The next wave of network participants is arriving. Qubic has cracked something fundamental: you don't have to sacrifice performance to let more people join the game.

Full Computors keep their processing power intact. Meanwhile, a new tier of participants enters—Bob nodes and Core Lite nodes. These aren't watered-down alternatives. They're designed for different roles.

What changed? Setup just got friction-free. Docker containers mean less complexity. More importantly, the scoring system now rewards uptime across the board. Everyone contributes, everyone gets measured fairly.

This shifts the whole calculus. Instead of gatekeeping performance behind expensive hardware or high barriers, you get a tiered ecosystem where participation scales with capacity. Light nodes don't compete directly with full nodes—they coexist, each doing what they're built for.