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$QUBIC : Review 📜
What if every watt the mining industry burns solving meaningless puzzles could be pointed at building artificial intelligence instead, and the papers proving it worked were already published?
Meet Qubic, a Layer 1 built on Useful Proof of Work, where miners compete
to produce the best neural networks rather than the most hashes. It holds the highest verified mainnet throughput of any blockchain at 15.52 million TPS, its AI research now appears in peer-reviewed AGI proceedings, and its token is spendable at a claimed fifty million merchants.
Let's explore the most technically ambitious project in the series. 👇
⚪ Qubic at a Glance
Marketplace Insight: Qubic sits in the AI compute category alongside Render, Akash, and io net, but attacks the problem one layer deeper. Rather than renting GPUs, it makes AI production the byproduct of securing the chain. For a long time the fair criticism was that the AI end remained a research programme with nothing to show.
August 2026 changed that materially: a Multi-Neuraxon paper published in Springer's AGI-26 proceedings, a best oral presentation at IEEE AMLDS in Osaka, and an ARC-AGI-3 score around 0.25 achieved on CPUs with no LLM involved. The clean contrast now is not between promise and delivery but between scientific validation and commercial scale. The research is real and peer-reviewed. Whether it becomes a product anyone pays for is the open question.
⚪ Mission
Qubic exists to make consensus productive and to reach artificial general intelligence through distributed computation. The founding argument is that proof-of-work secures networks by wasting energy on deliberately useless work, and that the same security can come from work that produces something valuable. The chosen output is Aigarth, a system that evolves neural networks rather than training a static model. The deeper thesis is that AI's binding constraint is economic rather than algorithmic, and that a global mining network is the only structure capable of supplying compute at the necessary scale.
🔵 A Brief History
Qubic was founded by Sergey Ivancheglo, better known as Come-from-Beyond, one of crypto's more polarizing technical figures. He co-founded NXT, the first pure proof-of-stake blockchain, and later IOTA, arriving at Qubic with a record of genuine innovation and combative execution in roughly equal measure.
The architecture was unusual from the start: 676 elected Computors governing by quorum, bare-metal execution with no virtual machine, and weekly epochs emitting exactly 1 trillion QUBIC. In 2024, a community vote called Project X cut maximum supply from 1,000 trillion to 200 trillion and introduced the halving schedule and SupplyWatcher contract driving the token's deflation.
2025 produced both the technical high point and the reputational flashpoint. CertiK certified a mainnet throughput record of 15.52 million TPS, unmatched by any other chain. Then between May and August, Qubic's share of Monero's hashrate climbed from under 2% toward a claimed majority, with Ivancheglo openly announcing plans to demonstrate 51% control. A six-block reorganization was detected, Ledger's CTO stated publicly that Monero appeared to be under a successful 51% attack, and XMR fell sharply. The Monero community coordinated a boycott and answered with sustained DDOS attacks. Qubic described the episode as a combative application of game theory.
2026 has been about converting theory into shipped systems. The first halving raised the burn rate to 55%, Dogecoin ASIC mining launched in parallel with Monero and AI workloads, and August delivered the densest month yet: the BPP-9000 Useful Proof of Work algorithm went live rewarding the lowest-error neural networks rather than raw hash volume, Ant Colony Mining activated so miners build on each other's retained best solutions, Outsourced Computing reached mainnet letting contracts act on the outside world, QubicPay launched with AEON Pay across roughly fifty million merchants, the second halving executed on schedule, and the Aigarth research team published in Springer's AGI-26 proceedings.
🔵 Ecosystem Narrative
The organizing idea is that computation should produce value twice, once as security and once as intelligence.
➛ BPP-9000 and quality-based mining. The new Useful Proof of Work algorithm rewards the best solutions, specifically the lowest-error small neural networks predicting Bitcoin price direction, rather than raw hash volume, so miners compete on quality of output rather than energy expended.
➛ Ant Colony Mining. Activated in late August, miners now build on each other's retained top solutions, with the network keeping the 676 best results each cycle, so search compounds across the network instead of thousands of participants duplicating isolated work.
➛ Aigarth and Neuraxon. Peer-reviewed and published: a Multi-Neuraxon architecture of four specialized brain regions handling vision, hearing, association, and movement, self-organizing and communicating through frequency gating, remaining functional after large neuron loss, with an ARC-AGI-3 score near 0.25 on CPUs without an LLM.
➛ QubicPay and AEON Pay. The token is spendable at a claimed fifty million merchants across Asia, Latin America, and Africa through existing local rails including UPI, Pix, VietQR, and SPEI, with merchants receiving ordinary local-currency QR payments and consumers using a Telegram Mini App.
➛ Outsourced Computing. Live on mainnet, completing the third pillar so smart contracts can act on the outside world rather than remaining sealed within the chain.
➛ Developer infrastructure. The AIO Dev Kit gives free local build-and-test for smart contracts, replacing a previously costly IPO-style testing model, alongside a dedicated developer channel and a trustless BFrost bridge in development using oracles and zero-knowledge proofs.
