Q token mark QUADPublic Accountability

The value layer

QUAD Core

Core is where QUAD keeps and accounts for value. It's deliberately strict, and deliberately slow to say yes — its whole job is to be the part you can trust.

The chain is live. No token sale, no airdrop.

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.

Want the detail?

Core is a big topic, so the depth lives on its own pages.

How it's built

Why Core is the single, simple exception to QUAD's two-node design.

How it works
The full picture

Custody, validators, supply policy, and what's still closed.

Core path
Live chain

Blocks, validators, balances, and metadata, straight from the chain.

Observe Core
The limits

What Core does not inherit, admit, or imply.

Boundary