# Taostats Has Evolved: Bittensor Explorer on Every Device

The Bittensor explorer you know has evolved into a full toolkit: a refreshed site, upgraded app and wallet, rebuilt API and a new $9 Pro plan.

_Source: https://taostats.io/blog/taostats-evolved-bittensor-explorer-on-every-device_  
_Author: Brittany Seales, Marketing_  
_Published: 2026-10-12_  
_Category: Announcements_  
_Tags: Bittensor, Explorer, TAO, Wallet_

[Taostats](https://taostats.io) has evolved. The Bittensor explorer you already use now comes with major updates such as a completely refreshed look, an upgraded mobile app and browser wallet, plus a new $9 Pro plan. Plus so much more: we've also rebuilt our API, rewritten our docs, launched a blog, added multi-lingual support (starting with French), and given subnet owners a way to reach their audience with targeted ads. Together, all of this work turns taostats into a full toolkit that's synced across your devices, secure, and ready to connect with the other Bittensor sites and services you use. You can now research subnets on the website, stake from the wallet in your browser and check your portfolio from your phone, all without leaving taostats.

The timing matters. Bittensor now runs [128 subnets](https://crypto.news/bittensor-adoption-grows-ai-subnets-paying-customers), and a lot of the ecosystem's energy this year has gone into making the network easier for people who aren't developers or validators to understand and use. That has been our focus for months, and this release is the result.

Below, we walk through what changed on the site, what's new in the app and the wallet, how the Pro plans work, and how the pieces fit together.

## Table of Contents

- [How has Taostats evolved?](#how-has-taostats-evolved)
- [A refreshed Bittensor explorer](#a-refreshed-bittensor-explorer)
- [The Taostats app, rebuilt for everyday holders](#the-taostats-app-rebuilt-for-everyday-holders)
- [An upgraded Bittensor wallet for your browser](#an-upgraded-bittensor-wallet-for-your-browser)
- [Taostats Pro and the new $9 Power plan](#taostats-pro-and-the-new-9-power-plan)
- [Rewritten docs and a rebuilt taostats API](#rewritten-docs-and-a-rebuilt-taostats-api)
- [How the pieces work together](#how-the-pieces-work-together)
- [More to come](#more-to-come)
- [About Taostats](#about-taostats)

## How has Taostats evolved?

This release covers a lot, but four launches lead it. The website has been redesigned from top to bottom, with light mode, customisable tables and a cleaner home page. The iOS and Android app has evolved, rebuilt to feel less intimidating to people who are new to TAO, and it still charges zero fees. The taostats browser wallet has been upgraded and now opens in your Chrome sidebar and connects directly to the site. And taostats Pro has new plans, including a $9 Power plan aimed at active TAO holders. Alongside all four, we've rewritten our docs from scratch and rolled out a faster, rebuilt taostats API.

Each one works on its own. The bigger change is that they now work as one set of tools, so the place you look up a validator is also the place you stake with them.

## A refreshed Bittensor explorer

If you've used taostats before, the site will feel familiar. Every page you relied on is still where it was. What's changed is a long list of small improvements that make the Bittensor explorer sharper, more consistent and easier to read.

The most visible change is the design itself. The whole site has a refreshed look, and it now fully supports light mode for anyone who prefers it to the dark interface. Tables, which are where most people spend their time on taostats, can now be customised so you see the columns you care about. The site is now also available in French.

The home page has also been rethought. Instead of opening on a wall of tables, it now leads with a search field so you can go straight to a block, account or subnet, alongside shortcuts to swap, download the app and explore Pro. On mobile, a new menu at the bottom of the screen makes the site much easier to get around on a phone.

Finally, Doug, the taostats AI agent, has graduated from beta and now lives inside subnet pages, so you can ask questions about a subnet while you're looking at its data. Doug now connects directly to the taostats MCP and our own Bittensor data, so his answers draw on the same data that powers taostats. Short of asking our team directly, it's the best way to get your Bittensor questions answered.

