Energy Based Money: Quai Network's Vision for the 21st Century
Energy based money is money tied to the real energy spent to create it. See how Quai Network's QUAI and QI tokens turn Proof-of-Work into money.
Read Article +The latest updates, research, and announcements from the Quai Network team.
Energy based money is money tied to the real energy spent to create it. See how Quai Network's QUAI and QI tokens turn Proof-of-Work into money.
Read Article +How QUAI's supply works in 2026: circulating supply, the genesis unlock schedule, mining emissions, SOAP burns, and the Singularity and Polaris forks.
Read Article +QI is Quai Network's energy dollar: digital cash minted by Proof-of-Work and designed to track the cost of energy. Why the AI economy needs it.
Read Article +Hard money, powered by real energy. The Polaris Fork burns 236 million QUAI and cuts genesis inflation from 13% to under 4% a year.
Read Article +Smart wallets built into Quainance, more ways to deposit, QUAI markets on Quai, Base and BNB Chain, and a faster trading experience.
Read Article +The CLARITY Act could expand U.S. access to digital commodities. Why Quai's energy based money, QUAI and QI, fits a commodity framework.
Read Article +Proportional Reward Splitting, the research behind Quai workshares, was accepted to AFT 2026. See how counting near misses makes mining fairer.
Read Article +Quainance is live on Quai, bringing decentralized Quai finance into one place. Bridge your USDT to Quai, swap into QUAI or WQI, and put your capital to work on a scalable Proof-of-Work network.
Read Article +The State of Quai Q2 2026 report covers SOAP revenue and burns, supply after Singularity, multi-algorithm mining, network security and ecosystem progress.
Read Article +Hashrate is no longer a moat. SOAP turns merge-mining rewards into QUAI buybacks and burns, and BIP302 maps a path for BTC into Quai's execution economy.
Read Article +Blip, the self-custody mobile wallet for Quai Network, launched on iOS. See what the rebuilt app offers for holding and sending QUAI, Qi and USDT.
Read Article +$QUAI is officially live for trading on Kraken, bringing a regulated, secure on-ramp and deeper liquidity to millions of users worldwide.
Read Article +Your complete guide to buying QUAI, setting up a wallet, exploring the ecosystem, and going deeper with mining and development on Quai Network.
Read Article +The Singularity Fork on Quai Network removed about 1.67B QUAI from future genesis unlocks, doubled workshare limits and shipped go-quai v0.51.0 fixes.
Read Article +Entropic, the desktop app that wraps OpenClaw in a 1-click local AI agent installer, is now open source, with a Docker sandbox and local encrypted storage.
Read Article +Quai Network's Symbiosis integration brings bridged USDT to Quai and a direct Base to Quai swap route, with official contract addresses for bridging.
Read Article +Solo mine Quai with StratumX: no node to run and no pool fees. Point SHA-256, Scrypt or KawPow miners at a StratumX endpoint and keep 100% of rewards.
Read Article +Discover how this upgrade enables SHA-256 and Scrypt mining and turns external merge-mining subsidies into direct QUAI buybacks.
Read Article +The SOAP mainnet launch announcement: how merge-mining rewards fund QUAI buybacks and how SHA-256, Scrypt and KawPow miners could earn QUAI on Quai Network.
Read Article +SOAP turns merge-mined SHA-256 and Scrypt rewards into open-market QUAI buybacks and burns. How it reshapes Proof-of-Work economics on Quai Network.
Read Article +Quai Network's Zebec partnership announcement, covering plans to make QUAI spendable through Zebec's Silver, Carbon and Quai-branded Black payment cards.
Read Article +Quai Network announced approval under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. Learn what MiCA covers and what it means for Quai in Europe.
Read Article +$QI is the energy dollar: digital cash minted by Proof-of-Work, with supply tied to the energy used to mine it. How energy based money works on Quai.
Read Article +The Quai Network Ambassador Program launch announcement, covering what ambassadors did, the perks offered and the resources provided to community leaders.
Read Article +Quai Network announced an integration with Frictionless Markets to bring tokenized real-world assets on-chain, a first step toward a Quai-yielding MMF.
Read Article +A look at Memento Research's PayFi report on stablecoins and payment finance, which examines Quai Network's technology and the role of QI in payments.
