Qubic All-Hands Recap, September 17, 2026

TLDR

• Neuraxon reached a best ARC-AGI-3 score of 0.38 running on ordinary CPUs, with no GPU and no language model, up from 0.13, ahead of where Grok 4.5 and several frontier models scored on the same test.

• The Ant Colony algorithm, BPP-9000, is live. It lets the network's AI research build on itself instead of starting fresh each run.

• A new crosschain oracle lets any Qubic smart contract read data from other blockchains directly, with no third-party bridge in the middle.

• QUBIC is now spendable at more than 20 million merchants through AEON across six countries, with Visa and Mastercard expansion targeted for 2026.

• The first AlchemyPay campaign moved $12,613 of fiat into roughly 28.57 billion QUBIC across nine currencies, with 72% of demand from Europe, and a refined round is planned for October.

• A community proposal would buy QUBIC on the open market, burn it, and repay investors 1.25x over twelve months, while MiCA groundwork for EU access moves forward.

The September 17, 2026 All-Hands brought the full team on stage: David Vivancos and Dr. Jose Sanchez on science, Kimz on business development, and Joetom on core engineering. Here is what moved, why it matters, and what comes next.

Scientific

Neuraxon is Qubic's effort to grow a brain-like AI from a small set of artificial neurons, rather than the massive models that lean on data-center GPUs. The team spent three months pointing it at ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark of puzzle games designed to be genuinely hard for AI to reason through.

The result is a best score of 0.38, close to the 0.4 mark and up from 0.13 when the work began. What makes that number stand out is how it was earned. Neuraxon runs on plain CPUs, with no GPU and no embedded language model, using a single brain of fewer than 200 neurons. Most competitors bolt an existing model onto spare GPU capacity to get their scores. Qubic took the harder path on purpose, to show that a compact, biology-inspired design can reason on its own. At 0.38, it sits ahead of where Grok 4.5 landed on this test, along with several GPT and Claude 4.7 results.

The scale behind it is large: around 450,000 brain trials, more than 50,000 brains saved into the dataset, and 141 rounds of evolutionary improvement. On the games themselves, Neuraxon cleared the first level at least once in 18 of the 25 training games. On a few, it beat human first-level performance in under six moves. Everything will be released as open source once the Kaggle competition closes, with the code on GitHub and datasets on Hugging Face.

The next model, Neuraxon 3.0, is about teaching the network to handle time the way a living brain does, adapting across windows that run from milliseconds to hours. A fourth research paper has been accepted and will be presented next month at the Artificial Evolution conference. For readers who want the plain-language version, two recent posts explain the thinking: A Neuron That Rests and The Brain's Many Clocks.

Core Tech

Joetom walked through four weeks of engineering, and three items stand out.

The first is the Ant Colony algorithm, BPP-9000, now live. The name fits the idea. Ants leave a trail so the next ant builds on the path the last one found. Qubic's AI research used to start over with each run, disconnected from what came before. Ant Colony links those efforts so the network learns continuously and keeps its progress. That kind of ongoing learning is difficult to achieve in standard AI systems without heavy scaffolding, which is why it drew the most attention on the call.

The second is the crosschain oracle. Any Qubic smart contract can now read what is happening on other blockchains, such as Ethereum, directly from within Qubic. A contract can confirm that a transaction happened elsewhere and act on it, with no Chainlink or outside service in between. This opens the door to trustless bridges, to mapping assets across networks, and to reading live market data like Bitcoin prices. The team is building a demo app so other developers can adapt the pattern to their own projects.

The third is quieter but foundational. An internal rewrite keeps the core network fast as more work arrives, and a hardening pass on Core Light, the lightweight node, lets outside services and analytics providers pull fully accurate data.

The pace behind all this is steady and broad. The last four weeks saw roughly 307 commits to main branches, across more than 20 active repositories, from 15-plus contributors. Those are shipped features, not test branches. The network also held its rhythm of seamless epoch transitions, now at least two a month.

