Qbit

Qbit is approaching mainnet. No sooner than 24 hours from this post, we will publish the release PR committing the genesis block hash and AuxPoW chain ID to Qbit Core’s main branch. Until then, final review continues: we encourage contributors to test, review, and open issues.

Qbit is entering final review ahead of mainnet. During the next week, we encourage contributors to test, review, and open issues. We will give at least 24 hours notice before the genesis block hash and AuxPoW chain ID are committed to Qbit Core’s main branch. Once they land, anyone can build, run, and mine on Qbit mainnet. Core-maintained bootstrap tooling, qbit.org chain metrics, and related materials may take up to 24 hours to follow. Join us on Discord: discord.gg/xqC7MAk95Q

PRISM is now available for mining Qbit. PRISM (Payouts, Rewards, and Integrity Settlement Manifest) is a fully open-source, non-custodial mining pool implementation for Qbit's permissionless SHA-256 lane, released in qbit-mining-bootstrap as part of the Qbit Core suite of mining software. - Miners connect over standard Stratum; accepted shares enter one canonical, append-only ledger with TIDES-style accounting, as documented by OCEAN - Each found block pays miners directly from the coinbase - Larger payout sets settle through OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY fanout transactions committed when the block is mined. CTV commitments can be nested, so the settlement design scales to any number of miners — bounded by fee and dust economics, not a protocol limit - The pool holds no spend key and cannot redirect or withhold rewards - Published audit bundles are served through PRISM’s audit/public interfaces, while each mined coinbase anchors an audit commitment so miners can verify the published data against the block and recompute the payout split. The first PRISM pool is live on Qbit testnet4: prismpool.io. The complete pool stack ships as open source in qbit-mining-bootstrap, and additional pools will be listed on qbit.org as they come online. Source: github.com/Qbit-Org/qbit-… Release notes: github.com/Qbit-Org/qbit-… Documentation: qbit.org

Qbit v0.1.2-testnet4 core client is live. This is a stability update for public testnet4 as Qbit approaches mainnet. Highlight: P2MR/PQC message signing is now available. qbit.org/testnet-0.1.2

Qbit v0.1.1-testnet4 core client is live. The highlight: up to 10x faster TX signing. Also: new RPCs for P2MR/PQC data-hash proofs. Miners: be sure to upgrade prior to testnet4 height 20,500 to prevent block propagation issues. qbit.org/testnet-0.1.1

Today’s dominant blockchains were designed before quantum attacks were credible. Once value exists under vulnerable cryptographic assumptions, migration becomes the hard part: who moves, when they move, and what happens to coins that never do. Qbit starts from a different premise: long-lived digital value needs post-quantum security from inception. Today, Qbit is live and open source in testnet. Qbit is a new UTXO network built around post-quantum ownership from genesis: SLH-DSA / SPHINCS+ hash-based signatures, P2MR outputs that keep public spend keys hidden until use, direct witness-byte accounting, a 60-second aggregate cadence, ASERT retargeting, permissionless SHA-256 mining, and AuxPoW merge mining so Bitcoin-linked hashrate can help secure the chain. QBT is designed as a durable proof-of-work asset: fixed 210M supply, mining-only distribution, no premine, no outside allocation, and no legacy-balance migration. Qbit is a new monetary network with no inherited vulnerabilities in its supply: every output is under the same post-quantum security model. Testnet is where the architecture becomes something you can run, stress, and break. Run Qbit Core. Mine blocks. Operate infrastructure. Open issues and pull requests, and help us strengthen Qbit before mainnet. qbit.org/testnet