# Bittensor keynote bundle — "A mind outside the state" This folder holds every working file for Jacob Steeves' opening keynote at Exploit Summit 2026. It is a hand-off pack: one link, everything inside. Live slide deck: https://bittensor-talk.pages.dev Offline copy of the deck: `deck/dist/index.html` (see "Open the deck" below). ## Where this folder lives online - Browsable copy with a landing page at the root: https://bittensor-talk-bundle.pages.dev (Cloudflare Pages; every file sits at the same relative path, for example https://bittensor-talk-bundle.pages.dev/docs/talk-draft-2.md). - Raw file bucket: https://pub-5a826c8eb83647d492112bb0d9eb4c94.r2.dev (Cloudflare R2). R2 serves files but has no directory listing, so the bare root returns 404. Use a full file path, for example https://pub-5a826c8eb83647d492112bb0d9eb4c94.r2.dev/00-README.md or the landing page https://pub-5a826c8eb83647d492112bb0d9eb4c94.r2.dev/index.html. - `index.html` in this folder is that landing page: the same content as this README plus a linked table of every file. ## Who is speaking Jacob Robert Steeves, known online as Const. Founder of Bittensor, author of the white paper, CEO of Affine. Bittensor is a peer-to-peer network that pays machines with the TAO token to produce AI (compute, inference, training, data). ## The talk - Event: Exploit Summit 2026, Montreal, 28–29 September 2026. A Bittensor ecosystem conference (subnet teams, validators, investors, some press). - Slot: Day 1, Monday 28 September, OTF Stage, 10:05–10:50 (45 minutes), straight after the 5-minute Welcome Address. It is the opening keynote. - Billed as "The State of Bittensor". Working title: "A mind outside the state". - Audience: mostly insiders. Skip Bittensor 101. - Status on 25 September: the deck is 33 slides. Jacob still has to pick the spine (talk draft 2 versus the Jensen-style script) and answer the `[JACOB]` items marked in the drafts. `notes.md` has the open list. ## How this folder is organised | Folder or file | What is in it | |---|---| | `00-README.md` | This file. | | `INDEX.md` | Every file in the bundle with its size and a one-line description. | | `notes.md` | The live task list: what is open and what is done. | | `archived.md` | Finished or superseded tasks, with a one-line result each. | | `docs/` | The writing: drafts, scripts, outlines, slide plans, fact-checks. | | `docs/research/` | Research briefs: state of Bittensor, top subnets, economics, Thiel, model keynotes, fact-checks. | | `docs/sources/` | Primary sources: the white paper, the About essay, transcripts of Jacob's interviews, transcripts of model talks, Thiel texts, and the full @const_reborn tweet archive. | | `media/` | Images used or considered for slides. `charts-gallery/` has subnet growth charts, `the-cabal/` the cabal network figure (TeX, PDF, PNG, SVG), `reference/` example slides from other keynotes. | | `deck/` | The slide deck. Source (`content/slides.md`, `content/data.json`, `scripts/`, `src/`, `README.md`, build config) and the built static site in `deck/dist/`. | | `internal/` | Method notes, the metrics sweep raw data, research on the September 2026 lab-closure story, and the tweet-pull script. | | `talk-bundle.zip` | This whole folder as one archive (the zip is not inside itself). | Links inside `notes.md`, `archived.md` and some docs point to the original working store, a path of the form `/cursor/stores/bc-96ff1b3e-00b6-4da6-8a0d-5e72965f7e86/docs/x.md`. Read that as `docs/x.md` in this folder. The layout is the same. ## The 15 most important files | File | One line | |---|---| | `docs/project-context.md` | The brief. Who Jacob is, the venue, the purpose, the core thesis, the constraints. Read first. | | `docs/talk-draft-2.md` | The 35-minute talk in Jacob's own words with agreed edits, facts and notes inline. Candidate spine. | | `docs/keynote-layout.md` | The room plan: 21 slides, nine phases, a clock, and hand-forwards to later summit sessions. | | `docs/jensen-style-talk.md` | The same talk written as a Jensen Huang product keynote. Competes with draft 2 for the spine. | | `docs/outline-v2.md` | Talk outline v2 (structure B): every point, every quote, with segues. | | `docs/trajectory.md` | The trajectory from Weber to Bittensor in sixteen steps. The spine of the script and deck. | | `docs/idea-board.md` | Idea board: 919 bullets on Jacob's 24-slide axis. Now the quote bank. | | `docs/facts-for-draft-1.md` | Every fact used in draft 1, with sources and confidence grades. | | `docs/fear-quotes.md` | 32 verified quotes about fear of AI, plus a do-not-use list. Jacob picks three. | | `docs/growth-slides.md` | Method and numbers behind the compute, inference and data growth slides (slides 3–6). | | `docs/metrics-gallery.md` | Every growth series found across the subnets (393), 152 rising, top 12 ranked. | | `docs/incentives-chart.md` | "Incentives, not a conspiracy": the cabal network chart, 46 claims graded. Live as slide 9. | | `docs/opening-slides.md` | The opening slides: the five-year trend chart and the library row of eight subnets. | | `docs/slides-draft-v4.md` | Slides draft v4: 26 slides with 11 charts. Superseded by the live deck but the fullest slide-by-slide text. | | `notes.md` | The live task list. What is open, what is done, what waits on Jacob. | ## Open the deck Online: https://bittensor-talk.pages.dev (arrow keys move, `s` opens speaker notes, `f` is fullscreen, `/#/12` opens slide 12). From this folder: `deck/dist/` was built with relative asset paths (`vite build --base=./`), so it works from any subfolder or from a local disk. Browsers block ES-module scripts on `file://` pages (Chrome and Safari do; Firefox allows it). So serve the folder with any static server, for example: ```bash cd deck/dist && python3 -m http.server 4718 # then open http://127.0.0.1:4718 ``` To rebuild from source: `cd deck && npm ci && npm run build`. The words live in `deck/content/slides.md`; every chart number lives in `deck/content/data.json`. ## What was excluded - Nothing from `docs/`, `media/`, `notes.md`, `archived.md` or `internal/` was left out. There was no `internal/secrets/` folder and no `.env` file. - A grep of the whole tree for the usual credential markers (a run of twelve capital A's as in X bearer tokens, the 1Password `op` URI scheme, and shell assignments to variables ending in TOKEN or SECRET) found no credentials. One placeholder shell line in the deck README (an `export` of the Cloudflare API token variable with `...` as its value) was reworded to prose so the bundle has zero matches. No value was ever present. - `deck/node_modules/` and `deck/.git/` are not included. Run `npm ci` to restore dependencies.