Week of 2026-10-19

This week's drop 2:

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Earners

Getting paid in tokens for competing to build AI on Bittensor

No figureLegal position unclear

Only 20 percent of slots on Bittensor's AI competitions earn anything, though miners overall collect 2,811 TAO a day. The token price decides what that is worth.

  • Bittensor platform Bittensor is a public network of AI competitions (subnets) whose miners are paid in tokens. Source: Bittensor's public chain state, read through its public RPC
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Chat agents for local businesses, sold at prices anyone can see

Our estimateLegal position unclearrunningexperiment x30

Plans run from 49 to 490 USD a month for booking and ordering chat agents, and public records hint at only a handful of clients.

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1k to 10k USD a month
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Prices jump after a Korean exchange listing, then slide back

Our estimateLocked behind a licence or block

A coin listed on Upbit jumps about 20% within 5 minutes, then fades. The back-test paid but the edge is shrinking; the futures it needs are not lawful everywhere.

  • Upbit platform Its public listing notices were the event dates used to measure the price jump and fade. Source: Upbit's public Korean listing announcements
The money
100 to 1k USD a month
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A DeFi vault with a suspiciously smooth return curve

Their claimGrey

An aggregator shows about 10-12% a year with almost no drawdown. It has not been verified on-chain, and a curve that flat can be smoothed or hide other positions.

  • tradingstrategy.ai platform Its public vault listing is the source of the return and drawdown figures. Source: The tradingstrategy.ai listing for the vault (read 2026-10-26)
The money
10k to 100k USD a month
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Pooling crypto on Uniswap: price swings often outweigh the fees

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Fees brought in 8-17% of capital a year on a fixed-range Uniswap pool, but holding the coins beat it in two of four years because price kept leaving the range.

  • Uniswap platform Fee records were read from its v3 pools on Ethereum and Base. Source: Uniswap v3 public pool contracts on Ethereum and Base
  • Orca platform Its SOL-USDC pool was one of the pools in the earlier simulation. Source: Orca public pool data
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