Qubic All-Hands Recap: May 14, 2026

TLDR

• Qubic Science presents its first peer-reviewed paper at ICMLT Berlin, May 20-22, 2026. A new CUDA library brings Neuraxon to NVIDIA GPUs.

• My Last Match entered beta, completed its first phase, and activated hostile NPCs on May 13.

• The Solana Bridge has a confirmed path to mainnet by late July, with testnet, audit, and IPO milestones mapped through the summer.

• Network upgrades on May 20 (4× transaction capacity to 4,096 per tick) and June 10 (doubled data payloads). Halving targeted for August 19, pending computor vote.

• Doge merged mining reached 7.6 TH/s with 200+ participants and 153 billion QU in buybacks distributed to miners.

• Oracle Machines shipped to mainnet. Outsourced computing design workshops with CFB began this week.

The May 14, 2026 All-Hands drew over 6,500 live attendees, a new record. Seven agenda items spanned science, gaming, incubation, governance, marketing, and core tech. Here's what moved forward and what's next.

Qubic Scientific Team: Neuraxon v2.0 Paper Accepted at IEEE ICMLT Berlin

Qubic Science hit a milestone this week. David Vivancos and Dr. Jose Sanchez will present "Neuraxon v2.0: A New Neural Growth & Computation Blueprint" at the IEEE-co-sponsored ICMLT conference in Berlin, May 20-22. This is Qubic's first accepted peer-reviewed paper. After the conference it gets indexed on IEEE Xplore and Scopus, which opens the research to evaluation and citation by the broader scientific community.

The team also released cuNxon, a library that lets Neuraxon run on NVIDIA GPUs. Until now, all Neuraxon research ran on standard processors. GPUs handle many calculations at once, which means experiments that previously hit hardware limits can now scale up. With five million CUDA developers worldwide, this also lowers the barrier for outside researchers to work with Neuraxon. With an upcoming planned integration of Neuraxon into the Qubic network, miners will be able to use their GPUs for Neuraxon workloads too.

On the research bench, the Neuraxon Game of Life (v4.63, roughly 175 releases) added a real-time dashboard tracking ten biological health indicators and a modular configuration system. Researchers can now sweep through different parameter combinations programmatically instead of rebuilding for each test. A persistent cloud-hosted Neuraxon server is planned for the coming weeks so anyone can set up their own Neuraxon and watch how it behaves over time.

The Qubic Scientific team published two new pieces: a blog exploring the abstraction fallacy in modern AI, "Can AI Have Experience?", and Neuraxon Intelligence Academy Vol. 8 on brain criticality and the branching ratio in neural and artificial networks.

My Last Match: Blockchain MMORPG Beta Now Live on Qubic

My Last Match (MLM), the post-apocalyptic survival MMORPG built on Qubic, entered beta and already completed its first phase.

During the accommodation phase, players explored the map, picked spawn points, and crafted initial items without threat. That phase ended May 13 with an in-game welcome party. Phase two, "Survival on the Streets," is now live. The Dementals (hostile NPCs) are active and the streets are dangerous.

A few design principles set MLM apart. The server is the single source of truth. The player's screen only displays what the server tells it, which means common exploits like speed hacks have no foundation. The economy runs on finite, decaying items registered to wallets. Nothing gets printed as rewards. If growth stopped tomorrow, the economy would still function with fewer hands trading scarce goods.

Core rules are locked: no server wipes, no resets, permanent consequences, player-driven factions. When balance problems surface, the response is to layer in new mechanics rather than erase the problem.

Community input is already shaping development. A suggestions forum on Discord rewards the best contributions. The Wolfpack clan established a smart contract to share safe house revenue with token holders. Qmine Foundation now controls a significant share of in-game water. A community member compiled a comprehensive wiki covering many aspects of the game.

Any existing MLM asset owner (safehouses, vehicles, pets) can join the beta automatically. For those who don't yet hold any assets, survival kits are available at mylastmatch.net for purchase and serve as an entry point. Proceeds go toward buying matches (in-game currency, 1 match = 1,000 QU) from the MLM smart contract, then distributed back to players through looting mechanics.

Qubic Incubation Update: Solana Bridge Mainnet Timeline

All other incubated projects have been delivered. The Solana Bridge is the only remaining project in development, and the team shared a clear milestone timeline.

Testing and audit will run in parallel, as was done with the Ethereum bridge (QBridge).

Qubic Governance Update

The community lead role, open since the previous lead departed, is progressing through a structured interview process run by the workgroup leads.