![Redesigned taostats Bittensor explorer validator page in light mode with customisable data table.](https://assets.taostats.io/blog/2026/10/6d0b9347-2070-43d0-8c19-41271e900b5c-new-bittensor-explorer-graphic-light-mode-3840x2160.png)

## The Taostats app, rebuilt for everyday holders

The new version of the [taostats app](https://taostats.io/app) is our answer to a common problem: Bittensor data is powerful, but it can be a lot to take in if you've only just bought your first TAO. The app keeps the features existing users rely on and reworks how they're presented, so it's friendlier for newcomers without getting in the way of experienced holders.

With the app, you can:

- Track your TAO and alpha holdings
- See your staking rewards and subnet earnings
- Research subnets with live data
- Swap between subnets
- Manage multiple wallets in one place
- Manage and claim your root rewards

That makes it a practical TAO portfolio tracker as well as a way to act on what you see. The app now supports light mode and we're internationalising it, starting with French which is now fully supported - more languages to come.

There's also a new way to move accounts onto your phone. If you use the taostats browser wallet, you can transfer an account to the app by scanning a QR code, with no need to type out a seed phrase.

**The taostats app charges zero fees, and never has.** Most other Bittensor apps charge fees, so with taostats more of your TAO stays yours, whether you're staking, swapping or moving funds between wallets. The app holds a lifetime average rating of 4.6 on Google Play and 4.7 on the App Store, and is one of the most downloaded Bittensor apps

We're already working on what comes next for the app, including wallet grouping, an address book, theming options and alerts. We'll share more as each one gets closer.

You can download it on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/taostats/id6751163947) or [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.taostats.mobile).

## An upgraded Bittensor wallet for your browser

The taostats browser wallet is what turns taostats from a place you look into a place you act, and this latest version makes that a lot smoother. It now opens in your Chrome sidebar, similar to MetaMask, rather than in a small popup window, so you can see what you're signing right next to the page you're on. If you also use the taostats app, you can now add your browser wallet to your phone in a few seconds by scanning a QR code, with no need to re-enter your recovery phrase.

The wallet's main job is to connect to Bittensor apps like the taostats site and sign the transactions you start there. That makes TAO staking simple: find a validator on the explorer, click stake, and approve it in the sidebar. Inside the wallet itself, you can also stake and unstake, transfer TAO and alpha, keep an address book and manage multiple accounts.

Your keys stay protected the same way they always have. The wallet is non-custodial and built on Talisman's well-tested security model, so your keys are encrypted on your own device and never stored by taostats. It supports Ledger, Polkadot Vault and Signet, and the code is [open source on GitHub](https://github.com/taostat/wallet-extension).

[Add the taostats wallet from the Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/taostats-the-bittensor-wa/khdnjjgidjjbjpececegbfglalchffpo) or read more on the [Bittensor wallet page](https://taostats.io/bittensor-chrome-wallet).

![Taostats Bittensor wallet in the Chrome sidebar confirming a TAO staking transaction from the explorer.](https://assets.taostats.io/blog/2026/10/b2b85ef6-feba-427c-8298-460c5178d13a-stake-confirmation-3840x2160.png)

## Taostats Pro and the new $9 Power plan

[Taostats Pro](https://taostats.io/pro) brings everything you need to manage your TAO into one account: portfolio tracking, staking, transfers, tax reports, miner dashboards and access to the taostats API. The Free plan gets you started, and paid plans add higher limits and more advanced tools.

Taostats Pro now comes in four tiers:

- Free
- Power at $9 a month (NEW)
- Develop at $49 a month
- Scale at $199 a month

The new Power plan is built for active TAO holders who want to track and manage their holdings across several wallets and subnets. Here's what it adds over Free:

![Table comparing the taostats Free and $9 Power plans, from portfolio accounts and tax history to API limits.](https://assets.taostats.io/blog/2026/10/bb414af4-b039-492f-ae56-695e1a12ea7b-free-vs-power-table-3840x2160.png)

Develop and Scale are aimed at power users, developers and teams that need deeper data access, unlimited coldkeys, CSV exports and much higher API limits. Whichever plan you choose, you can now pay in crypto.

