Quantus is a post-quantum-secure proof-of-work Layer 1 blockchain designed for private money and wealth preservation. Quantus's Twitter Score is 35 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #27,259 (top 10%) among 494,332 tracked accounts.
Quantus was co-founded by Christopher Smith and Joseph Mattia, and is built on the Substrate framework from the Polkadot SDK. The project launched a public testnet on November 11, 2025, introducing quantum-secure wallets and reversible transactions. Its native asset, $QUAN, has a fixed maximum supply of 21,000,000 coins, mirroring Bitcoin's hard-cap philosophy while targeting a post-quantum threat model.
Quantus achieves its security guarantees through a combination of QPoW consensus, ML-KEM-768 encryption, and ML-DSA-87 signatures, all of which are designed to resist attacks from quantum computers. Advisors to the project include Raghav Gulati, Tom Howard, and Arjun Khemani. The network has also drawn backing from Balaji Srinivasan, Babak Nivi, and Mert Mumtaz.
Quantus has published 2,266 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 118 accounts, with 186 total mentions.
Who follows Quantus on X?
The accounts that follow Quantus include 125 founders, 35 angel investors, 94 influencers and 4 VCs. Notable followers include Balaji, Cobie, Mert, Tarun Chitra, Andy and Jake Brukhman.