I come bearing gifts. 🎁 With the latest deals signed and Fusion set to open to retail, a lot of new people are about to look at $QNT. The information they need on how the token actually works is scattered across old Telegram messages, AMAs and Quant’s website, and some of it, like the early papers on token utility, isn’t on the website at all. Quant has also retired its Telegram comms, so asking every newcomer to dig through chat history isn’t realistic. So I’ve put it all in one place, with sources for claims: quamfylounge.com

I’ve had a feeling for a while that $QNT has quietly outperformed its whole generation, so I tried to check it properly. The group is every token that started trading in 2018. I went by first trading date rather than ICO date because I wanted projects that went through the same market and cycle phases: all of them listed into the 2018 crash and had to survive a full bear market before the 2021 run. Each project is measured from $0 to today’s market cap. I didn’t use ICO prices, because presale discounts and bonus rounds make them unreliable, or multiples “from the bottom”, which depend completely on which day you choose. Market cap on its own flatters tokens that still have a lot of supply locked up, so each one is discounted by its float: market cap × circulating supply ÷ max supply. A project with half its tokens still to come gets credit for half its market cap. $QNT has a fixed supply of 14.6M that has been fully unlocked since 2019, so it takes no discount. Cronos does, which is why it drops from first on raw market cap to third here. 1000+ dead 2018 projects aren’t on the chart for obvious reasons. What makes this more interesting to me is that $QNT got here before its main product is live. @FusionLayer25 , hasn’t gone beyond initial mainnet tests with institutions, so the staking and transaction volume it’s built for hasn’t started yet. It has signed clients that settle trillions a day. Every other project in this chart is valued on what it already does.