QUBIC BLOG POST
Qubic All-Hands Recap | January 22, 2026
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The Qubic Team
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Jan 25, 2026
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Building Through the Noise
This week's All-Hands brought the community up to speed on what's been cooking across Qubic's scientific research, core tech, incubation pipeline, and marketing efforts. Here's what you need to know.
Scientific Team
The Neuraxon Game of Life research version hit v2.33. David Vivancos and Dr. Jose Sanchez have been grinding through code optimizations and expanding the simulation's logging capabilities. The team is now processing gigabytes of data from parallel game sessions, tracking how different Neuraxon architectures evolve across hundreds of rounds.
A big focus lately has been fine-tuning the four neuromodulators: dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, and norepinephrine. These neurotransmitters mirror how biological brains handle reward, mood, focus, and alertness. The team wants to further nail down stable parameters before proposing integration into the broader Qubic network.
On the community education front, the Neuraxon Intelligence Academy continues rolling out demos and articles. The newest demo, Mood Mixer, lets you play with neuromodulator levels and see real data captured from thousands of simulated Neuraxons. It's not a scientific breakthrough on its own, but it helps visualize what the research team is actually building.
The big academic push: an updated Neuraxon paper is heading to ICML 2026. It's a tier-one machine learning conference, so acceptance isn't guaranteed, but the team is also eyeing additional conferences featuring bio-inspired neural architecture research.
Coming soon: a physical application for Neuraxon in February, new senses being coded into the Game of Life (proprioception, day/night cycles, temperature, sleep), and a scientific blog post breaking down a recent Google paper on reasoning models - "Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought" - that has interesting parallels to Qubic's approach.
Core Tech
Highlights first. The Tech AMA on Execution Fees was a hit. If you missed it, the recording on X walks through how smart contracts get charged for compute time. It’s worth a watch. Also, Lite and Bob nodes are now live across multiple continents. The team is looking for providers in Africa and South America to fill coverage gaps.
New this week: A community feedback portal launched at feedback.qubic.org. You can browse Qubic products, submit feature requests, and upvote what matters the most to you. This gives the dev team a direct signal on what to prioritize.
Project status updates:
Oracle Machines - Mainnet testing got pushed back. The core node software wasn't stable enough with recent changes, so the team extended the testing period. Expect weeks, not months. Stability comes first. Check the Oracle Machines Blog Post for a detailed explanation on how oracles will work on Qubic.
Execution Fees - Live and working. You can track real-time burns and reserve deductions at contracts.qubic.tools. The project closes by the end of January. Devs have already shifted to other work. For a deeper dive, check out the Execution Fees blog post.
New Mining Algorithm - The network update went live on January 21st. Qubic mining can now handle multiple algorithms simultaneously. Another success, closing soon.
Bob/Lite Nodes V1 - Heavy deployment phase. Some community members are already running them in production. February brings the full production phase, with the project close targeted for the end of February.
Network Guardians - Design phase wrapping up. Development kicks off soon with a closed beta set to deploy in February. Check the Network Guardians blog post for the full explanation.
New projects entering design phase: Doge coin integration, Core Optimization, and a Revenue Algorithm. Roadmaps for these initiatives will expand once planning wraps up by late January or early February 2026.
Organizational moves: The Dev Ops and Core Dev vacancies are on hold for now. The team is on track with current projects and undergoing some structural changes. Mr. Rose is locked in as Incubation Manager. And Kimz has joined as Business Development lead, handling partner outreach, and exchange conversations.
Incubation
The Incubation Decision Board is taking shape. This group will support strategic decisions on which proposals to greenlight and which RFPs to launch. Interviews wrapped up this week with candidates like Roks, Mio, Jecd, Crypdro, and Mksala. Joetom and Dkat are already onboard representing the tech side with a shared vote. Learn more about the Qubic Incubation Program.
Project rundown:
Solana Bridge - Milestone 1 validated. Now developing Milestone 2.
Vottun Bridge - Smart contract ready for audit. Waiting on a quotation from the auditor. Milestone 2 and 3 evidence coming soon.
OTC Escrow - The team delivered all four milestones at once. QA is ongoing. Initial smart contract validation passed.
QBuild - Canceled. The AI smart contract auditing tool worked fine for testing but fell short for actual auditing. Building a fully capable AI auditor would require more investment than makes sense right now. The team was paid through Milestone 2 and the rest has been put on hold at the moment.
Qswap Front - Milestone 2 QA ongoing.
Nostromo - Halted. Progress has paused following a loss of communication with the original development team in early January. Core smart contracts and front-end designs are complete; however, the UI implementation remains outstanding. Approximately $15K remains allocated for the final milestone. Incubation is exploring next steps, and any developers or shareholders interested in continuing the project can contact Mr. Rose.
The incubation team is being deliberate with funds this year. Expect tighter ROI focus on every project decision through Q1 and Q2.
Marketing
Note: This section was skipped during the live call, but here's what you missed.
From January 1-20, Qubic pulled in over 7.1 million total impressions across organic and paid channels. That breaks down to 2.1M+ organic impressions on X and LinkedIn, nearly 5M impressions from X ads, and 54,000 unique website visitors.
The team ran a test campaign called Social Sprint alongside the new website homepage launch. Kimz coordinated 10 ambassadors to execute a structured engagement plan. The result: 421,856 organic reach in 24 hours. Qubic trended on X, landed on CoinPedia's Top 10 Altcoins Watchlist, and ranked among the top AI projects by social activity on LunarCrush.
The marketing team considers the foundational phase complete. Systems are built. The team is in place. Now the focus shifts to acceleration: scaling what works, tightening the narrative, and pushing Qubic's positioning in the AI and decentralized compute space.
That's the full recap. The roadmap will be updated on the website soon, along with clearer incubation documentation. Questions? Drop them in Discord or catch the next All-Hands.
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