26 April 2026 marks 15 years since the end of Satoshi’s public involvement in Bitcoin.
It’s also the day Gajumaru mainnet launches in full swing.
With the Gajumaru mainnet full launch comes a lineup of applications, tooling, and infrastructure, all rolling out over the coming months.
As we prepare for widescale use, we will be opening testing rounds for these applications and awarding mining licenses for your effort, which would allow you to mine Gajus in advance before we open public mining in 2027.
What’s coming up?
GajuMarket
The world’s first on-chain marketplace for goods and services. GajuMarket is the first to put the entire marketplace on-chain. The peer-to-peer marketplace industry is estimated to reach $6.27 billion by 2032. Check out this post for more information.
GajuPay
Point-of-sale payment processor for merchants interacting with Gajus via GajuMobile. The payment service providers market is estimated to grow from $56.97 billion in 2025 to $64.95 billion in 2026.
GajuMobile – iOS & Android
Mobile wallet for an even wider-scale usage.
Associate Chains
Customizable infrastructure to allow institutions and custodians to build and deploy their own projects with their own specific rules, governance mechanisms, regulations, etc.
GajuDEX
Fully decentralized, non-custodial, peer-to-peer exchange for gajus, other currencies and tokenized assets; truly decentralized exchange under FINMA standards, unlocking $877B industry for institutions.
There are more applications, features, and tools coming up towards the end of the year, all the way to the next. For those who are interested, we are rewarding testers with a CHF 100 mining license for helping improve our applications, adding you to our miner community. As a miner, you can start earning referral commissions from mining license sales on top of earning Gajus with ease before the switch to public mining in 2027.
We are also launching an open partnership program for community members who help onboard new businesses into the Gajumaru network. More information on this coming soon.
The global payment processing solutions market is estimated at USD 47.61 billion in 2022, and projected to hit USD 139.90 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 14.5%. Despite a booming industry, the businesses it supposedly serves are left with little profit, if any – some may even operate at a loss.
“When a foreign tourist uses a credit card issued in their home country to make a 10,000 yen purchase at a Japanese shop or restaurant, the credit card processing fee typically ranges between 1% and 3%, depending on the transaction volume. For simplicity, let’s consider a fee of 1.99% for a large-scale store, which would result in a 190 yen income for the card company. However, the issue arises with subsequent costs — Yamaoka explains that these companies must pay various fees, including about 10 yen for domestic system operations and 180 yen in interchange fees to the overseas card issuer. Additionally, they pay around 80 yen to international brands like Visa and Mastercard for the use of global settlement infrastructure. As a result, the card company ends up with a deficit of about 70 to 80 yen per transaction. This explains why the more foreign tourists use their cards, the deeper the losses for Japanese card companies.”
It’s a multi-billion dollar mega-market whose patrons deserve much better than the limited options they’re currently restricted to. And this is what GajuPay was created for.
GajuPay is a point-of-sale payment processor for merchants interacting with Gajus via GajuMobile. Through GajuPay, Gajumaru opens the door to transition the real global economy to operating on-chain.
It’s one of the tools we’ve lined up to bring the benefits of blockchain technology to real-world business – as in actual, real-life, practical use. GajuPay would enable shop owners to integrate digital payments with no upfront cost and minimal effort, and accept payments with lower operating costs, making it worthwhile for even small local cash-only businesses to, at the very least, give it a try.
Understanding Real-life Business Needs
So how do retailers work with blockchain? How is this achieved without requiring intermediation from Visa, Mastercard, an issuing bank, a receiving institution, a payment processor and all the other services that pile on fees? How does a peer-to-peer payment get reported into their business systems?
Despite how obvious it seems, nobody in ‘blockchain’ has ever seriously tackled the question: how does a shop actually accept on-chain payments?
Putting to one side the joke that nothing in ‘crypto’ masquerading as blockchain is serious, the moment you try to answer that question practically – by talking to actual shop owners – you immediately collide with problems that no blockchain project has explored:
How do you link a blockchain transaction to a real-world sales instance? How do you handle two registers paying to the same business account? How do you log the fiat-to-Gaju conversion rate (assuming that you are not operating in native Gajus) at the moment of sale, which is a legal reporting requirement in most jurisdictions? How do you issue refunds when the cashier doesn’t control the disbursing account? How do you prevent a malicious actor from logging out the cashier and logging in their own “shop” to steal funds?
These are not exotic edge cases. They smack you straight in the face the moment you move from “wouldn’t it be cool if shops accepted crypto” to “here’s how you actually do it.”
GajuPay is our solution.
Beyond Payments–Accounting and Compliance
Because GajuPay enables direct transactions without the need for multiple intermediaries in between, transaction fees are consistently lower than other digital payment solutions. That on its own warrants serious consideration by any business that accepts digital payments. But GajuPay goes beyond this basic proposition.
Built into the GajuPay system is an automated accounting, reporting, and data export utility which simplifies the problem of tracking Gaju payments in fiat denominations and vice versa – all of which assist with tax reporting and compliance for businesses.
Real-world accounting occurs off-chain – because the authorities to which businesses submit compliance requirements currently do not operate on-chain, but in traditional, or perhaps hybrid online-offline offices. And what they require is quite a handful of paperwork in the physical world.
A shop needs to track which sales session belongs to which cashier, route payments to the correct accounts, log exchange rates for tax compliance, match incoming transactions to specific sales instances, handle refunds through proper authorization chains, and export all of this in formats that accounting software and spreadsheets can interpret.
