Qubic All-Hands Recap: April 30, 2026

TLDR

• Core tech shipped its biggest release window ever: 3,751 commits, 10 projects closed, network speed doubled to under 1 second per tick.

• Oracle Machines (Qubic's second pillar) are live in production. Outsourced Computing (the third pillar) has entered its design phase.

• Epoch 210 hit 200 million transactions in one week (~330 tx/sec sustained), with Oracle query volume up 40x.

• Dogecoin mining is technically complete on mainnet. Target: top-five DOGE hashrate provider and $140K+ revenue per epoch.

• Incubation now expects a return on every investment. No more non-repayable grants.

• The scientific team is submitting a new paper to NeurIPS, the world's largest AI and neuroscience conference.

The April 30 All-Hands brought together more than six thousand community members for updates across core tech, science, incubation, governance, business development, and marketing. Here is what moved forward and what comes next.

Core Tech: Biggest Release Window in Qubic History

Between January and April 2026, the development team closed more projects than in any prior four-month window.

An independent March 2026 Santiment ranking placed Qubic fifth among the top AI and Big Data projects by 30-day developer activity, with the highest growth rate on the chart at +83.9%. The numbers behind that ranking reflect a four-month sprint that closed ten projects.

Network speed doubled. Core Optimizations Phase 1 brought average tick time from roughly two seconds to under one second, making every dApp on Qubic faster and cheaper automatically. Oracle Machines reached full production, powering DOGE share validation at scale and processing over 600,000 queries in Epoch 210 alone. The new Revenue Algorithm launched with the ability to adjust parameters to network conditions without requiring a protocol change.

The Browser Extension v1 hit stores with a security audit in progress. Community testers and dApp developers are invited to integrate. Bob and Lite Nodes V1 lowered the barrier to running a node. OTC Escrow brought fully on-chain escrow with no trusted middleman. Vottun Bridge Multisig hardened the cross-chain bridge security model. QSwap shipped a new frontend with WalletConnect integration and charts. Network Guardians went to production with the first guardian revenue paid out. Log Events v1 completed the list.

Ten projects delivered. Three green on delivery. Two in the final close. The network is moving faster than at any prior point in its history.

What Comes Next for Qubic Core Development

Three priorities define the next development window.

Outsourced Computing is the third and final pillar of the Qubic vision. Smart contracts handle logic on-chain. Oracle Machines bring external data in. Outsourced Computing will let the network call on external processing power, like hiring a specialist for a specific job and getting the result back on-chain. When all three work together, Qubic can act on real-world information and trigger real-world actions autonomously. The design phase is underway now.

Algorithm Updates will bring two new AI training algorithms to the network. Anthill (an Aigarth update) is planned for mid-May. The Neuraxon integration follows, letting the scientific team run its research model on the live network. Both will operate in parallel.

Seamless Updates will remove the current weekly five-to-ten-minute maintenance window by letting computors adopt new software on a rolling basis with zero network downtime.

Two scaling upgrades are also scheduled: a 4x increase in transactions per tick on May 20, and a doubling of per-transaction data capacity on June 10. A halving is planned for Q3 2026, cutting weekly QUBIC emission from ~450 billion to ~225 billion.

XMR Closure and Qubic Dogecoin Mining Integration

The Monero custom mining chapter closed on April 15 by community decision. It delivered what it was built for: roughly 1.08 trillion QUBIC removed from circulating supply over five months. That total includes a closing buyback of $338,700 USDT between April 3 and April 30 across 24,243 individual purchases.

Dogecoin mining on Qubic replaces XMR using the same framework but with a larger opportunity surface. The integration is technically complete and has been live on mainnet since April 1.

The flow is simple. DOGE miners connect to the Qubic pool. The pool finds blocks. Block rewards convert to USDT, which buys back QUBIC. That QUBIC flows to computors, who distribute it to miners. No protocol fee anywhere in the chain. For the full technical architecture, see the Dogecoin Mining deep-dive.

DOGE Integration: Engineering Complete, Adoption in Motion

Qubic's DOGE mining operates on a two-pot revenue model. Pot 1 is the base Computor reward, split 80% to AI miners and 20% to DOGE miners. Pot 2 is a pure DOGE bonus funded entirely by DOGE buyback revenue, distributed 100% to DOGE miners without diluting Pot 1. The two pots are independent. Neither draws from the other.

The flywheel logic is straightforward: more miners generate more hashrate, more hashrate finds more blocks, more blocks produce more buyback revenue, and more buyback means more bonus for everyone participating.

Burns from DOGE revenue are temporarily paused while the network onboards ASIC miners.

They will resume at scale.

The engineering is complete.
What remains is adoption.