Read Article +Quai Network ran a two-week Builder Sprint in March 2025 with daily developer office hours, tutorials and testnet QUAI, then co-marketing for new dApps.
Read Article +The Quai Network genesis block announcement, covering the QUAI and QI dual-token model, block rewards, coinbase maturity and the phased mainnet rollout.
Read Article +Technical guide to Orchard, Quai Network's permanent public testnet: connection flags, software versions, port, unlock and epoch changes, and mining payouts.
Read Article +The launch of Orchard, Quai Network's permanent testnet alongside mainnet, with the required software versions, testing resources and mainnet rollout plan.
Read Article +Quai Network announced a Zerebro integration bringing AI agents to Proof-of-Work, covering AI-managed nodes, GPU mining and the ZerePy framework.
Read Article +Quai Network and Kaito announced a Quai reward program tied to Kaito's yapper leaderboards on X. Covers the reward pools, timeline and payout model.
Read Article +Quai Network announced its January 29th, 2025 mainnet launch, recapping Golden Age testnet results, ecosystem projects and the $QUAI distribution.
Read Article +Quai Network opened its claims portal in January 2025 for testnet and social rewards, with distribution waves, KYC deadlines and per-role reward amounts.
Read Article +Messari's overview of Quai Network covers Proof of Entropy Minima (PoEM), the dual QUAI and QI ledger, the energy-backed QI flatcoin and merged mining.
Read Article +Quai Network announced an integration with Akash Network's decentralized cloud, outlining what it offers Quai miners, developers and users.
Read Article +Quai Network set January 8, 2025 as the Golden Age testnet end date, outlined a Quai/Qi controller validation period and raised rewards to 13.75M QUAI.
Read Article +Quai Network partnered with Penomo, a platform for tokenizing renewable energy assets like solar and battery storage. See the partnership's key benefits.
Read Article +Quai NFT Week on the Golden Age testnet asked creators to deploy ERC-721 collections and list on QuaiMark, with 50,000 testnet QUAI for each top-3 project.
Read Article +Quai Network and io.net announced a faucet program giving $IO holders boosted testnet QUAI. Covers the partnership, reward tiers and how claims worked.
Read Article +Meme Week on the Golden Age Testnet, where Quai Network invited users to create meme tokens on poop.fun, trade on QuaiSwap and vie for seeded liquidity.
Read Article +The Quai Network Testnet Retrospective Grants Program offered up to 200,000 testnet QUAI to Golden Age projects, with its criteria and Questbook process.
Read Article +The Quai Mobile Developer Kit (MDK) beta is an open-source reference wallet for Quai and Qi. See its features and how it simplifies mobile dApp builds.
Read Article +How the Quai Network testnet faucet referral program worked, with 20% rewards on direct referrals, 10% on secondary referrals and a worked example.
Read Article +Physicist Stephen Wolfram joined Quai Network as an advisor on its energy dollar design, and discussed blockchain's future with Dr. K in a three-part series.
Read Article +How mining reward lockups worked in the Quai Golden Age testnet: configurable lockup periods with reward boosts, conversion lockups, and balancing the two.
Read Article +The Quai Network Golden Age Social Program ran weekly #QuaiChallenge tasks on X during the testnet, rewarding liked or retweeted posts with testnet QUAI.
Read Article +Quai miners choose between QUAI and QI, two energy based money tokens with different emission rules. How to set your preference and balance both.
Read Article +The Golden Age Testnet launch announcement for Quai Network, covering the pro rata Mainnet Quai reward pool and the phased schedule for miners and users.
Read Article +Workshares are smaller, more frequent proofs Quai Network miners submit between blocks. Learn how they speed finality and help smaller miners compete.
Read Article +How the Golden Age testnet rewards pool worked: mainnet Quai split by share of testnet holdings, earned via mining, building, trading and social challenges.
Read Article +Quai Network announced RFPs in September 2024 offering grants of up to $100,000 for liquid mining derivatives, ecosystem development, analytics and research.
Read Article +QI is an energy-backed stablecoin alternative with no bank reserves behind it, only Proof-of-Work energy. See how the energy dollar works on Quai Network.
Read Article +Why money should be tied to energy production: how an energy dollar on Proof-of-Work could fix inflation, track real value and fit the age of AI.
