An earned-media agency built for legacy.
We’re one of the best-performing PR teams in the world, landing more earned and organic coverage for early-stage AI and blockchain networks than most of the biggest players.
We specialize in AI and blockchain securing top-tier coverage for new and emerging protocols, growing brand equity, and creating global awareness for category-defining networks. Most notably, we helped secure Bittensor’s first piece of top-tier coverage and the overwhelming majority of its earned coverage, helping define brand equity and momentum around $TAO in mainstream media.
Since September 2023, we’ve not only landed coverage; we’ve also secured hundreds of interviews for Bittensor and built relationships with outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Reuters, MarketWatch, CNBC, Fortune, TIME, and the Financial Times. Our work has reached an estimated 16.5M views, driven 36,000+ organic and earned media mentions, delivered $500M+ in advertising value equivalency, and produced 286 pieces of coverage—boosting visibility and strengthening Bittensor.com’s domain authority with valuable editorial backlinks. We’ve even landed Bittensor subnets in WIRED, the LA Times, Yahoo Finance, and other top-tier outlets.
We’re rebelliously transparent: we want to work with winners. This means we don’t do trials or discounts to test PR. We train to fight, not to spar.
We share coverage books and our pitches, and we get hands-on in shaping your narrative with journalists. Many agencies will bullshit you with logos while relying on paid or sponsored PR to impress you. This does not build brand equity or legacy.
We do organic, earned media, which means we will never guarantee coverage. Instead, we’ll prepare you to build as many relationships with the press as possible by defining who you are, not what you sell.
While our specialty is AI and blockchain, we’re always open to talking with public figures and companies to see if there’s a fit.
The number-one media validator on the Bittensor network, dedicated to securing top-tier coverage for $TAO.
We’re creating the first feature-length film about Bittensor. Contact us to learn more.
PRvalidator is a professional media validator dedicated to securing top-tier coverage in the world’s most recognized publications, building Bittensor’s brand equity, and creating global awareness of $TAO. We specialize in landing organic and earned media coverage for protocols that allow us to run a validator on their networks—where the community delegates tokens to us—enabling us to execute global campaigns using the resulting rewards.
Since September 2023, we’ve secured over 133 interviews with some of the world’s most well-known publications, including The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Reuters, MarketWatch, CNBC, Fortune, TIME, Financial Times, and more. Our work has collectively reached an estimated 16.5 million views. This increased brand awareness has resulted in over 36,000 organic and earned media mentions, more than $500 million in advertising value equivalency, and 286 pieces of coverage. The coverage not only boosts brand visibility but also provides valuable backlinks in the articles, significantly strengthening Bittensor.com’s domain authority.
We’ve had our Bittensor subnets featured in WIRED, the LA Times, TechRadar, and other top-tier outlets, positioning PRvalidator as one of the best-performing PR teams in the world. We also secured placements for Dr. Ala Shabaana, Cosmo Jiang, and Macrocosmos to appear in an Amazon Prime Video documentary on AI, which is scheduled to be streamed on Emirates flights—reaching roughly 1.3 million viewers—when it goes live in 2025.
We Represent
Dr. Ala Shaabana
Ala Shaabana is a co-founder of Crucible Labs. Previously, Ala was a co-founder of Bittensor, and the Opentensor Foundation, where he led the development and maintenance of the Bittensor protocol since 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in applied artificial intelligence and has a background in industrial research and development on distributed computing and load prediction, having previously worked at VMware from 2018 to 2019. His work focuses on advancing decentralized machine learning and AI infrastructure.
Ken Miyachi
Ken Miyachi is the Co-founder of BitMind, a company at the forefront of developing pioneering deepfake detection technology and decentralized AI applications. Prior to founding BitMind, Ken served as a Senior Software Engineer at leading organisations such as NEAR Foundation, Amazon, and Polymer Labs, where he honed his expertise in scalable technology solutions.