Eight DOGE mining pools have already been contacted.

The three-to-six-month targets are a top-five position among global DOGE hashrate providers and weekly epoch revenue surpassing the XMR-era baseline of approximately $140,000.

Epoch 210: Qubic Transaction Record

Epoch 210 validated the infrastructure work. The network processed 200 million transactions in a single seven-day window, sustaining ~330 tx/sec. Oracle queries hit an all-time record of 608,548 in the same epoch, up from a pre-DOGE baseline of ~15,000.

That is a 40x increase, driven almost entirely by real DOGE validation traffic through Oracle Machines. The infrastructure works at scale.

Qubic Scientific Team: NeurIPS Submission and Research Roadmap

The scientific team is days away from submitting a new paper to NeurIPS. The research follows a deliberate five-step roadmap, with each paper building on the previous one.

The new NeurIPS paper translates the psychological concept of general intelligence into brain-inspired computational models. Rather than training a large language model on massive datasets (the approach taken by OpenAI, Google, and others), the team is building a system where intelligence can emerge from the interactions between simulated brain-like units. This is a fundamentally different path to artificial general intelligence.

The team is also prototyping a structure for running Neuraxon research directly on the Qubic network. A dedicated proposal will follow once testing on simple tasks is complete.

On the educational side, the Neuraxon Intelligence Academy published two new volumes: Vol. 6 on consciousness and Vol. 7 on artificial life. Upcoming conference appearances include ICMLT 2026 in Berlin (May 20-22) and AMLDS 2026 in Osaka (July 21-23).

Qubic Incubation Program: Return Expectations and Tighter Standards

The incubation program received its most significant update since launch. The core mission remains the same: fund strong products that deploy on Qubic. The operating model has shifted.

Every investment now requires a defined return mechanism. Capital is no longer deployed on a non-repayable basis. The reason is sustainability. Looking back at the full portfolio, too few funded projects remained active after delivery. Without a business plan or return commitment, the incentive for long-term viability was limited. The new structure aims to make the incubation fund self-sustaining rather than dependent on the CCF for each cycle.

Review criteria have been tightened across eight dimensions, from Qubic fit and team credibility to go-to-market strategy and pricing logic. Proposals that lack a repo, rely on AI-generated filler, or defer monetization will be screened out quickly. Submissions remain via GitHub, capped at 10 pages, with short demos strongly preferred. Full details at qubic.org/incubation-program.

The Solana Bridge deployed milestone two and is on track for full delivery by the end of June.

Governance Update

The CCF Audit Proposal passed quorum on April 29 with 510 votes in favor. The auditing firm has already begun contacting work group leads to define reporting structures. Initial outputs are expected in May or June.

Qubic Business Development Pipeline

The pipeline has never been larger. Sixty-two leads arrived from Paris Blockchain Week (contributed by the French community), with another 100+ generated by the BD team. The combined pipeline stands at 164 leads: 25 hot, 20 warm, 18 cold, with the remainder awaiting categorization. The first five hot outreach sequences launched this week.

Short-term priorities (Q2-Q3 2026) include converting three to six leads into confirmed partnerships, closing at least two regulated fiat on-ramps (USA and APAC), and activating initial wallet or card-payment integrations. A longer-term strategy targeting tier-one exchange listings, payment-rail products, and compute-as-a-service is being finalized for strategic board review.

On compute-as-a-service specifically, the BD team has completed market research and is designing a path that goes beyond the conventional "rent GPU cycles" model. The target customers are AI agents, not humans. As autonomous AI systems grow in capability, they will need on-demand compute to execute tasks, validate data, and trigger actions. Qubic's feeless architecture and sub-second finality make it a natural settlement layer for machine-to-machine transactions at that scale.

Marketing: Record Month in April

April was Qubic's strongest paid performance month on record. The network crossed 100,000 followers on X. Total impressions across paid and organic reached 25.76 million, against a total spend of $3,069.

Paid campaigns delivered 21.7 million impressions at a CPM of $0.14, the lowest recorded in over six months, despite ads being offline for nine days due to platform issues. Organic activity added 4 million impressions on X and 13,500 on LinkedIn.

The team also began testing placements on MiningPoolStats, putting Qubic directly in front of active DOGE miners at the moment they are evaluating pool options. That targeting is directly aligned with the onboarding goal.

Looking Ahead

Qubic turned four this month. The network processes more than 200 million transactions per week at sub-one-second tick times. Two of the three architectural pillars are live. The third entered design this week. The incubation program is structured for long-term sustainability. The scientific team's research is being accepted at peer-reviewed conferences. The business development pipeline is the largest it has been.

The work is visible in the numbers. The direction is clear.

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