Bittensor $TAO just released a massive upgrade.

Previously, the "Bitcoin-like" emissions of new coins (21M cap, 8M created and circulating now) were distributed equally to subnet miners and validators.

You earn them by crunching AI training data and producing great AI.

But now, each AI subnet has a dTAO coin (just like Ethereum has ERC-20's). Emissions are now weighted by these tokens. 

So now $TAO emissions are market-driven. Evolution, natural selection, market forces are brought to bear on the AI product being created. 

And side deals and nepotism are weeded out. The market decides who gets rewarded with newly-mined $TAO.