github.com/dominant-strategies/go-quai

Guarding the epoch and light cache dag size

Introducing go-quai v0.55.0

Tag: v0.55.0
Commit: 93372b5
Link: https://github.com/dominant-strategies/go-quai/
Activation: Wednesday, Jun 25, 2026 at 10 PM CST

Release Information

This release makes lot of improvements to the node

Action required

• All nodes upgrade to v0.55.0 as soon as possible.

Introducing go-quai v0.54.0

Tag: v0.54.0
Commit: 5b25e03
Link: https://github.com/dominant-strategies/go-quai/
Activation: Friday, Jun 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM CST / 15:00 UTC

Release Information

This release improves miner reward stability by increasing the EMA window, making rewards, difficulty, and conversion rates smoother and more resilient to short-term hash rate swings from sources like NiceHash. It also adds a new net peers fix and API updates, improving overall network reliability and delivering a more stable, predictable experience for miners, node operators, and ecosystem participants.

Action required

• All nodes upgrade to v0.54.0 as soon as possible.
• After activation, validate advertised reward calculation.

Introducing go-quai v0.53.0: BIP-302 Fork

BIP-302 is Quai's proposal for child-chain capture of a parent chain's block subsidy via consensus-enforced AuxPoW. The parent chain doesn't change. The child chain does.

Drivechain has spent nine years asking Bitcoin to soft-fork. BIP-302 asks Bitcoin for nothing. The protocol stays exactly as Satoshi shipped it; Quai's consensus does all the work. Bitcoin stays small, sound, and pristine.

What Quai becomes, in the long arc: the chain that scales Bitcoin without changing Bitcoin, secures Bitcoin without asking permission, and **gives Bitcoin's miners a reason to keep their ASICs running long after the block subsidy halves to zero. **Programmable. EVM-compatible. Settled by SHA-256 proof-of-work. Deflationary with every Bitcoin block mined.

SOAP has been live against BCH, LTC, DOGE, and RVN since December 17, 2025. Five months in production. Four parent chains. Billions of value secured across each of the algorithms.

**Replacing the Bitcoin protocol is the endgame. BIP-302 is how Quai gets there. **

Eventually, Quai and Bitcoin fuse further: Quai for programmability, scalability, and shared SHA-256 security; Bitcoin for the monetary base and existing adoption.

Tag: v0.53.0
Commit: 3f915a7
Link: https://github.com/dominant-strategies/go-quai/
Activation: Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM CST / 15:00 UTC

Release Information
v0.53.0 is the BIP-302 fork: the consensus upgrade that takes Quai into Bitcoin mining through SOAP.

SHA-256 has become the dominant reward driver on Quai network.

This fork renormalizes Quai's reward calculation against SHA-equivalent difficulty rather than KawPoW's native difficulty, so the hardware that will carry SOAP into Bitcoin scales appropriately.

What's in v0.53.0
Reward / consensus changes (fork-activated)

• SHA-equivalent difficulty introduced for reward calculation: KawPoW difficulty is renormalized to SHA terms.
• Snapshot test added for the Quai API to lock in expected output.

Operational / stability fixes

• Recovery step on restart when Prime/Region/Zone headers are out of sync.
• Dockerfile fixed so builds work again.

Action required

• All nodes upgrade to v0.53.0 as soon as possible.
• Expect a brief conversion freeze across the fork's hold interval.
• After activation, validate advertised reward calculation.

What's Changed

• Api fix by @gameofpointers in #2710

Full Changelog: v0.51.1...v0.52.0

Update the Qi wrapping logic to continue after the change block

We've identified and resolved issues affecting SHA and Scrypt ASIC firmware compatibility. This update includes important optimizations for ASIC mining:

What's changing:

• Increased inclusion depth for SHA and Scrypt to lower orphan workshare rates
• Adjusted SHA and Scrypt share targets to reflect new efficiency gains
• Improved compatibility for certain SHA and Scrypt ASIC models that previously had issues mining QUAI, these can now mine efficiently
• Linear discount on the share reward based staleness. This incentivizes both miners and pools to minimize share staleness

Updated the version file to v0.49.2

Updated the version file to v0.49.1