Quorum Mobile Beta is officially live 📱
If you signed up for early access, you’ll be receiving an email shortly with download links for iOS and Android. We’re excited to finally share the first mobile version of Quorum with the world.
Quilibrium $QUIL
Quilibrium is a privacy-first compute network. Community nodes run apps without exposing user data, giving builders real cryptographic privacy for everyday apps, payments, and AI.
It’s censorship-resistant, usable, and built for shipping—not slogans.
Yesterday’s upgrade flipped a key switch: open app deployment. Anyone can now launch tokens, upload structured data to the hypergraph, and ship MPC apps. With Quorum Mobile on the way and new partnerships forming, the path from idea → user is getting fast.
Who it helps
▪️ Users: privacy by default
▪️ Developers: secure tools + easy deploys
▪️ Operators: earn by powering the network
Why it matters
▪️ Lower barriers → more builders
▪️ Hypergraph data compounds utility
▪️ Tokens/NFTs/MPC apps drive network effects
▪️ Mobile + partners = real usage
Near-term potential
▪️ Private AI/agent workflows
▪️ Practical privacy apps (chat, finance, ID)
▪️ Community-run infra with rewards
QUIL vs AWS
QUIL is a decentralized, privacy-first compute network (MPC + DePIN); AWS is a centralized cloud.
QUIL lets apps compute without exposing user data and is community-owned; AWS hosts and controls the servers.
QUIL targets private agents, hypergraph apps, and tokenized workflows; AWS powers general web backends.
The cloud is a tens-of-billions market, if $QUIL captures even 0.1% of privacy-sensitive workloads, that’s a meaningful network with real fees and rewards, amplified by open app deploys, mobile, and on-chain incentives. HUGE
My take on Q
I’ve backed this for a long time, both here and in my TG because the world needs a privacy-first global network. If we want to reclaim our freedoms from government overreach and data-hungry corporations, we need infrastructure that protects us by default. That’s what Quilibrium aims to be.
@cass_on_mars isn’t a typical dev. She left a comfortable, high-paid role with @coinbase to build a secure, privacy-based network she believes in. Over time, through direct chats and watching the people who’ve stood by through the hard bits (standard in Web3), I’ve come to respect both Cassie and the mission.
I formed a clan of strong supporters #HouseofQuil, to pull together, amplify the work, and help the network grow the right way. Our mission is aligned: move from Web2 control to a truly decentralized Web3 mother network with the potential to compound and spread over the months and years ahead.
If you’re a cypherpunk, this is the one decentralized network to be early on. The upside is massive, and today’s valuation could be life-changing for those who understand the vision.
I’m on this journey. I’ve DCA’d from ATHs to ATLs because conviction is stronger than noise. If there’s one builder project I’m willing to be patient on, it’s this.
This is the one..!
It's been something I've had a hard time trying to articulate, but ultimately, I feel the latest attempt at crypto x social is once again demonstrating a failure of incentive alignment, but worse, it's infecting some of the classic social venues too, as projects try to introduce the same primitives there.
Classic social media has used two primary levers traditionally to grow userbase: creator monetization, and network effects from growth in monetization. TikTok speed ran this playbook as the latest example. For a startup, unseating entrenched players is effectively impossible, it requires either an exodus event (which in the case of Twitter, Bluesky partially succeeded, but embraced a very specific cohort which repelled literally everyone else), a way for unknown creators to capture attention unlike how they did on previous platforms (risking that previous platforms won't just steal your playbook for themselves, making your growth rapidly curtailed), a net new social primitive (which again, same risk), or a new monetization strategy.
Crypto x social effectively took the last route, and the last route alone. The earliest of these attempts failed in part because crypto was _extremely_ niche (for validation's sake: "could be right idea, wrong time?"), but later attempts took two paths as variations on the theme, sometimes both simultaneously: creator tokens or rewards (top down, mirroring traditional social), or engagement rewards (something only crypto can really do, bottom up).
But as the saying goes: show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome. Crypto can only do the latter because reward tokens are generally synthetic: the issuer, usually the platform or something ad-hoc attached to it (e.g. noice, and before it, moxie, degen, etc) can mint an infinite supply, and derive allocations dynamically. If a traditional social media company tried to reward reply guys in threads, they'd go bankrupt. But that observation reveals that such an approach is an attention hack for growth – it cannot survive long term. It is no surprise thus that the projects that lead with this either pivoted or died.
Creator tokens too show a poor outcome, but I'll spare the discourse, as there's already been plenty around that. So what does that mean? There's no way for crypto x social to succeed as a concept? It only engenders slop posting either at the highest level or a flood of garbage in replies?
Neither – it just means that the architecture of _existing_ social primitives has no alignment to crypto primitives. Or more accurately, the existing social primitives that have been attempted for this alignment.
This is because in the traditional public forum-style medium, direct transactionality doesn't work – Twitter, Facebook, etc. can afford to lavishly spend on creators with the most command for attention not because it brings on people to spend money in a flywheel on their platform, but because it brings eyeballs to the ads placed around that command. And this shouldn't be a surprise – the original pitches for the companies that produced these products included advertising at the core of their revenue model. The incentives aligned, the architecture of social primitives were melded _by_ the incentives.
So how do you use transactional incentives as a social flywheel that doesn't devolve into a carnival of slop? It turns out, we already had a social primitive that mastered it, and to nobody's shock, for their first decade, there was no semblance of advertisements (although they are trying to experiment with it now): Discord and Telegram, the group chats.
