Incentive Engineering
Mechanisms where the profitable path is the useful path.
We Build Subnets
SOMA
SN114
Teutonic
SN3
Conjectures
SN66
Albedo
SN97
Subnet as a Service
...then we keep them honest
Dendrite helps teams grow subnets and delivers development services, specialising in the Bittensor ecosystem. You keep ownership - we bring the engineering.
- 50+
- Engineers & mathematicians
- 10+
- Years building infrastructure
- 4+
- Subnets we are building
What we do
Four skills, end to end.
Subnet Building
Validator, miner and scoring code you own and run.
Exploit Hardening
We break it before someone else farms it.
Scaling & Supporting
Monitoring, releases and tuning alongside your team.
Case studies
Work we have shipped.
Built a coding benchmark without containers - pure LLM judging.
Took an LLM-judged coding competition from research to production. It produced a model that outperformed its base, without running code or containers.
- Open-weight model beat its base on SWE-bench Verified and SWE-rebench.
- Frontier LLM judges coding trajectories without execution.
- Simulated environments cut costs and speed up scaling.
- Live in production; rubrics and judges continually refined.
Built Teutonic-I 10B through 70 days of competitive decentralized training.
Ran open pretraining where participants challenged the best checkpoint, advancing only verified improvements. The strongest checkpoint averaged 62.28% across 11 benchmarks, ahead of Quasar-Preview 18B (59.78%) and Covenant 72B (57.55%) under the same aggregation.
- 10B parameters, 70 days of open competition.
- 2,163 duels; 203 statistically verified improvements.
- Led 8 of 11 tasks in the paper’s comparison.
- Independent training setups; one shared model lineage.
Built the platform powering a live marketplace for machine-verifiable mathematical proofs.
Built Conjectures.io, Bittensor Subnet 66, from problem browsing to bounty settlement. Submissions surged after GPT-6 Astra’s release. Proofs now undergo manual review before rewards, with one submission tied to a ~$23k bounty pool paid out.
- Full frontend and backend for the proof marketplace.
- Proof submission, validation, tracking and payments.
- Handled the post-Astra surge in miner submissions.
- Largest submission paid; linked bounty pool ~$23k.
Testimonials
Trusted byEcosystem Builders
“The Dendrite team has been an incredible partner in building Conjectures from the ground up. They've shaped the subnet's design and turned ambitious ideas into working systems fast, staying flexible as the project and our goals evolved. I don't think we could have moved at this pace without them.”
“The Dendrite team bring a rare mix of talent, professionalism, and integrity. As a subnet, we value miners that operate as true partners, and consistently think about what’s best for the subnet long term. Their contributions have improved our incentive design, advanced our product through state of the art 3D AI work shared openly with the community, and they approach everything with the broader Bittensor ecosystem in mind - exactly the kind of team you want building alongside you.”
“It’s amazing to see a team excel in so many areas including weather forecasting, and the Dendrite team has been incredibly helpful with their input on Zeus. Personally, I really appreciate working together with them”
Geardici
Founder of Gaia ex-SN57
“The Dendrite team have been incredibly helpful and active participants of our subnet, contributing bugfixes, optimization ideas, and consistently helpful feedback as we iterate through many prototypes. We really appreciate teams like these, they take a collaborative approach to subnet development where many do not”
Let's Build Your Subnet
From your first incentive design to a live subnet, we build the validator, miner and scoring infrastructure, then help you improve it in production. You keep ownership of the code and the direction.
Build your subnet