BullTensor
TAO $277.90
Market cap · 30d
$133M τ478K
1.28% / 24h ↗
24h volume
$0 —
Daily, 24 days
Supply
21.3%
4.47M ת
in circulation, out of 21M max
  • In circulation 4.47M ת · 21.3%
  • In the pool 1.65M ת · 7.8%
  • Not emitted yet 14.9M ת · 70.9%
Locks
$15.9M 12.0% of circulating supply
  • Owner lock 483K ת · 10.8%
  • Other holders (3) 51.6K ת · 1.2%
  • Not locked 3.94M ת · 88.0%
∞ Perpetual lock 535K ת · ↘ Decaying lock 21.04 ת

What is lium.io?

In short
  • lium.io rents out graphics cards (GPUs) by the hour, like RunPod or Amazon Web Services, to train or run an AI.
  • The machines belong to participants of the Bittensor network, which often means lower prices.
  • It's Bittensor's largest subnet today (SN51), run by Datura AI.

Training or running an AI needs very powerful graphics cards (H100, H200, B200…), far too expensive to buy. So people rent them by the hour. lium.io is a marketplace where participants of the Bittensor network rent out their GPUs, from consumer cards to data-center models.

It's the largest subnet by market cap; it receives 13.73% of the network's rewards.

How it works

  1. 01
    Participants list their GPUs

    The subnet's miners put their machines up for rent on the marketplace.

  2. 02
    The network checks the hardware

    Validators check that the advertised GPUs really exist and score them.

  3. 03
    Lower prices for customers

    Miners earn network rewards on top of rentals: they can offer prices that compete with classic clouds.

Going further: the technical details

Miners earn SN51 alpha emissions on top of rental revenue; validators verify the declared hardware, which sets how miner emissions are split.

Prices and availability below come from lium.io's public feed; the rest of the page comes from the chain.

Owner on-chain revenue

What the subnet's team earns: 18% of the tokens the subnet creates every day go to it. It's its on-chain salary, visible to everyone.

Per day (current)
$38,501.24
τ138.54 · 1,295.97 ת
Last 30 days
$1.03M
τ3,625.09
Last 90 days
$2.26M
τ9,369.26

Daily revenue in USD (owner emissions × alpha price × TAO/USD of the day).

Alpha locks

on-chain state 42 minutes ago

When a team locks its own tokens, it can't sell them: it's a sign of confidence in its project. Other holders can lock too, behind the team's key.

Locked by the owner
483K ת
10.8% of circulating supply · $14.4M
Type
∞ Perpetual
Owner emissions auto-locked
Total on the owner hotkey
535K ת
∞ 535K · ↘ 21
Wallets locking
4
on the owner hotkey
ColdkeyHotkeyAlpha locked % circulatingTypeLast update
5FqACM…QzsThe Owner owner hotkey 483,315.66 ת 10.81% ∞ Perpetual #9270056
5HMtFE…eS8CCx owner hotkey 51,585.07 ת 1.15% ∞ Perpetual #8865642
5Dnt7N…Mtqurq owner hotkey 21.04 ת 0.00% ↘ Decaying #9217785
5DSHaH…q7wSAm owner hotkey 0.05 ת 0.00% ∞ Perpetual #8687379
See the 20 latest lock events
  • Oct 12 22:14 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9270056
  • Oct 12 21:02 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9269696
  • Oct 12 19:50 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9269336
  • Oct 12 18:38 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9268976
  • Oct 12 17:26 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9268616
  • Oct 12 16:14 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9268256
  • Oct 12 15:02 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9267896
  • Oct 12 13:50 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9267536
  • Oct 12 12:38 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9267176
  • Oct 12 11:26 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9266816
  • Oct 12 10:14 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9266456
  • Oct 12 09:02 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9266096
  • Oct 12 07:50 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9265736
  • Oct 12 06:38 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9265376
  • Oct 12 05:26 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9265016
  • Oct 12 04:14 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9264656
  • Oct 12 03:02 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9264296
  • Oct 12 01:50 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9263936
  • Oct 12 00:38 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9263576
  • Oct 11 23:26 Alpha lock 64.80 ת owner #9263216
How it's measured

Alpha locked via Lock / OwnerLock. A perpetual lock (∞) never unlocks; a decaying lock (↘) is released progressively (~130 days). An owner locking its own alpha signals confidence in the project.

Buybacks

Some teams use their revenue to buy back their own token and destroy it ("buyback & burn"): fewer tokens in circulation, like a company buying back its shares.

Alpha burned 30d
—
Buyback & burn
…
Manual burns
…
Emission burns
…
Burned by the owner (30d)
0.00 ת

The split between buyback & burn, manual burns and emission burns appears once the events of the period are indexed (history scan in progress).

60 days excluded: missing reading, or the counter moved more than the subnet can burn (e.g. runtime migration rewriting it).

TAO spent 30d
τ0
$0
TAO spent (all indexed)
τ0
Alpha burned 30d
0.00 ת
Operations
0

No buyback indexed yet.

