📰 Just a month after its mainnet launch, Quantus quickly made waves with its “quantum resistance + privacy” positioning, and many have compared it to a “quantum-resistant version of Zcash.”
This Layer 1 blockchain uses PoW, with ML-DSA (Dilithium) as its core signature scheme. It also uses STARKs and Plonky2 to aggregate proofs, aiming to compress the larger post-quantum signatures. Put simply, it wants to build potential security risks from quantum computing into its architecture from the outset, rather than upgrade later.
🔥 The privacy side is interesting, too. Quantus uses Wormhole addresses to burn and remint assets, breaking the direct link between the sending address and the final receiving address. Zcash, by contrast, relies mainly on zk-SNARKs and shielded pools to hide transaction information. The goals are similar, but the approaches differ.
The project’s mainnet launched on September 9, 2026. Its website reports more than 8,400 active accounts and over 260,000 transactions to date, and says it has integrated with NEAR Intents. Across two funding rounds, it raised about $2.42 million, with participation from Balaji, Babak Nivi, Mert, and others. Its ties to the Zcash community have also fueled discussion.
🤔 But the controversy is just as clear: 27% of QTC’s total supply was minted at genesis, with 23% allocated to investors, founders, and the team, subject to a one-year lockup followed by linear vesting over 36 months. Quantum-resistant technology has yet to face a real test at scale, while the token allocation is already under community scrutiny. Would you pay attention to Quantus because of its technical direction, or would you focus first on the high proportion allocated at genesis?
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