None of this is on-chain. The blockchain handles the payment. Everything else–the orchestration that makes payments useful to an actual business–requires backend infrastructure derived from deep domain expertise.
GajuPay provides that backend: payment facilitation and reporting software for on-chain commerce. It’s essentially what Stripe started as, before Stripe became a financial services conglomerate.
The Evolution Path
GajuPay follows the same evolution that made Stripe successful: start with the simplest possible integration, then expand as merchants grow.
Stage 1: Web Portal (MVP)
The vanilla version handles everything within a web page. The merchant signs up, we host their data, and the immediate problem is solved without them deploying anything. Basic features out of the box: sales tracking, transaction matching, exchange rate logging, receipt generation, accounting exports.
Free to get started, fees are levied on throughputs, no complicated service tiers, no arbitrary thresholds. It scales smoothly from a market stall doing ⽊50 per day to a retail chain doing ⽊50,000 per day.
A basic demonstration using a PinePhone (Linux mobile) is in development to showcase how lightweight this can be. Any device with a browser becomes a point-of-sale terminal.
The tradeoff is that their accounting data lives on our servers. For most small merchants, this is fine, actually preferable, since they don’t want to manage infrastructure. It won’t satisfy everyone – larger retailers will want to handle their own data, or at least, will want to evolve to that.
Stage 2: Webshop Integration
The point-of-sale use case is critical to proving the real-world utility of GajuPay as a service, but it only covers half of the commercial cases that vendors are faced with. The next step for GajuPay is to provide a set of plugins, remotely served widgets and framework tools for existing web shops to integrate with in a simple way.
It will also be very important to publish documentation for third party developers and independent operators with the requisite technical skills to perform their own integration with the GajuPay system within their web shop.
Stage 3: Self-Hosted Backend (SaaS Package)
For merchants who need their accounting data in their own hands, whether for compliance, privacy, or control, we will offer a self-hosted version. They run their own backend node and interface server.
This will require a more involved set-up and provide many more options for the retailers to implement that are specific to their needs – this is not a five-minute setup through a web portal as per the base offering. DNS configuration, server management, security responsibility, all shift to them meaning that other service providers are likely to be involved too.
Pricing will reflect this consultative element and the different support model they choose from us, but the base fee as a percentage of throughput will remain. For businesses with IT capability and regulatory requirements that demand data sovereignty, it’s the right answer.
Same features, same interface, different hosting model.
Why This Matters
Every feature merchants desperately need is also deeply annoying to implement.
Consider refunds.
You can’t just “send money back”, the cashier doesn’t control the disbursing account. Someone has to authorise the refund. That means refund queues: a mechanism for cashiers to request refunds that get approved by account holders. This distinction between “I need to refund this customer” and “I have authority to disburse from this account” is not obvious until you try to build it.
Consider security.
A phone or tablet sitting at the front of a shop is an attack surface. Keys on that device can be captured. A malicious cashier could switch the payment destination to their own account. A malicious customer could switch the screen while the cashier isn’t looking. A random person could log out the cashier and log a fake shop in. These attacks happen with existing point-of-sale systems.
GajuPay needs visual cues confirming the receiving account is legitimate, isolation of risk so compromising a front-of-shop device doesn’t compromise the business, and indirection of authorities so cashiers can operate without holding keys that could empty the business account.
Consider multi-register reconciliation.
If a shop has two registers but one receiving account, how does each cashier know which incoming transaction corresponds to their current sale? You can’t tell from the blockchain alone, you don’t know the sender’s address before receiving the transaction. The backend has to track expected transactions per register and match them as they arrive.
Addressing these problems are not optional to deliver a solution for retailers. Doing so makes the difference between an idea and a product.
GajuPay will deliver that.
Know of any businesses that can benefit from GajuPay?
GajuPay is set to launch this year in tandem with GajuMobile.
We would happily help onboard new businesses, and reward you for the referral! We have an incentive system for people who help expand the Gajumaru ecosystem. Don’t hesitate to reach out–we’d love to hear from you. Send a message to partners@qpq.swiss
More information on GajuPay and other upcoming products will be published as we approach launch. You can also subscribe to the newsletter to stay updated on developments within the Gajumaru ecosystem.
In 2025, we launched GajuDesk. This year, we’re going mobile. Here is an overview of GajuDesk, and a brief intro to GajuMobile.
GajuDesk
GajuDesk is a cross-platform, open-source desktop program for interacting with the Gajumaru blockchain system. Its primary features are:
Management of accounts
Management of wallets (collections of accounts)
Generating and submitting spend transactions
Retrieving and signing transaction data via the GRIDS protocol
Retrieving and signing message data via the GRIDS protocol (S3O)
Development and deployment of Gajumaru contracts
Making calls and dry-runs to on-chain contracts
Basic Wallet Features
The main screen for GajuDesk is a simple wallet manager which lists the accounts that are in the wallet, a balance displayed for the currently selected wallet, and options for account management (create, recover, show mnemonic, etc), sending money, entering a GRIDS URL, and opening the default browser to the currently selected account’s explorer page
GRIDS
The “GRIDS URL” button opens a text input field where a URL can be pasted. The GRIDS URL schema encodes a series of action requests for GajuDesk, such a requesting a text message or binary signature (useful for logging in via S3O or document authentication), generating a “spend transaction” (sending funds from one account to another), or signing a transaction request such as a contract call.
