SN20 is an on-chain accelerator. It funds, supports and launches the strongest new Bittensor subnets — and rewards everyone along the way.
SN20 is built for two kinds of people — the teams who want to launch a subnet, and the people who want to grow with the ones who do. Pick your path.
Launching a subnet alone means fronting ~$1.2M, fighting for infrastructure, and hoping you're noticed. SN20 is the alternative: the runway, the rails, and the launch — without surrendering your idea or your upside.
You don't have to pick winners. The SN20 flywheel is engineered so holders, backers and the network all compound together — back it once, and grow with everything it graduates.
Launching a Bittensor subnet is one of the most expensive first steps in crypto. Strong teams are turned away before they ever begin.
The approximate cost — paid in TAO — to register a single new subnet today.
Strong builders are filtered out by registration cost — not by the quality of their idea.
New teams face infrastructure, validation and marketing alone — and most quietly stall out.
There is no clean, on-chain way to back a promising subnet early and grow alongside it.
SN20 runs like a startup accelerator — but every stage is native to Bittensor and settled on-chain.
Teams privately register their idea — submissions stay confidential. A hybrid community vote selects the cohort of eight.
Selected teams get a temporary slot, infrastructure, validation, marketing and milestone funding.
Believers lock TAO behind the teams they trust. At graduation, a native crowdloan funds the subnet.
The team launches its own leased subnet. Backers receive lease shares — real emissions from day one.
The system is built so builders, backers, and the people who simply hold SN20 all gain at the same time.
Bring the idea. SN20 provides the runway, the rails, and a fully funded launch.
Holding SN20 makes you a passive angel investor in the entire program — no picking winners required.
Lock TAO behind one specific team and own a direct share of its emissions.
Each subnet SN20 graduates sends fees, carry and emissions back through one engine — funding the next cohort and rewarding all four parties: the subnet, its token holders, its crowd funders, and its incubation teams.
Explore the full flywheel →SN20 is gathering the builders, backers and strategic partners who will shape Cohort 01. Whatever you bring to the table — let's plant something.