You can [read the detailed blog on the $9 plan](https://taostats.io/blog/taostats-new-9-dollar-pro-power-plan) or you can [compare every taostats Pro plan here](https://taostats.io/pro).

## Rewritten docs and a rebuilt taostats API

We've completely rewritten the [taostats docs](https://taostats.io/docs) to answer the questions Bittensor holders actually ask. They explain how the network works, from subnets and validators to staking and tokenomics, and walk through every part of taostats. Because Bittensor moves fast, the docs are kept up to the minute, covering new proposals, runtime changes and upgrades as they happen, often before most people know they're coming. If you want to understand what's changing on the network, this is the place to start.

For developers, the taostats API, the leading Bittensor API, has been rebuilt from the ground up and is live now. Built in Rust on ClickHouse, it's much faster at querying years of Bittensor history, more accurate across every past network upgrade, and has a cleaner structure that's easier to build with. You can explore all 124 endpoints and try them in your browser in the [API playground](https://taostats.io/docs/api-reference).

Already using the API? Your existing key still works, and both versions run side by side until 9 November 2026. The [new API docs](https://taostats.io/docs/new) show you exactly what to change.

## How the pieces work together

The simplest way to see why we built all of this together is to follow one person through it.

Say you want to stake some TAO. You start on the taostats website, compare validators and subnets using the explorer's data, and ask doug a question about a subnet you're unsure of. Once you've chosen, you click stake, and the taostats browser wallet opens in your sidebar so you can check and sign the transaction. Later, you scan a QR code to bring that account into the taostats app, and from then on you can check your position from your phone whenever you like. If you hold TAO across several wallets, the Power plan lets you track them all from one portfolio.

Before this release, a journey like that was clunky and required switching between different tools. Now it happens in one place, and every step is backed by the same data that has made taostats the go-to [Bittensor explorer](https://www.bittensor.com/explore).

![Diagram of the taostats toolkit flow from Bittensor explorer research to wallet staking to mobile app tracking.](https://assets.taostats.io/blog/2026/10/4aa20fc6-3552-4346-909e-3ff687abd3f7-flow-from-taostats-to-wallet-3840x2160.png)

## More to come

Taostats started as the Bittensor explorer, and the explorer is still at the heart of everything we do. What's changed is that you can now act on what you find, on whichever device you're using.

This release isn't the finish line. We have a lot more in the works, but we didn't want to hold back what's ready any longer. Follow us on [X](https://x.com/taostats) and join our [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/Ms2uGRWbcm) to hear about it first.

In the meantime, take a look around [taostats](https://taostats.io), [download the app](https://taostats.io/app), add the [browser wallet](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/taostats-the-bittensor-wa/khdnjjgidjjbjpececegbfglalchffpo), and see [what Pro can do for you](https://taostats.io/pro).

## About Taostats

Taostats is the block explorer and data analytics platform for Bittensor. It provides real-time and historical data on every subnet, validator, miner, block, account and transfer, alongside tools to stake, swap and move TAO, track a portfolio across wallets and export tax reports. Taostats is available on the web, as a free iOS and Android app and as a non-custodial browser wallet. Staking, swapping and transferring TAO through taostats comes with zero fees. For developers, taostats offers the leading Bittensor API, and taostats Pro adds higher limits and advanced tools for active holders, power users and teams.

[Website](https://taostats.io) | [X](https://x.com/taostats) | [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/Ms2uGRWbcm) | [taostats Pro](https://taostats.io/pro) | [Blog](https://taostats.io/blog) | [Medium](https://medium.com/@taostats)