The most important part of this feature is that GRIDS allows isolation of the signature context from any other application context. It also makes it easy to communicate URLs either as text or as QR codes that can be read with a digital camera. This way a game, web shop or social media application can be running in a browser but the secret key required for signing a transaction related to it can be isolated completely from the browser runtime, or even be restricted to a completely separate device. You could be shopping on a tablet or notebook but sign a transaction on a different computer that you configure to be a better, more secure custodian of your secret account keys.
All the signature device requires is knowledge of the relevant GRIDS URL.
Dependency Management
In the course of developing various wallets, it became clear that the execution environment, code supply chain, and management strategy for various wallet code bases did not meet our requirements, so GajuDesk has been built from scratch without external dependencies.
Developer Features
An additional and important feature set lies behind the “function” button. This button opens a separate interface window which is for developing, deploying and interacting with Gajumaru smart contracts.
Contracts are deployed to the chain along with their source code by default, so contract source can also be loaded from the chain. A call interface is generated for each “entry” function exported from a deployed contract, and can be executed as a full contract call that is committed to the chain, or as a “dry run” which is executed on the receiving node but does not actually update the state of the chain (convenient for querying contract interfaces that are read-only without spending gas).
This is by far the most convenient out-of-the-box tooling we have ever encountered for developing and interacting with smart contracts, and Sophia is by far the best smart contract language we have surveyed.
GajuMobile
GajuMobile is a mobile application for Android and iPhone. It acts as an account manager, wallet utility (sending/receiving funds), and general signature device via the GRIDS protocol.
For most people GajuMobile will be the primary way they interact with Gajumaru chains and apps backed by the Gajumaru blockchain system. It is also the most convenient and secure login device, as your key management environment runs within your phone, completely isolated from your notebook, desktop or tablet.
Just like with GajuDesk, the mobile environment and libraries that QPQ encountered were assessed to be insufficient for our needs, so GajuMobile has been developed from scratch, with no external dependencies other than the core libraries provided by the Android and iOS platforms.
More info on GajuMobile will be coming out shortly. If you want to know more about what’s coming up from QPQ AG for Gajumaru blockchain, check out this post.
If you’re interested in building on Gajumaru, using any of the products, or getting involved in any other way, feel free to reach out to developer@gajumaru.io
In our 2025 Year in Review & 2026 Prospectives, we outlined several products that have been in production throughout 2025, many of which are going live this year. First of these many launches would be GajuMarket, the world’s first on-chain marketplace for goods and services.
We showcased a very rough and ready version of this in November last year.
It is, in fact, a world’s first–because “blockchain marketplaces” that launched prior to GajuMarket were “decentralized in name only (DINO).”
OpenBazaar raised $9.25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and Digital Currency Group to build exactly this—a peer-to-peer marketplace without intermediaries. They processed $44 million in total GMV over five years, then shut down in January 2021.
But here’s what nobody talks about: OpenBazaar was never actually on a blockchain.
OpenBazaar used IPFS, a peer-to-peer file-sharing system like BitTorrent, for storing listings and marketplace data. Bitcoin was used only for payment. The marketplace itself never touched a blockchain.
It does not use an underlying blockchain–it functions more like BitTorrent than Ethereum.
This architecture created fundamental problems:
Third-party trust required. Every secure transaction needed a “moderator”—a third party holding one of three keys. The buyer and seller had to agree on this moderator before transacting. If you didn’t trust the same people, no sale. Collusion between seller and moderator could result in stolen funds.
Double Bitcoin fees. Multisig escrow required two on-chain transactions. During Bitcoin fee spikes in 2017-2018, a $10 purchase incurred $10+ in network fees.
45-day fund lockup. Money could remain stuck in escrow for up to 45 days before timeout.
Centralised infrastructure dependency. OB1, the company behind OpenBazaar, ran centralised search engines, seed nodes, and API servers. When they shut these down in January 2021, OpenBazaar died, proving the “decentralised” network depended entirely on centralised infrastructure.
No revenue model. Zero fees. Relied on donations. Burned through VC money with no sustainability and no plan to get there other than more VC money to fund a business plan development after the fact.
Sellers had to stay online. Listings disappeared when your computer turned off—because IPFS only persists data if someone hosts it. Academic research from Carnegie Mellon found listings “being all delisted on the same day, presumably because the vendor node had been offline for long enough to have its listings cleared from the IPFS cache.”
Bitcoin-only, no stablecoins. Price volatility made commerce impractical.
Rampant fraud. Pseudonymous accounts enabled sock-puppet reputation gaming. No enforcement mechanism when sellers took payment and vanished.
Others failed the same way
Origin Protocol raised $31.5 million using the same IPFS + Ethereum hybrid, then pivoted entirely to DeFi yield products, abandoning marketplaces. Their 2024 year-in-review focuses exclusively on “DeFi yield” and “TVL”, not marketplace transactions. Particl deliberately stores marketplace data off-chain “to avoid bloating the blockchain” and has approximately 80 daily active users.
Every project that claimed to build a “blockchain marketplace” used blockchain only for payments and stored marketplace data elsewhere.
GajuMarket is the first to put the entire marketplace on-chain.
OpenBazaar proved the concept had appeal. It also proved that calling something a “blockchain marketplace” while storing marketplace data on a file-sharing network doesn’t work. It proved execution matters.
GajuMarket addresses every one of these failures.
GajuMarket is architecturally different.
