FAQs

This dashboard tracks realized QUAI and Qi supply on cyprus1 from live chain/RPC data and Postgres rollups. The key QUAI number is circulating supply after SOAP burn has already been factored into the RPC-reported total.

QUAI is the EVM-compatible store-of-value token. Qi is the energy-linked medium-of-exchange token. The docs frame the pair as complementary: QUAI is designed for scarcity and long-term value storage, while Qi is designed for payments, stability, and unit-of-account use.

QUAI and Qi follow different emission logic. QUAI rewards scale logarithmically with difficulty, so supply growth becomes more constrained as the network grows. Qi rewards scale linearly with difficulty, tying issuance more directly to energy/hash cost.

The Singularity Fork reduced future genesis unlocks by 1,667,159,984 QUAI. That moved the vested genesis baseline from 3,000,000,000 QUAI to 1,332,840,016 QUAI. This was a reduction of future unlocks, not a balance transfer shown as daily circulating burn.

SOAP routes selected merge-mined value into open-market QUAI buybacks and burns. In this app, Total SOAP burn is the balance at the known burn address; circulating QUAI supply already reflects that burn in the RPC total, so the main supply chart does not subtract it again.

SOAP stands for Subsidized Open-market Acquisition Protocol. Parent-chain merge-mining rewards from supported chains such as BCH, LTC, DOGE, and RVN can be routed to protocol-controlled addresses, converted into QUAI, and burned. Miners still earn QUAI for valid Quai work; the parent-chain subsidy becomes buy pressure and burn pressure instead of direct sell pressure.

KAWPOW miners can author Quai blocks normally. SHA256d, Scrypt, and other supported parent-chain miners can contribute workshares through AuxPoW, adding security and earning QUAI rewards. SOAP is additive: if parent-chain participation disappears, Quai blocks can still be produced by regular KAWPOW mining.

The tracker uses 1.4B QUAI as a soft-cap target for forecast and comparison views. It is not a Bitcoin-style hard-coded absolute cap. The tokenomics docs describe a cap scenario where total supply equals genesis unlocks plus mining emissions minus SOAP burns; if SOAP fully offsets mining emissions over time, net emissions approach zero and supply trends toward the post-Singularity genesis baseline of about 1.33284B QUAI.

Tail emissions are the continuing mining rewards after the early supply phase. Quai does not rely on a fixed halving schedule like Bitcoin. QUAI rewards scale logarithmically with difficulty, so issuance can continue for security while becoming progressively more constrained as network difficulty grows. SOAP burn can offset some or all of that ongoing issuance depending on market activity.

The Circulating QUAI Supply forecast is an intentionally simple line from the latest observed circulating supply to the current 1.4B QUAI cap target date used in the comparison model. It is a planning guide, not a block-by-block protocol simulation.

Qi supply changes through miner-selected emissions and conversions. Miners can choose Qi rewards when economics favor it, and users can convert between Qi and QUAI at the current reward ratio. This makes Qi supply more demand-responsive.

Historical per-algorithm mining data is sampled during backfill because full block/workshare and mining-info calls are more expensive. Period rollups handle the extrapolation; the chart footnotes call out which values are sampled versus dense.