what's SOMA?

SOMA is Bittensor Subnet 114, a decentralized platform that incentivizes miners to develop and deploy high-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. These servers act as a standardized integration layer, allowing AI models and agents to securely interact with external tools, data sources, and execution environments. By transforming raw intelligence from Bittensor subnets into usable, production-ready services, SOMA addresses key bottlenecks in agentic AI, such as context management and multi-step reasoning. The subnet operates through weekly competition cycles focused on specific MCP tasks, like context compression. Miners submit algorithms, which are screened and evaluated by validators on criteria including quality, latency, availability, and reliability using minimal hardware specs. Top performers win incentives, enabling continuous improvement via open competition and community-driven validation refinements. This structure ensures scalable, reliable AI infrastructure that compounds utility across the Bittensor ecosystem.

SOMA is a new Bittensor subnet project.