Qubic will begin its staged transition from Monero to Dogecoin mining on April 1. Via X, the Qubic team layed out a three-phase rollout that it says is designed to move deliberately rather than flip the network over in a single step.
In a post published Tuesday, the project said “the transition from Monero to Dogecoin doesn’t happen overnight” and that its core team had designed a three-phase process in which “each phase is evaluated before moving forward.” The framing is notable given Qubic’s increasingly explicit language around its mining strategy. The headline objective, as the team describes it, is to reach a final state where “DOGE + AI” run “simultaneously, full time.”
3-Phase Rollout For Dogecoin Mining Shift
The first phase begins April 1 and is positioned as a testing period lasting one to two epochs. During that stage, computor revenue remains denominated in XMR only, Monero mining remains active 50% of the time, and Dogecoin enters what Qubic calls “test mode” while running on mainnet at 100%. AI training continues alongside it. In other words, Qubic is not immediately removing the existing Monero-based incentive structure, but introducing DOGE at full operational intensity before revenue is switched over.
The second phase is the actual migration. For one to two epochs, computors will be able to choose between XMR and DOGE revenue, with XMR beginning to phase out and DOGE phasing in with a top-up applied. Qubic also said that computors who opt to bring DOGE “are no longer eligible for XMR.”
By the third and final phase, Qubic says computor revenue will be DOGE only. The XMR dispatcher will be turned off completely, DOGE will remain active 100% of the time, and AI training will also run at 100%. “No rushing. No shortcuts. Just disciplined execution,” the team wrote.
Qubic paired that roadmap with a performance claim aimed directly at the April 1 launch window. On March 23, the project said its network had become “3x faster” on live mainnet, with tick times reduced from 2 seconds a year ago to 1 second and now 0.6 seconds after the latest core optimization.
“Every share a miner submits gets validated through Oracle Machines in a single tick,” Qubic wrote. “Faster ticks mean faster confirmations, a more efficient pipeline, and a network that can handle the load when April 1st hits. The network got faster right before it needed to be.”
The economic case for targeting Dogecoin is straightforward in Qubic’s telling. In a March 20 post, the team pointed to its earlier Monero campaign, saying it went from less than 2% of Monero’s hashrate to “51%+ dominance in a live takeover event,” while generating more than $3.5 million in mining revenue and finding over 26,000 XMR blocks.
Dogecoin, it argued, is a much larger prize. “DOGE produces roughly 14.4 million coins per day. At current prices, that’s approximately $1.44M in daily emission, roughly 10x what Monero was producing,” the team wrote. “The same playbook. A much bigger target.”
At press time, DOGE traded at $0.09752.