⚪ Token Utilities
$QUBIC functions as computational energy rather than a conventional gas token.
➛ Computation: burned when executing smart contracts and consuming network services, so usage directly destroys supply.
➛ Computor rewards: the 676 elected Computors earn from weekly emissions, with distribution weighted by operational efficiency.
➛ Smart contract IPOs: new contracts launch through Dutch auctions that burn the proceeds, adding a second structural burn.
➛ Payments: spendable through QubicPay and AEON Pay at merchant networks across three continents, with fiat on-ramps through Alchemy Pay covering 173 countries.
⚪ Key Features
➛ Useful Proof of Work rewarding the best neural networks rather than the most hashes.
➛ Ant Colony Mining, where the network's search compounds rather than duplicates.
➛ A CertiK-certified mainnet record of 15.52 million TPS with feeless transactions.
➛ Peer-reviewed Aigarth research published in Springer AGI-26 proceedings.
➛ Merchant payments across roughly fifty million endpoints via local rails.
➛ An escalating burn schedule reaching 77.5% of weekly emissions.
🔵 Meet the Team
Qubic pairs a founder with genuine protocol-building history against a scientific advisory bench that publishes in academic venues, which is unusual for a project of this size and is the clearest signal that the AI work is real research rather than positioning.
▶️ Core Members:
➛ Sergey Ivancheglo, CFB [ @c___f___b ] - Founder | Co-founded NXT, the first pure proof-of-stake blockchain, and later IOTA, giving him a rare record of foundational protocol innovation. He designed the Useful Proof of Work model and the Aigarth thesis, and remains the network's principal technical voice.
➛ David Vivancos [ @VivancosDavid ] - Scientific Advisor | Brings external scientific credibility to the Aigarth research programme, part of the advisory bench behind the Neuraxon architecture and the work presented at IEEE AMLDS 2026 and published in Springer's AGI-26 proceedings.
➛ Dr. Jose Sánchez - Scientific Advisor | An academic advisor on the AI research side, supporting the peer-reviewed work on three-state Neuraxon neurons, self-organized criticality, and the multi-region architecture that reached publication this year.
➛ Stephanie Nickolich - Head of Marketing and Growth | Leads marketing and growth across the ecosystem, carrying a genuinely technical story, useful mining and decentralized AGI, out to an audience that mostly evaluates crypto on simpler terms.
➛ JoeTom - Developer and Advisor, and Raika - Developer | Core contributors on the engineering side, working across the protocol and the systems shipped through 2026 including BPP-9000, Ant Colony Mining, Outsourced Computing, and the AIO Dev Kit.
➛ The Computors | The load-bearing governance entity. 676 elected node operators who run the network, execute computation, and vote by quorum on protocol decisions including the supply cap reduction from 1,000 trillion to 200 trillion and both halvings. Governance here is operational rather than advisory.
🔵 Ratings
➛ Use Case: ★★★★★ (5/5). Qubic occupies a category it effectively created and delivers on it with independently verified results. Useful Proof of Work is a fundamental answer to AI's economic constraint rather than a marketplace layered on top of it, the 15.52 million TPS mainnet record is CertiK-certified and unmatched by any blockchain, and BPP-9000 with Ant Colony Mining turns global mining into a compounding quality search rather than brute force. Critically, the AI output is now externally validated: peer-reviewed publication in Springer's AGI-26 proceedings, a best oral presentation at IEEE AMLDS, and a measurable ARC-AGI-3 score achieved on ordinary CPUs without a language model. Add Outsourced Computing on mainnet, QubicPay reaching roughly fifty million merchants, and parallel Dogecoin and Monero mining running alongside AI training, and this is a project doing things nobody else in crypto is attempting, with the receipts to prove it works.
➛ Tokenomics: ★★★★ (4/5). This is one of the more aggressive and better-executed deflationary designs in crypto, and it executes on schedule. The community voted to cut maximum supply from 1,000 trillion to 200 trillion, weekly emissions stay fixed while the burned share escalates through halvings from 15% to 55% and now 77.5% as of August 19, 41.5 trillion tokens have already been destroyed, the SupplyWatcher adjusts dynamically, and smart contract IPOs burn their proceeds. Usage directly destroys supply. The 1-point deduction is that net emissions remain positive at roughly 225 billion weekly even after the second halving, so the token is decelerating rather than deflating, and Computors have raised genuine concerns about a shrinking reward pool as the burn rate climbs.
➛ Audits: ★★★★ (4/5). Qubic's security posture is stronger than most projects at this market cap and is backed by CertiK's direct involvement, which certified the network's 15.52 million TPS record on mainnet, a level of independent technical verification few chains submit to at all. The bare-metal architecture structurally removes an entire class of virtual machine vulnerabilities that affect most smart contract platforms, and the network has operated for years without a protocol-level exploit while withstanding a sustained DDOS campaign. The project is also running a transparent public security post-mortem, with 7 of 9 remediation items complete and the remainder targeted for end of September. The 1-point deduction is that no verified top-tier security score or named formal verification is published, and the newest systems including BPP-9000, Ant Colony Mining, and Outsourced Computing add substantial fresh surface still accruing operating history.
