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If you're wondering why $QNT price pumped 3x this week, this list is probably a good place to start ↓↓
• Quant was just chosen to build the next generation of US bank money. The Clearing House, owned by 25 major US banks like Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and Citi settle more than $2 trillion per day and selected Quant to connect its new on-chain money network.
• Quant is now powering the largest banks in the UK. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and others are now executing live customer transactions on infrastructure built by Quant.
• Quant is directly integrated into Murex’s MX.3 platform. MX.3 is the financial software engine powering 65 of the world's 100 largest banks, and Quant gives them crypto-ready infrastructure without requiring them to rewrite existing infrastructure.
• Oracle has put Quant inside its enterprise digital-asset stack. One of the world's largest enterprise software companies has certified Overledger to provide cross-ledger orchestration for settling transactions across different ledgers and off-chain databases.
• Quant is shaping the standards that will govern value movement across the internet. SATP is designed to let digital assets move safely between separate networks, and the protocol is now in the IETF's final community-review stage before a decision on publication.
• Quant has built technology for the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England. Project Rosalind tested 33 API functions and 30+ real-world use cases, with Quant supplying blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts and interoperability.
• The European Central Bank picked Quant to help experiment with the Digital Euro. Quant is testing how programmable payments could work directly with central-bank digital money, putting it inside one of Europe’s most important future payments projects.
• Quant has already integrated with Nexi’s European payments infrastructure. The underlying SIA network spans 580 nodes across 208,000+ km of fiber, connecting banks, payment providers, and financial institutions across Europe.
• Quant has been working on blockchain infrastructure spanning 12 countries across Latin America. The LACChain network gives Quant exposure to cross-border payments, tokenized money and interoperability across multiple national markets.
• Quant has a direct route into Japan’s banking system through Dentsu Soken. Dentsu Soken builds mission-critical systems tied to BOJNET, SWIFT, CLS, internet banking, and core banking, and the partnership includes a joint go-to-market plan for Japanese banks.
• Quant has been granted multiple patents across the US, Europe, Japan, and China. This gives Quant a defensible IP position in one of the hardest problems in digital finance — enterprise-grade multi-ledger technology.
• Quant’s founder helped launch the ISO standard for blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Gilbert Verdian was instrumental in establishing ISO/TC 307, the international committee for blockchain and distributed ledger standards, going on to lead its interoperability working group.
• Quant isn't betting the company on just one product. Overledger, Quant Flow, PayScript, QuantNet, and Fusion give it multiple products around interoperability, programmable money, payments, and multi-network settlement.
• Gilbert was working on this problem before most people had even heard the word “interoperability.” Before Quant, he spent 20+ years in cybersecurity and senior technology roles across the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, HM Treasury, Mastercard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC, Ernst & Young, and other major institutions.
• $QNT is unusually scarce for an asset servicing a global market. Its maximum supply is just 14.88 million tokens, giving it one of the tightest supply profiles in large-cap crypto. As we've seen this week, when demand spikes, upward moves can be violent.
• Staking could create an even more powerful supply-and-demand loop. Likely arriving in 2027, Quant's staking mechanism could see millions of $QNT tokens locked away, while participants earn rewards and growing network usage competes for the same fixed supply.
• All of this is only what we're allowed to see. Quant is built to operate behind the scenes as white-label infrastructure; we actually have no idea how many more integrations are already live, being tested, or sitting in the pipeline waiting to be announced.
So when people ask me why $QNT suddenly ran this hard this week, I think they're asking the wrong question.
The better question is why the market ignored all of this evidence for so long.
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peter - i just want to say thank you
thank you for warning me about the dangers of bitcoin in 2013 when it was $300
at the time, i had $30,000 to my name and was ready to invest, but i saw you on CNBC saying it was a bubble and so instead of buying 100 bitcoins, i bought 1500 ounces of silver
i am very grateful i made that decision because now those 1500 ounces of silver are worth $141,000, and i’m close to be able to affording a down payment on a house
meanwhile if i had bought bitcoin instead, my portfolio would have crashed by over $3 million in just the last 3 months and i would be down to only my last $9.5 million, which would have totally destroyed my hunger and drive
thank you
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This was 100% a coordinated event
Many entities just got filled at insane levels on altcoins
You think 5PM on friday everyone just sells all at once?
Yeah right. The hands behind this are dirty.
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The average European:
• Smokes
• High carb diet
• Barely goes to the gym
Yet is healthier & lives significantly longer than the average American.
How is this even possible?
These 6 major factors make all the difference:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The average European does not smoke.
