Welcome to the Quai Developer AMA! In this episode, Jonathan from the Quai engineering team joins the community for an open technical discussion on some of the most important questions emerging as the network expands across mining, DeFi, and developer infrastructure. The conversation ranges from SOAP’s buyback and burn mechanics and the rapid changes in mining hash rate to how Qi is evolving across KawPow, SHA-256, and Scrypt. A particularly deep discussion explores what it means for Qi to function as an objective, energy-based unit of value as mining hardware becomes more efficient and the network’s allocation across different algorithms changes over time.

The AMA also gets into practical questions from miners and developers, covering PowerPool, node connectivity, wallet behavior, Qi/QUAI conversions, mining payouts, difficulty adjustment, ...