Qubic QUBIC
Ivanaeglo's useful-PoW machine: 676 computors running quorum epochs and Aigarth AI training — the project whose sponsored hashrate taught the industry that PoW security is economic, not just cryptographic.
About Qubic
sources: official materials · verified 2026-10-13Qubic is a 'useful proof of work' L1 from Sergey Ivancheglo (Come-from-Beyond, IOTA co-founder): 676 computors operate under a 451/676 quorum with 3.5-second epochs, in-memory processing and no conventional fee market — and the computors' hardware doubles as the substrate for Aigarth, on-chain AI training still in its research stage. Its historical lesson is the mid-2025 Monero episode: sponsored CPU hashrate on RandomX rose from under 2% to headline claims above 25%, a ~6-block reorg occurred, an exchange paused XMR deposits — and independent preprints placed the true sustained peak at 22-34%, below a lasting majority, with the reorg under exchange confirmation windows. The takeaway the industry keeps: an externally funded actor can move double-digit percentages of a low-cap chain's hashrate with money, not code — economic security on top of cryptographic security. Qubic's subsequent move to Dogecoin (Scrypt) merge-mining is architecturally rational: ASICs that mine Scrypt are useless to AI workloads, so the resources complement rather than compete — though inside DOGE's Litecoin-mutualized petahash, Qubic is a participant, not a threat. Doge Connect (Scrypt dispatch with on-chain oracle quorum) shipped on schedule — the engineering is real.
How it works
- Network
- Quorum chain: 676 computors, 451/676 quorum, 3.5 s epochs, in-memory
- Consensus
- Computor quorum + quorum-based PoW useful work (Aigarth AI training, research stage)
- Mining algorithm
- Scrypt merge-mining on Dogecoin (moved off RandomX 2025)
- Launched
- 2024
- Hardware
- GPU
Tokenomics — token & supply
- Ticker
- QUBIC
- Maximum supply
- 200T (138T circulating at 5/2026 review)
- Emission
- Quorum-epoch issuance; ~$0.6 per million; verify live schedule.
Reference material
cited on this page · links verified 2026-10-13Who to watch
sensors, not shills — verify before actingRisks
Flywheel reflexivity with no floor: DOGE economics -> QUBIC premium -> miner participation are chained — a DOGE drawdown compresses the premium, miners leave, and the loop feeds itself downward.
Structural dilution: 138T of 200T max circulating — issuance continues; supply math dominates price math.
Key-man risk on the founder-architect; imitation risk with no moat beyond execution and attention — the analyst's own framing.
The Monero episode was not a cryptographic breach: independent preprints put sustained peak hashrate at 22-34% — economic-security theater with real price effects, and the cleanest case study in the tracked set.
tokenomics
- emission
- Quorum-epoch issuance; ~$0.6 per million; verify live schedule.
Don't confuse with
QUBIC — ticker collisions: verify venue — large supply quoted in millions per unit
catalysts
Not financial advice. Verify before deploying capital.

