Over the past few weeks, Trishool(SN23) has accomplished so much, and we are just getting started.
The goal remains to build a stronger safety layer for frontier AI and improve the guard models that protect real-world AI deployments.
Now we’d like to introduce the team behind the work.
Meet @xnavkumar, co-founder and CEO of Astroware, co-founder of Trishool, and one of the builders behind Halo.
Nav is a builder and operator.
Before Astroware, he spent 14 years at Oracle, rising to VP and Head of Digital Products. He delivered enterprise projects with budgets above $100M, later led data monetisation strategy at Lloyds Banking Group, and joined the founding team of a challenger business bank at Nationwide.
He is also a second-time founder.
Before Trishool and Astroware, Nav co-founded Metaphy Labs with Preetham Sathyamurthy. Metaphy Labs was acquired by JetSynthesys in 2024.
He is proof that Trishool is being built by people who understand both frontier AI safety and enterprise deployment.
“We came for AI trust. We stayed for AI safety. Trishool is what we built.”
This is the first post in our founder introduction series. More team announcements are coming soon.
We are pleased to announce that Trishool (SN23) has been officially accepted into the Claude Partner Network by Anthropic.
This marks a major milestone in our commercial growth. As an AI security startup, we provide more than infrastructure. We deliver expert advisory and consulting services that help enterprises deploy frontier AI safely and at scale. That commitment is what earned us this partnership.
The timing couldn’t be better better. Enterprises are rapidly deploying Claude in production environments, and production-grade AI requires a robust security layer. That is exactly where Halo, our battle-tested guard model, comes in.
Claude Partner status gives us the credibility, visibility, and network access needed to position Halo at the center of serious enterprise AI deployments.
@proofoftalk is the event we look forward to most, and this year was the best yet. Our third year in attendance and, our second year as Platinum sponsors.
Congrats to the @proofoftalk and @XVentures_Fund team for building the world's #1 Bittensor gathering.
Your service to Bittensor does not go unnoticed...
Thank you, from all of us at GT.
#ProofOfTalk
Had @mikecontango Founder of @generaltensor on the pod
Talking about what it takes to get $TAO to the top institutional investors
General Tensor are OGs who started some of the major subnets on Bittensor, acquired top validator Roundtable 21 and now have taken over trading venue Backprop Finance
No one better to speak to than Mike on all things BIttensor
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:45 State of Markets
03:48 General Tensor Origins
09:21 Antifragility
11:11 TAO Capital Markets
15:12 Distributed Computing
20:18 Exponential Growth of $TAO
26:07 Subnet Analysis
29:43 TAO as a Diversified AI Index
35:36 Driving Institutional Adoption and Research
✅ [New Audit Contest]
@0x_Markets Smart Contract Audit Contest is LIVE on HackenProof!
0xMarkets is a multi-asset perpetual futures DEX for FX, crypto, and commodities, powered by Bittensor and built on the Cartha Subnet.
Now it’s your turn to test it!
💰 Reward pool: Up to $30,000
📅 Duration: June 4 – July 8
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This is what Day 2 looks like in the afternoon.
The conversations that started yesterday have turned into business today. The lunch with @SpectrumNodes was the room's senior names at the same table. The Main Stage is full again.
The room feels exactly the way we hoped.
We are pleased to announce that Trishool (SN23) has been officially accepted into the Google for Startups Web3 Program.
This milestone grants us access to up to $200,000 in Google Cloud credits over the next two years, alongside specialized Web3 resources, enhanced technical support, exclusive ecosystem opportunities, and strategic partnerships.
These resources will help us accelerate development, strengthen our AI safety and alignment initiatives, and continue building long-term value within the Bittensor ecosystem.
The work continues. 🚀
The greatest minds in TAO. One room. The Louvre.
The Bittensor Track is back at @proofoftalk for year two, and we're co-hosting the #TensorFi workshop with @wearetalisman.
@mikecontango, @contangojosh, @kenjon of @bitmind, @philism of
@forevermoney_ai, and @wearetalisman will be discussing:
🔹 What can DeFi unlock for the Bittensor network — liquidity, investment primitives, market making, the agentic economy?
🔹 How can Bittensor's AI infrastructure improve and evolve existing DeFi protocols?
June 3. Paris. Register here:
luma.com/glytiyi4
15 threat categories. Constitutions enforced on every prompt, response, and agent action. Novel attacks trained back in weekly.
This is what decentralized AI safety looks like in production. @trishoolai@xnavkumar
We focus on making Halo SOTA because it guards against the real-world threats that hit companies when their AI breaks.
15 threat categories cause real incidents in production, and Halo ships a constitution for each, enforced on every prompt, response, and agent action.
These
The Bittensor track is drawing unprecedented participation from the broader web3 and AI worlds, shaping conversations and pushing SOTA forward.
Join us and @wearetalisman at our workshop where we'll be talking about what #DeFi can unlock for Bittensor and how Bittensor can improve existing #DeFi protocols.
luma.com/glytiyi4
Only at @proofoftalk
We’re delighted to welcome back @generaltensor as a Platinum Sponsor of the Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk.
Formerly General TAO Ventures, General Tensor was the first supporter of the Bittensor Track back in 2024. We were fortunate to be close to them from the start, and they
The Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk
We’ve been close to Bittensor since 2023. What started as curiosity quickly turned into conviction.
At @XVentures_Fund, the venture studio behind Proof of Talk, that conviction began with capital.
Then we started mining subnets; including @gradients_ai, @taoshiio, and @affine_io.
The deeper we got, the more obvious it became:
Bittensor is not just another crypto. It's a permissionless market for coordinating intelligence, pulling thousands of leading minds across the globe towards the same frontier: the open production of value.
By the end of 2024, it was clear this could not stay confined to niche rooms and Discord channels.
So we brought it to the Louvre.
We built the Bittensor Track.
It put the leaders of the ecosystem in front of major allocators and investors at the frontier of decentralised technology.
@BarrySilbert used the stage to announce Yuma Asset Management.
@const_reborn registered Affine in the speaker prep room and announced it on stage minutes later.
Every session, packed.
The reception went far beyond what we could have anticipated.
The room felt less like a conference track than a crucible for the open intelligence economy.
A gathering of minds, both builders and investors, inside the Louvre, all circling the same question:
What happens when intelligence is no longer owned by a handful of companies, but coordinated and incentivised by an open network?
And this year, we're back.
Sixteen sessions across two days.
June 2–3
The Louvre, Paris
Bittensor Track at Proof of Talk
Full program below ↓
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