The listing is a smart contract on the Gajumaru blockchain. Negotiation happens through contract calls. The contract holds the funds, no third-party moderator. Settlement is immediate upon acceptance. When OB1 shut down, OpenBazaar died. If QPQ disappeared tomorrow, GajuMarket’s contracts would continue executing on the Gajumaru blockchain.
Why the architecture matters in practice:
Persistence: OpenBazaar listings disappeared when sellers went offline. GajuMarket listings persist on-chain regardless of seller availability. The blockchain doesn’t forget.
Finality: OpenBazaar transactions could remain in limbo for 45 days. GajuMarket settles in seconds; finality within minutes. When the contract executes, the transaction is complete.
Censorship resistance: When OB1 filtered their search results, they controlled the marketplace. GajuMarket listings are on-chain—anyone can index them, anyone can build interfaces. The contracts exist independently of any single operator.
This is why saying that GajuMarket is the world’s first on-chain marketplace for goods and services is a fact, not a marketing stunt.
What GajuMarket Does Differently
GajuMarket charges fees.
0.5% to 2% of transaction value. This isn’t greed, it’s sustainability. In order to keep things running, we need to keep the lights on.
eBay charges 12-15%. Amazon charges 8-15%. Etsy charges 10-12%. Ricardo.ch charges 9%. GajuMarket charges less than a tenth of what incumbents charge, and uses it to fund actual operations. GajuMarkets AG, a new wholly-owned Swiss subsidiary, will operate the marketplace.
Web portal via GRIDS.
No software download. Open a browser, scan a QR code with your Gajumaru wallet, and you’re logged in. No username. No password. No account creation. The wallet signs a random message to prove your identity. Fast, secure, passwordless. Any device with a browser becomes your shop.
Listings persist on-chain.
Your computer can be off. Your phone can be dead. Your listing is stored on the Gajumaru blockchain and remains visible. The sale contract exists independent of whether you’re online.
Smart contract negotiation.
This is the architectural difference that matters. When a buyer bids, funds move from their wallet into an on-chain sale contract, not to us, not to an escrow service, into the contract itself. Buyer and seller can negotiate terms directly: adjust price, change shipping method, modify delivery terms. Every change is enforced by the contract.
When both parties agree, the seller accepts and gets paid.
GajuMarket does not hold the money. It does not arbitrate disputes. It doesn’t control the transaction.
The contract between buyer and seller governs everything. GajuMarket only provides the infrastructure to create and execute that contract. That’s facilitation, not intermediation.
Stablecoin integration expected from June 2026.
Dual currency support. List in Gajus if you want Gaju exposure or, as the currency stabilises in relative value, prefer the certainty of real money that really works. List in stablecoins if you want fiat price certainty. Buyers can pay in either. The mispricing opportunity, goods listed at early Gaju prices that appreciate, drives adoption, but stability is available for those who need it.
The Evolution Path
Stage 1: Soft Launch (mid-January 2026 onwards)
Open access, early stage. We expect bugs, and we want feedback.
The core flow works: list an item, receive bids, negotiate terms, complete sale, get paid. Moderation reviews listings before they go live, we’re not building Silk Road 2.0!
Initial categories
Crafts, books, collectibles, digital goods, services. Low-risk items where shipping complexity is minimal and trust requirements are manageable. Think eBay 1996, not Amazon 2024. At the early stage, it is expected that most listings of goods or services will be fulfilled locally unless they are digital goods. In simple terms, GajuMarket starts as a global marketplace for global digital goods and services and a global marketplace for local real-world goods and services.
This is the basis for the first year or more until logistics providers are integrated and that can form part of the trust chain. With such partners, terms can be provided such as Cost, Insurance, and Freight (CIF), Free on Board (FOB) as standard.
Digital services are global from day one
A developer in Warsaw can sell to a buyer in Singapore immediately, no shipping required. The global freelance market exceeds $4 billion annually. Fiverr charges 20%. Upwork charges 20%. Gumroad charges 10%.
GajuMarket charges =< 2%.
The entire freelance economy is addressable at launch with a 95% fee advantage – which also feeds into another product line, Giggerlicious. More information on that later.
The tradeoff at this stage is the marketplace is Gaju only. Buyers who don’t mine can purchase Gajus from the GajuDEX (also coming soon) or from an OTC desk run by QPQ Capital AG or indeed any other licensed broker.
Stage 2: Stablecoin Integration (expected from June 2026)
At the moment, there is no stablecoin support on GajuMarket, but this is definitely in the pipeline. Integrating stablecoins into GajuMarket would make external participation from non-Gaju holders possible.
The marketplace opens beyond the mining community and those who buy Gajus through the GajuDEX or intermediated services. This integration would significantly expand GajuMarket’s user base, enabling the growth and consolidation of a Gaju-based economy, and propelling the Gaju’s primary purpose as a currency as liquid as cash.
Stage 3: Logistics Integration (2027)
The hard problem in physical goods e-commerce isn’t payments, it’s shipping. How do you get a package from El Salvador to Australia? How much does it cost? How long does it take? Who’s liable if it doesn’t arrive?
The plan with GajuMarket is to integrate logistics providers directly into the negotiation flow. Seller lists an item; buyer in another country wants it; logistics providers bid on the shipment. The buyer sees real shipping options with real prices. Terms like CIF and FOB become standard contract options, not arcane trade terminology.
This transforms GajuMarket from “global marketplace for local goods” to “global marketplace for global goods.” The infrastructure to move physical items across borders, priced and tracked on-chain, with smart contracts governing delivery verification.
