Bittensor founder Jacob Stevens acknowledged that the project is not yet a fully decentralized protocol, as network management is concentrated in the hands of a small group of engineers. According to him, such centralization is necessary for the rapid development of AI technologies, allowing for prompt protocol updates and error corrections without the lengthy "democratic" procedures typical of more mature networks like Bitcoin.

Steves divided the community into three categories: newcomers will be given detailed guidebooks, developers are working directly with them, and critics using the rhetoric of decentralization to sabotage updates are set to ignore. At the same time, the founder emphasized that at the level of ownership Bittensor is already decentralized: the project did not have a premia, and in the ecosystem there are 128 independent teams of subnets.

The project’s upcoming roadmap will launch short-position mechanisms to protect against manipulation and implement alpha-token holders' rights. Steve has promised to hand over full control of the network to the community within a year and a half, as soon as the basic mechanisms of the protocol are fully ready and tested. This move coincides with analysts' predictions of explosive growth in demand for decentralized AI solutions.