Perturb faces validator bottleneck amid miner disputes

SN26 experienced timeouts and selective score zeroing affecting most miners while top three UIDs remained unaffected, with community suspecting coordinated attacks. Team acknowledged centralization concerns in governance Q&A, clarifying that self-mining and owner code opacity are permissible under Bittensor rules. Core issue: insufficient validator capacity. Aznergnox proposed a mining pool wrapper for the recently announced WTA and increased subnet tempo.

• •Widespread miner timeouts; only UIDs 1, 4, 248 scored 100% on latest tasks
• •Community suspects top miners attacking others to prevent score competition
• •Team confirmed no Bittensor rule forbids owner self-mining or centralized setups
• •More validators needed to resolve bottleneck; evaluation paused pending resolution