Stage 4: High-Value Categories
Vehicles. Real estate. Business equipment. Categories where listing fees make sense because image processing, verification, and discovery requirements are more demanding.
A car listing needs multiple high-resolution photos, VIN verification, condition documentation. A property listing needs legal description, title verification, regulatory compliance. These aren’t the same as listing a T-shirt. The fee structure will reflect the different service levels.
Why This Matters
Consider what happens when you buy something on eBay today:
You find an item, you pay eBay; eBay takes 12-15%; eBay holds your money; eBay releases it to the seller after some delay.
If there’s a dispute, eBay decides who wins. eBay can freeze your account, reverse your transaction, change the rules. You’re not trading with the seller, you’re trading with eBay, and eBay happens to pass some of it along to the seller.
That’s intermediation. The platform sits between you, controls the transaction, extracts value, and exercises authority over both parties.
Now consider GajuMarket.
You find an item. You bid, and your funds move into a sale contract on the blockchain. You negotiate terms directly with the seller: price, shipping, delivery method, everything, with prompts and easy language suggestions to ensure completeness.
When both the seller and the buyer agree, the contract executes. The seller gets paid from the contract.
GajuMarket never touched your money. It never held the keys. It merely provided the infrastructure to create the contract and the marketplace to find the seller. That’s it.
If there’s a dispute, it’s between you and the seller, governed by whatever terms you agreed in the contract. There is no judge. There’s not even a party to the transaction. GajuMarket only facilitated its creation.
This distinction, facilitation versus intermediation, is not semantic. It’s architectural. It determines who has power, who bears risk, who extracts value. In intermediated systems, the platform has all three. In GajuMarket, the parties to the transaction do.
GajuMarket does not intermediate. It facilitates.
The yard sale is just about to go truly global and digital assets finally have a home.
It’s been a ride–2025 has been a very busy year for development. To jumpstart 2026, we would like to update our community on everything that has been achieved throughout the past year, as well as things we look forward to this year.
2025 Milestones Accomplished
Extensive work has been dedicated to deploying and refining essential applications, with focus on mining and basic tooling surrounding early use. In 2025, these applications were launched.
Cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) desktop wallet for maintaining wallets, interacting with the chain, handling signature requests, and developing, deploying, and calling contracts.
Additionally, the team has been concurrently working on the development of supplementary tools to enable actual, real-world, global economy for different business and institutional use cases on the Gajumaru network.
Many of these will be going live this year
16th October 2025: The Gaju Enters Circulation
On 16th October, Gajumaru miners executed the first drawdowns of Gajus from their smart contracts. This was not a test. This was not a simulation. Real money, mined by real people on real computers, transferred to accounts they control from the Hive miners. The ⽊Gaju became a currency in circulation.
This milestone represents the culmination of seven months of intensive development. We overcame challenges that, frankly, only Steam, the world’s largest gaming platform, has managed before, and they did so with vastly greater resources. Our cross-platform mining software now operates seamlessly on MacOS, Linux, and Windows, with an automated installer and updater system ready for mass deployment of every SaaS and product we will ever launch, including our key fly-wheel for mass global participation and adoption, GajuMining.
22nd October 2025: LTIN Announced
Six days after our first drawdowns, the Liechtenstein Prime Minister announced the Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN), with QPQ as a founding technical partner and shareholder. This is not a pilot programme. This is not a proof-of-concept. This is a sovereign nation building their national digital economy infrastructure with the Gajumaru architecture integrated into the planning.
LTIN Facts: Majority owned by Telecom Liechtenstein (the state telecom) Operating under the Liechtenstein Blockchain Act with EU MiCAR compliance Founding participants: QPQ AG, Bank Frick, Bitcoin Suisse, Swiss Subnet, Zilliqa Launch: Q2/Q3/Q4 2026
What the LTIN demonstrates is simple: the architecture works. A real government evaluated the options, saw what we have built, and chose Gajumaru to be part of their future. Over the next months, we will shape with them exactly what their national blockchain looks like and ensure that they have something that they and we are proud of. Given that much more established ‘Layer 1’ offerings were not part of the original announcement whilst we have yet to reach Main Net, this represents an extraordinary validation of our approach. If Liechtenstein can do this, so can any nation. Associate Chains enable national digital economies that mirror existing legal and economic boundaries.
Liechtenstein is first. Others will follow
Payment issues resolved
As with any start-up, building doesn’t come without challenges. Our team was not exempt from the existing financial system’s reluctance and aversion to doing business with new projects in this industry. This hindered sales of mining licenses for a time and pushed the team towards work-arounds that weren’t necessarily streamlined.
However, after months of exploring solutions, we are happy to announce that we can now accept debit and credit cards, along with crypto payments for mining license purchases.
CHF 1 Million+ Pre-Release Revenue
Despite all the struggles with payment providers throughout the year, QPQ IaaS AG generated over CHF 1 million in pre-release Gaju Mining SaaS revenue–and with zero marketing budget.
Every sale came from organic, word-of-mouth demand. We have our community to thank for rowing in with us to push out and engage with content as the team focused heavily on development.
Temporarily, customers had to wire money internationally to our Swiss bank account while we scouted for better solutions. This is exceptional for any SaaS business, but for a pre-release blockchain product, it is genuine validation of product-market fit.
With credit and debit card facilities finally coming online for us as we enter the new year, we have removed the friction that constrained our growth. The pathway to scaling is now ahead of us.