Salar has been selected as interim community manager. He will serve as the single point of contact for workgroup leads, manage funds and payments, and represent the community externally while the search continues.

One additional candidate was interviewed last week. A recommendation is expected early next week. The interview process remains open to anyone interested: submit a CV and formal proposal to any workgroup lead. The final decision rests with the computors through a governance vote.

Qubic Marketing Report: May 1-14, 2026

From May 1-14, the team delivered 8.9 million+ paid impressions at $0.22 CPM, with roughly 1 million organic impressions on X and 4,607 on LinkedIn. Total ad spend: $1,714.75.

The team shared context on budget management. Marketing was funded at 900 QU per billion, and with the token sitting around 600 per billion, the effective budget contracted by roughly 30%. The team absorbed this by restructuring roles and adjusting pay with the main goal of keeping output consistent through the current proposal period ending in June. Future proposals will be shaped around sustainable output at current market levels.

Core Tech: Oracle Machines, Protocol Upgrades, and Doge Mining Growth

Joetom delivered the most packed segment of the call, covering protocol upgrades, tooling, Doge numbers, and a consensus education overview.

Oracle Machines Complete on Qubic Mainnet

With the final updates released to mainnet on May 7, two of Qubic's three core pillars are now live: Smart Contracts and Oracle Machines. The third, Outsourced Computing, is in active design. The first architecture workshop with CFB took place this week, with a second scheduled for May 15 and a plan expected next week.

Upcoming Qubic Network Upgrades

Detour Algorithm Landing in EP215

This is an intermediate step between the current algorithm and the Ant Colony announced two weeks ago. Detour introduces a fixed network topology, 2-bit packed weights for tighter memory use, and a new bit-flip mutation method. Think of it as laying a cleaner foundation so Ant Colony can build on stable ground. Computors receive the update automatically; miner-dev teams will need to do some adoption work. The pull request is public on GitHub.

Seamless Updates

Seamless updates are being designed so non-breaking changes (like adding a smart contract) can be applied without the weekly network pause. Design details come in the next All-Hands.

Qubic Tooling Progress

The Explorer (v1.39.0) now supports CSV transaction downloads (up to 1,000 items per page), Oracle event types, and preserved filters during tick navigation. The wallet browser extension (v1.1.0) cleared internal testing with positive feedback on dApp compatibility (including qubictrade.com) and is 1-2 days from a community link share, with a security review vote scheduled for end of epoch. The mobile wallet (v2.4.0) is live with a migration to the query services API and UI improvements. This is the last release to support Android 5/6; users on those versions should back up seeds and migrate.

Dogecoin Mining on Qubic: 7.6 TH/s and Growing

Merged mining grew from 1.7 TH/s in Epoch 207 to 7.6 TH/s in Epoch 212 (a 4.5× increase), with 200+ participants and 31 blocks found in EP212 alone, the best epoch to date. The income generated 153 billion QU in buybacks across EP207-212, all distributed to miners. Burns are currently paused while the incentive pot works. Qubic ranks between 8th and 20th among Doge mining pools, with a target of top 5. Litecoin merged mining is planned as a temporary measure while hash rate builds. For a setup guide, visit Doge Mining on Qubic.

Live Roadmap

The team has prepared a public-facing live roadmap so the community can track progress between All-Hands calls.

How Qubic's Decentralized Network Security Works

Joetom closed with a compact educational segment addressing recurring community questions.

Qubic runs 676 computors, each holding a slot for one epoch (seven days). To earn a slot, operators compete through Useful Proof of Work, contributing AI compute. The top 676 scorers each epoch become the next epoch's computors. It's a continuous cycle: compete and operate at the same time, or lose the position.

Any decision on the network requires a two-thirds supermajority (451 of 676 votes). Blocking a decision takes 226 votes. To prevent any single entity from holding that veto power, the anti-collusion rule caps any operator at 225 computors. The team estimates roughly ten distinct operators currently run the network. Running a computor demands constant uptime, weekly updates, and significant investment, which is by design.

Network guardians (light nodes) form an outer verification layer. They operate within the core network and actively monitor computor behavior. If computors attempted to manipulate consensus, guardians would detect the misalignment because the protocol forces all nodes to stay in sync.

For a deeper explanation, visit the Qubic blog.

The next Qubic All-Hands is scheduled for two weeks from today. RSVP now to save your seat. By then, the Neuraxon v2.0 presentation in Berlin will have taken place, the 4,096 tx/tick upgrade will be live, the Detour algorithm will have landed, and the outsourced computing design should have more shape. Same time, same place.