Welcome to the thirtieth edition of “This Week in Quai,” an initiative by the development company of Quai Network, Dominant Strategies. This Week in Quai offers weekly updates to the Quai Community by aggregating popular Quai quotes and social posts from the past week and offering a schedule for upcoming events.

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What is Quai?

Quai Network is a pre-launch cryptocurrency. Quai is the first blockchain protocol that is simultaneously decentralized, censorship resistant, and infinitely scalable. Quai, in contrast to traditional cryptocurrencies, functions as a network of many interoperable blockchains braided together. Due to a breakthrough discovery that occurred during research on Proof-of-Work, Quai Network utilizes a new consensus mechanism, Proof-of-Entropy-Minima (PoEM), which eliminates all consensus-based forks, and enables all Quai nodes to remain in “perpetual consensus.”

Quote of the Week

“We’re excited to announce that another 4 million in Mainnet Quai has been allocated as incentives for miners to continue hashing and mining blocks after we reach block 600,000 in each Zone!”

• Dominant Strategies CMO Raleigh as an announcement in the Quai Discord

In this week’s quote of the week, Dominant Strategies CMO Raleigh shares that incentives for mining blocks in the Quai Testnet will continue beyond blocks 600,000. The full details of these new incentives has been posted in the Quai Discord, and can be found in the full text of the announcement.

These additional 4m in Quai incentives will allow the Quai Testnet to continue operating, being developed on, and tested against, while development for the upcoming Golden Age Testnet is ongoing. Even if you haven’t spun up any GPU miners to mine in the Iron Age Testnet thus far, it’s not too late to earn some Mainnet Rewards!

Technical Term of the Week

Quais SDK – The Quais SDK (Software Development Kit) is a fork of the Ethers SDK, acting as a collection of libraries and tools designed for interacting with Quai Network. Quais, similar to Ethers, provides functionalities for creating wallets, sending transactions, and interacting with smart contracts in a simplified and efficient manner.

The Quais SDK is an open-source fork of the Ethers SDK. The Ethers SDK, originally created in 2016, gives developers a straightforward toolkit for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. The Quais SDK, in the same spirit, is designed to give developers all of the functionality of Ethers on Quai, in addition to supporting new functionality unique to Quai’s multi-chain architecture.

There is still minimal documentation for the Quais SDK as it undergoes ongoing development – however, if you are looking to use the Quais SDK while developing on Quai, you can explore the relevant pages of the Quai documentation here or join the Quai Dev server to ask your questions to other Quai devs here. Both members of the Dominant Strategies team and community developers from around the world in that server are more than happy to help you in your Quai development journey.

Top Posts of the Week

• The new open-source Quai Documentation is now available:  

Have any suggestions for how the brand new open-source Quai documentation at https://t.co/RzzyVN9UM2 could be improved?

Make an issue in the Quai Docs repository!

Your feedback and changes can help improve the docs for countless future users👇 https://t.co/hUwtBqWUaw

— Quai Network (@QuaiNetwork) December 9, 2023

• A variety of new diagrams and animations have been added to the Quai Docs:

Ever wondered how your node, stratum proxy, and miner all work together to find valid blocks? This GIF shows how these three programs interact 🤝

Check out the Quai docs for even more diagrams and animations explaining important topics in Quai👇 https://t.co/kQNC8XkhKy pic.twitter.com/w62vgcwZX0

— Quai Network (@QuaiNetwork) December 10, 2023

• The largest Testnet transaction (thus far):

Fun Iron Age Testnet fact: The largest transaction (in Testnet Quai) processed so far has been for 200,000 Quai (and it was an ETX)! 🐳 https://t.co/PNJq74gFGj

Could you make a bigger transaction? 👀

— Quai Network (@QuaiNetwork) December 11, 2023

• Many QRC-20 tokens have been deployed on the Iron Age Testnet:

You can see a list of all the different QRC-20 tokens deployed on the Iron Age Testnet by checking the Quaiscan block explorers!https://t.co/sQIYlKG3Mo

Have you created or gotten your hands on any QRC-20 tokens so far this Testnet? If not, what's stopping you? 👀 pic.twitter.com/Jpmpl3aRFg

— Quai Network (@QuaiNetwork) December 12, 2023

• A Quai community developer created a custom GPT for Quai development:

I created the QuaiNet Dev Helper. A GPT with access to the docs of the @QuaiNetwork

Use it to learn about the Quai Network or to help you develop multi-chain smart contract. pic.twitter.com/1GAMVfhtFL

— Raphael Schmid (@raphaeljschmid) December 12, 2023

Upcoming Events

Mining: Office Hours w/ Judi & Hussam: December 19th, 2023 @ 10am CST – Join Dominant Strategies team members Justin and Hussam for a casual discussion on mining in the Quai protocol.

Core Protocol: Office Hours w/ Max & Wizeguyy: December 21st, 2023 @ 9am CST – Join Dominant Strategies team members Max and Wizeguyy for a casual discussion/Q&A on the architecture and development of the core Quai protocol.

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Quai Network is an open-source Proof-of-Entropy-Minima blockchain network utilizing the capabilities of merged mining to increase throughput and security. Users of Quai Network will enjoy fast transaction times without compromising decentralization and security. Miners will have competitive mining opportunities across the many blockchains within the network.

Capable of thousands of transactions per second, the Quai Network is a new solution to scalability that is soon to be ready for mainnet release.

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