At the same time, we recognize that there is plenty of room for improvement in terms of our organic marketing efforts. Towards that end, Cecille de Jesus joined the team in November of 2025.
Since then, we have started slowly rolling out content on the QPQ blog. We will also start publishing regular developer-focused updates on the Gajumaru website soon.
Technical Infrastructure
Groot—the proof-of-work resource layer at the heart of the Gajumaru—has been operational since 22nd October 2024, now running continuously for over fourteen months. The team has also focused on the development of software that would make it possible for millions of miners to sustain the network as we continued development through to mainnet.
Component
Status
Groot (Resource Layer)
Operational since October 2024. 553,800✕ more efficient than Bitcoin.
木 Gaju
In circulation since 16 October 2024. Fixed supply: 1 trillion over 87.5 years.
Associate Chains
Architecture validated by LTIN. Full deployment Q1 2026.
GajuMining SaaS
Commercial release December 2025. 300+ active miners.
GajuDesk (wallet)
Operational. Zero dependencies. All code original.
Coded from scratch: Our zero-dependency architecture represents a fundamental departure from the compromised crypto industry. We built our libraries, interface applications, wallets, etc. from scratch because if you are minting real money, you need enterprise-grade security, not browser plugins held together with NPM.
300,000 generations produced
The Groot mainnet has produced over 300,000 generations by end of 2025, and witnessing-based finalization is operational, leading to 2-4 minutes to full finality.
2026: The Year of Deployment
As previously mentioned, 2025 has been a very intensive year for development behind the scenes. All that work is finally culminating into tangible tools that would enable a thriving economy on the Gajumaru network.
2026 is the year we go from operational to dominant.
Here’s what we’ve been building.
Core Infrastructure
Main Net Launch (6th April 2026)
Main Net is targeted for 23:59:00 Zulu, 6th April 2026, marking the completion of the first two phases of deployment for the Gajumaru. This is the moment when the Gajumaru transitions from a working system to a complete platform ready for global adoption.
Main Net delivers:
Full documentation for Groot such that, as with Ethereum, a project, development team, anyone in fact, can build on Groot anything that they wish to build there without any intervention by or need of us.
Associate Chains
With the launch of the main net comes one of the most crucial aspects to the Gajumaru architecture, which would allow builders to independently create, design, and govern their own infrastructure through Associate Chains.
Associate Chain deployment capability with tooling available for users to compose the AC infrastructure that fits their specific needs.
Native interoperability between all Associate Chains, no bridges required, no third-party trust.
These aspects deliver the operational RIPA model (Resource, Infrastructure, Platform, Application) that is a fundamental feature of the Gajumaru. This is the architectural completion and the beginning of the Gajumaru as something that we built that others can now build upon. These are the foundations for all subsequent platform and service deployments.
Applications, Platforms, and Regulated Services
This is the year when our commercial base coalesces and we ensure the Gajumaru comes to dominate the global economy. Here, we provide an overview of tools and applications launching soon. We will be publishing detailed articles about each of these products shortly.
GajuMobile on iOS, Android and Linux
Gajus accessible from your phone with direct smart contract access. Zero dependencies, all code original, the same security philosophy as GajuDesk, now mobile.
This provides the base for everything from retail payments in stores using existing hardware through to banking the 1.4Bn unbanked people around the world.
Just as it is said that emerging economies skipped the stepping stones to 5G and satellite broadband, so can the provision of GajuWallet as an app on phones provide that leapfrogging from unbanked in the 21st Century to the blockchain economy of the 3rd millennium.
GajuDEX: The First Genuinely Decentralised Exchange
The promise of decentralised exchanges was simple: your data, your assets, your money. The reality has been something else entirely: governance tokens gamed by insiders, admin keys allowing quiet changes, voting systems where 2% turnout decides everything. Every major DEX is “decentralised in name only” (DINO).
We built something different.
GajuDEX eliminates all controlling functions. Smart contracts are immutable after deployment: no admin keys, no upgradability, no governance votes that can redirect fees or freeze assets. We believe GajuDEX will be the first and only DEX to pass FINMA’s substance-over-form test for genuine decentralisation, falling outside regulatory scrutiny not by avoiding compliance, but because its architecture eliminates the very risks those regulations were designed to control.
The first genuinely decentralised exchange to meet FINMA’s decentralisation standards—not by avoiding compliance, but because its architecture eliminates the very risks those regulations were designed to control.
What makes GajuDEX different from every DEX that came before:
Factor
GajuDEX Implementation
Decentralization
Immutable, permissionless, no DAO hack surface
Base Chain
Bitcoin-NG PoW (Groot)
UI/UX
TradingView-like analytics funnctionality
Market Structure
AMM + CLOB with stop losses, infinitesimal fees
Smart Contract Security
Sophia language, compliant with FINMA
Compliance Posture
Fully decentralized, compliant with FINMA
Governance
DAO-less, permissionless, no governance attack surface
What GajuDEX means for Gaju holders:
Liquidity: Your Gajus become tradeable. Convert to other assets or fiat as the facility to do so emerges – we are actively pursuing engagement with major stable coin providers.
Passive income: Provide liquidity to pools and earn trading fees.
Validator rewards: Run a validator node (minimum technical requirements to be confirmed) and earn from network activity.
More details on GajuDEX will be published shortly.
GajuMarket: world’s first on-chain marketplace
The yard sale is just about to go truly global and digital assets finally have a home.
