TAO Synergies Inc. (the "Company"), a digital asset treasury company focused on Bittensor (TAO), the premier crypto token for decentralized artificial intelligence (DeAI), announced that it has engaged Joseph Jacks as an advisor to its digital asset treasury strategy led by James Altucher. Mr. Jacks is widely recognized as the leading innovator, builder and funding partner within the Bittensor ecosystem and steward of its open-source infrastructure and subnet code repositories.

"Joseph is an early pioneer in open-source development—the key force behind decentralized AI," said James Altucher, leader of the Company's digital asset treasury strategy. "His deep expertise and vision for Bittensor have made the network one of the most dynamic and transparent open-source AI projects. In turn, Bittensor's native token, TAO, has emerged as the highest-valued AI cryptocurrency. We are honored to welcome Joe as an advisor for our digital asset treasury strategy."

Joseph Jacks is the co-founder and CEO of blockchain services company Latent Holdings, the leading Bittensor lab responsible for stewarding most of the open-source toolchain and infrastructure key subnet code repositories for Bittensor. Latent also operates subnets #14, TAOHash, and #5, Hone, in the Bittensor ecosystem.

In 2018, Jacks founded OSS Capital, the world's first and only venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to early-stage COSS (commercial open source) startups. With OSS he led a $10.5 million series A funding round for Manifold Labs, the largest VC investment in a Bittensor subnet to date. In total, Mr. Jacks has directed OSS to lead more than 40 rounds of inception/seed stage investments representing over $200 million in funding.

Mr. Jacks added, "I'm excited to collaborate with the first and largest pure-play public TAO treasury company. TAO Synergies' crypto strategy is not just about acquiring and staking tokens to generate yield — it's also about actively contributing to the Bittensor ecosystem in ways that will generate even more TAO revenue beyond simply staking tokens."