Founder @ Orpheus AI | Subnet 18 (Zeus) Owner. Bridging DeAI & Energy Trading. Providing traders with hyper-accurate, miner-driven weather forecasting.
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Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
Just watch 1min, I promise you'll love it.
Zeus' full @ExploitSummit talk
@RoryZeus breaks down the how and why of Zeus, shares what’s ahead, and pitches Zeus Pro and Zeus Edge 👇
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
With teams dedicating thousands of hours to model development on Zeus, stable evaluation is the most important aspect of the subnet’s design.
AI brings a new generation of weather models that rival (and outperform) traditional numerical models.
Ground truths, loss functions and optimization targets all shape what these models learn, each with own trade-offs.
We've evaluated them all, and found the ones best suited to Zeus. More on our rationale in our latest blog.
🔗 zeussubnet.com/zeus-pro-anal…
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
Bittensor Research together with a University?
Today, I start my research project at the University Of Amsterdam. Researching AI-weather forecasting incentivised on renewable energy locations.
Follow my open source process on my github:
github.com/wouterharinghuize…
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
The team behind zeus;
6 full timers, 3 part-timers
3/6 cum-laude on the best universities of Europe
2 of them AI/ML Engineers
1 of them Econometrics
Everyone in the office on working days
$TAO
#bittensor
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
We're at 4.16k downloads now.
1.44k downloads on HF for subnet 18.
Over a thousand people have downloaded our historical forecast to assess the quality of ZEUS, @zeussubnet .
This reflects the major interest in our subnets forecasts. Not only does it show the quality, it also provides a mechanism that allows you to verify that the forecast is real.
We have developed a trustless verification mechanism.
For the tech nerds;
We push a sha256 hash of the forecast to the blockchain so we can lateron proof that that forecast was produced at that point in time.
This dataset holds the sha hash and the blocknumber so everyone can verify the forecast.
That means;
Dont trust our claims, verify them!
bittensor:native
#bittensor
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
NEW!
Full-on benchmarking environment to see how Zeus performs, where and when.
Zeus vs ECMWF’s IFS & AIFS singles and ensembles, across regions, lead times and variables.
🔗 zeussubnet.com/benchmarks
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
Zeus is energy-aware. How? 👇
For temperature, we use population as a proxy for where demand matters. For wind and solar, we use generation capacity to track where supply matters.
Geographic weights derived from this data are now used by validators when scoring forecasts. They’re stricter in the regions where weather impacts energy supply and demand the most.
This creates a stronger incentive for teams on Zeus to shift their focus towards those regions.
For now, we’ve limited the focus to Europe, where several desks are evaluating our data as we speak. We may expand to other interesting trading regions, like the US and Australia.
*Focus is now 40% Germany, 40% rest of Europe, 20% rest.
Zeus is becoming energy-aware. The first among weather models.
Incentives are now skewed towards Europe, most to Germany. Based on expressed interest from trading desks and trading volume.
Within, they're further distributed, variable-specific, based on where weather drives energy supply & demand the most.
Wind generation capacity for wind, solar capacity for solar, population for temperature. Now on mainnet.
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
While energy supply becomes more and more weather-dependent, our mission is to give traders the fastest, most precise view on weather
✅ 75% faster*
✅ >30% more accurate on temperature*
✅ >20% more accurate on wind*
*vs ECMWF IFS across June and July
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
👀
Zeus (SN18), recent sell pressure resolved.
An early partner who covered the slot registration fee (and held a share of emissions in return) decided to wind down and move on. Although we do not agree with the decision, we respect it.
Their remaining position has been fully bought out by a long-term holder. We, Ørpheus AI, own the subnet 100% now.
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
if you were watching #bittensor subnet channels on discord this week you saw @arbos_born roll out automated ratings for each subnet. presumably these will (eventually) determine arbos weightings for #rootreborn.
these are the FIVE CHEAPEST subnets ranked 10/10 by arbos:
sn55 @NiomeAI - 0.00298 TAO
sn32 @ai_detection - 0.00306 TAO
sn82 @compelleai - 0.00337 TAO
sn18 @zeussubnet - 0.00383 TAO
sn26 @perturbaix - 0.00391 TAO
for context: all of these are 4-5% the price of chutes, which is the highest-priced 10/10 subnet.
full list of 10/10 subnets per arbos is below. bittensor:native
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
Zeus is becoming energy-aware. The first among weather models.
Incentives are now skewed towards Europe, most to Germany. Based on expressed interest from trading desks and trading volume.
Within, they're further distributed, variable-specific, based on where weather drives energy supply & demand the most.
Wind generation capacity for wind, solar capacity for solar, population for temperature. Now on mainnet.
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
I believe we're the first company to train a global weather model for energy trading.
Train AI for its purpose. But how?
Train AI for weather forecasting? NOPE!
Train AI for weather in energy trading? YES!
We are updating the subnet so that the models will be incentivised to the locations of windmill farms in europe. So that the predictions are not "better on average around the globe", but better where it actually matters.
Below you see a visualized version of the "importance of each location" that we will deploy on subnet 18 this Friday.
I am excited, since there is no weather forecasting company that is approaching the problem like this.
#bittensor
#zeus
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
It takes a bit longer than expected with the energy traders, but we're getting there.
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
I think I Fixed a pilot conversion killer, do you agree?
Conversion was low, around 50% from this page, after clicking "BOOK A PILOT CALL" (went to external cal.com website)
Now you stay on the website
(and looks better cal.com should steal my styling)
check it out on zeussubnet.com/contact
(please dont book unless you are an energy trader)
Updated it. now its 100%
(only one person tried lol, but hé lets see)
#bittensor
@zeussubnet
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
Yesterday, we opened the beta waitlist for Zeus Edge. Giving traders a view of where the ECMWF ENS is heading before its release. Forecasting the forecast.
Within 24 hours: >10.000 impressions and sign-ups across 10+ energy trading desks, including some of Europe's largest.
Wouter | SN18 Zeus ⚡️ retweeted
Tokenized cows just backed a farm loan on Brazil's stock exchange
Ten dairy cows in Paraná became the first tokenized livestock collateral on B3, Brazil's stock exchange, backing a loan worth about $19,400. Each cow carries a digital ID generated from AI sensor collars tracking its health in real time.
Banks usually cut up to 60% off livestock collateral because they can't verify an animal is even alive. Live monitoring removes that discount just as Brazil's farm bankruptcies have nearly quadrupled since 2023.
Cowmed already monitors 100,000 cows worth around $395M and projects a fifth could be pledged within two years, stretching RWA tokenization from T-bills into working farm animals.