# Pearl Timeline: Releases, AMAs & Milestones — Pearlified Canonical page: https://pearlified.com/timeline > Independent publication, not affiliated with Pearl Research Labs. Source quotations, team statements, and Pearlified interpretations are distinct. Historical odds are editorial guesses, not confirmed relationships. The historical archive is primarily through September 17, 2026, with selected research and corrections reviewed September 21–22 a compute-payments research update reviewed September 23, and community-directory and inference-provider context reviewed September 24. Protocol and proof-of-inference L2 statements reviewed September 25. Individual observation dates and limitations apply. [PEARLIFIED / THE OPEN FILE](https://pearlified.com/)TIME ARCHIVE / 06 [What is still open? View the promise tracker ↗](https://pearlified.com/status#status) THE CHRONOLOGY / A PUBLIC RECORD2025 — 2026 FOLLOW THE THREAD THROUGH TIME # Nothing happens all at once. 2526 A paper. A working protocol. A difficult test. A new direction. Read the events in sequence—and see where the story is still open. [Begin at the first trace ↓](https://pearlified.com/timeline#chapter-origins) Dates belong to the event described. Source labels distinguish public records, team announcements, recorded statements and our interpretation. An announcement is not evidence of delivery. How we know:On tapetheir own recorded wordsPublic recordGitHub, arXiv, HuggingFace, DNSOfficial postPearl's own announcementOur readclearly-labeled inference 01 2025 — MAY 2026 ## Before the noise. The research arrives first. Then the people, the code and the first model checkpoints. Apr2025 The paper that starts everythingPublic recordResearch Pearl-GEMM / proof-of-useful-work lands on arXiv (2504.09971) — PoW on arbitrary matrix multiply A×B with vanishing overhead, miner chooses (A,B). Apr2025 NVIDIA Inception bars crypto startupsPublic recordBusiness As of April 2025, cryptocurrency companies are on Inception's published list of excluded business types. Remember this date. Feb2026 First engineer on the benchPublic recordThe bench Earliest dated bench member in public commit history (GPU kernel engineer). The first Pearl model checkpoint — Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-pearl — is published the same month. Mar2026 “Initial Pearl implementation”Public recordThe bench The infra/DevOps engineer's very first commit message. The repo that becomes the chain starts here. Apr2026 The bench doublesPublic recordThe bench Protocol and mining-systems engineers join. Two more model checkpoints published (Gemma-4-31B, Llama-3.3-70B). May2026 ZK and client engineers joinPublic recordThe bench Cryptography/ZK and desktop-client hires. Six of fifteen bench members have dated starts; all six fall in Feb–May 2026. MLSys2026 Hawkeye presented at MLSys 2026Public recordResearch Reproducing GPU-Level Non-Determinism — Research-Track oral plus poster. Authors include Stanford's Dan Boneh and co-founder Ilan Komargodski. The paper never says “blockchain.” 02 JUNE — JULY 2026 ## Into the open. The protocol evolves in public. Papers, releases and recorded talks begin to tell a larger story. Jun 82026 Rafael Pass paper on PoUW economicsOfficial postResearch Answers the “if miners already get paid for AI work, does security collapse?” objection. Jun 112026 MoE checkpoint publishedPublic recordProtocol Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-pearl — a real mixture-of-experts checkpoint — published to HuggingFace. Jun 122026 The MoE hard fork shipsOfficial postProtocol Network moves v1 (generic matmul) → v2 (MoE certificates), governed by PIP-2. Pearl can now mine mixture-of-experts models. Jun 162026 Vision support addedPublic recordProtocol Ongoing model work — real commits, not a launch dump. Jun 182026 BLAKE3 GPU-kernel writeupOfficial postResearch Engineering blog on their hashing kernel implementation. Jun 282026 Benchmark results publishedPublic recordProtocol Added to the model cards. Jun 292026 “Money, rethought”On tapeResearch First of three teaser clips cut from the keynote, released ahead of the full talk. Jul 12026 “They were wrong”On tapeResearch Omri on PoUW being repeatedly declared impossible — including Vitalik's “probably infeasible.” Jul 22026 Pearl-GEMM explainedOn tapeResearch The low-rank-noise trick, in his own words. Same day: congratulations to partner Together AI on an $800M Series C. Jul 62026 Rafael Pass on the economicsOn tapeResearch