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TL;DR
- Quant’s QNT token is now available on Solana through Sunrise infrastructure, with trading available through Raydium.
- The expansion gives Solana users a route into QNT liquidity without implying that Quant has abandoned Ethereum.
- The event is a cross-chain market-access expansion, not a migration of the QNT ecosystem away from its existing networks.
QNT has gained a new Solana route, putting one of crypto’s longer-running interoperability tokens into the network’s DeFi liquidity stack.
Sunrise said QNT is now available on Solana through its infrastructure, with Raydium also highlighting QNT trading on the network. The move gives Solana users a native venue path to the asset without requiring Quant to replace its existing Ethereum presence.
That distinction is important because cross-chain deployments are often described as migrations when they are really expansions.
Solana adds another established asset to its DeFi layer
Raydium is one of Solana’s core decentralized trading venues, so the addition gives QNT a route into a much more active onchain market than a simple wallet integration would provide.
For Quant, the appeal is distribution. QNT has historically been associated with interoperability infrastructure and enterprise connectivity, while Solana has become one of the most liquid retail and payments-focused blockchain environments.
Putting the token into that market can widen access even if nothing changes about Quant’s underlying network architecture.
Solana’s financial role has already been broadening beyond exchange trading. Toss Bank has tested Solana stablecoin rails for overseas transfers, while regulated payment companies are increasingly choosing fast public chains for settlement. That is very different from a speculative token listing, even though both developments use the same liquidity infrastructure.
Cross-chain access is becoming a distribution strategy
Token projects used to treat one blockchain as a permanent home. That model is weakening.
Liquidity now sits across Ethereum, Solana, Base and other networks, while users expect assets to follow them rather than forcing every trader onto the same chain. Bridges, custody providers and tokenisation platforms increasingly act as distribution layers between those ecosystems.
That trend is also visible in institutional markets. NewsBTC has covered how Visa is expanding stablecoin settlement infrastructure and how Circle’s EURC moved natively onto Base.
QNT’s Solana expansion is smaller in scale, but it belongs to the same structural shift: assets are becoming less tied to one execution environment.
Liquidity is the next test
A listing is only the start.
The practical question is whether enough QNT liquidity develops on Solana to make the route useful beyond headline visibility. Thin pools can technically support an asset while still producing poor execution for meaningful trades.
For now, the confirmed event is straightforward. QNT has a new Solana access point through Sunrise and Raydium, extending the token’s reach into another major blockchain market without replacing its existing footprint.
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This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.
