August 25, 2026 — Quai Network, the energy-based monetary system built on a scalable Proof-of-Work blockchain, this week highlighted ongoing revenue generation through its Subsidized Open-market Acquisition Protocol (SOAP). The latest chain revenue snapshot stands at $6,177,000, demonstrating how network hashrate is being transformed into measurable economic activity for the protocol.
SOAP routes external merge-mining rewards from supported parent chains into continuous open-market purchases of $QUAI, which are then burned. This mechanism flips the traditional dynamics of merge-mining, where auxiliary rewards often create sell pressure, into sustained buy pressure and deflationary support for $QUAI.
“Hashrate continues to generate revenue for Quai,” the network stated. “SOAP routes external merge-mining rewards into continuous $QUAI buybacks and burns, turning hashrate into measurable economic activity.”
Live tracking of SOAP performance is available at soap.qu.ai.
About SOAP
Launched on Quai mainnet in December 2025, the Subsidized Open-market Acquisition Protocol enables Quai to capture value from hashrate directed at other Proof-of-Work networks (including Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Ravencoin). Rather than distributing parent-chain rewards directly to miners, SOAP directs 100% of those subsidies to a protocol-controlled address. The proceeds are used to acquire $QUAI on the open market, with the purchased tokens burned (or in some configurations routed to long-term staking incentives).
This design expands Quai’s mining surface across multiple algorithms (KawPoW, SHA-256, and Scrypt) while aligning external hashrate with the network’s economic security and token scarcity.
About Quai Network
Quai Network is building the world’s first energy-based monetary system, where energy becomes money. The dual-token architecture features $QUAI as a hard-money store of value with decreasing emissions and $QI as energy-priced digital cash designed for everyday use. Through its hierarchical, merge-mined architecture and innovations such as Proof-of-Entropy-Minima consensus and SOAP, Quai aims to deliver high throughput, shared security, and a sustainable economic model for a decentralized future.
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