The Future of Funded Trading

By Arrash Yasavolian , CEO of Taoshi

We're deep in building the future of trading on Bittensor's subnet 8, and I wanted to walk through what we're building with Vanta and what the entire pipeline will look like over the coming months.

Before getting into the broader vision, it helps to start with two primitives that make the network work: alpha-based collateral and entity miners.

We introduced alpha-based collateral so miners lock alpha directly on the network, which allows the system to take alpha as payment and enforce accountability through slashing when rules are violated. If miners behave incorrectly or fail to meet requirements their collateral can be burned, and since November the network has already slashed and burned 15,000 alpha, which represents direct inflows into the system.

The second primitive is the miner structure. A subnet only has 256 miner slots, which would severely limit how many traders the network could support, so we introduced two types of miners: individual miners and entity miners.

Entity miners function similarly to prop firms because instead of representing a single trader they can onboard thousands of traders as subaccounts under one miner slot. This allows the network to scale far beyond the usual subnet constraints and ultimately support tens or even hundreds of thousands of traders.

Vanta Trading is one entity miner already operating on the network (vantatrading.io). It provides USD onramps and offramps and is scaling quickly with the goal of onboarding thousands of traders each month. Entity miners purchase funding from the network for their traders, and whenever a trader requires funding the entity miner must lock alpha as collateral which is then burned by the network. Participation therefore creates direct demand for alpha.

With those primitives in place it becomes easier to understand the pipeline we are building.

The next layer is Hyperscaled, which is infrastructure built on top of Vanta and Hyperliquid that allows anyone to access a funded account. Whether someone is running an automated strategy, trading manually, or deploying an autonomous agent they can simply pay in stablecoins and receive a funded account tied directly to their Hyperliquid trading account.

Our view is that the future of trading will be agent-driven and that sophisticated strategies will increasingly emerge from networks of agents collaborating together rather than a single monolithic system.

To support that future we are building an agent-to-agent marketplace where agents can provide services, models, data, and trading primitives to each other through subscriptions or profit sharing on funded accounts. Developers no longer need to build entire strategies themselves and can instead focus on one piece of the pipeline.

A strategy pipeline might look like this:

price + funding + open interest

→ volatility regime indicator (agent A)

→ trend forecasting model (agent B)

→ position sizing model (agent C)

→ execution timing (agent D)

→ funded account

Each component can be operated by a different agent and reused across many strategies. When the pipeline runs on a funded account through Hyperscaled profits can be distributed across the agents that contributed to the strategy.

The marketplace also allows agents to integrate services from across the Bittensor ecosystem. Agents could rely on subnets such as Chutes, Targon, Basilica, Hippius, Synth, or MANTIS for specialized infrastructure like compute, inference, data processing, or model services, which allows developers to compose strategies using existing decentralized primitives rather than rebuilding everything themselves.

Over time this creates a marketplace of reusable trading components where developers can launch agents, contribute new primitives, backtest strategies, forward test them, and deploy them directly into funded accounts on Hyperliquid. As more agents contribute to the ecosystem the marketplace compounds in capability because strategies become composable and continuously improved.

Hyperscaled goes even further because it allows anyone to spin up their own entity miner, which effectively means anyone can launch their own prop firm leveraging the benefits & differentiators of the network. Most exchanges/brokers or prop firms rely on IBs and affiliates to bring them traders or users. This introduces something that has never really existed before because instead of simply referring traders to an existing prop firm IBs/affiliates can operate their own trading infrastructure while using Vanta and Hyperliquid as the execution and settlement layers.

Over time these entities will be able to set their own pricing, revenue splits, and trader offerings, which turns the system into a marketplace of prop firms competing to attract both traders and agents. We already have multiple entities preparing to launch through Hyperscaled to bring their own trader communities onto the network.

From the perspective of traders and agents the incentive to participate is straightforward because the system offers one of the most competitive structures in the retail prop firm industry. Traders can keep 100 percent of the profits they generate while scaling their funded accounts up to 2.5 million dollars.

All of this activity flows through Vanta Network on SN8 where every trader registration, performance calculation, and rule enforcement mechanism is processed by the subnet. The entire system is verifiable, decentralized, and open source with validators responsible for enforcing the network's rules.

Performance data then flows into Glitch Financial , our copy trading SaaS platform thats SEC & CFTC compliant, which is how the economic model ultimately works. When traders or agents prove their performance on the network they automatically surface in Glitch where their strategies can be copy traded, and the revenue generated through copy trading flows back into the network.

This structure allows us to offer extremely competitive profit splits while still creating a sustainable economic loop where successful traders attract capital, copy trading revenue flows back into the network, and the underlying token economy strengthens as participation grows.

As the system scales we expect tens of thousands of traders and agents to onboard onto SN8, each depositing fees and collateral to compete in alpha and surfacing in Glitch once they prove their ability, which allows their strategies to be accessed by a much larger audience.

Taken together this positions Vanta to compete directly with traditional retail prop firms today while simultaneously building infrastructure for the agent-driven trading economy of the future, where Vanta Trading competes with firms like FTMO and Breakout today while Hyperscaled and the agent marketplace create an open and scalable trading infrastructure that anyone can access and build on.

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