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Where QTUM sits in the market

#310 places Qtum in the middle of the mid-cap band. This is where continuous two-sided quoting stops being guaranteed. QTUM still prints regularly, but the depth behind each print thins out through the session, and the same order that barely registers in the morning can set the day's high in a quieter hour.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 6 live QTUM order books (Binance, OKX, Gate.io, HTX, Upbit, Bithumb). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #310 carry, so a divergence on any one of them is far more likely to be a local liquidity event than a genuine repricing. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

QTUM against its all-time high

More than 95% separates QTUM from its all-time high of $100.22 (on 2018-01-06) — a 128x recovery. At that distance the high stops working as a reference at all; it belongs to a different supply structure, a different holder base and typically a different cycle. What carries information for QTUM now is the downside, so read the range section below before this one. It was set 9 years ago. A reference that old says more about the cycle it belongs to than about the asset as it trades now.

QTUM across its historical range

QTUM has traded across a 128x range, between $0.7831 and $100.22. Any volatility figure quoted for this asset depends heavily on which part of that range it is measured over.

At 0.1% above its record low of $0.7831 (on 2020-03-13), QTUM sits near the edge of its own price history. Nothing has traded beneath that level, so there is no support to reference, no volume shelf and no cost-basis cluster underneath. The low is old enough to have held as a floor across several market regimes — a materially different setup from one printed recently.

QTUM supply structure

QTUM has no hard cap. 106.0 million QTUM of a 107.8 million total is in circulation (98.3%), leaving 1.8 million held back. That overhang is modest but real — worth checking the unlock calendar before treating float as fixed.

What kind of asset QTUM is

Qtum is a base-layer network, so QTUM is simultaneously the chain's security budget and its unit of account rather than a claim on a business. Value accrual runs through validator economics and through whatever activity settles on the chain itself. It is secured by proof of stake, so a portion of the supply is bonded to validators at any moment and the float genuinely available to trade is smaller than the circulating figure implies; unstaking queues, not order books, set how fast that can change.

CoinGecko files QTUM under 3 categories, including Proof of Stake (PoS), Made in China.

How to set a Qtum alert that is worth receiving

Qtum (QTUM) — quoted on 6 venues we stream — high dated 2018-01-06 — rank #310. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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