Protocol emission and service demand are different things.
QRX separates staking/block subsidy from user- and advertiser-funded services. Storage, useful compute and advertising rewards are not a second issuance stream.
The chain pays consensus. Services pay providers.
At the target schedule the initial gross subsidy is 788,400 QUB per year before halvings. The development-fund share is carved out of the block subsidy rather than minted on top.
Block subsidy development share
Hard cap vs issuance target
21,000,000 QUB is the hard ceiling. With the current 0.25-QUB initial subsidy and roughly four-year halvings, the idealized subsidy series is about 6,307,200 QUB before integer-atom rounding. That distinction is deliberate and should stay transparent.
Demand-funded rewards.
These layers distribute QUB already committed by users or advertisers.
Provider budget
2.0% resilience/repair reserve · 0.5% development share. Unused escrow follows contract refund rules.
Useful-compute provider
9.5% network/fee pool · 0.5% development share. FastTrack itself is capped at 25% of the maximum compute budget.
Viewer reward
55% delivery providers · 25% publisher · 15% viewer · 4.5% protocol/network · 0.5% development.
A broader ecosystem around QUB.
Staking & delegation
QUB secures consensus through validator and delegation mechanisms governed by chain rules and slashing/finality boundaries.
Markets & agents
Native markets, order books and permission-scoped agents create economic activity without pretending an external exchange balance is on-chain QUB.
Markets & agents →Asset anti-spam burns
Native-asset operations use block-reward-relative burn units so namespace/state anti-spam costs scale with the subsidy rather than becoming a fixed-supply bottleneck.
More QRX usage does not automatically mean more QUB issuance.
Storage, compute and advertising can grow provider, publisher and user income through actual service demand while remaining separate from protocol emission.