{"id":78825,"date":"2026-09-29T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/quant-price-hit-373-this-week-then-a-2019-whale-cashed-out-2-million\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:43:11","slug":"quant-price-hit-373-this-week-then-a-2019-whale-cashed-out-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/quant-price-hit-373-this-week-then-a-2019-whale-cashed-out-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Quant Price Hit $373 This Week Then a 2019 Whale Cashed out $2 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">A 2019-era Quant wallet sent 9,000 QNT to Coinbase and Kraken on Sept. 29 at about $222 per token.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">QNT ran from about $61 on Sept. 16 to $373 on Sept. 27 after The Clearing House picked Quant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Four linked wallets still hold 25,200 QNT, worth near $6.2 million, after the Sept. 28 split.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Alert That Lit up QNT Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>Onchain trackers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ai_9684xtpa\/status\/2104763157814337639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flagged the deposits<\/a> early Tuesday, calling the wallet a seven-year position and pegging the average entry at $22.57. The tracker said the entity had withdrawn 53,632.95 QNT, then worth about $1.21 million, from major exchanges between May 2019 and November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The latest batch landed at a deposit price of $222.09, per the post, which works out to the 884% return that got screenshotted everywhere. The <a href=\"https:\/\/arkm.com\/explorer\/address\/0x94eaF82e0c2ca23A74210aC4372980f6BEAC73Bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arkham address page<\/a> shows how the coins were split:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two Coinbase deposits of 4,000 and 3,000 QNT<\/li>\n<li>One 2,000 QNT deposit to Kraken.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How Did the Coins Get There?<\/h2>\n<p>While the alert makes it sound like one wallet did everything, that wasn\u2019t the case. A quick look at the trail on Blockscout goes back to an <a href=\"https:\/\/eth.blockscout.com\/address\/0xd6334E41270Fc6dB62d1048Faf0eb1aD6fce6B26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original 2019 wallet<\/a> that took in QNT in batches from May 2019 through January 2021, plus two top-ups in November 2022, and then sat mostly idle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>June 2019:<\/b> 10,000 QNT went to a Bittrex deposit address, the first trim.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Oct. 17, 2022:<\/b> 6,821 QNT went to Binance while QNT traded between $190 and $228, two days after Bitcoin.com News reported that QNT hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/biggest-movers-qnt-hits-10-month-high-on-saturday\/\">10-month high<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Dec. 8, 2022:<\/b> another 2,570 QNT went to Binance, with the token near $120.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sept. 28, 2026, 22:15-22:39 UTC:<\/b> the old wallet emptied itself into <a href=\"https:\/\/eth.blockscout.com\/address\/0x4992a60A96F8776D7F0275b96C449adB6FED740D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">four fresh addresses<\/a>, in slices of 10,001, 4,199.95, 10,000 and 10,000.01 QNT.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sept. 29, 00:35-01:31 UTC:<\/b> two of those new wallets fed the exchange deposits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, this holder trimmed into the 2022 rally, waited nearly four years, and is now trimming into another rally the same way. Splitting a stash across new addresses right before selling is a common way to keep order sizes small and leave less of a public paper trail.<\/p>\n<h2>Why QNT, and Why This Week?<\/h2>\n<p>The trigger was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclearinghouse.org\/payment-systems\/Articles\/2026\/09\/The-Clearing-House-Partners-with-Quant-to-Advance-the--On-Chain-Money-Initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clearing House announcement<\/a> on Sept. 24. The U.S. bank-owned payments operator picked Quant to run the coordination layer of its On-Chain Money Initiative, a network for tokenized deposits, meaning bank deposits represented as digital tokens that can settle instantly. The system connects to the RTP and CHIPS rails and targets a launch in the first half of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The same day, UK Finance confirmed live tokenized sterling payments on Quant\u2019s platform with Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds, Natwest and Santander. QNT went from about $61 on Sept. 16 to an intraday high of $373 on Sept. 27, about 13% short of its 2021 peak of $430. QNT also shot to the top of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/highlights\/trending-crypto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coingecko\u2019s trending list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of that happened while bitcoin\u2019s price barely moved, spending the week pinned near $83,000. Bitcoin.com News reported that it <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/market-updates\/binance-sees-13800-btc-exit-bitcoin-price-holds-above-83k\/\">held above $83K<\/a> even as 13,800 BTC left Binance in a single day. Early Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/market-updates\/bitcoin-price-83k-500m-liquidations-129197-traders\/\">roughly $500 million<\/a> in leveraged positions were liquidated as bitcoin\u2019s price dipped under that level. QNT, by contrast, was trading near $268 on the day (roughly four times its mid-September price).<\/p>\n<h2>The Bots Showed up too<\/h2>\n<p>The new wallets drew unwanted attention within hours, as has become quite common these days. To elaborate, between 04:41 and 05:35 UTC, the wallet that sent 2,000 QNT to Kraken logged <a href=\"https:\/\/eth.blockscout.com\/address\/0xCcBe24221D22FAb86E76B7C2BE9621Cde1cfda35?tab=token_transfers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zero-value QNT transfers<\/a> to two addresses whose first and last characters mimic the real Kraken deposit address.<\/p>\n<p>The process is referred to as address poisoning, where a scammer plants a look-alike address in a wallet\u2019s transaction history and hopes the owner copies it on the next transfer. With 8,000 QNT still in that wallet, one careless paste would be an expensive mistake.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/market-updates\/quant-whale-cashes-out-884-qnt\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways A 2019-era Quant wallet sent 9,000 QNT to Coinbase and Kraken on Sept. 29 at about $222 per token. QNT ran from about $61 on Sept. 16 to $373 on Sept. 27 after The Clearing House picked Quant. Four linked wallets still hold 25,200 QNT, worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362404,"featured_media":78826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}