Recruitensor decentralizes talent acquisition for Bittensor, turning recruitment into a verifiable, on-chain commodity that grows every subnet.
Recruitensor – The Intelligent Talent Layer for Bittensor
Bittensor has over 128 active subnets, but growth is bottlenecked by a critical shortage of skilled miners and builders. There is no dedicated recruiting infrastructure. Onboarding relies on hackathons, word of mouth, and manual outreach. Recruitensor solves this by turning talent acquisition into a verifiable, on-chain commodity.
Miners act as recruiters, identifying and onboarding developers, AI agents, and contributors across Bittensor subnets. They earn alpha token rewards through a dual-pool emission system: short-term rewards for recruits who contribute within the first 7–14 days, and long-term retention bonuses that unlock after 30+ days of sustained productivity. AI agents can also be deployed as automated recruiters, tapping into platforms like Moltbook to recruit other agents directly into Bittensor subnet mining.
Every recruitment claim is backed by on-chain proof. Validators verify recruits via emissions and GitHub activity, and unverified claims are slashed. A four-tier reputation system (Novice → Legendary) progressively unlocks higher-value bounties, reduced alpha holdings requirement, and boosted emission yields, rewarding quality over volume. Governance is tied to reputation and Alpha holdings, ensuring decision-making reflects genuine network contribution.
Recruitensor is the missing flywheel for Bittensor. The project decentralizes talent acquisition, accelerating subnet growth, and making human and AI capital a tradeable, incentivised asset on the network.
During this hackathon, Recruitensor has gone from a high-level idea to a fully architected protocol design ready for development. The core whitepaper has been completed, laying out the end-to-end mechanism for decentralized talent acquisition on Bittensor. This includes task assignment, submission, validation, and reward allocation.
The incentive and reward architecture has been fully designed, featuring a dual-pool emission system (21% short-term wins, 20% long-term retention) with a precise scoring formula, yield multipliers, and time-locked escrow mechanics to align miner and recruit behavior over the long term. A four-tier reputation system has been structured with on-chain anti-gaming safeguards, and score decay logic to ensure sustainable, quality-driven participation.
The governance framework has been mapped in full. This covers tiered voting rights, treasury spend controls, scoring parameter adjustment mechanisms, and protocol upgrade procedures, all with anti-capture safeguards baked in.
What exists today is a well thought out blueprint. The architecture is solid, the incentives are aligned, and the path to a working subnet is clear. The next phase is execution: validator and miner node development, frontend deployment, and pilot partner onboarding.
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