Torus emerges as a fork out of Commune AI, which emerged as a fork out of Bittensor. In this blogpost we talk about the history of Commune, our involvement through RENLABS and our ultimate decision to fork and build Torus. The Commune AI protocol was launched as a strongly adapted fork of Bittensor in july 2023 by physicist and AI engineer Sal Vivona. Design differences included migrating from a global to a local stake model, a linear (no consensus) 'general' subnet, namespace, subn...

Torus emerges as a fork out of Commune AI, which emerged as a fork out of Bittensor. In this blogpost we talk about the history of Commune, our involvement through RENLABS and our ultimate decision to fork and build Torus. The Commune AI protocol was launched as a strongly adapted fork of Bittensor in july 2023 by physicist and AI engineer Sal Vivona. Design differences included migrating from a global to a local stake model, a linear (no consensus) 'general' subnet, namespace, subn...