Quantum Security You Can Verify, Not Believe: After 74 Days of Post-Quantum Blocks in Production, QoreChain's QOR Begins Trading on MEXC August 20

Rolle, Switzerland, Aug. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There are two kinds of milestones in crypto: the kind that gets announced, and the kind that gets committed to a block. On July 2, 2026, QoreChain produced the second kind. Post-quantum signatures on a blockchain are not new in themselves; hash-based schemes have protected specialist chains for years. What had not happened, to the project's knowledge, is what this transfer did: it moved through ordinary block production signed, encapsulated and hashed exclusively with the complete NIST-standardized post-quantum stack at its highest security levels, ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204) for the signature, ML-KEM-1024 (FIPS 203) for key encapsulation and SHAKE-256 (FIPS 202) for hashing, making it the first transaction in blockchain history secured end to end by the full standardized suite. And it asks for no faith: it sits under transaction hash 4E49D57F86FEC8851CDC34811B4C80FDB24F4C253ABE15D25C05B7A27F2B7F1F on explore.qore.network, where the signature is byte-compatible with any standard ML-DSA-87 verifier. Anyone can pull it off the explorer and check it with an independent library, trusting zero lines of QoreChain's code.

Seventy four days of post-quantum blocks later, the network behind that transaction gets its market. QOR begins trading on MEXC on August 20, 2026, at 13:00 UTC  in the QOR/USDT pair, with withdrawals opening August 21 at 13:00 UTC. MEXC introduced the listing as a first in market debut  through its Kickstarter programme, in which participants share an airdrop of 3,000,000 QOR ahead of the open.