What is Qubic?

The network is held by 676 computors, machines that each have one vote on the next state of the whole system. A decision passes with 451 votes, just over two thirds. No seat carries more weight than another, and a vote cannot be bought or pooled.

Every week, at the epoch change on Wednesday around 12:00 UTC, up to 225 seats can change hands: the computors that did the least useful work give way to those that did more. See 676 Voices and Weeks of Epochs.

In Bitcoin, mining burns energy on a puzzle whose only output is security. In Qubic the same work has a second use. Miners run Aigarth's tasks, evolving and training structures meant to lead to a new kind of AI, and the network also points its hashing power at outsourced mining on other networks, which in 2025 meant Monero and later Dogecoin. See Murdoch's Gas in Action: UPoW.

Each epoch the network issues exactly one trillion QU, and over the week it burns QU through several separate paths. Supply rises and falls with the weekly rhythm; in 2025 and 2026 the burn often exceeded the issue. This page describes the mechanism only and gives no financial advice. See The Breathing Token.

Aigarth is Qubic's research project on a new paradigm for creating artificial intelligence. Come-from-Beyond wrote on 14 May 2024: "Aigarth's main goal is to discover a new paradigm allowing to create true AI, I have just seen the wireframe of this paradigm. And I have realized that Artificial Intelligence will not be created, it will emerge. With help of Qubic miners."

The estimated date for Aigarth to run as smart contracts on Qubic is 13 April 2027, five years after launch. He calls it an estimate. The same date is set for switching off the Arbitrator, the one address with special standing in the network, a role he holds himself. See What Aigarth Is, What the Deploy on April 13, 2027 Means and The Arbitrator.