➛ Community: ★★★★★ (5/5). Qubic has one of the most active and genuinely committed communities in crypto, and the engagement is measurable rather than claimed. Its X presence is consistently among the loudest in the AI-crypto category, the community absorbed a sustained DDOS campaign and coordinated hostility from a rival network without fragmenting, and governance functions operationally through 676 elected Computors who have approved consequential economic decisions including the supply cap reduction and both halvings. Developer momentum is now visible too, with the AIO Dev Kit removing a real cost barrier, a dedicated developer channel, open science AMAs, and researchers presenting at IEEE and AGI conferences. Few projects at this market cap sustain this level of participation across governance, mining, development, and research at once. The community's intensity is also its edge: it is combative in a way that has made Qubic enemies as readily as advocates.
🔵 Conclusion
Qubic is the most technically audacious project in this series, and August 2026 was the month it closed the gap between ambition and evidence. The Useful Proof of Work model now rewards the quality of neural networks rather than raw hashing, Ant Colony Mining makes the network's search compound rather than duplicate, Outsourced Computing lets contracts reach the outside world, the token is spendable across three continents, and the second halving executed exactly as scheduled. Most importantly, Aigarth stopped being a claim: peer-reviewed publication, a conference award, and a measurable benchmark score achieved on ordinary CPUs without a language model.
The risks are worth naming honestly. Net emissions remain positive despite the aggressive burn schedule, and the halving passed without market reaction, suggesting the mechanism is better understood by the protocol than by the market. The newest systems are days old rather than battle-tested. And the Monero episode remains part of the project's public record, an act of combative game theory that cost it standing with parts of the industry regardless of what the science now produces.
But the bull case is genuinely distinctive. If AI compute economics are the binding constraint of the coming decade, a network that produces intelligence as a byproduct of securing itself is working a level below every GPU marketplace, and it now has peer-reviewed results rather than assertions. Qubic has proven it can build things nobody else has built, verify them independently, and get the output published in academic proceedings. What it still has to prove is that the world will pay for what it makes.
Things happen when @c___f___b
wants to PROVE A POINT
"No token can mine another token"
- He did it
"It wasn't an ASIC mine token like Doge"
- He did it
"Crypto needed Proof-of-Stake"
- He did it
"Crypto needs multi direction flow & multi node transactions (DAG)"
- He did it
Qubic just turned on something it has been building toward for years.
Ant colony mining is live.
Until now, every miner searched alone.
From here, they build on each other's work.
Here is what that means:
Several days ago I told that we might spend months before #Qubic's miners train our bitcoin:native price predicting model well enough to reduce the error to almost 0. Many got upset because they wanted the result immediately. Well... not immediately but much earlier we may try an ensemble method.
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🔧 Mining Ant Colony? Your rig may be scoring some of its work wrong.
New QLI client with a major Ant Colony bugfix is out. Restart = fixed. 5 minutes 🧵👇
Every serious question about Qubic comes back to one bet.
Can useful mining actually produce real intelligence, or is it just a good story?
A small program called Anna is the clearest answer so far.
Here is why it matters if you are weighing the network.
QUBIC ECOSYSTEM BRIEF — August 26
1) Ant colony (BPP-9000, #978) live at the 12:00 UTC epoch flip - 53 X posts in 24h, top post 173 likes
2) v1.302.0 merged into core 08:25 UTC - epoch-228 params live, 4 core-lite commits same day
3) Four new https://t.co/h7QUUmcay4 charts shipped today: combined CEX order book across 9 venues
4) Fleet 6,968 | 32.59M proofs verified | zero conflicts | top-10 share 24.5% | burn ceiling 77.5%
$QUBIC | @_Qubic_ ⚕️
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$ACH
All liquidity providers for $wQUBIC have withdrawn… except $IRISTOKEN.
We support $Qubic all the way, while opportunists walk away as soon as conditions become more difficult.
We believe in the future of #Qubic and will continue contributing to its growth and development on the Ethereum network.
True support isn’t measured only when everything is going well. 💜🚀
Qubic smart contracts are about to gain a new sense: reading events straight from other blockchains.
Two new Oracle Machine services are in review, readEVMLog and readQubicLog.
Both already proven on the dev testnet.
Here is what they do.
🐜 Heads-up for all QLI miners: the Ant Colony algo update is coming.
From Epoch 228 (Wed, Aug 26, 12:00 UTC) every rig needs a new client — old versions won't be accepted anymore.
Release isn't out yet. Here's how to be ready 🧵👇
For most of its life, a Qubic smart contract could think, but it could not touch.
It ran any logic you gave it.
It just could not reach past the edge of the chain.
That limitation is now gone.
Your phone can mine $QUBIC now. 📱⛏️
Paste your wallet, tap START — that's the whole setup. No account, no registration, payouts straight to your wallet. Our new Android Miner (Beta) runs the official qli-Client under the hood.
Full walkthrough in under 2 minutes 🧵👇