What QNT does

1At a glance

2Overledger

“Every single developer and customer has to purchase a license and pay for transactions in QNT.” Gilbert Verdian ¹

Retail developers pay £100 a year in QNT. ² Enterprises pay in fiat; the Treasury converts the fee into QNT and locks it. ³ How the Treasury works

3Fusion

Fusion is Quant's multi-ledger rollup: one network that runs across many blockchains at once, so assets and transactions move between them from one place. It launched on mainnet with 74 networks connected. ^{6 7}

It is built for regulated institutions such as banks, asset managers and enterprises, which want the reach of public chains while knowing who validates their transactions. Developers and DeFi protocols can use it too. ⁶

That is why Fusion has permissioning and identified nodes. Under the EU's DORA rules, in force since January 2025, banks must know and manage every third party that processes their transactions, including where it operates. Fusion's Trusted Node Program lets institutions choose exactly who processes their transactions and where. ⁶

Typical uses: ⁸

• settling tokenised assets across several chains
• issuing a token once and using it on many networks
• confidential smart contracts that still reach public liquidity

“All institutions, enterprises, and DeFi participants use QNT to transact within Fusion.” Gilbert Verdian ⁹

A node doesn't process a transaction unless it is paid in QNT. Whoever uses Fusion pays, one way or another.

Staking and nodes

"The network is secured by QNT, which serves as both the native token and the staking mechanism for trusted nodes. Node operators stake QNT to participate in transaction processing and earn rewards based on network activity." ⁶

Growth loop

How we expect Fusion to grow:

4Why QNT, not dollars

A token of its own gives Fusion three things dollars can't:

• a fee unit no connected chain controls
• automatic payment to many independent operators
• node operators who are paid and staked in the same token, so they gain when Fusion grows

5Who can use Fusion

Mainnet has been open to selected institutions since June 2026. ⁷

A retail opening with staking, DEXs and multi-chain apps is planned. Announced

6How Quant connects ledgers

Any system that moves value between ledgers needs someone to vouch for what happened on a ledger the other side can't see. The question is who vouches, and what holds them accountable.

Oracle networks put a separate network in the middle of every connection. Quant follows the internet's design instead: each ledger has its own gateway, and gateways talk directly using SATP, an open standard at the IETF that Quant helped write with MIT, Intel and IBM.

Where Fusion fits

Fusion is not another hub in the middle. Banks sending tokenised deposits can go gateway to gateway without it. Fusion is for one asset or app used across many chains at once.

For an asset used across many chains, Fusion improves on an oracle network in four ways:

• Origin-chain security. Fusion mirrors what is on the origin chain instead of trusting a vote about it. Its nodes are relied on to keep running, incentivised by competition and staking.
• All or nothing across chains. One transaction can span several chains and either completes on all of them or on none.
• Instant multichain pricing. There is no relay delay between an event on one chain and its use on another, so no window to attack cross-chain data such as price feeds.
• Unified, instant liquidity. A token that lives on several chains becomes one asset with pooled liquidity, available at once across those chains, instead of separate order books on each chain kept in line by oracle-fed arbitrage. Quant's example: USDC on seven chains becomes one uUSDC. ⁷