Crypto Is Rallying Again – But the Biggest Winner Isn’t Bitcoin, Ethereum or XRP

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• Quant’s QNT has exploded from around $67 a week ago to above $280, dramatically outperforming Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP.

• The immediate catalyst is The Clearing House selecting Quant to power key infrastructure for its U.S. tokenized-deposit network.

• Traders are now watching HBAR for a possible rotation, but claims that capital will automatically flow from QNT into HBAR, XLM, and XRP remain speculation.

Bitcoin may dominate the headlines whenever crypto turns higher, but this time the market’s biggest move is happening elsewhere.

Quant’s QNT surged from roughly $67 on Sept. 21 to around $285 on Sept. 27, briefly reaching $353 during Sunday trading. That represents a gain of more than 300% in roughly a week

The move accelerated after a major institutional announcement prompted traders to reconsider Quant’s role in traditional finance.

On Sept. 24, The Clearing House selected Quant to power its Onchain Money Initiative, a planned network that will allow financial institutions to clear and settle tokenized bank deposits.

Quant will provide the interoperability, orchestration, and transaction-management technology that connects the new network to existing payment infrastructure, including RTP and CHIPS. The Clearing House says its payment networks already clear and settle more than $2 trillion every day.

The network is expected to become available to participating institutions in the first half of 2027.

That is considerably more concrete than the partnership announcements that frequently drive short-lived altcoin rallies. Quant is being positioned inside infrastructure intended for actual bank settlement.

Why Did QNT Explode Now?

The Clearing House deal did not create Quant’s institutional story from scratch. Instead, it gave an existing narrative a much larger US anchor.

Quant previously worked as a technology vendor on Project Rosalind, an experiment led by the Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England exploring APIs for potential central bank digital currency systems.

Earlier this year, Quant also partnered with Dentsu Soken to pursue tokenized deposits and programmable settlement infrastructure for Japanese financial institutions. The partnership builds on Quant’s participation in projects involving the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the UK banking sector.

Those older developments are now being rediscovered as QNT rallies.

Crypto commentator Greg Lunt argued that the market had overlooked Quant’s growing footprint across banking, payments, and interoperability, citing projects involving institutions ranging from central banks to enterprise technology providers.

Source: finance.yahoo.com