🧑🎓@QuilibriumInc Academy Lesson 1
TL;DR: Quilibrium, founded by ex-Coinbase developer Cassie Heart, is layer 1 platform, similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum, but uses new (novel) technology. It provides a new base layer for the Internet, one that is private from the ground up (but compliant) and utilizes a design philosophy similar to @Apple --do more, with less. It is in the early stages of its mainnet, and teams are already building a lot of cool things on Q.
Long version:
Quilibrium is a decentralized platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables applications to operate in a permanent, uncensorable state, free from reliance on traditional service providers (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP).
Q operates as an oblivious sharded hypergraph database, which is decentralized like $BTC and $ETH but that's where the similarities end. Q's approach focuses on parallelism and scalability, overcoming the bottlenecks of a linear blockchains, and is better suited for decentralized apps, #AI models, and multi-party interactions.
Censorship and data security are hot topics in this digital age. You don't have to scroll far on X to see a post from @elonmusk and many others talking about this. This is a common narrative in the crypto space, and Q founder @cass_on_mars went a step further to declare the Internet, as we know it, dead. Q has built a new base layer for the Internet, one that is private at its core.
"If privacy is a common narrative in crypto, what makes Q different from the others?"
Well, beyond its technical accomplishments (scalable to millions of transactions per second), Cassie Heart's "alternate thesis of consumer crypto" takes a very practical approach to integrating cryptocurrency with our lives. Using Quilibrium should be as transparent as using the Internet today, and that thesis is woven into the very fabric of this network.
Quilibrium's founder and lead developer, Cassie Heart, hails from @coinbase and @farcaster_xyz. She is often compared to Ethereum's @VitalikButerin in her abilities and dedication to the mission. While her Twitter presence is on the small side, she has over 370k followers on Farcaster and is very well connected in the space.
Although the network is still in the early stages of its mainnet, several teams have come forward announcing projects they are developing on Q, including @BlockchatDAO, a decentralized web3 social platform.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about Quilibrium today. Stay tuned for additional lessons from the Q Academy, coming soon🤓
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🚨 WHEN ANTHROPIC'S CO-FOUNDER VALIDATES YOUR THESIS, MAYBE PAY ATTENTION TO $TAO DIRECT MENTION OF SUBNET.
Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, former OpenAI Policy Director, one of the most respected voices in AI, published analysis on decentralized AI training that should be front-page news.
Instead? Crickets
WHO IS JACK CLARK?
- Co-founded Anthropic (the company behind Claude)
- Former OpenAI Policy Director
- Writes Import AI newsletter analyzing cutting-edge AI research
- When he speaks, frontier labs listen
This isn't some crypto influencer. This is a founder of a $350B+ Valuation AI company.
WHAT DID HE SAY?
Jack analyzed Epoch AI's research on decentralized training and here are the numbers:
Decentralized training growth: 20X per year
Centralized (frontier) growth: 5X per year
Read that again. Decentralized is growing 4X FASTER than OpenAI/Anthropic/Google.
Current:
- Decentralized runs are 1000X smaller than frontier models
- But growing 4X faster per year means...
Math check:
At current rates, decentralized training reaches frontier-competitive scale in few years
@covenant_ai (Bittensor subnet operator) @tplr_ai highlighted as the key innovations:
DiLoCo:
500x bandwidth reduction
+ Quantization 10× (fewer bits per message)
+ Sparsification 10× (Send most important ignore rest)
That’s not 520×.
= improvements compound MULTIPLICATIVELY
500 × 10 × 10 = 50,000× less
Epoch AI's conclusion: Bandwidth won't limit the scale of decentralized training anytime soon.
BITTENSOR CONNECTION
Here's what most people are missing:
Templar, the world's largest active decentralized training network (9×10¹⁷ FLOP/s), is run by Covenant AI.
Covenant AI = Bittensor subnet
Choose Choose the Covenant Index @covenant_ai@basilic_ai@grail_ai from @TrustedStake
Jack Clark just validated the exact infrastructure this Bittensor Company is building 🎯
WHY THIS MATTER?
Anthropic is a frontier lab building centralized AI. Their co-founder is publicly acknowledging that:
1. Decentralized training is real and working
2. The gap to frontier is closing at 4X per year
3. Technical barriers (bandwidth) are being solved
4. Specific Bittensor infrastructure (Templar) is leading this
He's citing the competition as credible.
