Qtum (QTUM)

Tokenomics & Utility

Supply and distribution

QTUM began with an initial supply of 100 million coins. Of that amount, 51 million were sold in the March 2017 public sale. The original plan allocated 20 million to the founding team, private investors, and development teams. The remaining 29 million were designated for business and community development, research, education, and related work. These figures describe the initial allocation, not a fresh issue of coins each year. (qtumorg.s3.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com)

New QTUM also enters circulation as staking block rewards. The reward follows a halving schedule, so each scheduled cut reduces the number of newly issued coins per block. Qtum’s second halving occurred on November 30, 2025, reducing the block reward from 0.5 QTUM to 0.25 QTUM. The project expects another halving around late 2029. Its economic design gradually lowers new issuance over time. (qtum.org)

What QTUM does

The coin has several jobs within the network. It pays for ordinary transfers and for the computing work used by smart contracts. It provides the stake that supports block production, and it connects holders to the network’s governance processes. Developers may create separate application tokens on Qtum, but those tokens run on the chain; QTUM remains its native coin. (qtum.org)