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Press kit

Boilerplate, dated facts about the Pearl network and brand files for coverage of PRLCON.

About PRLCON

Short

PRLCON is the first conference dedicated to Pearl, a proof-of-useful-work blockchain that GPUs can mine while they run AI models. It’s a 1-day event in 2027.

Long

PRLCON gathers the GPU operators, protocol researchers, allocators and builders working on Pearl for 1 day. The program runs in 5 blocks: mining and fleet ops, models and inference, protocol and core, markets and liquidity, and building on Pearl. PRLCON isn’t affiliated with Pearl Research Labs. It covers Pearl the way a Bitcoin conference covers Bitcoin.

About Pearl

Checked against Pearl’s code, papers and posts on Oct 3, 2026.

Mainnet
Live since April 27, 2026. Fair launch, with no premine and no insider or VC allocation.
Mining
Runs on matrix multiplication, so a GPU serving AI inference can mine PRL in the same pass.
Supply
Capped at 2.1 billion PRL. Emission follows block height on a smooth curve with no halvings; half the cap is out at block 650,226.
Blocks
A 194-second target. Each block carries a zero-knowledge proof of under 60 KB in place of a nonce.
Upgrades
4 consensus forks at fixed heights between June 12 and August 11, 2026. Pearl’s CEO said on Sep 25 that an FP8 hard fork is on testnet; no mainnet height is set as of Oct 3, 2026.
Developer
Pearl Research Labs. Co-founders Omri Weinstein (CEO) and Ilan Komargodski.
Right now
Block 122,614, with 333.2M PRL mined (prlscan.com, Oct 3, 12:07 UTC).

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