**[Bittensor Co-Founder Accuses Covenant AI Founder of Betraying the Community, Proposes "Locked Stake" Mechanism to Strengthen Governance]** BlockBeats News, April 12 — Bittensor Co-Founder Jacob Robert Steeves responded to the Covenant AI incident in a statement, expressing that the developments of the past few days have left him "deeply shaken." He accused Covenant AI Founder Samuel Dare of actions that caused significant harm to the protocol and community, betraying the trust of investors and users, and ultimately betraying everyone. He also apologized to users who suffered losses due to the incident. Steeves stated that Bittensor was originally designed to counteract greed and selfishness in human nature, promoting AI ownership by all participants through a permissionless mechanism. He emphasized that while this incident exposed vulnerabilities in the system, it will also drive the protocol and community to further enhance their risk resilience. Regarding future directions, Steeves proposed advancing the "Locked Stake" mechanism, introducing a "time + stake" commitment dimension at the protocol level to improve transparency and investor protection, thereby reducing similar risks. He noted that this proposal was originally co-designed by Samuel Dare. Additionally, he mentioned that the development of Subnets 3, 39, and 81 will continue to be driven by the community, with no changes to overall functionality or vision. Steeves emphasized that Bittensor remains one of the most decentralized AI protocols currently available and will continue to promote open AI development. He also revealed plans to advance toward large-scale model training, aiming to train a model with 1 trillion parameters in the future.