Barry Smith retweeted
The Finternet Readiness Index is accelerating — and for good reason.
Within the next few months, several major Quant Network projects are moving from pilot programs into real-money deployment.
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Barry Smith retweeted
You do not own enough Quant. $QNT
Read that again. Quant isn't chasing a piece of the financial system. It's being selected to help build the infrastructure the next one runs on.
‼️FOR THE FIRST TIME, VERDIAN LAYS OUT QUANT'S FULL ROLE WITH THE CLEARING HOUSE‼️
In this interview, sitting beside The Clearing House's own Chief Strategy Officer, Gilbert Verdian explains what the relationship actually covers.🤝
Verdian's own words:
"We provide the ENTIRE CLEARING AND SETTLEMENT PLATFORM for bringing and interoperating tokenized deposits together between the banks, and then the integration into RTP, into CHIPS, for the Clearing House settlement side to happen as needed for the banks to settle their obligations."✅
Watch.👇
Barry Smith retweeted
Replying to @X_Global_tv
Barry Smith retweeted
5 Quant explainers. 1 map. 🗺️
Overledger, Fusion, PayScript, Quant Flow, SATP: I covered each one alone. This video puts them together, layer by layer, plus the 3 places $QNT shows up.
10 min, straight from the docs 🧵👇
Which layer do you know least about?
Barry Smith retweeted
🇯🇵Gilbert & team just keeps delivering
Financial giants are already seeing $QNT as the industry standard for tokenized deposit orchestration
UK = GBTD by UK Fin
US = OCMI by TCH
Now we're heading over to Asia
Quant's already laid the plumbing with Dentsu Soken
Programmable Yen's pieces had been in place long ago.
Dentsu Soken is the key unlocking bridge here.
They're an integral piece towards Japan's FinTech infrastructural software integration.
On the public sector end they've built StreamR, compatible with the Bank of Japan's RTGS.
On the private sector end we've already discussed how 100% of Japanese megabanks use Dentsu Soken.
And you know what else 100% of Japanese megabanks are involved in?
DeCurret's DCJPY.
Whose a core technology provider for DCJPY?
Dentsu Soken.
DCJPY isn't just your usual stablecoin, on the frontend for end users it operates like a stablecoin for simplicity.
But on the backend? It's backed 1:1 with bank deposits acting as a form of tokenized deposits.
Now put the pieces together.
Dentsu Soken x Quant for tokenized deposit tech around orchestration management.
Dentsu Soken selected as core tech provider for DeCurret's DCJPY.
The picture is clear as day.
Barry Smith retweeted
First goal is $10B which is imminent
Second goal $100B
Third goal $1T
Peeps will be sayin how the hell can Quant hit $1T When bitcoin is only at $1T
Well my friends think of it like this
When Quant is at $1T, Bitcoin will be at $100T
Understanding this then u will understand how Quant can hit $1 Trillion
It’s coming
$QNT
Do I believe $QNT can reach the same value of these companies?
Honestly... In the LONG term?
I think it's possible
This isn't a "diss" on the companies below
But just look at what Quant is aiming to do.
It's not just connect blockchains.
It's connect ALL of legacy infrastructure to the future of DLT as a whole.
And not just that... But Quant and Capgemini are already working around Agentic AI payments.
So it's not just legacy x DLT.
It's whatever future technologies become core enterprise & institutional infrastructure too.
Am I saying it's guaranteed?
Absolutely not, nothing in markets are guaranteed.
But to assume the scope of Quant is similar to that of most cryptos is comical.
What they're trying to do here is hardly crypto.
I've never really even considered Quant a crypto or Web3 company per se.
And the same goes for projects like HBAR XRP XLM XDC
These companies are closer towards building for real world innovation & happen to use DLT for that.
And looking back at Quant, they're not really crypto...
They're closer towards a communication layer that bridges all forms of technology together.
That doesn't mean I expect QNT to hit 5 digits this cycle
But it means that in the long term I truly don't think looking at the valuation of Quant by crypto metrics is the right way to look at all.
Hell, if you put together 2 of the partners Quant's recently landed in Murex and The Clearing House?
