Just a year ago we officially unveiled Rebased - a complete overhaul of the IOTA Layer 1. With that upgrade, IOTA has become one of the oldest Layer 1's without any technical debt.
Over the past year our team has worked on many improvements to protocol. Today, with Starfish, we have completed the biggest upgrade and improvement to the IOTA mainnet.
Really proud of what the team has achieved. The improvements are clearly visible and the Starfish consensus will make IOTA more resilient, scalable and performant.
Let's bring the real world onchain!
🔥BOOM. USDT0 just landed on IOTA Rebased.
Live since 04:21 UTC.
Stable liquidity changes everything.
New phase begins.
IOTA’s financial layer for AfCFTA & upcoming countries 😉 is about to go live.
#IOTA #USDT0 #IOTARebased #AfCFTA #SALUS
https://t.co/8Jm18n1li6
Exciting to see Coinbase taking a preventative rather than reactionary approach.
Until large-scale quantum hardware exists, simulation is where meaningful progress actually happens.
Qubitcoin brings deep expertise in quantum simulation and is well positioned to contribute perspectives at this stage. Our DMs are open @coinbase - let’s talk.
In my 15 year career in crypto, I’ve seen our industry go through cycles of hype, noise and speculation, but also genuine, exciting and impactful innovation. One of the most important lessons is that you will only prevail in this market if you have profound conviction.
We have been on the market for 10 years with IOTA. It has certainly been a wild ride, with extreme highs and lows, but one thing has never changed: Our commitment to bring the real world onchain.
I am proud to share the IOTA Manifesto with you all, our blueprint for how we are moving beyond the speculative crypto markets to conquer a Blue Ocean opportunity worth $35 Trillion: Global Trade.
With this manifesto, I wanted to detail exactly how we are executing our strategy of full vertical integration—from trade digitization to digital identity and trade finance.
We have an incredibly exciting but also challenging journey in front of us. Together with our partners and our ecosystem we are here to build the technologies that will create real positive change around the world.
Manifesto website: https://t.co/S9Vk2DxxSD
Long version of the Manifesto: https://t.co/oWGOeqQQOo
This is a 3 Paragraph summation in extreme lamen terms about the Medium Article and what it means for $QTC.
The article is basically the team explaining why their new tool (rmsynth) is a big deal in very simple terms. Imagine building a quantum computer is like cooking the most complicated dish ever — most ingredients are cheap and easy to use, but one special ingredient (the T-gate) is insanely expensive and hard to handle without ruining everything. This tool lets chefs rewrite the recipe so they need way fewer of those expensive T-gates — sometimes cutting the cost by 6–75%. It's like discovering a way to make the same perfect cake using half the rare vanilla beans.
This is extremely bullish for $QTC because it shows the team is actually creating real, useful technology that makes quantum programs run faster and cheaper on future quantum machines. When the Planck mining task launches (next big update), miners will get paid to run exactly this kind of optimization work — turning ordinary gaming GPUs into quantum code helpers. That creates genuine demand for QTC: companies, labs, and researchers will pay to use the network instead of spending millions on their own super-expensive quantum setups. The more people use it, the more QTC is needed to pay for the work, which can drive the price much higher over time.
This is one of the first pieces of proof that $QTC isn’t just a coin — it’s becoming a real tool that could become extremely valuable in a future where quantum computing solves problems worth trillions of dollars (new medicines, better batteries, unbreakable security).
The team is quietly building something that could make QTC one of the most important projects in crypto if quantum takes off.
🎉 Happy 1st Birthday, Qubitcoin!
One year ago, we turned GPUs into quantum simulators and launched the world’s first quantum-inspired Proof of Work network.
For our anniversary we prepared 10 fascinating facts about our journey over this incredible first year:
1️⃣ The Launch Date Mystery
We launched on October 29, 2024 - exactly one year ago today! But here's a fun secret: we originally planned to launch on Halloween for the spooky vibes, but decided to go a day early when our tests were fully completed at 11:47 PM on the 28th. We took it as a sign from the quantum universe.
2️⃣ From 700 to 3,000 GPUs
In just one year, we've grown from a handful of early miners to over 700 participants running 3,000+ GPUs making us the world's largest decentralized quantum computing network. That's more distributed quantum simulation power than most university research labs!
3️⃣ The "Bitcoin Blueprint" Legacy
Qubitcoin is built on a Bitcoin Core fork, but with quantum superpowers. We kept the 21 million token supply cap as a tribute to Satoshi, but instead of wasting energy on useless hash puzzles, every single mining operation preforms quantum simulation.
