Quainance is Now Live: The Home of DeFi on Quai
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.
Decentralized finance is only as powerful as the network beneath it. Most DeFi today is bottlenecked by settlement layers that get slow and expensive the moment they get busy, forcing users to choose between decentralization and usability. Quai Network was built to remove that tradeoff: a scalable, programmable Proof-of-Work blockchain fast and cheap enough to make on-chain finance practical at global scale.
Today, that foundation gets its home. Quainance is live.
What is Quainance?
Quainance is the home of decentralized finance on Quai, bringing all of Quai's on-chain finance into a single place. At its core is a decentralized exchange (DEX) where you can bridge assets onto Quai, swap between tokens, and put your capital to work. It's self-custodial, on-chain, and secured by Quai's Proof-of-Work consensus every step of the way.
With Quainance, you can:
- Bridge: Move USDT from Ethereum onto Quai in a few clicks, no centralized intermediary required.
- Swap: Trade directly into $QUAI or $WQI (Wrapped Qi) on a fully on-chain DEX.
- Put capital to work: Bring your liquidity onto Quai and participate in a growing, energy-secured DeFi economy.
Bridge Your USDT to Quai
Getting started takes just a few minutes. If you're holding USDT on Ethereum, you can move it onto Quai directly from the Quainance app:
- Connect your wallet on Quainance.
- Open the bridge, select USDT on Ethereum as your input and Quai as your destination.
- Confirm the bridge and your assets arrive on Quai, ready to trade.
Swap into QUAI or WQI
Once your capital is on Quai, Quainance lets you swap into the assets that power the network:
- $QUAI: the EVM-compatible token at the center of Quai's programmable economy, used for long-term value storage and interacting with smart contracts across the network.
- $WQI: Wrapped Qi, the DeFi-ready form of Quai's UTXO-based energy dollar, bringing Qi into the EVM environment where it can be traded, pooled, and composed with other on-chain applications.
From there, your capital is on-chain and ready to move at the speed of Quai.
Why DeFi Belongs on Scalable Proof-of-Work
Proof-of-Work is the most battle-tested security model in crypto, but it has historically been treated as too slow or too rigid for modern finance. Quai changes that. Through its Proof-of-Entropy-Minima (PoEM) consensus and merged-mining architecture, Quai delivers the security guarantees of Proof-of-Work with the throughput DeFi actually needs.
- Built to scale: Quai's multi-zone architecture targets 50,000+ transactions per second, so activity can grow without fees spiking or blocks congesting.
- Low, predictable costs: Cheap settlement means strategies that simply aren't viable on congested chains become practical on Quai.
- Decentralized by design: No validator cartels or staking gatekeepers, just open, permissionless Proof-of-Work securing every swap and every bridge.
- An energy-based dual-token economy: UTXO-based Qi for everyday value and EVM-compatible QUAI for programmable finance, giving builders and users a monetary system designed for real economic activity.
Quainance is where all of that comes together, giving you one place to bridge in, trade, and build positions on a network engineered from the ground up for scalable, decentralized finance.
Get Started Today
The place for Quai DeFi is live. Bridge your capital over, swap into QUAI or WQI, and start putting it to work.
About Quai Network
Quai Network is an energy-based monetary system built on a scalable, programmable Proof-of-Work blockchain. Through innovative Proof-of-Entropy-Minima consensus and merged mining capabilities, the network achieves 50,000+ transactions per second, unprecedented chain revenue, and increased decentralization and security. The network's unique dual-token system combines UTXO-based QI for daily transactions with EVM-compatible QUAI for long-term value storage, creating a comprehensive solution for the future of decentralized finance.
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