The OpenTensor Foundation has announced Gamma Tokens, a native payment mechanism for the Bittensor ecosystem. Under the proposed standard, users and AI agents would be able to use one Bittensor wallet to access participating subnets and pay for services, without registering a separate account or requesting an API key for each subnet.
Gamma payment credit can be obtained with TAO or the relevant subnet’s Alpha token. When paying with TAO, the protocol buys and burns that subnet’s Alpha tokens in the same transaction to create Gamma credit. Someone who already holds the relevant Alpha tokens can burn them directly to create credit.
Original report: ChainCatcher, published November 11, 2026, at 15:43:09 (UTC+08:00).