Mining = AI work
Useful proof of work
Miners run the matrix multiplications that power AI models. The same GPU pass that answers an AI request also secures the chain: two for one.
Independent community on ¶Pearl
Pearl Collective
Pearl is the chain where AI inference is the mining: the matrix maths that answers an AI request is the same work that secures a block. We're the community around it.
C = A · B
each result is computed in your browser · every finished cell becomes a pearl
01Network, live
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02What is Pearl?
Supply
Built like Bitcoin
Proof of work with a fixed cap of 2.1 billion PRL, about half of it issued in the first four years. Mainnet since 27 April 2026.
Origin
Made by researchers
Pearl comes from Pearl Research Labs, founded by Omri Weinstein and Ilan Komargodski. Their papers and code are public.
03What we do
Opening soon
A home base
A Telegram group to ask questions, compare mining setups and hear the news first. Pearl has no official Telegram, so we're building one for the community.
Weekly
The ¶ recap
Everything that happened on Pearl this week in five minutes: upgrades, pools, listings, research.
Ongoing
Research in plain English
Explainers on how Pearl works, what each upgrade changes, and what the on-chain data says.
Oct 2026
Pearl Connect
Our first meetup, during TOKEN2049 week in Singapore. RSVP link coming soon.
04Read the research
- WhitepaperThe Pearl ProtocolThe current design: a proof-of-useful-work L1 where mining comes straight from AI computation.
- WhitepaperPearl INT WhitepaperThe original protocol, with an exact integer matrix-multiplication mining kernel.
- Paper · arXivProofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix MultiplicationThe founding result: Nakamoto consensus on real matrix maths.
- Paper · arXivThe Economics of Proof-of-Useful-WorkA market model of how prices settle across mining and AI inference.
- Paper · arXivHawkeye: Reproducing GPU-Level Non-DeterminismRe-running, bit for bit, the exact matrix multiplication a GPU performed.
- ArticleOptimizing Grouped GEMM for MoE on BlackwellUp to 15% more speed from the core kernel of mixture-of-experts models.
- ThreadA Fused Blockwise Hadamard Quantization KernelHow Pearl quantizes activations on the inference hot path.
- Thread400× Faster Hashing on GPUsHashing big tensors where they already live, on the GPU.
- Open problemsProblems We Are Working OnThe open questions in maths, cryptography and consensus Pearl still wants solved.
From the community
05Pearl so far
dated facts only
- 27 Apr 2026
Mainnet
Genesis block. Node code goes public with the first Pearl-certified model, Llama 3.3 70B.
- 15 May 2026
Together AI
A partnership and an inference endpoint running on Pearl.
- 12 Jun 2026
Mixture-of-experts fork
Version 2 certificates cover mixture-of-experts models.
- 15 Jul 2026
NVIDIA Inception
Pearl Research Labs joins NVIDIA's startup programme.
- 5–11 Aug 2026
Two security upgrades
A soft fork and a hard fork after reports of a mining exploit.
- 14 Sep 2026
Floating-point whitepaper
A new spec for FP8 certificates, the number format modern AI runs on.
- 26 Sep 2026
Pearl Collective starts
This community, and this page.
- Next
Pearl Connect, Singapore
TOKEN2049 week, October 2026.
06Official links & scam watch
Official Pearl channels
Watch out for
- "PRL" on KuCoin is a different coin (Perle), not Pearl.
- "Pearl Research" tokens on Base are not PRL.
- Nobody from Pearl or from us will DM you first or ask for a seed phrase.
- Check a link against this page before you connect a wallet.