Full 34-minute talk posted — the security-collapse objection, answered on tape. Jul 92026 The keynote dropsOn tapeResearch “The Science Behind Pearl” — the full ~40-minute talk, and the source of every teaser clip. Also the tape where the CEO describes his own invite-only audience. Jul 142026 Inference cloud + mining rewardsOfficial postBusiness Discord announcement on the compute marketplace direction. Jul 152026 NVIDIA Inception — and “Indeed”Official postBusiness Pearl announces Inception membership. A crypto commentator notes Inception bars crypto and that Pearl is “functionally an AI inference company.” Pearl's verified account replies: “Indeed.” The reply supports the AI-facing description; the admission rationale is not established. Jul 162026 Floating-point roadmap goes publicOfficial postProtocol Komargodski: next-gen PoUW will support FP natively — FP8 first, FP4 to follow — described at the time as removing quantization. The later September explanation still includes randomized quantization; Hawkeye and deployment are separate milestones. Jul 192026 Wallet v2.0.3Official postProtocol Routine client release. Jul 202026 The W7A7 quantization formatOfficial postProtocol Komargodski: PoUW forced them to invent a quantization format that didn't exist — GPTQ + SmoothQuant fused, claimed to beat FP8 baselines. Paper promised. Jul 212026 The roadmap, in their own wordsOfficial postProtocol A Pearl Discord roadmap post splits the work in two. AI: inference optimisations, floating-point support, and “exploring distributed inference architectures.” Crypto: exploring L2 and stablecoin frameworks, and building relationships with qualified custodians to support institutional adoption. Jul 212026 An L2 is on the tableOfficial postProtocol Same day: “the current structure of the blockchain is not a good fit for agentic payments, or even regular payments, so it makes sense to develop a faster L2.” Open questions posted to the community include whether to reuse Bitcoin-L2 architectures, whether it needs smart contracts, whether it can mint other tokens, whether Pearl needs a native stablecoin, and whether to issue an asset pegged to the value of a GPU. Jul 212026 Inside a closed NVIDIA eventOfficial postBusiness A photo posted to Discord puts CEO Omri Weinstein on stage with Prof. Freddy Gabbay — Hebrew University, formerly VP of Chip Design at Mellanox, the networking-silicon company NVIDIA acquired — discussing “the intelligence economy” at a closed NVIDIA event. Jul 212026 On the circuitOfficial postBusiness The same roadmap post lists where the team has been showing up: the RAISE AI summit in Paris (attended), AMD Advancing AI in San Francisco (that week), and GTC among others — plus “a strong network of advisors” producing meetings with senior AI-company executives. Their own caveat: they can't discuss what was said in those meetings. Jul 212026 Stable diffusion as a 2-for-1 use caseOfficial postResearch A brief note that they're working on stable diffusion, called “a great use case for the 2-for-1 model” — image generation as mineable work, not just LLM inference. 03 JULY — AUGUST 2026 ## The stress test. An exploit interrupts the momentum. The response and post-mortem become part of the record. Jul 242026 The MoE mining exploitOfficial postProtocol Official statement: an exploit in the MoE mining mechanism let certain miners generate disproportionate hashrate. Mitigated by a soft fork that temporarily disables MoE mining while a permanent fix is built. A technical report was promised for the following week. Jul 262026 The MoE post-mortemOfficial postProtocol The promised report lands. Pearl's own account: the soft fork went in at noon on 23 July, hours after the vulnerability was identified that morning with community help. MoE proofs ran at 28% of newly mined blocks across the affected period and peaked at 73% on fork day; 4.8M coins were minted with the vulnerable construction, ~0.23% of total supply. Root cause: sharing the commitment and noising of the activation matrix across experts to cut overhead introduced a uniqueness condition — each token routed at most once per expert — that the verifier never enforced. Pearl reports no reorg, double-spend, theft, forged transactions or key compromise, and no change to the emission schedule; the stated harm was reward dilution for honest miners. MoE mining stays off pending a revised construction and external review, with a bug-bounty programme promised. Aug 312026 Omri keynotes ESA 2026Public recordResearch Omri Weinstein gives an invited keynote at the European Symposium on Algorithms (ALGO 2026, L'Aquila): “Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplication” — the only consensus/PoW talk among the invited keynotes. 