Daily smoking quotas in 2019 were 22.3% for men and 14.8% for women over the age of 15.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati…
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The astronauts were only supposed to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months.
SpaceX could have sent up another Dragon and brought them home 6 months ago, but the Biden White House (not NASA) refused to allow it.
President Trump asked to bring them back as soon as possible and we are doing so.
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If a bank were to be hacked for $1.4 billion:
- Freeze withdrawals
- Inform government
- Set up an inquiry commission
- years of investigation
- Customers standing in queue
- Branches closed
- Competitors getting an advantage
Bybit exchange hacked $1.4 billion.
- CEO came live
- Industry united
- Competitors lend support
- 1 hr and everything back to normal
- Industry itself is tracking and freezing
- Zero withdrawal pending
This is what they don't like about crypto -> UNITY.
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The scale of what Quant is building is truly remarkable… and very few are paying attention.
Its silence in relation to potential future market share is unmatched.
QNT
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Now they’re saying it was a nothing tournament 😂😂😂. You were talking all the smack all week. Don’t you forget who your hockey daddy is America.
🇨🇦 #4Nations
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This is written by a Florida judge and posted on face book. Everyone should soare a few minutes and read his words about Canada and the United States
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🚨JOE ROGAN: "People are worried that Elon is going to steal everyone's money. He has $400B. Elon's not going to steal your money. That's not what he's doing. He's a super genius that has been f**ked with. When you've been f**ked with by these nitwits that hide behind 3-letter agencies, and you're dealing with one of the smartest people alive helping Donald Trump get into office and find out what corruption is really going on, you f**ked up.
You f**ked up and picked the wrong psychopath on the spectrum. He's going to hunt you down and find out what's going on, and that's good for everybody. That's how you should be looking at this, like 'Wow, we have a brilliant mind examining these really corrupt and goofy systems and bringing in a bunch of psychopath wizards."
🔥🔥🔥
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⏳For the past few years a lot of people were saying that Oracle had dropped Quant
I don't wanna hear it anymore.
Here we see the live release of Oracle Blockchain Platform Digital Assets Edition.
The foundation? $QNT Overledger
Oracle themselves highlight a couple key aspects that tie directly to all the work that Overledger has been doing.
• Unified Ledger Architecture
• Multi-Chain Connectivity
• Singlessness of Money
• Tokenized DvP Mechanisms
• Programmable Payments
We then see Quant's Overledger deployed in an Orchestration & API manner similar to the RLN within one of Oracle's architecture graphics.
And on top of this Oracle had directly mentioned Quant's success and their importance in the UK RLN.
Reminder Oracle's #19 in top companies globally!
And now Quant will be their foundation to a future driven by digital assets & DLT.
Seems a little TOO perfectly timed with the recent release of SATPs yellow paper too👀
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𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 — 𝐒𝐎 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄’𝐒 𝐀 $QNT 𝐓𝐀 𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄
I won’t say anything about what’s happening from an FA perspective.
If you have been paying attention, you know Quant has made gigantic moves in the past few months.
Unfortunately, the price is not following the FA developments.
We can say it’s lagging, but we can all agree that this situation won’t last forever.
Anyway — Am I disappointed about QNT's performance in 2024?
Absolutely yes.
Am I complaining every day on X like a crybaby?
Absolutely no.
Why?
Cause I had a plan, I was diversified, and I still made money elsewhere.
THAT BEING SAID — TA TIME
Look at the chart.
Besides two fake-outs, one to the upside and one to the downside, QNT has been ranging between $85/90 (support zone) and $150/155 (resistance zone) for 854 days.
Yes, it’s not a type.
8 5 4 DAYS
Almost two and a half years of accumulation in the same range.
You know what they say, right?
THE LONGER THE ACCUMULATION, THE BIGGER…
Price, at some point, will catch up to fundamentals.
It’s inevitable.
Once it breaks and closes above the two critical resistances of $150/155 and then $195, it will teleport to ATH in no time.
And, after that…
NO SPOILER… YOU’LL SEE 𓂀
P.S.
All the people worried about QNT’s price action still don’t understand how the game is meant to be played.
You don’t invest in something of this magnitude and focus on what happens on a day to day basis.
< Build your position.
< Sit on your ass.
< Reap the rewards when it’s time.
Yes, it’s that easy.
ANYWAY — NFA, do as you please with your money 👽🔌
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We all know how the RLN by UK FInance & EY have been one of the biggest CBDC innovations to date.
10+ Banks/FinTechs, 1 Shared Ledger.
