qONE, marketed as a post-quantum token launching on Hyperliquid, says it sold out its public presale in under 24 hours and raised $950,000. The pace of the sell-out stood out in a soft market backdrop, and it immediately put qONE on the radar as a security-first asset with a tight initial float.
Project communications describe a heavily oversubscribed book, with roughly $13 million in registered interest competing for a $560,000 allocation. In practical terms, the team is positioning the presale outcome as a demand signal: too much capital chasing too little supply, with buyer competition doing most of the marketing.
We did it.
The $qONE sale is officially SOLD OUT. 🎉
To everyone who showed up, shared the link, helped others onboard, and backed the mission — thank you. This wasn’t just a raise. It was a statement: our community is here for real infrastructure, built for what’s coming.… pic.twitter.com/5AgEjro0oX
— qLABS (@qlabsofficial) February 7, 2026
What qONE is proposing on Hyperliquid
qONE is slated to launch on Hyperliquid, and the project says its Token Generation Event is imminent, which would place it into Hyperliquid liquidity once trading begins. The core positioning is straightforward: be the first “quantum-resistant” token on that venue and convert security narrative into on-chain distribution.
The team describes qONE as an ERC-20 token backing a post-quantum cryptography layer built with 01 Quantum Inc., using an IronCAP™ engine plus a dual-signature approach. The stated value proposition is that transactions can be wrapped in a quantum-resistant envelope without requiring forks or chain migrations, which is meant to lower integration friction for existing stacks.
qONE’s utility model is designed to turn security usage into recurring demand, with fees paid in qONE to activate protection features and with enterprises buying bulk verification capacity for custodial or exchange-scale workflows. The same materials also tie the token to staking rewards and protocol access, governance votes on upgrades and fee settings, and a buyback loop where protocol fees are used to repurchase qONE in the market as usage scales.
Delivery milestones and what stakeholders will validate
The project names Andrew Cheung (CTO of qLABS and CEO of 01 Quantum Inc.) and Antanas Guoga among senior contributors, and it targets an end-of-March 2026 delivery for a Layer-1 Migration Toolkit. That toolkit is framed as the bridge from concept to adoption, helping existing chains implement post-quantum cryptography without a disruptive rebuild.
The project’s security framing leans on a timing argument, citing warnings in its materials that sufficiently powerful quantum machines could threaten classical cryptography by 2028, and positioning qONE as a mitigation path. From a market-structure standpoint, the next credibility gates are mechanical: how the Token Generation Event lands, whether the claimed transaction wrapping introduces manageable overhead, and whether external review supports the IronCAP integration and the broader quantum-resilience claims.
