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Pearl's AI mining pitch faces a 112 MW usefulness test

Pearl Research Labs claims to have built a live GPU-secured blockchain without proving the work is useful AI computation, facing a 112 MW usefulness test. A preprint estimates Pearl's network runs at roughly 24 EH/s, equivalent to about 320,000 RTX 3090 GPUs.

read1 min publishedJun 14, 2026

Omri Weinstein, the theoretical computer scientist behind Pearl Research Labs, has been trying to solve one of crypto's oldest credibility problems: how to make proof of work useful. A June 3 preprint now argues Pearl has built the hard part of that system a live GPU secured blockchain without proving the work is useful AI computation. Tom's Hardware reported Sunday on a preprint by Abhinaba Basu that estimates Pearl's network is running at roughly 24 EH/s, equal to about 320,000 RTX 3090 cla...

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