Catenaa, Monday, January 26, 2026-Crunch has opened Bittensor mining to its community of more than 11,000 machine learning engineers and 1,200 PhDs, enabling academic and enterprise contributors to participate in decentralized AI without requiring blockchain expertise.

Reports said that the platform will manage technical infrastructure for Bittensor subnets, allowing contributors to focus on model development.

Bittensor is an open-source blockchain network that incentivizes users to share computing power, data, and AI models, with specialized subnets competing to solve specific problems. Crunch’s coordinator system abstracts blockchain complexity while maintaining decentralization, broadening participation beyond crypto-native miners.

Crunch employs a meta-modeling approach, aggregating hundreds of individual submissions into ensemble models.

This collective intelligence framework produces more reliable and diverse outputs, improving subnet performance while providing additional revenue streams to contributors.

The initiative addresses a talent gap in decentralized AI, where traditional academic and institutional experts have been limited by Web3 technical barriers.

The platform enables subnet operators to launch coordinator nodes to manage mining and meta-model aggregation. Contributors maintain economic ownership of their work, participate in open experimentation, and gain recognition tied directly to model performance.

CrunchDAO connects data scientists and engineers with predictive challenges across industries, including finance and genomics.

With more than 35,000 models deployed, the network has demonstrated results for clients such as ADIA Lab and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

By bridging enterprise AI expertise with decentralized infrastructure, Crunch aims to expand intelligence networks and reinforce the growth of decentralized machine learning ecosystems.