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Simplify Institutional Access, Yuma Launches Special Fund for Bittensor AI Ecosystem

Yuma, an investment company backed by Digital Currency Group (DCG), has officially launched the Yuma Total Market Fund instrument. This mutual fund is specifically designed to provide diversified exposure for institutional investors into the Bittensor ecosystem. Through this single investment, institutions can directly gain integrated access to the main Bittensor token (TAO) along with a basket of subnets focused on artificial intelligence (AI). This strategy greatly simplifies the steps for institutions as they do not need to bother selecting and buying subnet tokens individually in the open market.

​Institutional interest in decentralized AI network ecosystems like Bittensor continues to surge rapidly along with the growing valuation of their subnets. Currently, the market capitalization of the TAO token has reached nearly $2.4 billion. Capturing this opportunity, giant asset managers have begun racing to expand investor access to TAO. Bitwise is reported to have filed a TAO Strategy ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this past April, followed by Grayscale which is seeking to convert its Bittensor Trust into a spot ETF product to be traded on the NYSE Arca exchange.

​The high attractiveness of the Bittensor ecosystem is greatly influenced by market awareness of the risks of centralized AI usage. The narrative of blockchain-based decentralized AI has strengthened again after the U.S. Department of Commerce temporarily restricted public access to Anthropic's AI models (Fable 5 and Mythos 5) on national security grounds. This government intervention against a single AI service provider has become a key catalyst driving investors to quickly seek decentralized, independent, and unilateral control-free artificial intelligence infrastructure alternatives like the Bittensor network.