Where to buy TAO
Exchanges, on-ramps, and how to acquire TAO before you can stake, validate, or transact.
Understanding Taostats
taostats.io is a full-featured blockchain explorer and portfolio manager for Bittensor. This section explains every feature of the product itself — how to buy TAO, manage an account, browse subnets, stake, validate, mine, and use Pro tools.
Pick where to start
Section titled “Pick where to start”Accounts
Coldkey and hotkey basics, single-account view, sending and transferring, delegation, staking instructions, the staking and transfer apps, limit orders, and troubleshooting.
Subnets
Browse subnets on taostats.io, use the single-subnet page, subnet pools, sentiment, deregistration ranking, and top-subnets-by-emission.
Validators
The validator explorer — single-validator page, performance history, and validator-alpha-shares breakdown.
Miners
Miner discovery, per-subnet miner stats, and mining on taostats.
Chain, Events, Extrinsics
Block explorer, event stream, extrinsic search, transfers, and the underlying substrate chain data.
Pro
Portfolio tracking, tax reports, alerts, the Pro API, MEV shield, and every feature that’s part of taostats.io Pro.
Not sure what taostats is?
Section titled “Not sure what taostats is?”Read What is Taostats for a five-minute overview, or Getting started with Bittensor if you’re new to the ecosystem.
Looking for the API instead?
Section titled “Looking for the API instead?”The API reference covers all 156 endpoints across 32 groups. If you want to build against taostats data programmatically, that’s your entry point.