Insider Brief
- Quantus opened trading for its native QTC token on near.com, extending access to its blockchain designed for post-quantum security beyond its native network.
- Users can buy QTC confidentially with more than 180 assets across over 30 chains through accounts they control, without first transferring funds to an exchange or bridging assets.
- Integration with the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API allows participating wallets and applications to offer QTC without building Quantus-specific infrastructure.
PRESS RELEASE — Quantus, the proof-of-work blockchain built for quantum-safe money, today opened trading for its native token QTC, with near.com as its launch venue. Holders of BTC, ETH, USDC, ZEC, and 180+ other assets across 30+ chains can buy QTC confidentially from a near.com account they control, without sending funds to an exchange or bridging first.
Quantus is also integrating with NEAR Intents to create a distribution path beyond individual exchange and platform listings. QTC is available through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API, meaning any wallet or application already integrated with 1Click can give its users access to QTC across the broader NEAR Intents ecosystem without building Quantus-specific infrastructure. This allows QTC to reach new applications and their users through a single integration rather than requiring a separate integration with every platform.
QTC launches without a centralized exchange listing. Holders keep it in an account they control on near.com, and NEAR accounts can be secured with ML-DSA, the NIST-standardized post-quantum signature scheme. NEAR is one of the first blockchains with quantum-safe signing live on mainnet.
QTC is built to be permanent money: quantum-safe at the protocol level, and confidential and cross-chain from day one on near.com. When quantum computing advances to sufficient scale, the cryptography that secures the majority of blockchains will become vulnerable. Quantus was specifically designed to address that challenge from the outset. Unlike most current blockchains, QTC transactions use a post-quantum signature standard finalized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2024, and designed to withstand attacks from future quantum computers.
“The Bitcoin whitepaper described a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that removed the need for trusted third parties. As the blockchain industry has evolved, we have reintroduced intermediaries at various points for both convenience and compliance,” said Christopher Smith, CEO, Quantus. “near.com advances our industry’s original idea of permissionless markets by enabling users to trade across networks without relying on a centralized exchange. For Quantus, that means QTC can bring post-quantum security into a much broader onchain market without compromising the principles it was built around, which is why NEAR was a natural partner for us.”
NEAR has published a roadmap for extending post-quantum security past the account layer: consensus in H2 2027, inbound cross-chain transactions beginning in 2027, and quantum-safe threshold signing for outbound cross-chain execution in active research. Every chain will eventually need to move value onto post-quantum keys, and much of that movement will cross chains. QTC is the first post-quantum asset to launch on that route.
“Post-quantum assets only matter if people can reach them from what they already hold,” said Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Defuse Labs, the developer of NEAR Intents. “QTC is live on near.com from day one, reachable from the assets people already hold across chains, and traded confidentially. As more value moves onto post-quantum assets and accounts, much of it will have to cross chains to get there, and NEAR Intents is built to carry that movement.”
Following the launch of the Quantus mainnet on September 9, 2026, this integration extends QTC beyond its native network and into the wider onchain market.
