Qubic says it is now building a Dogecoin mining integration, a move that brings the project’s post-Monero “care” narrative into a deployment phase and reopens a familiar set of security questions around majority hashrate risk.
In an theory, towards scale. […] Development is underway. “This is just the beginning of what is to come.”
Dogecoin mining integration is actively under development.
The community did not hesitate.
The vote was decisive: #DOGE he won with 301 votes.This is not a plug-and-play update.
Integrating ASIC hardware into uPoW requires real engineering, deep protocol work, and time to do… pic.twitter.com/7aBgxfLdDR
— Qubic (@_Qubic_) January 22, 2026
Could Dogecoin suffer a 51% attack?
The ad lands with baggage. In August 2025, Qubic conducted what it publicly described as a “Monero acquisition demo,” stating that it had achieved “over 51% hashrate dominance” during parts of the experiment and reporting a brief chain outage that included a six-block reorganization and orphaned blocks.
That episode became a lightning rod for the broader debate over PoW security: how quickly external incentives can concentrate hashing power and how markets react when the “51%” enters the conversation.
Later research questioned the stronger interpretation of those claims. A December 2025 paper reconstructing activity attributed to Qubic on Monero describes the operation as an advertised “selfish mining campaign,” and finds that Qubic’s hashrate ratio increases to the 23 to 34% range at detected intervals, while “sustained control of 51% is never observed.”
Dogecoin’s mining economics are structurally different from Monero’s CPU-oriented RandomX landscape. Dogecoin uses Scrypt and, since 2014, has supported merged mining alongside Litecoin, an architecture that has historically helped bolster its security budget by leveraging a broader base of Scrypt ASIC miners.
That hardware reality is central to Qubic’s own messaging. The project said that “integrating ASIC hardware into uPoW requires real engineering, deep protocol work, and time to get it right,” explicitly acknowledging that this is not a simple group release.
It’s also where most of the 51%’s immediate attack fears collide. In an August 2025 research note, published as Qubic began floating Dogecoin as the “next” network after Monero, 21Argued actions that a majority of brute force Dogecoin would be economically prohibitive, estimating that Qubic would need to match and then exceed approximately 2.78 PH/s, which involves around $2.85 billion in hardware plus approximately $2.5 million per day in electricity (before logistics).
The most plausible risk vector, if there is one, is not that Qubic buys its way into the majority hash rate, but whether it can design incentives and integrations that convince existing Scrypt ASIC operators to route significant hash power through a Qubic-mediated setup, an approach that 21Shares characterized as “vampire mining.”
At press time, DOGE was trading at $0.12521.
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