Cosmo Jiang (Bittensor related press)
Cosmo Jiang is the General Partner of Pantera Capital and oversees their liquid token strategies alongside Dan Morehead. Cosmo joined Pantera from Nova River, where he ran a long-biased digital asset fund, underpinned by a fundamental, thesis-driven approach with a multi-year time horizon. He brings over five years of digital asset investing experience and ten years in traditional finance. Prior to launching Nova River, Cosmo was Managing Director at Hitchwood Capital where he was responsible for Consumer and Internet investments. He previously worked at Apollo Global Management in their private equity group and in M&A at Evercore Partners. Cosmo graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics.
Dr. Konstantinos Kallitsis
Konstantinos is a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in plastic electronics with his current research focusing on seamlessly interfacing electronics with biological systems. Konstantinos was the co-inventor of 8 patents while his research output totaling over 15 papers, some in top-tier journals such as Nature Communications and Advanced Materials. In the context of the Torus network, Konstantinos is leading the community development and talent onboarding effort, focusing on seeding communities in tech hubs such as Cambridge and Oxford.
Max Sebti
Max Sebti is the Co-founder and CEO of Score (Subnet 44), a company building the future of sports intelligence using computer vision. He is also the Co-founder and a core contributor at CrunchDAO.
Bittensor
New organization seeks to upend tech industry’s ‘monopoly’ on AI technology
By Fox Business
Dippy, a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions, lets you peer into their thought process—sometimes revealing hidden motives.
By Wired
Weeks after former President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., a video circulated on social media that appeared to show Vice President Kamala Harris saying at a rally, “Donald Trump can’t even die with dignity.”
By Los Angles Times
Three out of four Americans believe decentralized AI is more likely to support innovation and societal progress than traditional, centralized AI models dominated by Big Tech, according to new polling data released by Digital Currency Group and The Harris Poll.
By Forbes
It’s no secret that current AI models are built behind closed doors in secrecy and seclusion. Only a handful of Big Tech companies hold the keys to those doors, the massive server centers, petabytes of data, training pipelines and protocols.
By Forbes
Have an opinion about the S&P 500’s closing price at the end of 2025? Or whether Treasury note yields will hit 5% this year? Prediction markets give you the chance to put money on those event outcomes and earn payouts for being right.
By Yahoo Finance
Actor Tom Hanks’s voice is allegedly being used in a fraudulent manner to promote pharmaceuticals on social media and tech, and legal experts say there’s not much he or any other celebrity can do about it.
By The Epoch Times
Sora’s mix of generative A.I., collaboration tools and viral sharing is redefining what a social platform can be in the A.I. era.
By Observer
Max Sebti wasn’t trying to disrupt anything. He was trying to solve a problem. A sports hedge fund needed better data to place bets on global football.
By Forbes
The metaverse promised a futuristic, immersive internet where users could socialise, work and play in entirely virtual worlds. But years after the hype, the reality has been more muted.
By Yahoo Finance
Nvidia’s recent investments in Intel and OpenAI mark a new era of strategic consolidation in the AI race.
By Yahoo Finance
Centralized deepfake detectors are failing against crypto scams. Blockchain-based detection networks offer the only scalable defense against AI fraud.
By Coin Telegraph
Nature has always been a better engineer than humans. Biological systems are recursive, adaptive, decentralized built on billions of years of evolutionary pressure to survive and optimize.
By Daily Mail
You may not have heard of decentralized AI, but it has some compelling attributes that could help your business.
By INC.
Dr. Ala Shaabana, co-founder of the OpenTensor Foundation, said open-source AI development began to catch up with centralized AI in 2022.
By Coin Telegraph
Vishing incidents surged 28% in Q3 2025 compared to the previous year, marking the sharpest quarterly acceleration in AI-generated voice fraud targeting the cryptocurrency sector.
