Talking Tao: with Gustave from Mentat Minds

About this episode

Siam and Mark discuss Bittensor's non-custodial allocation methods with Gustave from Mentat Minds.

In this session Siam and Mark banter about experimenting with a Mac mini/“Claude bot” and runaway token costs before interviewing Gustave from Mentat Minds about their non-custodial way to allocate TAO into Bittensor subnets via themed index baskets (e.g., prediction/inference), a “Sum of Subnets” product, price-weighted entries with optional monthly rebalancing, and a 9% fee taken only from staking yield; they cover validator selection, user mix, roadmap (more verticals and curated third-party strategies), and address questions on licensing and fees, while the hosts share a portfolio philosophy favoring asymmetric, lower-price subnets near dereg floors and monitoring chain-buy flows for rotation.

People in this episode

Hosts: Siam Kidd, Mark Creaser

Guest: Gustave

Topics covered

• Bittensor
• non-custodial allocation
• themed index baskets
• validator selection
• portfolio philosophy

Keywords

• Bittensor
• TAO
• Mentat Minds
• non-custodial
• index baskets
• validator selection
• portfolio philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mentat Minds

Products: Claude bot, TAO, Sum of Subnets

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