In a report published on November 11, 2026, at 15:43 (UTC+8), ChainCatcher said the OpenTensor Foundation had announced Gamma Tokens, a native payment mechanism for the Bittensor ecosystem.
Under the announced mechanism, users and AI agents can use one Bittensor wallet to access participating subnets and pay for services, without registering a separate account or obtaining an API key for each subnet.
Gamma payment credits can be generated in two ways: paying with TAO triggers a purchase and burn of the relevant subnet’s Alpha tokens in the same transaction; holders of that subnet’s Alpha tokens can instead burn them directly. The report does not specify credit pricing, supply effects beyond those burns, or which subnets will adopt the standard.
