a degree of pseudonymity that is common in the early-stage Bittensor project space. What is publicly known is that the team comes from a practitioner background: they are miners who have operated on Bittensor subnets since the network’s early expansion, giving them firsthand experience of the friction that CookingTAO is designed to eliminate. That lived experience — the complexity, cost, and opacity of Bittensor mining for newcomers — forms the foundation of the product vision.
The subnet occupies a slot (SN122) that was previously held by Bitrecs, an e-commerce product recommendation engine that ran on Bittensor. Bitrecs and CookingTAO are entirely separate projects with different teams, products, and goals — the SN122 slot changed hands and the CookingTAO team built their mining marketplace concept from the ground up on that slot. The rebrand from “Bitrecs” reflects a complete change in both team and mission, not an evolution of the prior project.
CookingTAO was built by a team of experienced Bittensor miners who have been active in the ecosystem since 2024. The project was announced in June 2026 as the first incubation project of Lamida Global, a Bittensor-focused firm that invests in, incubates, and co-builds scalable subnets. Lamida operates as a full-service TAO ecosystem builder — designing incentive mechanisms, running miners and validators, and supporting subnet teams through launch and growth. The firm is led by Krishna Dahal.
The CookingTAO team itself does not have publicly named individual members as of mid-2026, operating with a degree of pseudonymity that is common in the early-stage Bittensor project space. What is publicly known is that the team comes from a practitioner background: they are miners who have operated on Bittensor subnets since the network’s early expansion, giving them firsthand experience of the friction that CookingTAO is designed to eliminate. That lived experience — the complexity, cost, and opacity of Bittensor mining for newcomers — forms the foundation of the product vision.
The subnet occupies a slot (SN122) that was previously held by Bitrecs, an e-commerce product recommendation engine that ran on Bittensor. Bitrecs and CookingTAO are entirely separate projects with different teams, products, and goals — the SN122 slot changed hands and the CookingTAO team built their mining marketplace concept from the ground up on that slot. The rebrand from “Bitrecs” reflects a complete change in both team and mission, not an evolution of the prior project.
CookingTAO is in its early-stage deployment phase, having launched in June 2026 with the SN122 incentive mechanism whitepaper published shortly after. The team is operating under a Lamida Global revenue milestone framework, with a check-in deadline of November 15, 2026 — signalling a near-term focus on demonstrating real traction: active developers submitting miner code, users deploying those miners, and measurable TAO earnings flowing through the platform.
The immediate roadmap centres on expanding the number of Bittensor subnets supported by CookingTAO’s 1-click mining interface. The team has already added subnets such as SN33 (ReadyAI) with published earnings estimates, and the pattern suggests a steady cadence of new subnet integrations as the marketplace grows. Each addition is curated — the team publishes earning potential and cost figures, suggesting a quality-over-quantity approach to the supported opportunity set.
Longer term, CookingTAO’s ambition is structural: to become the primary onboarding layer for Bittensor mining participation, making the network accessible to a mainstream audience of TAO earners who would otherwise be locked out by technical complexity. As the Bittensor ecosystem continues to expand with new subnets and incentive mechanisms, CookingTAO’s marketplace model positions it to be a persistent aggregation and abstraction layer — a place where the best miner code surfaces through competition and users benefit without needing to understand the underlying infrastructure.
CookingTAO is in its early-stage deployment phase, having launched in June 2026 with the SN122 incentive mechanism whitepaper published shortly after. The team is operating under a Lamida Global revenue milestone framework, with a check-in deadline of November 15, 2026 — signalling a near-term focus on demonstrating real traction: active developers submitting miner code, users deploying those miners, and measurable TAO earnings flowing through the platform.
The immediate roadmap centres on expanding the number of Bittensor subnets supported by CookingTAO’s 1-click mining interface. The team has already added subnets such as SN33 (ReadyAI) with published earnings estimates, and the pattern suggests a steady cadence of new subnet integrations as the marketplace grows. Each addition is curated — the team publishes earning potential and cost figures, suggesting a quality-over-quantity approach to the supported opportunity set.
Longer term, CookingTAO’s ambition is structural: to become the primary onboarding layer for Bittensor mining participation, making the network accessible to a mainstream audience of TAO earners who would otherwise be locked out by technical complexity. As the Bittensor ecosystem continues to expand with new subnets and incentive mechanisms, CookingTAO’s marketplace model positions it to be a persistent aggregation and abstraction layer — a place where the best miner code surfaces through competition and users benefit without needing to understand the underlying infrastructure.