Crunch opens Bittensor decentralized AI mining to academic and enterprise ML scientists

Westfield, New Jersey, January 19th, 2026, Chainwire Crunch’s decentralized ML intelligence layer is opening Bittensor mining to its community of over 11,000 ML engineers and 1,200+ PhDs. Crunch plans to facilitate coordinators mining Bittensor subnets, managing the technical infrastructure while the community focuses on model development.