What Core is
The short version.
Core is the value layer of QUAD — the vault and the rulebook. It holds admitted value, keeps the accounts, and decides what's allowed in. It isn't a place to trade and it isn't built for speed; the other chains do that. Core's one job is to be careful.
Being careful means Core is allowed to say no. If something arrives without the right proof, the correct answer is to hold it, refuse it, or set it aside — never to wave it through.
Where it's up to
Honest status, today.
The Core chain is live and producing blocks — you can watch it yourself on the observatory. What's open right now is observation: blocks, validators, balances, and the chain's public metadata.
What's not open: there's no token sale, no airdrop, no rewards program, and no public market. Stronger economic claims stay closed until Core publishes the evidence for them. When that changes, this page will say so plainly.
The token: QUAD
What QUAD is, and what it isn't.
QUAD is Core's native unit — what the chain uses to label balances, fees, and staking. That's what it is today: the accounting unit of a live chain, nothing more.
NameQUAD
Smallest unituquad (6 decimals)
Address prefixquad
Networkquad
StatusLive chain metadata — no sale, reward, or redemption
QUAD isn't a sale, an allocation, a price promise, or exposure to any other asset. If you see it called a Bitcoin wrapper, a yield product, or an airdrop, that's wrong. The longer version explains how Core admits, holds, and accounts for value.