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Quai Network (QUAI) ranks #1158 by market capitalization, at $7.28M. It belongs to the Networks sector (Layer-1). It has traded since Apr 9, 2025, with $244.84K of volume in the last 24 hours. Its all-time high of $0.13068 was reached on May 11, 2025; the current price is 94.4% below that peak. Its cycle low of $0.00614508 came on Nov 3, 2026.
1.16B QUAI are in circulation. 8 investors are recorded as backers, including Polychain Capital, MH Ventures, Cogitent Ventures. 2 team members are listed.
About Quai Network
Quai Network is a Layer-1 blockchain utilizing a Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism called Proof-of-Entropy-Minima (PoEM). It features a multi-chain architecture with three tiers, Prime, Region, and Zone chains, operating concurrently to process transactions.
Background
Quai Network officially began development in 2020, led by a team of blockchain and cryptography experts aiming to build a scalable, secure, decentralized Proof-of-Work blockchain ecosystem. The design pioneered the concept of an energy-backed stablecoin $QI, focusing on integrating real-world energy costs into tokenomics. The project traced its origins to a University of Texas research initiative (2019), then launched sequential public testnets branded as "Stone Age," "Bronze Age," and "Golden Age" for consensus and scalability validation.
In 2022, Quai raised $8M from Polychain Capital and $2M from Alumni Ventures, providing runway for protocol development and expanding the team. This was later followed by another $2M in funding from Alumni Ventures Group in May of the same year. Up to 2024, Quai executed multiple large-scale testnets, attracting global developer and miner participation. The Golden Age testnet saw 2,000+ nodes, 42,000 GPUs, and 110,000 wallets.
In January 2025, Quai Network launched its mainnet with a dual-token system: $QUAI (utility/governance token) and $QI (energy-backed stablecoin), marking a major technical and economic innovation. In April 2025, $QI officially began mining operations. The token issuance method involved no initial supply, strictly reflecting live mining activity (lockup periods enforced). By September, Quai Network powered applications such as Kipper (social payments) and BlipPay (real-world crypto transactions) following the mainnet launch. Furthermore, the team partnered with Wormhole to enable multichain interoperability, reflecting a strategy to support cross-chain dApps and user migration. At the same time, the project partnered with Zebec.