Qubic has officially flipped the switch on “Phase 3”: the project has completed a full migration to a Dogecoin-focused mining architecture, removing Monero (XMR) from its stack and putting its compute resources on a permanent dual track—ASICs mining DOGE, and CPUs/GPUs training its in-house AI, Aigarth.
Announced on X on April 23, 2026, the team framed the move as a structural pivot rather than a marginal upgrade. “Phase 3 is live. Qubic has completed the Dogecoin mining migration. XMR is out. The new architecture is in full effect,” the project wrote, adding: “No more alternating. No more compromises. Both workstreams running simultaneously at full capacity, for the first time ever.” In practice, that means ASICs are now dedicated 100% to Scrypt/DOGE mining while general-purpose silicon is fully allocated to AI workloads.
Qubic describes the setup as a circular capital flywheel: DOGE mined → sold → QU bought back → distributed to computors. The design routes mining proceeds into persistent buy pressure for QU (Qubic’s native unit) while keeping Dogecoin production ongoing — a closed-loop meant to bootstrap and sustain the Qubic economy.
Day‑one performance figures were published alongside the rollout. Using a DG1+ ASIC at 13 GH/s as a sample, Qubic compared returns from its system against a traditional mining pool:
- Mining DOGE via Qubic: 10,314,425 Qu’s → $7.94/day
- Mining DOGE on traditional pools: 62.31 DOGE → $6.02/day
Qubic reports this is roughly +$1.92/day, or ~32% more profit on identical hardware and effort.
How material is Qubic to the Dogecoin network today? Still modest. The team’s live Scrypt hash registers about 2.1 TH/s versus a network total of roughly 2.44 PH/s — about a 0.086% share. That’s enough to demonstrate the migration is real (Qubic now has active Scrypt hash on the ledger) but not enough to meaningfully affect network security, block production, or DOGE sell pressure by itself.
What happens next will determine the story’s arc. The shift takes Qubic out of the proof‑of‑concept phase and into scaling: if its Dogecoin hashrate climbs, the narrative will move from “they’ve entered DOGE mining” to “they’re becoming a material mining participant.”
Qubic’s pivot follows an earlier run with Monero that acted as a live proof-of-concept for its Useful Proof of Work model. During that period the project said it once captured as much as 45% of Monero’s global hashrate in a single epoch, found 3,496 XMR blocks, and staged a public 51% takeover demonstration — data points the team has used to validate the idea of redirecting network compute into external production and then recycling proceeds into its ecosystem.
At press time DOGE traded around $0.09791. Qubic’s Phase 3 is live; the market-impact question now hinges on whether the flywheel can scale beyond a demonstrable foothold.
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