Recent CatalystsTwo protocol changes reshaping QUAI's emissions and eventual supply.
Active since 2025-12-17, Prime block #1,171,500. Three algorithms now contribute to each block: KawPoW (GPU) seals the block and merge-mines from RVN; SHA-256 workshares merge-mine from BCH; Scrypt workshares merge-mine from LTC and DOGE.
Parent-chain coinbase subsidies are routed to the Quai Foundation, sold on market for QUAI, and burned. Cumulative result is the orange line on the supply and SOAP mining charts below.
For miners: existing RVN/BCH/LTC/DOGE hashrate adds Quai workshares with zero extra power or hardware. GPU operators earn QUAI directly via KawPoW. For investors: parent-chain mining emissions become continuous on-chain QUAI buy pressure, then burn — pushing net dilution toward zero as adoption scales.
Annotation visible across every time-series chart on this dashboard.
On 2026-03-19, at Prime block #1,530,500, Quai's foundation, investors, and core team agreed to permanently eliminate 1.67B QUAI of future genesis unlocks.
Those allocations were never minted. They aren't in quaiSupplyTotal today and won't be in any future cumulative chart — so this event doesn't appear as a wedge on the supply curves. What it changes is the eventual maximum supply: roughly 81% of the future-vested baseline was struck.
Annotation only on the time-series charts. The numeric impact lives in the Singularity skip hero card above.
Projected circulating supply by emission source, excluding SOAP burns.
Burn excluded: SOAP burns open-market QUAI and cannot be assigned to genesis or mining supply from aggregate data. These pies show emitted distribution for understanding where tokens were allocated; circulating supply must separately factor out QUAI that has been burned.
Important note: QUAI approaches a terminal inflation rate roughly 10 years faster than Bitcoin on this age-aligned emissions curve.