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Pearl Research Labs

A company building AI inference infrastructure and Pearl, a blockchain whose proof-of-useful-work mining is a by-product of GPU matrix multiplication.

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Pearl Research Labs describes itself as building infrastructure and algorithms for AI inference. It develops the Pearl blockchain, an instance of proofs of useful work:

  • Protocol specification. Pearl specifies a proof-of-useful-work protocol in which the unit of mining work is FP8 matrix multiplication on GPUs 1.
  • Integer whitepaper. Its earlier whitepaper presents mining as a side-effect of the matrix multiplications in AI training and inference workloads 2.
  • Open-source network. Pearl publishes a monorepo with a reference full node, a vLLM-based GPU miner and a proof-of-work circuit and verifier 3.

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  • BPearl Research Team (2026). Pearl Floating Point Scheme Specification. Pearl Research Labs. RecordCited by Proofs of useful work and resource exhaustion; Pearl proof-of-useful-work blockchain; Proof of (useful) work; Pearl Research Labs
  • BPearl Research Labs (2026). Pearl INT Whitepaper. Pearl Research Labs. RecordCited by Proofs of useful work and resource exhaustion; Pearl proof-of-useful-work blockchain; Pearl Research Labs
  • BPearl Research Labs (2026). pearl: Monorepo for the Pearl network. GitHub. RecordCited by Proofs of useful work and resource exhaustion; Pearl proof-of-useful-work blockchain; Pearl Research Labs

Sources

  1. BPearl Research Team (2026). Pearl Floating Point Scheme Specification. Pearl Research Labs. Source recordSupports: FP8 proof-of-useful-work protocol specification
  2. BPearl Research Labs (2026). Pearl INT Whitepaper. Pearl Research Labs. Source recordSupports: integer matrix-multiplication whitepaper; mining as a side-effect of AI workloads
  3. BPearl Research Labs (2026). pearl: Monorepo for the Pearl network. GitHub. Source recordSupports: public monorepo: full node, GPU miner, proof-of-work circuit and verifier