A new layer 1 blockchain has done something nobody expected in 2026 - made GPU mining briefly profitable again.
Recently launching their mainnet, Pearl (PRL) had a pitch clever enough that it sounded like it shouldn't work. Secure the chain by running the same matrix multiplications that power AI inference and training, the kind of math that already runs on every modern Nvidia card. Mine a coin and, in theory, do useful AI compute on the side. The protocol team calls the consensu...
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