{"id":26527,"date":"2025-05-13T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/bittensor-backer-sees-its-tao-token-topping-62500-in-2030-from-400s-today\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:48:03","slug":"bittensor-backer-sees-its-tao-token-topping-62500-in-2030-from-400s-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=26527","title":{"rendered":"Bittensor Backer Sees Its TAO Token Topping $62,500 In 2030 From $400s Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Bittensor&#8217;s decentralized AI model may be the best-kept secret in crypto\u2014and one venture capitalist believes it could go 135x from today&#8217;s price<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At a recent summit in Austin, Texas, venture capitalist and Contango Digital Assets founder Mike Grantis made a headline-grabbing call: he believes the price of TAO, the native token of decentralized AI network Bittensor, could surpass $62,500 by the end of 2030.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a 13,500% increase from where TAO trades today\u2014roughly $474 as of this writing, according to Coinmarketcap.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The Contango Blockchain x AI Fund is investing in projects building in the Bittensor ecosystem, a decentralized AI project. Grantis delivered the bold projection during his keynote at the inaugural Bittensor Endgame Summit, a three-day gathering of developers, researchers, and investors aligned around the emerging thesis that decentralization\u2014not Big Tech\u2014is the future of artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technology grows exponentially,&#8221; Grantis said in a follow-up interview. &#8220;And each iteration of technology moves faster than the previous. If Bitcoin could reach a trillion-dollar market cap in 12 years just as a store of value, then a network like Bittensor\u2014with real utility, developer adoption, and hundreds of functional AI subnets\u2014has the potential to outpace even that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025635\/Mike-Grantis-headshot-5.11.25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12767\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025635\/Mike-Grantis-headshot-5.11.25.jpeg 512w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025635\/Mike-Grantis-headshot-5.11.25-300x300.jpeg 300w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025635\/Mike-Grantis-headshot-5.11.25-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mike Grantis, Founder, Contango Digital Assets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Grantis provided a slide of assets that each reached a $1 trillion market valuation\u2014and how long it took listed below\u2014as part of his summit presentation. He predicts that once Bittensor reaches that valuation mark it will be well on its way to achieving his per token price estimate as well.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025010\/Bittensor-to-1-trillion-slide-Grantis-5.11.25.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025010\/Bittensor-to-1-trillion-slide-Grantis-5.11.25.jpg 957w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025010\/Bittensor-to-1-trillion-slide-Grantis-5.11.25-300x167.jpg 300w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/12025010\/Bittensor-to-1-trillion-slide-Grantis-5.11.25-768x428.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Used With Permission: Contango Digital Assets \u2013 Grantis\u2019 slide outlining rationale for Bittensor $62,500 price target.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is Bittensor Crypto, AI or Both?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At its core, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.bittensor.com\/learn\/introduction\">Bittensor<\/a> is a blockchain-based protocol that rewards developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs for building useful AI tools and services. Its unique structure decentralizes both AI training and inference by connecting independent networks (called subnets) through a shared token, TAO, which powers economic incentives and validation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bittensor is not just about AI,&#8221; Grantis noted. &#8220;What it is\u2014at the deepest layer\u2014is a mechanism for aligning incentives and creating marketplaces that drive the creation of digital commodities. Right now, most of those are AI-based, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional tech platforms that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/25\/05\/45337965\/google-to-fund-three-nuclear-sites-says-the-move-will-allow-them-to-move-at-the-speed-required-to-meet-this-moment-of-ai-and-american-innovation\">hoard proprietary models, energy<\/a> and data, Bittensor encourages openness and collaboration by letting anyone contribute or compete to build better AI.<\/p>\n<p>That structure leads to what Grantis described as a powerful economic flywheel, &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to build a product, raise money, and sell it to customers before you get paid. On Bittensor, you build something useful, and if the network agrees, you start earning emissions\u2014real value\u2014on day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI advantage: Reed\u2019s Law Versus Moore\u2019s Law<\/h2>\n<p>To understand why venture capitalist &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45373837\/bittensor-backer-sees-its-tao-token-topping-62-500-in-2030-from-400s-today\" alt=\"Bittensor\" backer sees its tao token topping in from today>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bittensor&#8217;s decentralized AI model may be the best-kept secret in crypto\u2014and one venture capitalist believes it could go 135x from today&#8217;s price At a recent summit in Austin, Texas, venture capitalist and Contango Digital Assets founder Mike Grantis made a headline-grabbing call: he believes the price of TAO, the native token of decentralized AI network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}