Three items are next on the core roadmap. Async solution verify lets the network check incoming AI solutions in parallel, so it never has to pause and wait for full agreement before moving on. Neuraxon mining integration will bring the science team's research onto the network as useful work. And a live Bitcoin prediction prototype will point the Ant Colony at hourly price candles, trained on live data through the new oracle rather than on static history.

Ecosystem and Real-World Payments

The builder side had a productive month. The QPay Hub smart contract went live after its IPO the prior week, the Nostromo contract received updates, and a batch of new contracts sits in review for mainnet. The pattern that outside developers use to ship on Qubic is working well, and each new integration makes the next one smoother. The full smart-contract lifecycle is documented at docs.qubic.org.

On payments, the AEON partnership is where QUBIC starts to behave like everyday money. QUBIC now works as a spendable token at more than 20 million merchants through a simple QR scan, and it is live in six countries: the Philippines, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Georgia, and Peru. One community member used the AEON app to buy groceries and a restaurant meal with QUBIC, with the clip heading to Discord. AEON brings real reach behind that, with over $263 million in 2025 volume and 1.81 million active users. Ahead lie Visa and Mastercard expansion into North America and Europe in 2026, and an AI payment layer built on the x402 standard for AI-agent payments and micro-transactions. The short version is that every QUBIC holder gains real-world spending power.

Growth

Kimz shared results from the first AlchemyPay zero-fee campaign, which ran from July 29 to August 28, 2026, and served as a measured first pass at a fiat on-ramp.

Europe leading demand is a meaningful signal, since AlchemyPay gave that community a working route to buy QUBIC ahead of EU regulatory clearance. On-chain activity tracked the campaign closely, with around 6,706 new addresses appearing in the week after launch. Kimz framed that as correlation tied to the announcement window, and kept to a tight range so the figure stays verifiable. The campaign ran during a handover in the marketing team, and the plan now is a refined October round with AlchemyPay that builds in more measurement from the start.

Tokenomics

Kimz has opened a proposal for community feedback in Discord. The mechanism is simple: outside capital buys QUBIC on the open market, the tokens are burned immediately, and the investor is repaid 1.25x over twelve months. Buy pressure rises while the circulating float falls at the same time, before any tokens are returned. The investor signs a no-hedging covenant, and Qubic never holds the funds, since a market maker executes the buy.

The proposal is still in the feedback stage, and Kimz asked the community to read the full version in Discord and bring input before it goes live.

Regulation and EU Access

Progress on MiCA, the EU's framework for token issuers, is underway and following a clear sequence. The legal entity comes first, and the team is working through the registration and legal identifier that a government body issues on its own timeline. Once the entity is in place, whitepaper preparation begins, submission follows, and agreements with EU ramp providers and exchanges open up from there. The payoff is access to a market of roughly 450 million European consumers, along with the institutional credibility that compliance brings. Kimz will publish a full timeline for the community as the work reaches its next phase.

From the Q&A

A few threads are worth capturing. XMR and Dogecoin mining have wound down as the protocol moved to the Ant Colony miner. On liability for a decentralized AI, the team pointed to Qubic's core design, where no single entity sits behind the network, and the code stays open for anyone to review on GitHub. On reaching large enterprises, the approach is deliberate: prove the infrastructure runs as expected, then scale outward, partly through the community. One group is already working to insert Qubic into an EU program that supports decentralized-AI technologies. The team also offered a dedicated technical AMA in the next two weeks if the community gathers the questions, with BPP-9000 a likely topic.

Where this leaves Qubic

The through-line this quarter is coordination. The science is producing a benchmark result that holds its own on bare CPUs against far heavier systems. The core network is being built to carry that research as live, connected work through the Ant Colony and the crosschain oracle. On the outside, QUBIC is becoming spendable at real merchants while the EU groundwork advances. The pieces sketched two years ago, the smart contracts, the oracle, and outsourced computation, are now close to working together. Most of what the team showed this month is no longer a plan. It is shipping.