- General Tensor and Talisman wallet have entered into a partnership to support both human and autonomous AI agents on the Bittensor network.
- Users will now be able to explore subnets, trade, and invest effortlessly on Bittensor, as General Tensor provides the requisite infrastructure and Talisman provides a secure, institutional-grade wallet.
- The pair will announce the partnership at Bittensor’s largest event, Proof of Talk, which will draw participation from the network’s global and top-tier participants.
General Tensor, a prominent blockchain and AI infrastructure builder on the Bittensor network, is now collaborating with Talisman Wallet, a non-custodial multi-chain Web3 wallet, to support Bittensor’s diverse users – humans and autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents alike.
Users can now seamlessly explore subnets, trade, and invest on Bittensor. General Tensor delivers the core infrastructure, while Talisman provides a secure, institutional-grade non-custodial wallet. This attracts institutional capital while creating clear pathways for institutions to custody and deploy digital assets on the network.
General Tensor and Talisman Wallet to unlock institutional capital for Bittensor
With half of its $2 billion in cross-chain assets under management already on Bittensor, Talisman Wallet has become the leading decentralized wallet for human and AI entities on the network.
New users must first declare their intentions before accessing Bittensor via the wallet, a capability Talisman has refined over the past four years. Regarding this, Mike Grantis, CEO of General Tensor, stated: “Talisman owns the front door to Bittensor. We build and operate the infrastructure it interacts with.”
Security-wise, Talisman integrates safety by design and not as an afterthought. Core protections run from the bedrock and include account delegation, hardware signing, native multi-signature capabilities, and an agentic permissioning model.
For institutions, Talisman offers Signet – an enterprise-grade multi-signature workflow management system. Signet serves as a blockchain financial operations platform for DAOs, funds, family offices, treasuries, and other large entities, enabling secure management and signing of crypto transactions.
Partnership goals and formal announcement
General Tensor brings deep expertise in mining, validator operations, subnet management, and its newly acquired Bittensor-native trading platform, Backprop Finance. The company is backed by Lvna Capital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Good Morning Holdings. It continues to develop retail, institutional, and agentic infrastructure for Bittensor.
The partnership aims to activate Talisman’s wallet vision across General Tensor and the broader Bittensor ecosystem. It looks to support institutions from custody through deployment and settlement.
On this subject, Grantis noted that, “Pairing the network’s largest wallet with our validator, mining, and application stack closes the loop between what a user, or an agent, intends to do, and what actually happens on-chain. That is the prerequisite for the next wave of capital and the next wave of automated activity entering this network.”
Zerobit, the CEO and Project Lead of Talisman, praised the collaboration, saying it “has built real credibility in the Bittensor ecosystem by doing the hard operational work and building for where the network needs to be in years, not quarters.” He sees the partnership as a key to supporting Bittensor’s next wave of users, builders, and allocators.
General Tensor and Talisman will announce the partnership at the 2026 Proof of Talk convention at the Louvre Palace in Paris (June 2–3). The event is Bittensor’s largest global gathering and draws elite blockchain decision-makers.
The two organizations are jointly sponsoring Bittensor at proofoftalk.io/bittensor. Discounted tickets are available with the code “TAO” right up until seats sell out.
