- What does the QRL wallet chart show?
- It shows how many QRL wallets there are over time, with a toggle for the definition. “Any balance” counts the wallets that hold coins on each day. “> 100 Quanta” and “> 1,000 Quanta” count only wallets above that size. “All ever seen” counts every distinct address ever active on-chain. All are drawn as one continuous line spanning the original Proof-of-Work chain and QRL 2.0.
- What does a drop in the “Any balance” line mean?
- Wallets were emptied: they sent out all their coins, so they no longer hold a balance. It does not mean that empty wallets disappeared — empty wallets are not counted on this line at all. A sudden drop usually means one owner moved many wallets into one. For example, between 29 September and 6 October 2026 about 570 dormant wallets were consolidated into a single address, which lowered the line by about 475 in a week. The coins did not leave QRL; they now sit in fewer wallets.
- Why are the “Any balance” and “All ever seen” numbers so far apart?
- They measure different things. In October 2026 about 19,500 QRL wallets held a balance, while roughly 196,000 distinct addresses had been seen on-chain over the network's lifetime. Most addresses are used for a while and then emptied, and an address stays in “All ever seen” forever — so that line is far larger and can only rise or flatten, never fall.
- Does “Any balance” match the Rich List?
- Yes. The latest value of the “Any balance” line equals the number of holders on the Rich List and on the distribution page. All three use the same balance: coins received minus coins sent minus fees paid, so a wallet that sent everything out counts as empty. The “All ever seen” line is a separate lifetime count and is not comparable to the Rich List.
- What counts as a wallet here?
- Any distinct address observed on-chain — as a sender or recipient, including receive-only addresses (for example validator-withdrawal recipients) and contract addresses. It is a pure count of addresses, with no coin-amount scaling. The views differ only in whether, and how much, the address still holds.
- Does the chart include wallets from the Proof-of-Work chain?
- Yes. The original Proof-of-Work chain contributes the large majority of addresses on both views, with QRL 2.0 — the Proof-of-Stake chain, still early — adding the rest. The two chains are stitched into one continuous timeline so the line carries across the migration.