The amount those two process alone make the numbers in crypto look like a rounding error.
TCH = $2 Tril per Day
Murex MX3 = $1-$3 Tril per Day
And no volume doesn't = valuation, but it does go to show the caliber of entities that aren't just paying attention to Quant... But actively deploying on there
And given where the world of tech is moving...?
From AI to digital money to IoT & more...
If Quant's able to accomplish what they set out to, then yea I do think they'll be worth more than some of the companies listed here.
When we're talking
• Patented
• Standardized
• Universally Agnostic
Middleware infrastructure for businesses to begin plugging into any form of technology?
You really gotta think outside of "crypto" numbers.
Barry Smith retweeted
You pick $QNT when you understand scalability, standardization, native security and tokenomics.
You pick LINK if you read headlines.
One never markets the token.
The other has the biggest mouth crypto has ever seen.
Which one do you think needs your funding?
Barry Smith retweeted
Bitcoin has more supply that $QNT and very little use cases and it went from $250 to $62,000 per token within 6 years. $QNT has less supply and almost unlimited use cases. More importantly, the world cannot truly adopt blockchain without Quant Overledger($QNT) which is an Operating System that was created so that the world will be able to embrace blockchain and use it properly and at scale. Trillions and trillions incoming. Grown men will cry!
Barry Smith retweeted
🏦It's been about a week since $QNT x TCH news
The hype's died down a bit
So let's officially look at this with a CLEAR LENS
No hype, just pure facts.
First off, let's look at the scope of the partnership
The Clearing House selected Quant for orchestration infrastructure in their On-Chain Money Initiative.
What's the On-Chain Money Initiative (OCMI)?
In short the OCMI is like the US version of UK GBTD.
Both have selected Overledger for orchestration.
The key difference here is that UK Finance, which organized the UK GBTD is a trade association.
They coordinated and organized all the moving parts for UK GBTD. They themselves don't run payments infrastructure of any sorts.
The Clearing House on the other hand...
Is the only private sector operator of both Real-Time Payments (RTP) & Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS).
So this time... It's not a trade group coordinating banks toward infrastructure someone else runs,
Rather, it's the infrastructure operator itself building the on-chain layer directly over the rails it already owns.
Now let's talk scale.
TCH itself processes over $2 TRILLION a day.
Seriously... Think about that for a second.
17 banks are in at launch.
Bank of America
BNY
Citibank
HSBC
JPMorgan
Wells Fargo
US Bank
And more
Together they represent about 58% of ALL US commercial bank deposits.
Quant's role specifically: interoperability, orchestration n transaction-management layer.
Same three-part job Overledger's been doing for GBTD.
Connecting tokenized deposit movement straight into RTP n CHIPS, the same rails already in production.
So on one end... We won't be seeing anything "new" that Quant is doing per se.
But on another end, the #1 private sector payments provider in the US is using Quant for something they've already proven they can execute at scale.
What does that actually unlock?
• Programmable treasury operations
• Real-time liquidity management
• Real-time 24/7 settlement
And Agentic Commerce sits right within there too.
Something that's been rapidly growing within institutional finance.
And we already know Quant is working with world leading IT provider Capgemini around this.
Gilbert Verdian called the selection
"A defining step in the global transition to programmable money."
Some pretty bold claims.
But look at who's saying it and what/who they're building it on top of.
Target launch is H1 2027.
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UK Finance had already proved the model worked.
US just skipped that step and had the rail operator build it themselves.
2 different countries. 2 different bank groups.
Same Orchestration Layer deployed over both.
728 trillion dollar 💲 a year
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🏦It's been about a week since $QNT x TCH news
The hype's died down a bit
So let's officially look at this with a CLEAR LENS
No hype, just pure facts.
First off, let's look at the scope of the partnership
The Clearing House selected Quant for orchestration infrastructure in their On-Chain Money Initiative.
What's the On-Chain Money Initiative (OCMI)?
In short the OCMI is like the US version of UK GBTD.
Both have selected Overledger for orchestration.
The key difference here is that UK Finance, which organized the UK GBTD is a trade association.
