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#QUBIC
Bearish
Recently, Qubic, as an emerging "AI computing + blockchain" conceptual project, has attracted the attention of many investors. The project party claims to achieve "democratization of artificial intelligence" through a decentralized computing network, which sounds promising. However, when we calmly analyze its technical architecture and economic model, it is not difficult to find that Qubic's so-called "innovation" remains largely at the conceptual level, and there are many issues worth being cautious about regarding its inflation mechanism and technical implementation path.
First of all, from a technical perspective, the core selling point of Qubic is to provide computing power through distributed nodes, driven by a token incentive system. However, this idea is almost indistinguishable from previous established distributed computing projects like Golem and iExec. The reason these projects have struggled to materialize over the past few years is not due to the technical implementation itself, but rather the imbalance between computing power demand and incentive costs. The "AI computing node verification mechanism" currently proposed by Qubic does not present substantial algorithmic innovations in papers or whitepapers; it seems more like a packaging effort leveraging the popularity of "AI + blockchain." Its "smart task consensus" mechanism also lacks verifiable public experimental data, making it difficult to determine whether it can truly maintain a balance between performance and security in an open environment.
Secondly, from the perspective of the token economic model, Qubic's inflation design is concerning. The project team has allocated a large number of tokens in the early distribution for rewarding computational nodes and ecological development, and the release cycle for these tokens is extremely long with a high release rate, meaning that the market will continue to bear inflationary pressure in the later stages. Especially in the absence of a clear "token burn mechanism" or "staking lockup logic", long-term supply expansion will inevitably lead to passive price decline. An inflationary token model without strong demand support will only become a trap of liquidity dilution.
More importantly, the current "real application scenarios" of Qubic remain vague. The project team's promotion of "AI inference tasks on-chain" is more of a technical demonstration, and there is still a significant gap from true commercial applications. Retail investors who enter based solely on short-term price fluctuations are likely to be passively caught up in a "concept-driven" market, rather than value growth supported by fundamentals.
In summary, Qubic does capture market hotspots in its narrative: AI, computing power, and decentralization. However, from the depth of technology to the economic mechanisms, it still has significant flaws. For retail investors, such projects feel more like a well-packaged experiment rather than an ecosystem with long-term investment value. The key to investing lies in distinguishing between "real innovation" and "narrative bubbles," and what is currently observed in Qubic is more of the latter.