Quant

Quant is a London-based company building Overledger, an operating system designed to let applications work across multiple blockchains and existing enterprise systems at once. Rather than being a blockchain itself, Overledger is a software layer that sits above networks and connects them through a common interface.

The project's genesis date is 25 June 2018, and its focus has consistently been enterprise and institutional integration rather than consumer decentralized finance. Quant has worked on projects involving central bank digital currency infrastructure and regulated financial institutions, which distinguishes it from most tokens in the interoperability category.

How Overledger is positioned

The core claim is technology agnosticism. An application built on Overledger is intended to interact with several distributed ledgers and traditional systems without being locked into a single vendor or protocol. This is a different approach from bridges, which move assets between two specific chains, or from message-passing protocols that require chains to adopt a shared standard.

The QNT token

QNT is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum with a fixed supply of 14,612,493, one of the smaller supplies among established projects. Its stated role is access: enterprises and developers use QNT to obtain licenses for the Overledger platform, and gateway operators hold it as part of participating in the network.

A small fixed supply means that changes in demand translate into larger proportional effects than they would for a token with billions of units, and it also means the token's utility model depends on actual platform licensing activity. Since Quant's business is enterprise software, much of its commercial progress happens through contracts rather than through visible on-chain activity, which makes usage harder to observe than for a public protocol.