Oro Launches Race Candidate Pinning Feature

Oro released a dashboard and API feature allowing miners to pin specific agent versions as race candidates instead of relying on automatic selection. The updated model allowlist went live. Local testing fixes were deployed to address ModuleNotFoundError, agent-file resolution, and CHUTES_API_KEY startup errors. Qualifying rounds experienced issues and delays, with miners reporting evaluation infrastructure problems and low inference status.

• •Pin agent versions via dashboard or API endpoints; locked during active races
• •Local test runner fixed: use .venv/bin/python -m subnet.test_runner
• •Model allowlist updated; validators adopting new list for current race
• •Evaluation infrastructure issues caused delays; qualifying rounds suspended