By Crypto News
Bittensor’s decentralized AI model may be the best-kept secret in crypto—and one venture capitalist believes it could go 135x from today’s price
By Benzinga
AI deepfakes, video game footage passed off as real combat, and chatbot-generated falsehoods — such tech-enabled misinformation is distorting the Israel-Iran conflict, fueling a war of narratives across social media.
By Barrons.
One of the most promising advancements in drug discovery isn’t coming from big pharma — it’s emerging from the convergence of decentralized AI and high-fidelity molecular simulations.
By Forbes
BitMind, a decentralized AI startup, today released a mobile app that brings real-time deepfake detection to smartphones, aiming to give users a fast, privacy-focused way to verify images and videos on social media.
By MEXC
Tech experts say moves by the Trump administration and social media platforms to reduce cybersecurity and content moderation online will make it easier for misinformation to spread ahead of the 2026 midterms.
By News From The States
Bitmind CEO Ken Miyachi talks to WTVM about deepfakes and decentralized AI protocols like Bittensor and the benefits of using open-source technology to combat fake content.
By WTVM
A few short years ago, decentralized artificial intelligence was a fringe concept — a speculative side path compared to the centralized AI juggernauts such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic.
By Forbes
Unaligned: AI with Robert Scoble Interview with Score
Deepfakes, once a novelty, have rapidly evolved into a systemic threat to business, society, and democracy—demanding urgent regulation, robust detection tools, and stronger media literacy to safeguard trust in the digital world.
By Mpost
Bad actors tend to exploit real-world events, and with Pope Francis’s death, could we see vulnerable mourners being exploited for financial gain?
By Techopedia
Bad actors tend to exploit real-world events, and with Pope Francis’s death, could we see vulnerable mourners being exploited for financial gain?
By Cybernews
In February, a finance worker at a multinational firm in Hong Kong was tricked by a deepfake video call into transferring over $25 million to scammers.
By Crowd Fund Insider
The former president of the United States just posted an Easter holiday photo that netizens can’t believe is real.
By Cybernews
Score Talks to Ticker News About Using AI in Pro Sports
BitMind talks Deepfakes on Ticker News
Dippy.ai talks Internet Boyfriends/Girfirends on Ticker News
Free tools that flag A.I. generated photos
AI projects offer immense potential for business, but selecting the right ones to implement can be tricky, especially given the lack of reliable benchmarks for measuring ROI.
By CIO
AI agents are reshaping cryptocurrency with smart automation, fraud detection, and optimized trading.
By Decrypt
The cryptocurrency landscape is evolving far beyond digital money. While Bitcoin’s surging value continues to capture headlines…
By Forbes
WindSurf and Cursor are competing AI coding assistant tools that allow users to “vibe code” without having deep programming knowledge.
By Coin Telegraph
Blockchain and crypto have been criticized for years as a “solution in search of a problem.”
By Semafor
Coinbase announced the listing of Bittensor (TAO), causing a 17% jump in its token price. The asset’s value has been fluctuating dramatically throughout the past month, but it appears to be back on a bullish course.
By Be in Crypto
If the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has shown us anything, it’s that nothing is as it seems. It’s difficult to use any kind of social media platform without stumbling across deepfake content at some point or another.
By Techopedia
Blockchain and crypto have been criticized for years as a “solution in search of a problem.”
By Yahoo News
The White House’s executive order on artificial intelligence has created a lot of buzz in Washington this week. For banks that use AI, the order’s impact could come quickly, experts say.
By American Banker
The token for Bittensor, the network geared toward incentivizing the development of open-source artificial intelligence, eclipsed a market capitalization of $3 billion.
By The Block
In the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, the term ‘decentralized AI’ has emerged as a beacon of potential transformation.
By Techradar
The incumbent wants to promote innovation. The likely GOP nominee wants to protect American business. Both strategies will determine the trajectory of the U.S. tech sector for years to come.
By Built In
This expert believes that open source AI is the best way to make the most of this powerful technology.
