Badges are the small chips at the top of every address page. They answer three questions at a glance: what is this address, how big a holder is it, and what is it doing right now. Hover — or tap on mobile — any badge to see a short explanation and why that specific wallet has it.
Badges fall into a few groups. The earned ones are sticky identity/safety facts and render prominently; the rest are lighter chips that describe current state or context.
Identity badges (earned)
These describe what an address is. They come from Quantascan's classification job (on-chain behaviour), a protocol flag, or a curated label, and are recorded durably — an address doesn't quietly lose them.
- 💱 Exchange — a custodial exchange wallet, recognised because many distinct depositors send to it.
- 🏭 Mining pool — a pool that mines blocks and pays out to many members (QRL Legacy).
- ⛏️ Miner — a solo miner receiving coinbase block rewards (QRL Legacy).
- 🏦 Staking pool — a validator pool distributing rewards to many stakers (QRL 2.0).
- 🔒 Staker — an address that receives validator withdrawals (QRL 2.0).
- 📜 Contract — a smart-contract account rather than a personal wallet (QRL 2.0).
- 🏛️ Foundation — a project- or foundation-controlled wallet, from a curated label.
- 🔥 Burn address — a provable sink; coins sent here are unspendable.
- 🛠️ Deployer — has deployed at least one smart contract (QRL 2.0). This is an overlay: a wallet can be a Deployer and something else.
- 🟢 Validator — an active consensus validator on QRL 2.0.
Community badge (earned)
- 💜 Supporter — sent at least 1 Quanta to the Quantascan donation address. It's an on-chain thank-you for helping keep the explorer running, and appears automatically on the donating wallet.
Safety badge (earned)
- 🚫 Scam / flagged — flagged as a scam or malicious address by moderation. This one is curated and can be added or removed by hand when evidence changes.
Holder tiers (whale → shrimp)
Every wallet with a positive balance also gets an ocean tier — an Etherscan-style size band by its share of total supply. It's the same ladder as the holder-distribution chart, and each step is 10× smaller than the one above it:
| Tier | Share of supply |
|---|---|
| 🐋 Whale | ≥ 0.1% |
| 🦈 Shark | 0.01% – 0.1% |
| 🐬 Dolphin | 0.001% – 0.01% |
| 🐟 Fish | 0.0001% – 0.001% |
| 🦀 Crab | 0.00001% – 0.0001% |
| 🦐 Shrimp | < 0.00001% |
The tier is a relative measure: because it's a share of the whole, a wallet can change tier when total supply grows, not only when its own balance moves. It's a size indicator, not a judgement — see the richlist for the exact ranking.
Live behaviour chips
These describe what a wallet is doing, computed on the fly from its own history. They change as reality changes.
- 🧠 HODLer — receives far more than it sends; a net accumulator.
- 🌪 Distributor — sends far more than it receives; a net distributor.
Lifecycle chips
- 🌱 New — first seen recently (within the last month).
- 😴 Dormant — no activity for a long time (90+ days).
Signature indicator
This shows which cryptography secures the address — the heart of QRL's quantum resistance.
- 🔑 XMSS — hash-based one-time signatures (QRL Legacy).
- 🔐 ML-DSA-87 — lattice-based post-quantum signatures (QRL 2.0).
Where to go next
- Reading an address page — the full tour of a wallet view.
- Understanding the richlist — how addresses are ranked by balance.
- QRL tokenomics and supply — what "share of supply" is measured against.