QRL 2.0 Migration
QRL 2.0 is the successor to QRL's original chain. When it launches, your legacy balance is snapshotted and you claim a matching balance on QRL 2.0 by signing with your existing wallet key — your old coins are never moved or burned. QRL 2.0 is still being audited, so the migration hasn't started yet.
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FAQ about the QRL to QRL 2.0 migration
Common questions about this page
- How does the QRL → QRL 2.0 migration work, and is legacy QRL burned?
- Migration is a snapshot-and-claim process. A snapshot records balances on the original Proof-of-Work chain, and those balances are mirrored into QRL 2.0's genesis allocation at launch. A holder then unlocks their share by signing with their original quantum-resistant XMSS wallet key — the signature is verified on-chain on QRL 2.0, releasing the coins to a brand-new post-quantum ML-DSA-87 wallet. That new wallet can't be derived from the old one, so the old-to-new link only exists once the holder makes the claim. Legacy QRL is NOT burned — the old chain stays live as a read-only archive, and holders claim when they choose rather than on a forced date, so you don't need to do anything until the snapshot is announced. (Don't confuse this with the 2018 ERC-20→mainnet migration, which DID use a burn address — that was a different, completed migration.) Because the snapshot specification isn't public yet, the amount migrated is shown as 'not yet measurable' — a hard zero would wrongly suggest we measured it.
- Do I need to do anything to keep my QRL after the migration?
- Not yet — and there is no deadline today. Your coins stay safe on the original Proof-of-Work chain, which is never burned and stays live as a permanent, browsable archive after the migration. When the snapshot is taken and the claim contract goes live on QRL 2.0, you'll claim your share by signing with your existing XMSS wallet key; the coins are released to a new post-quantum ML-DSA-87 wallet you control. Until the snapshot is officially announced there is nothing to do and nothing to lose by waiting. Treat any 'claim now or lose your coins' message before an official announcement as a scam.
- Why aren't QRL and QRL 2.0 supply just added together?
- Because that would double-count. When a holder migrates, the claim releases a matching 'mirror' allocation pre-loaded at QRL 2.0's genesis — the same economic coins, re-homed, not freshly created. If the two chains' supplies were simply added, every migrated coin would be counted twice. So the ecosystem total subtracts that re-homed mirror. Today the migration snapshot hasn't been published, so the mirror is not yet measurable and the combined figure equals the honest pre-migration sum.
- Does the 105M cap still apply after QRL 2.0?
- The official eventual total supply of the project is 105,000,000 Quanta. On the original Proof-of-Work chain that cap is enforced by the emission schedule — rewards decay smoothly until issuance effectively stops. QRL 2.0 today issues coins as Proof-of-Stake validator rewards on its young network; how the remaining emission pool carries over after the migration — planned to continue as staking rewards — is part of the migration specification that hasn't been published yet. Either way, the supply page tracks what the chains actually emit.
- When is the migration happening?
- No firm date has been published. The migration depends on the QRL 2.0 mainnet launch and the snapshot specification, neither of which is public yet. We track the migration the moment it becomes measurable on-chain — claimed volume reads as 'not yet measurable' until the claim contract is live, never as a misleading zero. Watch the official QRL channels for the snapshot announcement; this page updates automatically once on-chain claims begin.