PANews reported on September 10th that Quai Network has officially integrated with Wormhole. Quai will leverage Wormhole's core messaging layer to enable seamless asset transfers from over 40 chains to its scalable PoW ecosystem. Quai will also leverage Wormhole's NTT (Native Token Transfers) standard to enable multi-chain native deployment of $QI and $QUAI.
Quai is the world's first energy-based monetary system. Consisting of a sharded EVM-compatible blockchain and leveraging the innovative Proof-of-Entropy-Minima (PoEM) consensus, it boasts a throughput of 255,000 transactions per second (TPS) without sacrificing decentralization. $QUAI is its native token, and $QI is its decentralized "energy dollar." Quai aims to create a stable, low-cost environment for payments, DeFi, SocialFi, NFTs, and other use cases.
Wormhole NTT (Native Token Transfers) is an open and composable multi-chain native token transfer standard that enables cross-chain token migration without relying on traditional cross-chain liquidity pools, preserving token metadata and supply characteristics, and reducing transaction fees and operational complexity.
It is reported that this integration means a significant improvement in ecological interoperability: users can more conveniently use $QUAI and $QI directly on more mainstream chains, developers can build dApps with native tokens in a multi-chain environment, reducing the burden of bridging and liquidity management, and ecological applications will be easier to connect to existing wallets and infrastructure, thereby promoting the availability and popularity of Quai and expanding its influence on the entire crypto ecosystem.

Legal experts are concerned that transforming ESMA into the “European SEC” may hinder the licensing of crypto and fintech in the region. The European Commission’s proposal to expand the powers of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is raising concerns about the centralization of the bloc’s licensing regime, despite signaling deeper institutional ambitions for its capital markets structure.On Thursday, the Commission published a package proposing to “direct supervisory competences” for key pieces of market infrastructure, including crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), trading venues and central counterparties to ESMA, Cointelegraph reported.Concerningly, the ESMA’s jurisdiction would extend to both the supervision and licensing of all European crypto and financial technology (fintech) firms, potentially leading to slower licensing regimes and hindering startup development, according to Faustine Fleuret, head of public affairs at decentralized lending protocol Morpho.Read more