By Built In
Modern technology, from the internet and mobile devices, once heralded as tools of democracy and liberation, has become engines of surveillance and profit, reshaping society in ways that benefit corporations more than communities.
By Crypto News
For every person who openly recounts falling for a scam, countless unreported cases of others being scammed go unnoticed.
By Techopedia
Contrary to its past struggles, Bitcoin has recently defied expectations with a formidable 130% rebound in 2023, positioning itself as one of the standout performers among major assets this year.
By Metaverse Post
Titans like Microsoft (through OpenAI), Google (through DeepMind), and Amazon (through Anthropic) currently dominate the AI industry.
By Fortune
A trio of pseudonymous crypto developers proposed a new mechanism called “Panoramic Governance” to incentivize governance participation and protocol growth within layer-2 blockchains.
By Coin Desk
TAO rallied 164% in the last 30 days and data suggests there is room for the AI token to move higher. Artificial intelligence-based tokens led by Bittensor (TAO) displayed strength on Oct.
By Coin Telegraph
AI has taken the tech world by storm, and many wonder if crypto has a role in this wave of innovation. Bittensor seems to be one of the most promising crypto AI projects.
By Benzinga
The intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain seems to be a growing focus for venture capitalists and innovators worldwide.
By Coin Market Cap
The intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain seems to be a growing focus for venture capitalists and innovators worldwide.
By Trading View
The intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain seems to be a growing focus for venture capitalists and innovators worldwide.
By Coin Telegraph
We’ve previously chatted about the intersection of AI and crypto, focusing specifically on bitcoin miners and AI.
By Block Works
The rapid growth of decentralized AI is changing the startup landscape; now, more than ever, brilliant minds quietly cook up ideas that could easily hit the billion-dollar mark without cozying up to venture capitalists.
By Crypto News
The marriage of crypto and AI has spawned new AI-powered tokens that are collectively worth billions.
By Sherwood
In the ever-evolving world of blockchain and artificial intelligence, Sturdy has emerged as a trailblazer.
By The Founder
AI agents are reshaping cryptocurrency with smart automation, fraud detection, and optimized trading.
By Decrypt
The marriage of crypto and AI has spawned new AI-powered tokens that are collectively worth billions.
By Blockchain Reporter
As deepfake technology becomes more sophisticated, so do the scams it enables.
By Invezz
The Q1 2025 report logged 163 deepfake scams and over $200 million lost, at BitMind, do you view this as just the beginning?
By Finance Feeds
In just the first quarter of 2025, scammers stole more than $200 million through deepfakes.
By CCN
The Q1 2025 report logged 163 deepfake scams and over $200 million lost, at BitMind, do you view this as just the beginning?
By Built In
The Trump administration recently announced that H-1B visas, which is for high-skilled workers, will now cost $100,000 per application. As CGTN Correspondent Mark Niu reports, the move is causing businesses to re-think strategies in order to remain productive and profitable.
By CGTN
Cosmo Jiang (Pantera Capital)
When French authorities arrested Pavel Durov this weekend, Elon Musk and other critics slammed the move as a threat to free speech.
By Fortune
Pantera Capital’s roughly $300 million Liquid Token Fund finished the first quarter with a 66% return, helped by cryptocurrencies such as Solana amid reduced exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum-linked tokens.
By Bloomberg
Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at Pantera Capital, says that crypto investing will get more fundamentals-oriented as the industry matures.
By Coin Desk
Crypto.news spoke with Pantera Capital’s general partner, Cosmo Jiang, about artificial intelligence, the rise of deepfakes, and how AI can work alongside blockchain.
By Coin Market Cap
We’ve previously chatted about the intersection of AI and crypto, focusing specifically on bitcoin miners and AI.
By Block Works
The AI/crypto narrative seems to have died down, despite some mentions of it during DAS (AI itself was a hot topic).