Of course, now there are some varieties of crypto x GC based projects out there. But they're making the easiest naive move of financialization that kneecaps any attempt at growth: cost to send, either for the user, or the app that integrates. Why do they do this? In part, because a basic blockchain approach can't scale. The inherent limitations of a blockchain's effective "bandwidth" reduces the relationship with incentives to directly "solve" the bandwidth problem – if spam exists, they make it expensive. But we've been there before – trying to solve spam by adding cost was attempted so many times with email that it literally has a meme template reply (https://t.co/gUmlr8YH8w...). So effectively, discord and telegram "solve" this by having the capacity to handle it (more "bandwidth"), but also one other important factor: self-policing. Because communities self-organize, it's easy to establish safeguards, entry rules, either by invites, performing some kind of robot test, hell, even "react to this message" tests that if you do so too quickly to be human, you're banned.
So if you can adopt that social primitive, your _only_ concern becomes the cost of scale. And therein lies the incentive alignment: you design the protocol so that scaling has no inherent "bandwidth cap", but also you design the protocol so that self organizing communities effectively serve themselves while serving others to a limit, such that you can utilize a community subscription model that gains support from the "1,000 true fans" (https://t.co/lCPrT7wRic) while the majority of members are not paying much, if anything, except perhaps in terms of computer resources to help delivery of messages. This model is not only sufficient, it's proven – Discord could not exist at their scale without the monetization from Nitro.
This is the thesis we are all in on with Quorum and the Quilibrium protocol that powers it – we think crypto can make things better: keep conversations private, keep communities censorship-resistant (from outside influence), let your 1,000 fans enhance your community, and instead of simply pocketing subscriptions like Discord does, communities share in subscription fees, split by protocol, with no way to know who is a member, who runs a community, or who is paying – unless they want to prove it, but because it's based on raw cryptographic primitives to achieve it, it remains fully verifiable that payments go where they should. We think creator coins, effectively a palatable attempt at a rebrand of "memecoins" are the worst example of what crypto can achieve, and that "tipping culture" only succeeds at producing a feed of slop. Instead of trying to create incentives for formats that were never built to be incentivized in such a way, we aim for a proven approach that aligns incentives in the most powerful way: let people stick together, organize, communicate, build communities. The money, we believe, will follow.
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Later this week: Quorum Mobile Beta!
As mentioned on today's stream, Quorum Mobile's final launch feature was unveiled, broadening the span of total protocols Quorum interacts with from the start, with full Farcaster support, from mini apps, to feeds, and for mini apps that are Q-Native, privately routed traffic, so you can stay hidden online.
This week marks a special moment for Quilibrium Inc. as we wrap up V2.1 enrollment, a key milestone that sets the stage for what’s next.
Even more exciting, this will be a combined stream, bringing together our V2.1 milestone discussion and our weekly dev stream into one extended live session.
We’ll spend time:
• Reflecting on the journey that led to V2.1
• Sharing what we’ve learned from the rollout
• Offering a glimpse at what’s coming next
• Diving deeper into what makes Quilibrium more than just a “privacy coin”
Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or you’re just discovering Quilibrium, this is a great opportunity to experience the project’s momentum in real time and be part of the conversation about where we’re headed next.
🕖Time: 8AM UTC
🎥 Join us live: https://t.co/0NwaoQx8ri
Let’s celebrate how far we’ve come, and get ready for what’s ahead. 🚀
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Live Stream Alert! 📣
Join us tomorrow at 7 AM UTC as @cass_on_mars walks us through the Quilibrium L1 Protocol v2.1.0.2 update — live on stream.
There’s a lot to cover, so this will be a two-part deep dive you won’t want to miss.
📺 Watch here: https://t.co/Io9RyOKlfl
🚀 MAJOR NEWS FOR BLOCKCHAT 🚀
BlockChat has officially been acquired by @ZapmeApp and is now entering a full transformation phase.
✅ New name from BlockChat -> ZapChat
✅ Self-custodial, decentralised community building platform
✅ Launching in 3 months
✅ New home inside a live mobile app (Zapme’s Flagship Mobile App)
✅ Bigger reach, bigger vision
✅ Hosted on @QuilibriumInc
The platform is being rebuilt from the ground up — faster, smarter, and fully aligned with Web3 growth.
🗓️ Relaunch countdown has begun.
📢 Access details & rollout plan dropping soon.
Strap in. The next chapter is going to be wild.
@durov I've spoken about this window closing, and have been building a protocol to secure speech and privacy on the internet. It has not been an easy task, indeed, it is one of the most difficult challenges there is. But it is something I have pledged my life to achieve, and I will.
The freeze has thawed. Quilibrium V2.1 is now live on mainnet!
Builds are now released to general availability.
The network has unhalted and we’ve entered a 24-hour initial enrollment phase. This is a pivotal moment, as the first set of nodes joining will define how shards are distributed across the protocol. It marks the beginning of live operations. If any critical issues arise, we have a path to pause and return to a safe state.
After 24 hours, the network becomes fully decentralized. The beacon shuts down permanently, shards are finalized, and transactions in the new format begin processing. From this point forward, the system is operating fully in the 2.1 environment.
Once stable operations are confirmed, which may take between 24 hours and a week depending on conditions, we will activate the bidirectional bridge, bring QStorage and QKMS onto mainnet, open QConsole for everyone, and migrate existing user data into the upgraded environment.