What Is Qi?
Qi is a localized, normalized, and minimized energy oracle.
Energy oracles supply randomness, work, and decentralization.
Qi is a lineage from fuel, to joule, to rule.
The rule is code, open-sourced, and provable.
Qi is a token emitted proportional to the difficulty required to produce it.
It is a reference, a measure, a metric. The first of its kind.
Qi is a currency within a monetary system.
It’s used for stability, privacy, and payments.
Qi is a pair, with Quai.
Quai is programmable, composable, and volatile
Qi is a put option on Quai.
Quai is a call option on Qi.
Qi is defined by an entropic relationship, where ΔS = 1/2n.
Qi is cryptographic, inheriting all properties bestowed by Satoshi & the Cypherpunks.
Energy, Electricity, Economics
Fuel is heterogeneous. Gas, wind, nuclear, solar, hydro —no two are priced alike. Fuel is where value is local.
Joule is the normalization. Combustion, fission, and photovoltaics all terminate in the same scalar, comparable across borders, technologies, systems, and centuries. This is the step that makes fuel commensurable. But a joule is only a measurement; a claim to have spent one settles nothing, because no one else can check it.
Rule is what makes the spent joule a fact. The hash is the receipt and difficulty is the rule that defines the cost. Emission is measured: Qi is released in proportion to work presented against a target, so the marginal cost of a unit is the marginal cost of the electricity that found it. No issuer, no promise, no redemption—a number anyone can verify.
Our Mission
Qi.xyz is a frontier economics lab for decentralized intelligence.
We use Qi as an energy oracle and measurement unit for all organic and inorganic systems. We expect Qi will be used for defining the future unit economics of all physical systems.
Therefore, our mission is to accelerate the adoption and proliferation of Qi.
To that extent, our team will use and build proprietary models to arbitrage financial markets and develop open-source blockchain infrastructure to service Qi. Our goal is to direct resources toward systems capable of coordinating, preserving, and adapting our collective intelligence to rapid changes.
Qi is simultaneously a solution, a reference, and a framework for understanding the relationship between energy, computation, and economics.
As our world economy becomes increasingly computational, Qi will become inevitable.
Learn more at thermoeconomics.info and qi.xyz.
