Qi is Quai Network's energy-linked medium-of-exchange token: a UTXO asset designed for everyday payments, cash-like privacy, and supply that responds through miner emissions and protocol conversions. This page tracks the chain's Qi/QUAI quote, the implied Qi price from stored QUAI/USDT market data, Qi supply, and conversion context.
Qi is native protocol money, not a tokenized claim issued by a company against bank reserves. That removes issuer and reserve-custody dependency, while still leaving protocol and market risk.
Qi can settle directly on-chain and be self-custodied like digital cash. Its design targets an energy-cost reference instead of central-bank policy or commercial banking rails.
Qi uses fixed denominations, enforced non-address reuse, and payment-code style receive flows so payments can behave more like cash than a fully transparent account ledger.