A Bittensor subnet just raised its own cut of the token emissions. For once, the extra money is headed for test tubes.
Metanova Labs, which runs NOVA, Bittensor's Subnet 68 for AI drug discovery, changed its emission split on Oct. 30 to 26% owner, 33% miners, 41% validators. The old standard was 18/41/41, so eight points moved from miners to the owner, and miners now sit at the protocol minimum.
The extra share funds wet-lab data, starting with an ADME competition still in design: how compounds get absorbed, spread, broken down and cleared by the body. Metanova's pitch is that public drug data is too fragmented, so models are only as good as the experiments behind them.
An owner raising its own cut usually ends in a treasury. This one is supposed to end in a pipette.
Source: Tao Media