# Pearl status: what is live, announced, and still unverified

https://www.learnpearl.org/news/pearl-status-august-26-2026/ · August 26, 2026 · Status

The software is moving. The decisive adoption metric remains the verified share of work serving real AI demand.

> **Note.** This brief is from August 26, 2026. For the current picture, read the [October 19 status brief](https://www.learnpearl.org/news/pearl-status-october-19-2026/).

## The verified snapshot

- Pearl mainnet is live and the public monorepo remains active.
- The latest listed core release is v1.4.1, published August 11, 2026.
- The latest listed desktop wallet is v2.0.5, also published August 11.
- Together AI announced a Pearl-powered inference endpoint in May.
- Pearl Research Labs labeled its own Inference Platform and Mining Pool products as “Soon” at the time.

## What changed since the previous release cycle

August brought a rank-penalty soft fork, a testnet scheduling fix and the salted noise-seed hard fork. The release pace shows active protocol work, but release volume shouldn’t be confused with user demand or useful-compute volume.

For operators, the practical point is simple: don’t run old node or wallet binaries without checking the current release notes and upgrade requirements.

## The number that is still missing

No block explorer, coin price or total-work figure answers Pearl’s central question. The defining metric is the independently verifiable share of network work attached to genuine training or inference.

Until that is measured consistently, “proof of useful work” describes protocol capability more safely than it describes all observed mining.

## Sources

- [Official Pearl releases](https://github.com/pearl-research-labs/pearl/releases) (Pearl Research Labs, primary)
- [Pearl Research Labs website](https://pearlresearch.ai) (Pearl Research Labs, primary)
- [Together AI and Pearl Research Labs Team Up to Reduce the Cost of AI Inference](https://www.together.ai/blog/together-ai-partners-with-pearl-research-labs) (Together AI, partner)