Five days ago, $qONE launched on Hyperliquid at a public sale price of $0.01. Today it’s trading at $0.018. That’s an 83% return for public sale participants and a 128% return for community round buyers who got in at $0.008 – in under a week, during one of the weakest crypto markets of 2026. The last 24 hours alone added another 23% as buying pressure continues to build.
These aren’t the numbers of a speculative meme coin spike. The volume-to-market-cap ratio is 15.27% – a sign of genuine trading interest, not manufactured activity. The fully diluted valuation sits at $18.39M against a $20 billion addressable market. And the price has been stair-stepping higher: from the post-TGE low of $0.00189, to the $0.013 consolidation range, and now a decisive break above $0.018. Each level has held, and each new leg has attracted fresh buyers.
What’s Driving the Move?

Several catalysts converged in the past 48 hours. First, 01 Quantum issued an official press release through Nasdaq and Newsfile confirming the successful TGE and detailing the Phase 2 roadmap – the IronCAP™ integration into Quantum Crypto Wrapper and Quantum DeFi Wrapper technologies. Second, qLABS announced a Community AMA for tomorrow (Wednesday) on X featuring Executive Director Ada Jonuse and CTO Andrew Cheung, signaling active community engagement and transparency that most early-stage tokens never deliver.
Third, the Based app integration went live (app.based.one/QONE/USDC), enabling investors to buy $qONE with a card or deposit from other networks – dramatically lowering the barrier to entry beyond Hyperliquid-native users. Fourth, the broader quantum narrative continues to build, with crypto influencer Domicrypt calling out $qONE’s positioning: “Quantum computers won’t replace crypto. They will force crypto to upgrade. qLABS is already building for it.”
The Numbers in Context

- Current price: $0.01827 (up 83% from $0.01 public sale, up 128% from $0.008 community round)
- 24-hour change: +23.37%
- Weekly change: +29.78%
- 24-hour volume: $305K (15.27% of market cap – very healthy liquidity ratio)
- Market cap: $1.99M (circulating supply: 109.39M of 1B total)
- Fully diluted valuation: $18.39M
- Total / max supply: 1 billion (fixed, no inflation ever)
- CoinMarketCap rank: #4015 (profile score 79%)
Context matters. $18.39M FDV for a project with two U.S. patents, NIST-approved cryptography, Fortune 500 enterprise clients, a publicly traded parent company, CoinMarketCap listing, Nasdaq press releases, and a product roadmap that’s delivering ahead of schedule. Compare that to the average newly launched token at this market cap – anonymous team, no product, no press, no revenue model. The valuation gap between what $qONE is and what the market is currently paying for it is still enormous.
Infrastructure, Not Narrative

qLABS said it directly on X today: “$qONE isn’t a narrative token. It’s security infrastructure.” Every time someone turns on Quantum-Sig protection, every time a quantum-resistant transaction gets verified, every time an exchange or custodian prepays bulk verification – that’s real protocol usage that requires $qONE tokens. The price isn’t moving on hype alone. It’s moving because the market is beginning to price in the difference between a token with utility and one without.
Tony G, President of qLABS, put it simply: “The goal is simple: bring liquidity onchain.” With the Based app integration now live, the CoinMarketCap listing driving 400M monthly visitors, and a community AMA imminent, liquidity channels are opening faster than most investors expected. The price is responding accordingly. The question is whether $0.018 will look cheap in a month, the same way $0.01 looked cheap last week.
Official Site:https://qlabs.tech/
Official X Account: https://x.com/qlabsofficial
CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/qone/
DEXTools Chart: https://www.dextools.io/app/hyperevm/pair-explorer/0xa96c8366828a22cc0e900f9b12273883a56ee148