4️⃣ The Night We Almost Broke Physics
During early testing in September 2024, one of our developers ran a simulation that produced results that seemed to violate known quantum mechanics. We spent 72 sleepless hours convinced we'd discovered something groundbreaking... until we found a sign error in the rotation gate implementation. The bug is now immortalized as "The Minus Sign Incident" in our dev chat history.
5️⃣ NVIDIA's cuQuantum is Our Secret Weapon
We leverage NVIDIA's cuQuantum SDK (specifically cuStateVec) to run our default GPU simulations. A 16-qubit circuit simulation takes just ~1 millisecond on a typical RTX 5060. That means we're processing quantum circuits faster than you can blink - literally!
6️⃣ The "Bring Your Own Solver" Revolution
Unlike traditional mining where everyone runs identical code, our BYOS (Bring Your Own Solver) architecture means miners can plug in their own custom quantum simulators, CPU-based, GPU-optimized, tensor networks, or even actual quantum hardware. We've had miners experiment with everything from Raspberry Pi clusters to modified atom trap systems.
7️⃣ The Accidental Academic Citation
Three months after launch, a quantum computing researcher from ETH Zurich accidentally cited data from our network in a preprint paper about variational quantum algorithms. They thought our public simulation results were from a university cluster! When they discovered it was from a cryptocurrency network, they were so impressed they joined as a validator and now contributes quantum circuit benchmarks.
8️⃣ The 24-Qubit Challenge Bounty
In March 2025, we launched a bounty challenge: successfully simulate a specific 24-qubit circuit faster than our implementation and win QTC. A team from South Korea won using a custom algorithm that was 3.7x faster. Plot twist: they were high school students working on a science fair project. We hired one of them as a part-time contributor after graduation, and their algorithm is now under our continued research.
9️⃣ Our Not-So-Secret Motto
Our GitHub readme cheekily ends with "It has not escaped our notice that the system we introduced suggests possible new findings in the realm of physics simulations" - a direct homage to Watson and Crick's famous DNA paper understatement. We like to think we're being similarly humble about potentially revolutionizing how humanity develops quantum algorithms.
🔟 The Texas Connection
Superquantum, the organization maintaining the protocol, is based in Texas which gives us the unique distinction of being the only quantum computing cryptocurrency project where you can legitimately say "Everything's bigger in Texas, including our quantum circuits."
We’ll be celebrating our 1st anniversary at @MIT on November 14,
together with researchers, developers, and early contributors who helped bring quantum-inspired Proof of Work to life.
During the event, we’ll also host the qPoW demo.
Thank you to every miner, validator, developer, and supporter who's helped us prove that cryptocurrency mining doesn't have to be purposeless computation - it can literally advance human understanding of quantum, and we are here to make it a reality.
May the qubits be with you!
Here's to Year Two! 🥂
— The Superquantum Team
“From Quantum to Blockchain”
Qubitcoin-Founder @MYShalaginov talks about his journey from researcher to builder, the origins of qPoW, and how quantum mechanics is shaping the next era of crypto.
Watch the full interview here:
https://t.co/w4vTPEokn7
🚨 Big news: $QTC will be listed on @coinexcom!
CoinEx, with over 10M+ users across 200+ countries and 1200+ listed assets, has established itself as one of the leading global crypto exchanges.
A major step towards making QTC more accessible for a global audience.
Trading will go live soon – stay tuned for the exact date.
And this is just the first of several major steps to come. We are not done yet …
Quantum Growth Month has only just begun. ⚡️
@YieldBricks one step at a time. Progress is beeing made and utility grows constantly. #YBR is on the right track.
Market seems so be OK for now, time for a new RWA push, cheers.
@DomSchiener Big props for the current information and marketing campaign surrounding the #REBASED launch.
Lots of new eyes on the ecosystem, hoping it stays that way! Excited for the projects future, time to regain the ranks, cheers.
@virtualbacon now is the time to proof all the $Iota doubters wrong! Market conditions could be way better for altcoins though.
Rebased mainnet launch will hopefully bring all that utility, that has been promised by dom the last few months. LFG
@DomSchiener Q1 release of REBASED still on the horizon?
Market took a real bumpy road, but hopefully heading to a final altseason push soon.
Would be a great time to push $IOTA back into Top 50.
@Lovrincrypto Looks way better than the lambo from end of november 2024 @Lovrin. Good times, hopefully soon to be back!
All our hyped RWA picks are on vacation right now, it's time a rebirth....This market is not as easy as we sometimes hope, cheers.
$YBR $IOTA
@KongBTC Really hoping for a strong breakout once REBASED Mainnet goes live §IOTA
Although this market has shown time and time again, that breakthrough releases can just be a no factor for price whereas memes with 0 utility lead the way to billion dollars Marketcaps.