How is the current owner determined?

By the on-chain transfer log. For a QRC-721 item, the recipient of its most recent transfer holds it now; if that recipient is the zero address, it was burned and has no owner. A QRC-1155 item can be held by several addresses at once, each with a quantity — the holders list shows them all.

The mint is the token's first transfer — created from the zero address (Q0000…0) to its first owner. Everything after it is a regular ownership change.

Why is the image only a link?

An NFT's artwork lives at an off-chain URL that whoever deployed the contract chose. Quantascan reads the item's metadata (name, description, attributes) but never loads, hosts or checks the media it points to, so the image appears only as a link you can choose to open. The on-chain provenance — who owned it, and when it moved — is always shown.

NFT #99 (Q9b974af25…) on QRL

Holder	Quantity
Thundering Treehopperih254Qd0a15…45cf	9,999

Block	From	To	Quantity	Tx	When
#75,163	Lolling Kingfishzu952Q00000…0000Mint	Whispering Mousewj936Q9b974…f9f8	9,999	0x79fc…f1f1	5mo ago
#76,832	Whispering Mousewj936Q9b974…f9f8	Thundering Treehopperih254Qd0a15…45cf	101

Holder	Quantity
Thundering Treehopperih254Qd0a15…45cf	9,999

Block	From	To	Quantity	Tx	When
#75,163	Lolling Kingfishzu952Q00000…0000Mint	Whispering Mousewj936Q9b974…f9f8	9,999	0x79fc…f1f1	5mo ago
#76,832	Whispering Mousewj936Q9b974…f9f8	Thundering Treehopperih254Qd0a15…45cf	101

#75,163Mint5mo ago

From

Lolling Kingfishzu952Q00000…0000

To

NFT #99

Metadata

Holders (1)

Provenance: full transfer chain

FAQ about this NFT

NFT #99

Metadata

Holders (1)

Provenance: full transfer chain

FAQ about this NFT