By Block Works
Crypto investor Pantera Capital is raising a new $1 billion dollar fund.
By DL News
Investors poured $750 million into artificial intelligence-linked crypto projects this year, according to PitchBook.
By DL News
Pantera Capital, a leading crypto-focused investment management firm, is set to invest $1 billion into artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, marking a significant shift in its investment strategy.
By Coin Market Cap
VanEck’s decision to file for an exchange-traded fund holding the Solana cryptocurrency may prove to be a “long shot” that analysts see worth taking with digital-asset advocates anticipating a shift in sentiment when it comes to regulation.
By Bloomberg
FIT21’s bipartisan support suggests a potential shift in U.S. crypto policy, while investors are focused on long-term trends despite political uncertainty.
By Coin Telegraph
According to Stocklytics, AI startups accounted for 30% of total venture capital funding in the third quarter of 2024.
By Coin Telegraph
Pantera Capital general partner and portfolio manager Cosmo Jiang joins CoinDesk to discuss their investment in Solana and the growth of the blockchain in the past year. Plus, recent movements across the crypto market and outlook on the convergence between AI and blockchain.
By Coin Desk
Crypto.news spoke with Pantera Capital’s general partner, Cosmo Jiang, about artificial intelligence, the rise of deepfakes, and how AI can work alongside blockchain.
By Coin Telegraph
Torus
Nature has always been a better engineer than humans. Biological systems are recursive, adaptive, decentralized built on billions of years of evolutionary pressure to survive and optimize.
By Hacker Noon
Web3 AI projects often force blockchain integration to access capital, harming innovation by prioritizing ecosystem compatibility over practical AI solutions.
By Coin Telegraph
Web3 AI projects often force blockchain integration to access capital, harming innovation by prioritizing ecosystem compatibility over practical AI solutions.
By Mpost
Most AI alignment research focuses on aligning AIs with their human deployers: teaching agents to infer, follow, or defer to our preferences. But as AI adoption grows, we are moving into a different setting: networks of agents acting on behalf of people and organizations, bidding, forecasting, scheduling, negotiating, and competing with one another.
By Crypto News
Beam
The Beam Foundation said it plans to launch Beam Ventures in Abu Dhabi, a $150 million venture fund focused exclusively on gaming.
By Venture Beat
The fund, based within the Abu Dhabi Global Market, will focus on investing in early-stage web3 gaming and AI startups.
By Fast Company
Beam Ventures will launch in 2025, providing funding and acceleration for blockchain gaming startups in the United Arab Emirates.
By Coin Telegraph
Beam Ventures eyes opportunities to thrust Abu Dhabi to the centre of the global gaming industry
By Games Beat
Beam Ventures eyes opportunities to thrust Abu Dhabi to the centre of the global gaming industry
By Arabian Business
The firm will also launch an accelerator program that focuses on early-stage web3 gaming and AI start-ups
By Pocket Gamer
Beam Ventures eyes opportunities to thrust Abu Dhabi to the centre of the global gaming industry
By Zawya
Catch up on this week’s biggest crypto and NFT gaming news and find some weekend reads in our latest roundup.
By Decrypt
Asian VCS Driving Innovation in Global Markets
Gaming mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financings in 2024 grew 39% to $27.3 billion in disclosed deal value across over 967 transactions, according to a report by Drake Star Partners.
By Venture Beat
NIP Group, digital entertainment company, said it has partnered with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) to drive gaming, media and entertainment growth in Abu Dhabi.
By Venture Beat
The report highlights strategic investments in high-growth blockchain projects across AI, gaming, and decentralized infrastructure.
By Binance
If there’s one industry that never sleeps, it’s Web3. And if there’s one company betting big on its future, it’s BEAM Foundation.
By NFT Today
The accelerator program is tailored to support early-stage startups in Web3 gaming and artificial intelligence (AI), providing both in-person and remote participation options.
By Inc Arabia
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