GajuMarket, the world’s first on-chain marketplace for goods and services, will have a soft launch in mid-January 2026. We’d love to see the community participate.
We showcased a very rough and ready version of this in November last year.
Despite how critical it is to establish the value of a currency in terms of buying power, nobody ever created a native blockchain marketplace before. Proof, if needed, that there has never been an actual blockchain that actually works, minting real money that really works. Unlike speculation tokens, you can actually do things with Gajus:
Go to GajuMarket and buy stuff. A T-shirt. A book. Book a chiropractor. A hotel room. Buy a holiday. Buy a car. Buy a house.
Go to GajuMarket and sell stuff. A jumper you knitted. A T-shirt you printed. Your dog walking service. Your car. Your house. Whether NFTs pointing at assets or a second-hand pair of sneakers, GajuMarket is THE peer-to-peer e-commerce platform eliminating intermediaries.
We are not an intermediary, but we do facilitate and curate, providing the web portal and ensuring best we can that listings are legal and appropriate.
More details on GajuMarket will be published shortly.
GajuPay
The whole point of the Gajumaru is that it delivers an actual blockchain that actually works, minting real money that really works. What we have seen before now is decentralisation theatre for the ‘crypto casino’ industry. What Gajumaru does is open the door to transition the real global economy to operating on-chain.
So how do retailers work with blockchain? How to achieve this without requiring intermediation from Visa, Mastercard, etc? How does a peer-to-peer payment get reported into their business systems?
Despite how obvious it seems, nobody in ‘blockchain’ has ever seriously tackled the question: how does a shop actually accept on-chain payments?
Putting to one side the joke that nothing in ‘crypto’ masquerading as blockchain is serious, the moment you try to answer that question practically – by talking to actual shop owners – you immediately collide with problems that no blockchain project has explored:
How do you link a blockchain transaction to a real-world sales instance?
How do you handle two registers paying to the same business account?
How do you log the fiat-to-Gaju conversion rate (assuming that you are not operating in native Gajus) at the moment of sale, which is a legal reporting requirement in most jurisdictions?
How do you issue refunds when the cashier doesn’t control the disbursing account?
How do you prevent a malicious actor from logging out the cashier and logging in their own “shop” to steal funds?
These are not exotic edge cases. They smack you straight in the face the moment you move from “wouldn’t it be cool if shops accepted crypto” to “here’s how you actually do it.” GajuPay is our solution.
What GajuPay Does
Real-world accounting occurs off-chain. A shop needs to track which sales session belongs to which cashier, route payments to the correct accounts, log exchange rates for tax compliance, match incoming transactions to specific sales instances, handle refunds through proper authorisation chains, and export all of this in formats that accounting software and spreadsheets can interpret.
None of this is on-chain. The blockchain handles the payment.
Everything else – the orchestration that makes payments useful to an actual business – requires backend infrastructure derived from deep domain expertise. GajuPay provides that backend: payment facilitation and reporting software for on-chain commerce. It’s essentially what Stripe started as, before Stripe became a financial services conglomerate.
More details on GajuPay will be published shortly.
GajuSafe
GajuSafe answers some of the world’s biggest questions (and fears) about non-custodial asset storage. The permanent loss problem is blockchain’s most significant barrier to mainstream adoption. In traditional finance, losing your bank card or forgetting your password is an inconvenience: you call the bank, verify your identity, and receive new credentials.
In cryptocurrency, losing your keys means losing your assets. Permanently. Forever. No appeals process. No customer service.
GajuSafe is a social recovery and key escrow system that allows users to designate trusted contacts who can help recover access to their Gajumaru accounts if the original keys are lost, destroyed, or the account holder becomes incapacitated.
Trusted Contact Designation Users pre-select individuals (family members, business partners, solicitors) who can participate in account recovery
Cryptographic Secret Sharing The mnemonic/recovery phrase is split using techniques like Shamir’s Secret Sharing, so no single trusted contact has full access
Recovery Threshold A defined number of trusted contacts must participate to reconstruct access, no single person other than the account holder has the entire mnemonic.
Confidential Transmission The “confidential sharing” aspect provides for encrypted distribution where trusted contacts hold fragments they cannot use independently
More details on GajuDEX will be published shortly.
Da Vinci Protocol
This will be built with the DEX offerings, providing a platform to capitalise and commercialise creative and intellectual property, opening access to a currently opaque and locked USD 10.8 trillion marketplace.
We already have offers submitted to professional footballers in Ligue 1 and La Liga for NIL monetisation, and InnovateLoyalty, a variation for corporate and retail loyalty programmes, follows the same architecture.
At the heart of the Da Vinci Protocol is the idea that value starts with a spark, but everyone who engages with that spark is part of its story. We see this as a key cog in the idea that capitalism differs fundamentally from corporatism (also known as ‘crony capitalism’) by recognising and being open to all value creators and enablers. Moreover, in the age of ‘AI’ Large Language Models (‘LLMs’) like ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, etc that utilise our data to deliver content for third parties that only they and the LLM benefit from, meta-tagging all creative content with this approach offers an opportunity for a step change that would automate the process of licensing creative content to LLMs and their users in a fair, transparent means from which all sides win.
QPQ Capital AG: SRO Regulation
We touched on this in regard to the GajuDEX’s above. Our application for Swiss Self-Regulatory Organisation membership under AMLA, enabling operation as a Virtual Asset Service Provider will be submitted in January 2026. The model follows Bitcoin Suisse and Bitpanda.
