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SN105 · Beam
Every Bittensor Daily mention of SN105 Beam, newest first. Price changes are snapshots from each edition.
24h change −0.81%
- What happened
- On SN105 (Beam), a miner reported that sell-debt had appeared on a hotkey with zero recorded sales. Separately, a miner described a dispute over room-transfer eligibility, saying another operator's agent added delay to competing transfers and that requests from that operator's room consisted largely of hotkeys it controlled itself. The team confirmed that adaptive transfer limits and managed room lanes, which adjust parallel transfer capacity per destination based on delivery history, have been live since October 24.
- Community
- The miner who raised the sell-debt question asked for an explanation of how the debt was calculated. The miner raising the room-transfer concern asked the team how the current eligibility gate could detect the described pattern and whether delayed responses from a customized agent could be identified.
- Official
- The team said connection limits will become Beam-managed and that the eligibility gate needs more reference transfers to work at full capacity, adding that excluding such transfers is the anti-cheat system's responsibility. It also announced the adaptive transfer limits and managed room lanes update, live since October 24.
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24h change −2.45%
- What happened
- On SN105 (Beam), a miner raised concerns about the fairness and transparency of room-transfer eligibility, questioning why some requests were approved while others were not. Other miners argued that the paid room-transfer economics could let capital outweigh engineering skill in determining emissions. Separately, a miner built and demonstrated a live video and audio streaming proof-of-concept over Beam's messaging protocol, running it through a Discord-hosted room-viewer tool.
- Community
- Miners debated the allocation dispute at length, with one pointing to the publicly available assignment-plan data showing allocation tied to PRISM scores, while others continued to question the broader incentive design. Separately, miners discussed creating a dedicated community group to help increase Beam's visibility.
- Official
- The team stated that streaming and message protocols are currently excluded from PRISM scoring, so miners can test without penalty, and offered an unlimited API key for streaming cost testing. The team also praised the miner's streaming demo.
24h change −2.15%
- What happened
- Miners on SN105 (Beam) identified an apparent self-transfer exploit in which transfers show files already present at the destination, allowing unusually fast completions (one case cited at 2140 Mbps, ~400ms) that bypass genuine upload verification; one miner reported records suggesting roughly 100 UIDs involved across multiple groups. Separately, a validator-pointed benchmark destination (172.232.226.191:9000) was reported unstable, refusing connections and causing legitimate transfers from honest miners to fail, triggering 3x PRISM penalties and rank drops from Tier D to Tier E for some participants. The team temporarily raised Beam transfer pricing to $15 per TB as a short-term measure tied to the miner-owned transfer issue. Orchestrator operators also continued to report recurring NATS authentication-expired errors.
- Community
- Miners shared transfer IDs and timing data to document the exploit and debated whether it could be explained by legitimate caching, with one miner noting the etag used to verify uploads can be generated locally without an actual upload. A miner proposed an 'accredited account' system so only vetted customer traffic counts toward incentive, as a way to curb wash trading without banning accounts. Separately, miners affected by the unstable benchmark endpoint asked the team to filter or blacklist destinations that drop connections, and others troubleshot the NATS auth errors by rebuilding against the latest commit and matching API keys.
- Official
- The team stated the self-transfer exploit "is not tolerated and will be punished," with further information to come, and said a separate issue with stuck sell-allowance debt would be addressed separately. It also announced a temporary increase in transfer pricing to $15 per TB while the miner-owned transfer issue is addressed, calling the adjustment short-term.