They coordinated and organized all the moving parts for UK GBTD. They themselves don't run payments infrastructure of any sorts.
The Clearing House on the other hand...
Is the only private sector operator of both Real-Time Payments (RTP) & Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS).
So this time... It's not a trade group coordinating banks toward infrastructure someone else runs,
Rather, it's the infrastructure operator itself building the on-chain layer directly over the rails it already owns.
Now let's talk scale.
TCH itself processes over $2 TRILLION a day.
Seriously... Think about that for a second.
17 banks are in at launch.
Bank of America
BNY
Citibank
HSBC
JPMorgan
Wells Fargo
US Bank
And more
Together they represent about 58% of ALL US commercial bank deposits.
Quant's role specifically: interoperability, orchestration n transaction-management layer.
Same three-part job Overledger's been doing for GBTD.
Connecting tokenized deposit movement straight into RTP n CHIPS, the same rails already in production.
So on one end... We won't be seeing anything "new" that Quant is doing per se.
But on another end, the #1 private sector payments provider in the US is using Quant for something they've already proven they can execute at scale.
What does that actually unlock?
• Programmable treasury operations
• Real-time liquidity management
• Real-time 24/7 settlement
And Agentic Commerce sits right within there too.
Something that's been rapidly growing within institutional finance.
And we already know Quant is working with world leading IT provider Capgemini around this.
Gilbert Verdian called the selection
"A defining step in the global transition to programmable money."
Some pretty bold claims.
But look at who's saying it and what/who they're building it on top of.
Target launch is H1 2027.
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UK Finance had already proved the model worked.
US just skipped that step and had the rail operator build it themselves.
2 different countries. 2 different bank groups.
Same Orchestration Layer deployed over both.
Do people realize that $BTC is holding the crypto market hostage? Quality Alt coins would be doing great if BTC didn't exist...instead they all go down when BTC goes down, without BTC they would be judged on their individual merits. BTC is the problem.
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Barry Smith retweeted
🔥The Clearing House x $QNT Video Breakdown
Been a minute since I've dropped a public YouTube video, but this collab deserves it
In this overview I go over...
• Quant's role in Tokenized Deposits
• How big The Clearing House is in TradFi
• What to expect moving forward
A lot ripple:native fans DMing me about ethereum:0x4a220e6096b25eadb88358cb44068a3248254675
No, they do not compete.
So rotate 50% those ripple:native bag into $QNT , cause Quant is involved in the biggesr global banking networks, central banks and cross border initiatives 😉
Why? Quant needs a x22 (x37 fdv) from this point to have the same value as Ripple.
Cause if you are not here to make generation wealth, then what are you doing?💰
Barry Smith retweeted
Everyone is reading this as AI bots can make payments. $QNT
I think they’re missing the much bigger story. x402 is trying to become a payment standard for the internet itself. Not just bots.
AI agents. APIs. Apps. Machines. Businesses.
The Linux Foundation’s x402 Foundation already includes:
AWS
Google
Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Stripe
Coinbase
Circle
Fiserv
Ripple
Cloudflare
Shopify
And now Quant is inside that standards ecosystem. Why does that matter? Because Quant isn’t showing up empty handed.
Quant has already been selected by The Clearing House to provide the interoperability, orchestration and transaction-management layer for its new U.S. tokenized-deposit network.
The banks supporting that initiative include:
JPMorgan
Bank of America
Citi
Wells Fargo
BNY
HSBC
PNC
Santander
TD
Truist
U.S. Bank
BMO
And in the UK, Quant already built the shared tokenized-deposit infrastructure used by:
Barclays
HSBC
Lloyds
NatWest
Nationwide
Santander
Monzo
Now connect the two worlds.
x402 gives software a native way to request and make payments over the internet. Quant says Fusion is already x402 ready across 70+ networks and is being built to connect internet-native payments to regulated tokenized bank money.
That is a very different story from:
AI bots buying API calls with crypto.
The bigger possibility is:
Internet native payment standard ➡️ Quant interoperability/orchestration➡️ Tokenized commercialbank money➡️ JPMorgan / BofA / Citi / Wells / HSBC / Barclays / etc.
