lium

The historical commune-ai repository preserved the name Celium, while the maintained Datura AI repository and product documentation say Lium. No primary source located in this review records a formal rename date or a token-swap event.

Bittensor supplies the durable coordinate: subnet 51, netuid 51, with the alpha symbol Tav (ת). That makes the asset a subnet currency inside dynamic TAO, not a conventional company mint.

A BNB Chain contract copied the Celium (SN51) name and uses 0x4d92B7877a4B3f4278Dfd54cE1F9aBEa0A419F66 with a 100 million supply. Official Lium and Bittensor materials do not point to it, so it is outside this biography.

Lium’s product is concrete: a renter selects a GPU, deploys a containerized pod, connects by SSH or developer tools and pays for time used. AI training and inference are workloads on that rented machine, not evidence that a token itself performs AI.

On the supply side, a lightweight coordinator signs with the provider hotkey and connects GPU nodes. Validators probe specifications and workloads. The team says it currently runs one validator, which makes its operational role more specific than the broad word decentralized.

Bittensor pairs TAO and subnet alpha in reserves. A user who stakes TAO to a hotkey on netuid 51 receives alpha-denominated exposure whose price moves with that pool; unstaking reverses the protocol position subject to execution conditions.

Alpha issuance follows Bittensor’s emission schedule and 21 million ceiling. There is no Lium founder allocation, sale round or vesting spreadsheet in the reviewed materials because the asset is not documented as a company-created fixed allocation.

This also limits the staking claim. It can expose a holder to subnet prices and validator economics, but it is not a deposit with Datura AI and carries no fixed yield or redemption at par.

Renters are billed in USD terms. Under the current service policy, 95% belongs to the provider and 5% to Lium; the provider share is converted into alpha and sent daily to the coldkey after a two-day validation window.

Subnet emission is separate. Bittensor creates it each tempo, about 72 minutes, and validator weights determine distribution that accrues as alpha stake on the hotkey.

Within SN51, Lium currently describes 13% for rented capacity and 0–87% for unrented capacity. The rest goes to designated burner UIDs, and Lium reserves the ability to retune the split. The label burn is therefore not proof of cryptographic destruction.

Datura AI can publish code, run the portal, set service limits and change the validator incentive logic operators choose to deploy. Lium can also penalize failed rentals and ban abusive providers, even though its policy says already accrued chain emission is not clawed back.

Bittensor runtime controls alpha issuance and staking extrinsics. No ERC-style proxy, mint authority or freeze authority exists for the identified asset, and no binding alpha-holder vote over Lium was found.

The docs footer names Datura AI Corp. but supplies no reviewed jurisdiction, registration number or token-holder contract. Alpha therefore carries protocol functionality, not documented equity, dividends, GPU title, creditor priority or a contractual slice of rentals.