Press Release
Bittensor’s TAO Now Live on Solana via Sunrise
Decentralized AI now has a Solana Market. TAO, the native asset of the Bittensor Network, is now available to the entire Solana Ecosystem thanks to the efforts of TAO.com and Sunrise. TAO, the native asset of Bittensor, now trades natively on Solana through Jupiter, Meteora, Phantom, Solflare, Mayan and your favourite wallet.
A $1.5 Billion AI Network Comes to Solana
Bittensor is the largest functioning economy in decentralized AI. 128 subnets host independent markets for AI-related commodities — model inference, data, storage, compute — settled in a single token. Targon, one of the highest-revenue subnets, generates roughly $10.4M annually and recently raised a $10.5M Series A; consumer apps like Dippy AI have moved core backend infrastructure onto the network. Total ecosystem market cap surpassed $1.5 billion in March, and roughly 70% of TAO supply is currently staked.
Institutional attention has moved in parallel. Grayscale filed an S-1 with the SEC for a spot TAO ETP under the proposed ticker GTAO, with an amended filing submitted on April 2; if approved, it would be the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded product for a decentralized AI asset. DCG's Yuma subsidiary stakes TAO institutionally. On the All-In Podcast in March, Jensen Huang described Bittensor as a modern folding@home, and the network has drawn endorsements from Chamath Palihapitiya alongside coverage from CoinDesk and CoinGecko.
Until today, holding TAO onchain meant either operating within Bittensor's own substrate or routing through centralized exchanges. Solana users initially had no native path; but that gap is now closed.
How an Asset Lists on Solana with Canonical Status
Sunrise is the asset gateway for Solana. It coordinates the bridging, liquidity, and ecosystem integration required for an asset to arrive on Solana with real, tradable markets from day one — across the DEXs, aggregators, and wallets where users already are.
For an established asset like TAO, that means Solana market access without wrapped representations or fragmented liquidity. The Solana version of TAO is canonical: it functions as a native Solana asset and is tradable against SOL, USDC, JUP, or any other token in the ecosystem. Users do not need bridging workarounds or external exchange detours.
This listing follows earlier Sunrise launches including MEGA, HYPE, AVAX, and MON, which brought their respective assets to Solana with deep liquidity from day one. TAO is the largest AI asset to take that path.
“Bittensor is the most credible decentralized AI network in crypto, and Solana is where the deepest onchain markets are forming. Bringing TAO here was the obvious step. Sunrise is how it happens.” — Saeed Badreg, CEO, Wormhole Labs
“I want to thank the hard working people at the Solana Foundation, Sunrise, Wormhole Labs and of course our TAO.com team for making this a reality. Decentralized AI will not be a purely ‘technical’ revolution, it will be a financial one too. In order for the brightest to stand out, we need a true meritocracy. That's what TAO enables — and now, with the support of the Solana ecosystem, will only continue to improve.” — Yoav Cohen, CEO, TAO.com
Solana's Internet Capital Markets thesis holds that all meaningful assets should be globally accessible the moment they come onchain. AI is no exception. TAO on Solana makes the category native to Solana DeFi rather than adjacent to it.
About TAO.com
TAO.com is the largest wallet for TAO. Buy it, trade it, stake it, hold it. Trade Subnets and more. Discover an entire new onchain world, made possible by decentralised AI.
About Bittensor
Bittensor is a decentralized network for machine intelligence. Its architecture splits AI-related commodity production — inference, data, storage, compute — into independent subnets that operate within a unified token economy governed by Yuma Consensus. TAO is the network's native token. Bittensor is developed by the Opentensor Foundation. More at bittensor.com.
About Sunrise
Sunrise is the day one asset gateway of Solana. Sunrise enables new onchain assets—crypto, stocks, commodities, and more—to list on Solana with liquidity on day one, giving users and builders immediate access to live, tradable markets. Sunrise is made by Wormhole Labs.
About Wormhole Labs
Wormhole Labs is a technology company that specializes in building products, tools, and reference implementations to expand the cross-chain ecosystem. They are committed to open-source development and laying down the paths for a connected decentralized world.
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