Read Article +Quai Network's devnet release before the Golden Age Testnet: a new SDK, Pelagus wallet upgrade, faucet changes, a public RPC endpoint and a new explorer.
Read Article +Quai Network's July 2024 update: the Qi state trie fix using state rent and pruning, SDK, wallet and explorer progress, the new faucet and Discord bounties.
Read Article +QI is a decentralized energy dollar backed by mining energy. How Quai's two tokens and sharded chains make energy based money fast and cheap to use.
Read Article +Answers to common questions about Quai Network: QUAI and QI, energy based money, mining, SOAP, the Singularity and Polaris forks, wallets and more.
Read Article +This article explores IceCreamSwap, the first functional DEX deployed on Quai Network. Start exploring the Quai Ecosystem today!
Read Article +The first Quai Developer bounties have been awarded to Quai Mark, Margin Exchange, and Quai Battle. Check them out today!
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +The Quai ecosystem is in need of solo developers and development teams to test and offer feedback on the development experience on Quai.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +With thousands of unique nodes online, our team is looking to cultivate a group of node operators to report data to Quai Stats.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This article covers the prerequisites and details of how to get a GPU rig hashing on Quai Network's Iron Age Testnet.
Read Article +This Week in Quai 22 covered the go-quai v0.19.0 fix for Iron Age Testnet syncing issues, the switch to global nodes, HiveOS mining and community events.
Read Article +The purpose of this month’s Developer Roundup is to provide the Quai community with an update on the status of Testnet.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +The day is finally here -- Quai Network's Iron Age Testnet is now live. Learn how to set up a node, get some test tokens, and more!
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +The Iron Age Testnet will go through four phases. Each phase will come with an increase in TPS, and a change in focus from the Dominant Strategies team.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +Launching on September 19th, the Iron Age Testnet will showcase the complete rework of the Quai protocol that has taken place.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +The tracking of all task completions and accumulated rewards is now powered by Galxe. Available tasks can be found at https://galxe.com/quai.
Read Article +Unlike traditional blockchains, where all transactions pass through a single chain, Quai Network functions as a network of many blockchains.
Read Article +12 million Mainnet Quai tokens have been allocated as rewards for participating in the Iron Age Testnet by mining or developing.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This month, core Quai developers have been focused on resolving issues found in Devnets and creating tutorials.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +Uncover Web 3.0: Explore its decentralized future, privacy, security, blockchains, DeFi, DAOs, NFTs, and the contrast with Web 1.0 & 2.0.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This month, core Quai devs have been focused on testing the Quai protocol, and addressing bugs that come up as a result of that testing.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts and offering a schedule for upcoming events.
Read Article +This Week in Quai, June 16, 2023: Dr. K on why Quai Network aims to be an immutable protocol like TCP/IP, plus how gas works on each Quai chain.
Read Article +We are excited to announce that Pelagus Wallet, a new open-source software wallet, will support Quai Network starting in the Iron Age Testnet.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates by aggregating social posts from the past week and offering a schedule for events.
Read Article +These monthly roundups offer insight into development progress on the core protocol and surrounding tooling.
Read Article +This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week.
Read Article +Welcome to the second edition of “This Week in Quai,” an initiative by the development company of Quai Network, Dominant Strategies.
Read Article +Explore Ethereum mining alternatives post Proof-of-Stake transition. Learn to repurpose your mining rig and maximize profitability.
Read Article +Dominant Strategies is hosting an 0.3 ETH Telegram Sticker competition for Quai Network!
Read Article +Welcome to “This Week in Quai,” a new initiative by the development company of Quai Network, Dominant Strategies.
Read Article +This month, the PoEM consensus mechanism has been implemented, and Quai has been represented at Consensus 2023.
Read Article +Merged-mining, despite being nearly as old as the concept of “mining” itself, is far less commonly understood.
Read Article +Notable developments from this month include the implementation of the new PoEM consensus mechanism and the release of a new Quai website.
Read Article +Quai Network's plans for Consensus 2023 in Austin, plus a look back at Consensus 2022: the Keep Austin Web3 event and Alan Orwick's panel talk.
Read Article +Quai Network's February 2023 developer roundup: Iron Age Testnet integration testing, the Orchard environment, ETH Denver plans and new tutorials.
