Qubic Mines DOGE on ASICs While AI Trains at Full Power, Because Why Choose?

Qubic just pulled the ultimate April Fools' prank - except it's real, and somehow that's even more unhinged than the joke itself.

Today, April 1st, 2026 - because nothing says "trust us, this is serious" like launching on international prank day - Qubic launched live Dogecoin mining on ASICs, completely separate from the CPUs and GPUs powering Aigarth, its AI engine. For the first time ever, the network mines at full power while running AI at full power, simultaneously, with zero compromise between the two. No toggle. No trade-off. Full send on both fronts. Elon would be proud, probably.

The high-performance Layer 1 network - independently verified at 15.52 million TPS by CertiK - is now mining DOGE natively. Not a roadmap item. Not a test. Not a "we're totally definitely going to do this soon, pinky promise." Miners can earn DOGE rewards right now on ASICs that don't touch the AI layer at all. The thing actually works. Wild, right?

This isn't Qubic's first rodeo. The last time it made a move like this, it captured over 51% of the Monero network's total hashrate, mined more than 27,000 XMR blocks, and generated $3.5 million in revenue. Coverage followed from CoinDesk, The Block, and Decrypt. Basically, they flexed so hard on Monero that privacy coin enthusiasts are still recovering. Some are calling it a takeover. Others are calling it efficiency. We're calling it "whatever gets the TPS numbers up."

But with Monero, CPUs and GPUs had to toggle between mining and AI training - never giving 100% to either. It was like trying to text while driving and eat a burrito simultaneously. Technically possible, technically a bad idea. DOGE changes that entirely.

"April 1st is notorious for pulling pranks. Qubic decided to pull a network. We knew what people would think when they saw the date. We leaned into it and launched anyway," said Stephanie Nickolich, Head of Marketing & Growth at Qubic. Actually, launching on April Fools' is the ultimate alpha signal - if you're confident enough to drop news when everyone's expecting nonsense, you must be pretty sure it works. Or maybe they're just chaos maximalists. Either way, respect.

The architecture runs on Useful Proof of Work, redirecting computational energy toward productive tasks including AI training through Aigarth. With Monero, the toggle limitation meant neither mining nor AI got full computational power. It was the crypto equivalent of that meme about having