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- Bittensor’s social dominance hit 1.99% in the past day, a 144% jump above its daily average as decentralized AI computing continues to receive the spotlight.
- After a price explosion on Friday triggered by NVIDIA CEO’s comments, TAO traded sideways over the weekend and has lost 3.2% in the past day.
It has been an eventful week for Bittensor, a project that rarely dominates the headlines. The project’s social media dominance has skyrocketed as the market’s interest in decentralized AI computing surges, sparked by NVIDIA CEO’s comments on the future of AI training.
According to data from market intelligence platform LunarCrash, TAO engagements more than doubled in the past month. As LunarCrash stated, social engagement “is the leading indicator that tracks real attention before capital follows,” and can’t be manipulated, unlike token prices.
Over the past 24 hours, Bittensor received 3.86 million social engagements, a 250% increase from its daily average of 1.5 million. LunarCrash revealed that 3,228 unique creators posted about TAO, a 41% week-over-week increase. Social dominance climbed to 1.99%, a 144% rally above the daily average and a new 1-year record.
$TAO engagements are up 112% in the last 30 days.
Not price. Not speculation. Social engagement, the leading indicator that tracks real attention before capital follows.
3.86M engagements in the last 24 hours alone, against a daily average of 1.56M. That's 2.5x the baseline,… pic.twitter.com/wL40Uzzji4
— LunarCrush (@LunarCrush) March 22, 2026
Notably, the social engagements are defying the normal pattern in which their rise is just below the price surge. This time, they are setting the pace, spiking significantly above the TAO price to hit 563 million in the past year.
Decentralized AI Computing Discussions Revive Bittensor
At press time, TAO trades at $267.8, dipping over 3% in the past day as a price decline with the major-cap cryptos dragged the entire market down. Bitcoin has shed 1.42%, while Ethereum is down 2.9%. Monero is the only project in the top 30 to defy the market, gaining 4.2%. Following its 2.7% drop, XRP has been flipped by BNB, which now ranks as the fourth-largest crypto with a market cap of $85.1 billion.
Bittensor’s decline comes just days after it surged 25% from $243 to $305, with trading volume peaking at $780 million (it has since dropped to $326 million). As CNF reported, the surge was sparked by renewed interest in decentralized AI computing, following remarks from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
In a podcast interview, Huang said he believes that the future of AI will combine open-source and proprietary technology. He was responding to a reference by host Chamath Palihapitiya to a Bittensor subnet that had trained a 4-billion-parameter Llama model using distributed computing power contributed by thousands of users. Palihapitiya described it as a “pretty crazy technical accomplishment.”
Bittensor subnets continue to record impressive AI training numbers. Most recently, the Templar SN3 subnet completed the largest decentralized pre-training of a large language model in history, using 72 billion parameters and over 1 trillion tokens. The model achieved performance that rivals Meta’s LLaMA-2-70B, proving that models trained on decentralized compute can compete with centralized rivals, on which companies like Meta and OpenAI spend billions of dollars.