How it's measured

On-chain events: AddStakeBurn (buyback & burn), alpha purchases (StakeAdded) and burns/recycles made by this subnet's declared treasury wallets.

lium.io GPU prices (live)

● lium.io API responding · 113 ms · checked 19 minutes ago · 24h uptime 100.0%
GPUs listed
1,629
GPUs rented
1,390 (85%)
Available
240
GPUClassVRAM $ per GPU-hourAvailable
B200 datacenter 180 GB $7.72 – $8.08 32
B300 SXM6 datacenter 288 GB $6.99 – $9.00 16
H100 80GB HBM3 datacenter 80 GB $3.75 48
H200 datacenter 141 GB $3.28 – $5.76 6
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition professional 96 GB $1.19 – $1.75 7
L40 datacenter 48 GB $0.72 1
RTX 6000 Ada Generation professional 48 GB $0.70 – $1.04 12
RTX 5090 consumer 32 GB $0.50 – $0.93 64
RTX A6000 professional 48 GB $0.42 1
RTX 4090 consumer 24 GB $0.38 – $0.60 17
L40S datacenter 48 GB $0.38 4
RTX 5070 Ti consumer 16 GB $0.35 1
RTX 3090 consumer 24 GB $0.18 – $0.40 17
RTX A4000 professional 16 GB $0.12 14

Source: lium.io's public pricing feed lium.io/pricing.json, refreshed every 10 minutes. Off-chain data, unlike the rest of this page.

lium.io vs traditional GPU clouds

lium.io is cheaper than the market median on 12 of the 12 GPUs it currently has available, and the cheapest of all listed offers on 4 of them.

GPUlium.iovs median Cheapest elsewhere RunPodVast.aiLambdaCoreWeave AWS / GCP / Azure
B200 $7.72 ▼ 3% $4.75 Vast.ai $7.99 $4.75 / $6.25 $6.69 $8.60 $14.24
B300 SXM6 $6.99 ▼ 22% $8.99 RunPod lium.io cheapest $8.99 — — — —
H100 80GB HBM3 $3.75 ▼ 39% $1.80 Vast.ai $3.99 $1.80 / $3.47 $3.99 $6.16 $6.88 / $10.98 / $12.29
H200 $3.28 ▼ 38% $4.49 Lambda lium.io cheapest $5.29 $4.61 / $4.61 $4.49 $6.31 $7.91
RTX PRO 6000 $1.19 ▼ 52% $2.49 RunPod lium.io cheapest $2.49 — — — —
RTX 6000 Ada Generation $0.70 ▼ 12% $0.51 Vast.ai $0.99 $0.51 / $0.60 — — —
RTX 5090 $0.50 ▼ 40% $0.38 Vast.ai $1.19 $0.38 / $0.48 — — —
RTX A6000 $0.42 ▼ 15% $0.34 Vast.ai $0.59 $0.34 / $0.40 — — —
RTX 4090 $0.38 ▼ 41% $0.15 Vast.ai $0.89 $0.15 / $0.40 — — —
L40S $0.38 ▼ 59% $0.43 Vast.ai lium.io cheapest $1.09 $0.43 / $0.77 — — —
RTX 3090 $0.18 ▼ 45% $0.10 Vast.ai $0.50 $0.10 / $0.15 — — —
RTX A4000 $0.12 ▼ 33% $0.08 Vast.ai $0.25 $0.08 / $0.11 — — —

USD per GPU-hour, on-demand, single GPU (multi-GPU instances divided by their GPU count). RunPod (Secure Cloud) and Vast.ai (cheapest / median of the 20 cheapest single-GPU offers) are read live every hour; Lambda, CoreWeave, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure are published list prices collected on October 10, 2026. Hover hyperscaler prices for the instance type. Market median = median across all sources. Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

lium.io FAQ

What is lium.io?
lium.io is a GPU rental marketplace on Bittensor subnet 51 (SN51), operated by Datura AI. Bittensor miners supply the GPUs and developers rent them by the hour.
Is Lium cheaper than AWS, RunPod or Vast.ai?
Much cheaper than hyperscalers: an H100 is $3.75 per hour on Lium versus $6.88 on AWS (list price). Lium is also below RunPod on most GPUs, while the Vast.ai marketplace can be cheaper on consumer cards. See the comparison table above.
How much does an H100 cost on Lium?
Right now an H100 NVL starts at $1.11 per GPU-hour on Lium, with 0 available. Live prices for every GPU are listed above.
What is the cheapest GPU on Lium?
The cheapest GPU available right now is the RTX A4000 at $0.12 per hour.
How many GPUs does Lium have?
1629 GPUs are listed on Lium right now, 1390 of them rented (85%).
What is the Lium token?
The alpha token of Bittensor subnet 51 (symbol ת), traded against TAO in the subnet's on-chain pool: currently τ0.106904 ($29.71), for a market cap of $133M.