04 SEPTEMBER 2026 ## The next proposition. Floating-point work and verification enter the foreground. The dates matter; so do the qualifications. Sep 142026 The FP8 floating-point scheme goes publicOfficial postProtocol Pearl publishes its FP8 proof-of-useful-work scheme for NVIDIA Blackwell — whitepaper (“Pearl Floating Point Scheme Specification”) plus code (GitHub PR #311), with a claimed near-zero overhead over optimized vLLM. Released for community review before forking to mainnet — the Hawkeye/Badash reproducibility work shipping as product. Sep 142026 Partnership with attestableOfficial postBusiness Pearl announces a partnership with @attestable (a $20M-seed ZK-verification startup): combine attestable's zero-knowledge proofs with Pearl's proof-of-useful-work to prove, with cryptographic guarantees, that an entity is running the computation it claims — a “trust layer for AI,” framed for AI-pacing and compute treaties. Sep 152026 The community AMAOn tapeBusiness A one-hour AMA with the founders. Headlines: Pearl is being built as a store of value (“unapologetically”); FP4 is next (no date); FP8 is not yet forked to mainnet and no date was set; and the silent third co-founder Idan Sugarman appears in this archive’s September recording. Full transcript in the [reading room](https://pearlified.com/reading#rr-ama-2026-09-15). Sep 172026 “Fastest FP8 MoE kernels for Blackwell”Official postResearch Omri: Pearl-GEMM is ~5% faster than Quack (Tri Dao) and ~42% faster than FlashInfer on B200s. Self-reported; not independently verified. THE UNFINISHED FILE / FOUR OPEN QUESTIONS ## The story still has missing pieces. These questions remain open in the dated record. A source, a name, a public announcement could move the investigation forward. 01 ### Who was in the room? The CEO said a lab spending $100–130M a day on inference was in the audience. That's a club of about five companies. We don't know which one. [Identify an attendee ↗](https://pearlified.com/tip#tip) 02 ### Who are the two providers? At the Sept AMA the team said it's “in close touch with two other major inference providers,” and knows of “several neolabs already mining Pearl” — none named. [Name a counterparty ↗](https://pearlified.com/tip#tip) 03 ### What's the institutional-access product? Idan teased an unannounced way to “democratize access… to institutional investors” — the on-tape match for the Anchorage & Coinbase RPC endpoints already on the board. [Tell us what you've seen ↗](https://pearlified.com/tip#tip) 04 ### Which chip-maker collaboration? A joint reveal was floated roughly a month out from the July roadmap. Still unannounced as of the Sept AMA. [Tell us what you've seen ↗](https://pearlified.com/tip#tip) HAVE SOMETHING WE CAN FOLLOW?[Send a source to the tip line ↗](https://pearlified.com/tip#tip) DATES THAT CHANGE THE READING ## New to the file. Not all new events. Research edition / 22 September 2026 27 MAY 2025 ### A research connection predates the announcement. Bar-On, Komargodski and Weinstein co-author mining-incentives research. [Paper record ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21685) 25 AUGUST 2026 ### The ESA proceedings record. The publication date of the invited-talk paper is separate from its presentation date. [Publisher record ↗](https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2026.2) 20 SEPTEMBER 2026 ### Implementation work continues. The reviewed FP8 PR history records further commits. BzMiner v100.31 reports Pearl mining improvements. Neither establishes mainnet FP8 activation or measured customer adoption. [FP8 commits ↗](https://github.com/pearl-research-labs/pearl/pull/311/commits) [Miner release notes ↗](https://github.com/bzminer/bzminer/releases) 21–22 SEPTEMBER / OBSERVATION ### Product evidence gets more specific. Pearl advertises an inference API and managed services. Together’s model page reports Serverless unavailability. Onset dates and successful access have not been established. [Pearl services ↗](https://pearlresearch.ai/) [Updated ledger ↗](https://pearlified.com/status#status) [ ← Previous lead The model](https://pearlified.com/model) [ Next lead → The reading room](https://pearlified.com/reading) Following the thread · 7 of 12