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3 items · about Bittensor itself
The root reward claims fix is now built into network upgrade 454
What changed: the fix for root reward claims, which we reported as a proposal, has now been merged into the network's code as upgrade 454. Root staking means parking TAO with the network as a whole and being paid out of every subnet. Some claims were failing for reasons that had nothing to do with the claim itself, for example stakes held elsewhere on other subnets, out of date records of which validators a wallet had backed, or holdings so small they rounded down to zero. The merged code is meant to stop those claims being blocked. Being merged is not the same as being live. Like the other upgrades in the queue, it still needs sign-off before it reaches the network.
Upgrade 455 stops restricted helper keys moving money by the back door
Bittensor lets a wallet owner hand a second key, called a proxy, limited permission to act on their behalf, a bit like giving a house sitter a key that opens the front door but not the safe. Two kinds of proxy are meant to be unable to move funds at all. Until now they could still reach the network's smart contract features and its crowdloan feature, a way of pooling money, and those routes could move value indirectly. Upgrade 455, now merged, blocks those routes entirely for both proxy types. This matters to anyone who has set up a restricted proxy on the assumption that it could not touch their money. It joins the queue of upgrades waiting for sign-off and is not live yet.
A proposal would let root fund managers trade inside their subnet baskets
Root validators, the operators who manage pooled TAO on behalf of stakers, can now spread that money across a chosen basket of subnet tokens. A new proposal, called swap basket, would let them trade between the tokens inside that basket. It pulls four earlier draft changes together into a single proposal. The public write-up gives little detail on limits or safeguards so far. What we would watch: how much freedom these managers get to move other people's stake, and what stops a manager from trading in ways that suit them more than the people who delegated to them. It is a proposal only and has not been approved.