A switch from Blake2b to Blake 3 demonstrates a performance boost through its speed and efficiency and prevents ASIC miners from dominating
Blake3 is literally asics, just a different coin. Also, this thing has to be gpu insider mined, no way this has Ghashes on cpu only, with a Ryzen coughing up only 50Kh.
They pulled this trick three times [1] When the dev didn't release the GPU miner for a couple of days and cornered all the hash [3] When the ASICs were active for more than a week [3] After the restart the stock GPU miner was bad e.g. 1GH/s vs 22GH/s on 4090. So devs probably have mined two weeks worth of coin exclusively.