Read Article +A crypto payments primer: how blockchain transactions work, payment gateways, privacy, legality and taxes, and what to know before accepting crypto.
Read Article +Quai Network's January 2023 developer roundup covered Iron Age testnet prep: cross-chain transaction devnets, the QuaiSnap wallet, faucet and quais SDK.
Read Article +Quai Network's November 2022 update covered cross-chain transaction (ETX) testing, Dashboard Reddit rewards, a Layer 1 consensus debate and Token2049 London.
Read Article +The Ethereum Virtual Machine, or EVM, is a distributed state machine that allows users to encumber code execution to the processing of a transaction.
Read Article +Quai Network's October developer roundup: cross-chain transaction work for the Iron Age Testnet, the Quai Dashboard Beta, community growth and WBS Dubai.
Read Article +The blockchain trilemma explained: why decentralization, security and scalability trade off, and how Quai Network uses sharding and merged mining to scale.
Read Article +Quai Network has released the Beta version of the Quai Dashboard, a place to check Social Media Rewards and engage with upcoming Testnets.
Read Article +Quai Network's September 2022 developer roundup: TOKEN2049 Singapore, HLCR and PCRC consensus, cross-chain transactions and a Nigeria meetup.
Read Article +As a follow up to the original Quai Quest ARG, the Quai team is excited to share the walkthrough of Quai Quest 2: A Strange Delivery.
Read Article +What is a multithreaded blockchain, and what benefits can they provide over traditional monolithic blockchains?
Read Article +Quai Network's August 2022 developer roundup covered Quai Dashboard alpha testing, devnets and HLCR consensus work ahead of the Iron Age testnet.
Read Article +Decentralization is a centuries-old topic, originally used to describe the ebb and flow of a central government’s power.
Read Article +Quai Network's first developer roundup, from July 2022: the Quai Dashboard, NFT Expoverse, core protocol work toward the Iron Age Testnet and AMAs.
Read Article +Proof-of-Work vs Proof-of-Stake vs Quai's Proof-of-Entropy-Minima: how each consensus handles 51% attacks and rule changes, and who controls the network.
Read Article +Layer 1 vs Layer 2 blockchains explained: how off-chain scaling like Lightning and rollups works, and how Quai Network scales Layer 1 with merged mining.
Read Article +Quai Network maintains a Social Media Rewards Program on a variety of social platforms, including Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram.
Read Article +A few keen-eyed members of Quai Nation have noticed some unusual patterns in our Testnet Developer Rewards graphic. Welcome to Quai Quest 1.
Read Article +Quai Network has officially announced the Quai Network Ambassador Program on June 24th, with applications open until 7/14/2022.
Read Article +As an Austin-based organization, Quai is thrilled to welcome the global crypto community to Austin, Texas for Consensus 2022.
Read Article +An intro to quai network addressing common questions, such as: What is Quai Network? What makes Quai different than other Layer 1s?
Read Article +After a wildly successful Bronze Age Testnet, Quai Network is excited to announce the receipt of $2m in funding from Alumni Ventures.
Read Article +Quai Network recently closed out a wildly successful testnet and we couldn’t be more excited about what is to come for the network.
Read Article +Quai is proud to announce a raise of $8 million from Polychain Capital, a renowned US venture capital firm.
Read Article +Learn how to create Bronze Age addresses from your node, and how to send transactions from those addresses once created.
Read Article +Learn how to set up, operate, update, and get rewarded for running your Bronze Age Quai miner with this written, step-by-step guide.
Read Article +Learn how to set up, operate, update, and get rewarded for your Bronze Age node in Quai Network's Bronze Age Testnet.
Read Article +Earn $QUAI for performing a variety of tasks throughout the Bronze Age Testnet, from running a node/miner to deploying smart contracts.
Read Article +While Quai is one of the few projects exploring the potentials of merged mining, the technology itself has a long and storied history.
Read Article +Quai Network's blockchains are all categorized as either a Prime, Region, or Zone chain. Read about the differences and functionality of each chain.
Read Article +The blockchain trilemma attempts to define the limitations of blockchain technology. Learn about how Quai Network is breaking out of these limitations.
Read Article +Quai Network is excited to announce the Stone Age Testnet, where participants can be rewarded in Quai tokens for validating and transacting on the network.
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