Bittensor (TAO) trading bots
TAO bots on Circuit
5 public bots trade the TAO perp on Hyperliquid right now. Each one runs on its owner's wallet, and every trade it makes is public on its page.
TAO is the token of Bittensor, an open network of independent subnets that produce digital commodities such as compute, inference, storage and prediction. Per Bittensor's docs, the chain pays participants in TAO based on the value they add: miners produce, validators score them, subnet creators set the incentives and stakers back validators with TAO.
As of October 2026 the TAO perp trades on Hyperliquid at up to 5x and on Lighter. Hyperliquid's maintenance margin at 5x is 10%, eight times BTC's.
TAO bots on Circuit trade it as part of the AI token theme. One basket goes long the top AI token perps and another shorts them. The breakout strategy can watch TAO by adding it to the coin list.
A 5x short is liquidated about 9% above entry and a 5x long about 11% below, before fees and funding. Tokens in one theme often move together, so a basket of five AI tokens behaves closer to one position than five. Cap the theme as a whole, and backtest on recorded Hyperliquid markets to see the drawdowns.
Most-run TAO bots
| Bot | Creator | Venues | 30-day return | Running |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ride the Leaders | circuit | Hyperliquid | +6.28% | 10 |
| Top 10 AI | circuit | Hyperliquid | +12.03% | 3 |
| Short Top 10 AI | circuit | Hyperliquid | n/a | 1 |
| Positive Catalyst | foobarprod | Hyperliquid | -32.41% | 1 |
| Top 10 Majors | circuit | Hyperliquid | +6.04% | 0 |
Returns are each bot's own record across everyone running it. Past returns don't predict future results.
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