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QuarkChain QKC
- QuarkChain (QKC) trades at $0.002560, -5.13% over 24 hours and -7.99% over 7 days.
- Market cap $18.63M (rank #762) on $365.2K of daily volume; 7,277,802,271 QKC in circulation.
- All-time high $0.3388 on Jun 4, 2018; the price is -99.2% from that peak.
QuarkChain price chart
Daily closes, 6 daysAbout QuarkChain
QuarkChain is a secure, permission-less, scalable, and decentralized blockchain. One of the goals of QuarkChain is to utilize sharding technology to deliver over 1 million transactions per second (tps). Essentially, QuarkChain markets itself as a peer-to-peer blockchain with a high capacity throughput to help deliver fast and secure decentralized applications. The team behind QuarkChain created this blockchain to resolve the issue of scalability that all the major blockchains are currently facing. The team feels that because of the urgency of this issue, the Bitcoin community simply cannot afford to wait until they all agree on a solution.
Instead, they feel that by offering different solutions, such as the one inherent in QuarkChain, this compels the community to split via a hard fork and find the solution that works best. QuarkChain encourages increased decentralization through multiple cheap nodes that then create a cluster that works as a super-full node. This prevents the high expenses associated with super-full nodes when the tps gets high. In terms of protection, all transactions within QuarkChain get the protection of 50 percent of the network’s hash power.
This makes a double-spending attack incredibly challenging, particularly when combined with QuarkChain’s decentralized nature. QuarkChain relies on a two-layer blockchain structure. Sharding blockchains known as shards are the first layer, while the second layer is a root blockchain that confirms the shards’ blocks.The major work on QuarkChain began in Q2 2017 with research into the problem of blockchain scalability. In Q4 of that year, the team drafted the whitepaper. In February 2018, it released the white paper and completed verification code 0.1. March 2018 saw the 0.1 versions of both the wallet and testnet.
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Now in Q2, the team is working on the testnet 1.0 and smart contract 0.1. In Q4 2018, the team will have the QuarkChain Core 1.0, along with the mainnet 1.0 and the SmartWallet 1.0. By Q2 2019, both the SmartWallet and QuarkChain Core will be in their 2.0 versions. QuarkChain is a decentralized blockchain network that aims to resolve the issues of scalability that plague existing networks by using sharding technology. In this way, QuarkChain can dramatically extend the usefulness of blockchain technology since many applications are limited by the scalability of existing blockchain networks.
The project is still in progress, but QuarkChain has already made many positive steps and already began invite-based beta testing for the testnet, showing significant progress and potential. The main features of Quarkchain are: 1. Reshardable two-layered blockchain: Quarkchain consists of two layers of blockchains. We apply elastic sharding blockchains (shards) as the first layer, and a root blockchain as the second layer that confirms the blocks from the first layer. The second layer that confirms the blocks from the first layer. The second layer is flexible to be resharded as needed without changing the root layer. 2.
Guaranteed security by market-driven collaborative mining: To ensure the security of all transactions, a game-theoretic framework is designed for incentives, where at least 50% of overall hash powers are allocated to the root chain to prevent double spending attack on any transactions. 3. Anti-centralized horizontal scalability: In any blockchain network with a high TPS, a super-full node can be extremely expensive, which encourages centralization. In contrast, QuarkChain allows multiple cheap nodes forming a cluster to replace a super-full node. 4.
Efficient cross-shard transactions: Cross-shard transactions in QuarkChain can be issued at any time, and confirmed in minutes. The speed of cross-shard transactions increases linearly as the number of shards increases. 5. Simple account management: There is only one account needed for the entire blockchain (shards) in QuarkChain. All cryptocurrencies from different shards are stored in one smart wallet.
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Supply and valuation
| Price | $0.002560 |
| Market cap | $18.63M |
| Fully diluted valuation | $25.59M |
| Circulating supply | 7,277,802,271 QKC |
| Total supply | 10,000,000,000 QKC |
| Max supply | Uncapped |
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QuarkChain FAQ
What is the price of QuarkChain (QKC) today?
As of October 12, 2026, one QKC trades at $0.002560. The price is -5.13% over the last 24 hours and -7.99% over the last seven days.
What is QuarkChain's market cap?
QuarkChain has a market capitalization of $18.63M, ranking it #762 among all cryptocurrencies by market cap. Its fully diluted valuation, which counts every token that could ever exist, is $25.59M.
How many QKC are in circulation?
7,277,802,271 QKC are in circulation out of a total supply of 10,000,000,000 QKC. QuarkChain has no hard-coded maximum supply.
What is QuarkChain's all-time high?
QuarkChain's all-time high is $0.3388, reached on June 4, 2018. At $0.002560 the current price is 99.2% below that peak.
How much QKC is traded each day?
About $365.2K of QKC changed hands in the last 24 hours, equal to 2.0% of its market cap. That is a low turnover relative to size, so large orders can move the price.
How has QuarkChain performed over the past month?
QKC is +7.13% over the last 30 days and -53.53% over the last year.
What are the risks of holding QuarkChain?
Price risk first: QKC moved +7.13% over the last 30 days and -53.53% over the last year, and it is 99% below its all-time high. There is no supply cap, so new issuance can dilute holders. Liquidity: $365.2K trades a day, which is thin relative to its size. Add custody risk (exchange failure or lost keys) and regulatory risk. Coinucation does not give investment advice.
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