Services enabled under SRO:
Service
Description
Fiat On/Off Ramps (GajuFX)
Convert Gajus to CHF, EUR, USD and back
Regulated Custody (GajuVault)
Intermediated account recovery and custodial access
Tokenization Services
Tokenize shares of Swiss companies under the DLT Act 2021. In 2024, Switzerland saw 52,978 new incorporations; 99.9% of the country’s 670,000 active companies have not yet tokenized their shares.
CEX Variant (GajuCEX/GajuTrade)
Centralized order book on GajuDEX for institutional access
KYC Wallets
Wallets with built in KYC for exchanges and trading banks
Mining as a Service
Mine Gajus for third parties
Key Management
Regulated custody and mnemonic recovery
The pathway leads to a FinTech banking license.
We can also double this regulatory base with a MiCAR firm in Liechtenstein or Germany under the EU VASP regime, giving us both Swiss and EU regulatory coverage.
Q2-Q4 2026: Sovereign Infrastructure
LTIN goes live on Gajumaru
The Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network launches as the first sovereign Associate Chain, providing a global showcase for what the Gajumaru makes possible.
What LTIN demonstrates:
National digital economy infrastructure that a country controls
Built on a global resource layer that no one controls
EU MiCAR compliance from day one
Template replicable by any nation
This is the proof point. When potential government partners ask “has anyone actually done this?”, we can point to a European nation operating under one of the world’s most advanced blockchain regulatory frameworks.
Throughout 2026: Other SaaS / Web Portal Products & Services
As we launch these tools and infrastructure this year, the team continues work on even more products to further expand market coverage and real-world use.
Here are some of the products that will also be in production throughout the year.
GajuMe (PayMe)
Online invoicing system that integrates with the chain (Groot or AC) instead of with credit cards and banks. Ideal for small businesses. Chain-based payment processing with historical lookup for accounting purposes.
GajuVault
Similar to GajuSafe, but with regulated service providers holding the mnemonic keys, accessed through QPQ Capital AG.
GajuLoyalty
Corporate and retail loyalty programmes using Gajus and tokenisation. Creating valuable reward programmes that generate actual customer engagement.
Giggerlicious
Gig work facilitator. Pick up a remote work gig, get paid, have a historical lookup for accounting purposes. Giggerlicious makes hiring remote gig workers, particularly across borders, extremely easy, with instant payments for an even better experience for both clients and service providers.
GajuMall
Like GajuMarket, GajuMall is a unified marketplace but for larger scale retailers.
The Critical Window
While the future for Gajumaru is highly optimistic, we are working within a pretty tight timeline. Protected mining ends 29th March 2027. We have fifteen months to achieve critical mass adoption, ensure massive decentralisation, and lock in network effects.
Date
Event
End 2025
Investor Gaju distributions complete
Q1/Q2
MainNet, multi-product launches
7 April 2026
MainNet Launch
Q2 2026
GajuDEX, GajuMarket, GajuPay, DaVinci Protocol
Q2 2026
QPQ AG or QPQ IaaS AG unicorn raise (target CHF 50M+)
Q2/Q3/Q4 2026
LTIN goes live in stages
Q2/Q3 2026
QPQ Capital AG raise
29 March 2027
Protected mining ends
At the end of 2026, we transition from selling licenses to organizing miners into competitive, self-directed mining communities and associations for long-term decentralization. Whilst there will always be more people wishing to avail of Gaju Mining SaaS and the GajuMining dashboard for easy management, the base that anchors all of this is what we need to secure in 2026. Network effects are brutal. We have won the technical race to deliver a fully functional blockchain; we have a three-year head start on any potential competitor. We must not waste it.
The Flywheel
More miners → more decentralisation → more credibility → more adoption → higher Gaju value → more resources → more miners.
We have built it. We have tested it. Now we need to scale it.
Closing Remarks from the CEO
2025 demonstrated that what we promised, we delivered and much more, despite the many challenges we were blind to at the end of 2024.
The Gajumaru works.
Groot has been operational for over fourteen months. The Gaju is in circulation. A sovereign nation chose our architecture for their national infrastructure. Over CHF 1 million in revenue with zero marketing proved the market exists.
2026 is about building on this:
Main Net in April
GajuDEX in Q2 – Gajus become liquid
GajuMarket & GajuPay in Q1/Q2 – Gajus become money you spend
LTIN going live from Q2 to Q4 of 2026 – sovereign validation becomes sovereign operation
Regulated services through QPQ Capital AG
A universe of platforms and services that turn the Gaju from a mined commodity into a used currency with organic demand
The window is closing. Network effects lock in early movers. First to critical mass wins. We have everything we need to win except one thing: scale.
That is where the community and their networks come in.
Thank you for your continued belief in our mission of economic emancipation through choice. The global economic resource layer that blockchain promised but never delivered. We built it, now we need to build on it and grow that base.
With warm regards and my best wishes to all of you for 2026,
QPQ is now an early contributor to the majority‑state‑owned Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network’s (LTIN) initiative in delivering a compliance-first infrastructure for validation, identity, transaction processing and secure digital credentialing with data sovereignty.
QPQ joins a league of financial institutions and technology providers including Bank Frick, Bitcoin Suisse, Solstice Labs, INACRA, Swiss Subnet, among others in helping Liechtenstein realize this vision.
“Liechtenstein selected our architecture for their national blockchain infrastructure (LTIN), launching 2026. When a sovereign state trusts your technology with national infrastructure, you built something real”.
