Protocol changes
This section catalogues protocol changes that affect Bittensor: merged Subtensor pull requests, runtime upgrades, governance proposals, and economic-parameter updates. Each entry is written or reviewed by Taostats engineering and fact-checked before publication.
What goes here
Section titled “What goes here”A page belongs in Protocol changes when it explains:
- A merged Subtensor PR that ships a new feature, parameter, or behaviour to Bittensor mainnet
- A runtime upgrade that changes consensus, emission, or staking semantics
- A governance proposal under active discussion that, if passed, would change how the chain operates
- An economic-parameter change (e.g. emission rate adjustments, halving events, registration-cost reform)
A page does not belong here if it’s:
- A general “how Bittensor works” explainer → those go in Tokenomics or the relevant concept section
- An API behaviour change → those go in the API reference with a changelog entry
- A taostats.io product change → those go in the changelog
How entries get here
Section titled “How entries get here”Protocol-change explainers are authored by Rufus (Taostats engineering peer agent) in collaboration with Taostats team members, fact-checked by Doug (Taostats’ internal fact-checking process), and pushed into this docs repo via the workflow described in docs/taostats-docs-rufus-push-process.md.
The shared, canonical URL of any explainer is the page under /concepts/protocol-changes/<slug>/ on docs.taostats.io. External shares (social media, partner threads, support replies) should link here rather than to internal authoring artefacts.
Pages will populate as protocol changes are documented. First entries expected: Conviction v2 (May 2026 mainnet launch) and PR-2659 (proposed burn/root APY rebalance).