QoreChain says QOR begins trading on MEXC after July 2 post-quantum transaction
QoreChain says its QOR token began trading on MEXC on Aug. 20, after a July 2 transaction the project says used the full NIST-standardized post-quantum stack end to end.
QoreChain said on Aug. 20 that its QOR token began trading on MEXC after a July 2 transaction the project describes as the first in blockchain history secured end to end by the full standardized NIST post-quantum stack.
The company said the listing is part of its rollout of a quantum-safe blockchain. QoreChain also said the network has been running post-quantum blocks in production for 74 days.
In a GlobeNewswire release, the Qore Chain Association, based in Rolle, Switzerland, said the July 2 transaction used ML-DSA-87 for signatures, ML-KEM-1024 for key encapsulation and SHAKE-256 for hashing. The release said the transaction is visible on explore.qore.network under hash 4E49D57F86FEC8851CDC34811B4C80FDB24F4C253ABE15D25C05B7A27F2B7F1F.
The company said QOR started trading in the QOR/USDT pair on MEXC at 13:00 UTC on Aug. 20, with withdrawals set to open at 13:00 UTC on Aug. 21. It also said MEXC introduced the listing through its Kickstarter programme and that participants share an airdrop of 3,000,000 QOR.
QoreChain described itself as a quantum-safe, AI-native Layer 1 blockchain. The release said the network uses BFT consensus with deterministic finality in one block, or about five seconds on mainnet, and targets 5,000 or more transactions per second with full ML-DSA-87 verification on native transactions.
It also said the chain supports EVM, CosmWasm and SVM execution environments against one state layer and one consensus layer. According to the release, the EVM lane currently verifies classical signatures for compatibility, while post-quantum components are live around it, including ML-DSA verification and key-status precompiles at addresses 0x0A01 and 0x0A02, on-chain key registration and governance-controlled phased enforcement through 2026.
The release said the QoreX wallet already signs in hybrid mode. It also said the node is open source, the enforcement path is only a few hundred readable lines, and a third-party audit is underway, with the firm’s name to be published with the signed report.
Liviu Epure, identified in the release as founder, VP and CTO of QoreChain, said the first post-quantum transaction was “not a launch event with a countdown, but a Thursday,” and said the next decade belongs to chains that can survive community code review.
The release said findings can be sent to security@qore.network. It also said the announcement is informational only and not an offer to sell or solicitation to buy, and that QoreChain makes no representation about the future market price or performance of QOR. The release said the Kickstarter event is operated solely by MEXC under its own terms.
QOR trading was scheduled to open on Aug. 20, withdrawals on Aug. 21, and the third-party audit is still underway.
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