More importantly we know $QNT & R3 Corda were the 2 biggest players.
But what most DIDN'T see were these 2 specific highlighted points.
1. API Orchestration Layer provides point of access similar to UK's existing payments system.
2. Design of interoperability via API layer makes it possible for interoperating Agora, DREX, RSN, etc.
These 2 points aren't small feats whatsoever.
On one end you have UK Finance literally saying that the API Orchestration layer served as the common gateway for ALL participants to enter the RLN.
They also mention how this solution is most similar to the current UK payments system.
In other words it'd also be the smoothest path towards adoption with the path of least resistance.
Not only has Quant created the common gateway for all parties to enter the ecosystem.
They've built in accordance to the current UK financial system.
Exactly like Gilbert had planned.
And of course on the other end is where things really get juicy as we hear other CBDC frameworks.
Here we see RSN, Drex & Agora mentioned.
The Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) operates very similarly to the RLN... As you may be able to tell from the name similarities.
We had also recently just seen some leading US banks such as Citi & JP Morgan successfully test for tokenization settlements earlier in Dec 2024.
On the other hand DREX is the name for Brazil’s CBDC initiative.
We've also seen Brazil work with Stellar on CBDCs & as we know Stellar interoperability with the SATP compliant Hyperledger Cacti was formed this year.
And last but certainly not least is Project Agora.
The only CBDC project that has a chance to dethrone RLN as the #1 currently is likely Agora.
We'll be seeing 7 central banks & 41 private sector participants operating on a shared ledger.
And Citi's Ton McLaughlin, whose involved in both Agora & RLN has already stated Agora & UK RLN will be testing for compatibility together!
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The future of finance is here written in stone.
We've already seen Quant be recognized as critical infrastructure to interoperate the UK RLN...
Now we've got a much bigger task at interoperating other shared ledgers into the ecosystem.
2025 will be the year for interoperability across all forms of money & tech... All done by APIs🔥
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📹New showcase of the UK RLN by UK Finance & EY
This time it's simply broken down into 3 parties
APIs & Orchestration: $QNT
Tokenization Platform: R3 Corda
Existing Ledgers & Payment Systems: All other 3rd party banks & FinTechs.
And as we know... The single common point of access was provided by Quant's Overledger.
We're watching the rails to our future tokenized monetary system unfold.
In fact UK Finance even says it themselves with a few interesting quotes.
"The API and Orchestration Layer could provide a single point of access to open banking providers.
Potentially lowering costs, reducing barriers to entry and enabling more innovation."
And then there's also:
"The proposed API and Orchestration Layer is similar to API aggregators in some ways and those API aggregators are part of the UK’s existing payments ecosystem into which an “API and Orchestration Layer” would be deployed"
The UK already uses aggregated APIs in their existing payments system.
Quant going the API Gateway route was no coincidence.
Seems the UK has found their answer to bridge the present with the future✅
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Living in the Greater Toronto area in Ontario is a nightmare. Traffic is out of control, infrastructure is falling apart. Certain parts of the city are overrun by homelessness, migrants have taken over, our culture has been devastated, there’s garbage everywhere, crime is rampant and life is unaffordable! Our country does NOT resemble the Canada 🇨🇦 I grew up in!
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$QNT is truly a unicorn in this space.
It's not a blockchain or DAG
It's not an L1 or L2
It's not a dApp
They're in a position that very few are in both due to how they've architecture Overledger & the route they've gone through standardization.
Fitting Quant into one specific category for what it is doesn't do what they've built justice.
Fundamentally Overledger itself is an API Gateway or a DLT compatible operating system.
APIs and operating systems aren't anything new per se.
But the novelty and uniqueness of Overledger comes from the fact it's TECHNOLOGY AGNOSTIC.
This means that any technology and system can be interoperated and connect to blockchain technology.
Look at all the tech we've spent years building; CRMs, databases, RTGS, payment systems, etc.
We're not going to scrap all of that just because we now have blockchain.
And we've seen this be of utmost importance with central banks considering CBDCs.
One of the most common points of priority within CBDC discussions is the interoperability of new & existing systems.
And since Rosalind we've seen a large majority of CBDCs switching towards the API layer method exactly in the same architecture as SATP.
This is especially telling when we look at the banks in the UK RLN utilizing Overledger APIs as a common point of access.
The world of finance is truly beginning to recognize Quant's standardized solutions.
And on the other hand we've seen ISO TC 307 & SATP progress greatly throughout this year.
Everything's coming together perfectly.

