That is potentially the bridge between the machine economy and the banking system. AWS, Google, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe on one side.
JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, HSBC and Barclays on the other.
Quant is now operating in both worlds.
That’s the part I think the market hasn’t fully understood yet.
$QNT
At @Sibos Miami this year, Quant and @Capgemini will be running a joint demo showing how agentic AI can handle the liquidity work that #treasury teams deal with day-to-day.
The demo walks through two treasury shortfalls, one small enough for the agent to fix on its own and one large enough that recommends a funding action and waits for human approval before Quant moves the money using #tokeniseddeposits.
The agent can weigh balances, currencies and market conditions together in a way fixed rules can't, while manual approval thresholds keep the larger decisions with those accountable.
Moving funds as tokenised deposits also means transfers can happen around the clock, with the reconciliation visible on screen from the initial recommendation through to the final balances.
Quant built the tokenised deposit issuance, workflow and policy engine, while @Capgemini engineered the liquidity alerts, agent decisioning and approval experience.
Learn more at Quant's stand DISL51 or at Capgemini's booth L010.
quant.network/event/sibos202…
#Sibos2026 #AgenticAI
Barry Smith retweeted
Since the recent $QNT explosion,
There's been non-stop questions on Token Utility
Here's the thread to end all the concerns once & for all
🇪🇺SOURCE- QNT MiCA Whitepaper by Bitstamp
They mention a few specific pieces of QNT utility
✅REQUIRED for Overledger license & access
✅Facilitating interoperability for legacy & DLT
✅Authorisation & authentication to Quant
✅Payments for gateway & transaction services
Before we continue... What is Bitstamp?
Bitstamp is arguably one of the most regulated crypto exchanges worldwide with over 50 active licenses
• CASP license in Europe
• FinCEN registered w NY BitLicense
• Fully registered under UK FCA
• Major Payment Service License via MAS
• Multilateral Trading Facility under EU MiFID
They don't put out unverified claims.
Within their QNT paper the highlighted points align directly with exactly what QNT OGs have repeated on token utility for years.
To even gain access to Overledger, whether you're an individual, developer or enterprise... You need 1 thing.
An authorized license & the form of that is thru QNT
"QNT is required for Overledger infrastructure access and licensing"
That alone tells you that without QNT... Access to Overledger is impossible.
But that's just the surface.
There's also then the angle of payments and accessing services on the network.
Whether that's cross-chain interoperability, legacy to DLT interoperability or simply sending transactions.
ALL of that is powered by QNT,
Just like how ETH is required for any transaction made across the Ethereum network.
The utility of QNT isn't like what we see with most crypto tokens.
After all, Quant Network itself isn't directly "Web3"
It's a middleware architecture bridging all of Web2 infrastructure with Web3.
The utility here is a tokenized form of licensing and a key to unlock access to Overledger itself.
The same Overledger that The Clearing House, UK Finance, Oracle & many others are building on.
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Barry Smith retweeted
DOCUMENT FOUND 🧐
Today, one day after The Clearing House selected Quant for interoperability, orchestration and transaction management, Citi released a new report detailing what the initiative is actually being built to support.
Citi says The Clearing House is working with:
• Citi • JPMorgan • Bank of America • BNY • BMO • HSBC • Citizens • Fifth Third
The objective is real-time, 24/7 movement of tokenized deposits across institutions, building on existing RTGS and CHIPS infrastructure clearing more than $2 trillion per day.
Citi says interoperable bank-issued tokenized deposits can solve the fragmentation problem that has kept tokenized cash in single-bank silos.
The report points toward:
• Atomic delivery-versus-payment
• Smart contract-driven margin top-ups
• 24/7 global collateral mobility
• Tokenized Treasuries and bank deposits operating together
Citi calls interchangeable tokenized deposits across major institutions “transformational.”
Yesterday, Quant was selected to help orchestrate this infrastructure.
The timing of these two announcements is hard to ignore. It's almost as if this document was planned for release around yesterdays announcement.
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Where is the "Have Fun Staying Poor" crowd? hopefully dying in a gutter somewhere. #crypto bitcoin:native bitcoin:native
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