tl;dr
Preparing to share the ORO alpha with the Bittensor community, finish MetaNova testing, and focus product development on Droyd’s Solana competition stack ahead of a controlled private beta.
successes
- The ORO alpha is nearly ready for a community share in the coming week. The updated leaderboard is in place, and this next step will let us collect focused feedback from the Bittensor community.
- MetaNova Blueprint’s Bittensor-connected competition is in final testing of its skill and research loop. Ingestion and leaderboard work are complete; the remaining work is testing and optimization before release.
- Hardened Droyd’s devnet race flow and reworked MazeBench task patterns around Prime Intellect’s Verifiers framework, improving replay-verifiable scoring and data exports while laying a foundation for broader agent-harness support.
- Evaluating seed-round and distribution approaches that strengthen customer acquisition while maintaining responsible token distribution.
challenges
- Recent ORO competition changes and the current UX still constrain a broader go-to-market motion outside the Bittensor community. Prioritize that community for the alpha; defer a wider launch until the Droyd competition experience is ready.
- Current Bittensor competition surfaces lack the data quality and task structure required for robust post-training, shifting product focus to Droyd’s Solana competition stack.
looking ahead
Over the next month: begin the seed-round process, prepare the Droyd competition experience for a controlled private beta, expand planned competition work with a software-engineering benchmark and dedicated AutoResearch competition, and continue qualifying agent harnesses.