what's Hippius?
Hippius is a decentralized storage subnet (SN75) on the Bittensor network, designed to provide censorship-resistant data persistence for AI models and services. It operates through a network of storage nodes, or miners, that store and serve data in a distributed manner, eliminating single points of failure. The system meters usage and logs activities on a Substrate blockchain, incentivizing participants with rewards in TAO (Bittensor's native token) and subnet-specific emissions to ensure sustainable resource provision. At its core, Hippius employs innovative mechanisms like the CRUSH algorithm for fair file distribution across miners, enforcing hard caps on shares and using multi-factor scoring based on capacity, performance, and reliability to prevent dominance and hotspots. This enables scaling to thousands of files and miner families while maintaining equity. Validators oversee the network, rewarding high-quality storage contributions and integrating seamlessly with Bittensor's broader ecosystem for AI-driven applications. As part of Bittensor's modular architecture, Hippius enhances the network by offering a reliable backend for datasets, model checkpoints, and outputs, fostering interoperability among subnets. Its on-chain transparency and crypto-economic model align with decentralized AI principles, promoting a robust, incentive-aligned storage layer without centralized control.
Hippius launched Arion, a new decentralized storage with CRUSH/Reed-Solomon, expecting Q1 2026 revenue.
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Integrated S3-compatible storage on ClawHub as TAO subnet 75, offering storage at 1/10th the cost, x402 USDC micropayments, and Python scripts. Used as a mining component in an autonomous TAO vibe-miner system alongside Chutes, autonomously paying for services in TAO.
Launched Arion, a new decentralized storage infrastructure that replaces IPFS with deterministic placement using CRUSH (Controlled Replication Under Scalable Hashing) and Reed-Solomon erasure coding.
Revenue generation expected in Q1 2026.
StillCore Capital, a $TAO focused fund, makes its first investment into Subnet 75 (Hippius).
Stillcore Capital announces investment in the project (Bittensor Subnet 75).
The subnet has a market valuation of $12 million, positioning it in the middle tier among listed Bittensor subnets with valuations ranging from $10 million to $93 million.
Implements precision-based emission model replacing broad payouts, rewarding actual contribution rather than participation, with the approach set to evolve reactively as the subnet develops.
The new Bittensor documentary "The Incentive Layer" is stored on Hippius subnet 75 and compressed with VidAIo subnet 85, demonstrating live usage of the storage service.
Lists on MEXC, becoming the first Bittensor alpha token listed on a centralized exchange.
Lium.io plans to use hippius_subnet services, representing a subnet-to-subnet integration within the Bittensor network.