THE MARKET IS ASLEEP
OpenAI valuation: $500B
Anthropic valuation: $350B+
Google DeepMind: Hundreds of billions in parent company value
Bittensor market cap: $2.8B
Thats valued at 1% of Anthropic.
Make it make sense.
MATH IS SIMPLE
If decentralized training:
- Grows 20X annually (vs 5X centralized)
- Has solved bandwidth constraints
- Already has 600,000X scale increase since 2020
- Is being validated by Anthropic's co-founder
Then, $TAO at ,268 is pricing in ZERO probability this thesis plays out.
NO COVERAGE WTFN?
Here's my theory:
1. Crypto stigma media sees $TAO and ignores the AI breakthrough
2. Complexity decentralized training requires understanding both AI and crypto
3. Vested interests centralized AI labs have $100B+ invested in their approach
4. Timing most don't realize how fast this is moving
But the math doesn't care about narratives.
WHAT JACK DIDN'T SAY (BUT IMPLIED)
From Import AI 439:
"Decentralized training gives a way for academic, government, independent, or non-tech-industry actors to pool their compute to change this dynamic."
Translation: Bittensor democratizes access to frontier AI development.
Not 5 companies deciding the future.
195,000+ wallets participating in the AI revolution.
Imagine:
- Apple's co-founder validated a competing smartphone OS
That's what just happened.
Jack Clark built Anthropic to compete with OpenAI in centralized AI.
This should be front-page news.
I've been saying decentralized AI will get the credit it deserves.
When history writes the story of decentralized AI, they'll point to Import AI 439 (January 5, 2026) as the moment a frontier lab co-founder confirmed what we already knew.
🎯 $TAO
Sources 🔗
https://t.co/KGiN8B3mIM
Still here, still running @QuilibriumInc nodes. Every release gets us one step closer to the vision, though admittedly it is taking far longer than I could have expected. That's greenfield in crypto I guess. Stacking other novel projects early where I can. Stay safe out there.
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.
We agree. But today's privacy tech is heavy and kills the throughput. We need the equivalent of physical cash - private because it is truly p2p not because of FHE/ZK/MPC.
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THREAD
1/ The Internet is being rebuilt for AI agents.
Agentic Commerce is projected to hit $3T by 2030.
But we're still in the dialup era of this new Internet.
Here's what's broken - and how we're fixing it 🧵
@QuilibriumInc With the markets in a precarious place, crypto needs a return to its roots more than ever. Projects like $TAO and $QUIL are the right fit at the right time.
Following plenty of others lesser known building too. I'm excited for what is to come.
Happy to see the 2.1 enrollment period has kicked off for @QuilibriumInc. If anyone has wondered where I've been, I've been (im)patiently awaiting 2.1 to be fully out and stable. Node runners, I hope you updated. I'm ready to put this stage in the rear view mirror. $wQUIL $QUIL
@mert https://t.co/FcW7R8YDPK
Free to use, authenticates with passkeys, E2EE for group messaging, uses Quilibrium as the backbone. Mobile coming this week.
(typo fixed this time)
Quilibrium v2.1.0.2 has been released! Please upgrade at your earliest convenience. Enrollment will kick off in approx one hour when the majority of online nodes have upgraded.
The next live stream is scheduled for 24 October, 7am UTC. See you there! We've got a lot to cover.
Half the Internet went down today.
It wasn’t a cyberattack.
It was a cloud outage.
Every time a single provider fails, entire industries go dark.
The Internet wasn’t built to be this fragile.
It’s time to fix it. 🧵
@JasonYanowitz The solution is holistic. You can't solve privacy by saying block chain + X privacy component. You have to go to the root of the problem. I gave a talk at Coinbase about the failings of existing crypto, and have been building ever since:
https://t.co/ZDJxZyRXuX
Quilibrium.
Privacy coins are trending again.
How about Privacy and Utility coin, coin who will bring to the world new internet.
More:
🔒 PRIVATE: Your data, your business.
🌐 DECENTRALIZED: No single point of control.
🚫 CENSORSHIP-RESISTANT: Speak freely, always.
⚡️ SCALABLE: Ready for the masses.
🤝 FAIR: No VCs, no pre-mines.
@cass_on_mars 👀
$Quil @QuilibriumInc@QuilibriumOne #AWSKILLER
$xmr $zec
LONG LIVE THE INTERNET