Migration
From V1 to V2.
QGOLD is moving to a new architecture. V1 is in a twelve-month sundown period ending 1 August 2027, after which it goes offline. This page sets out what changes, how to convert, and the dates that matter.
QGOLD V1 Sundown Statement
The current status of QGOLD V1: withdrawal of peg maintenance, the twelve-month sundown period, the route to QGOLD V2, and the 2024 whitepaper reproduced as an archived record. Issued by Quorium Global B.V. PDF download inside.
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QGOLD V1 during the sundown period.
QGOLD V1 has entered a sundown period of twelve months, beginning August 1st, 2026. This section sets out what changes for existing V1 holders and where V1 can be traded during that period.
V1 is no longer peg-maintained.
QGOLD V1 was issued as a gold-pegged instrument. Quorium no longer maintains that peg. From August 1st, 2026, the market price of QGOLD V1 is set entirely by supply and demand in the venues where it trades, and Quorium does not intervene to hold it at or near any reference price. Holders should not assume the V1 price will continue to track the gold price.
Centralised exchange trading has ended.
Trading in QGOLD V1 on XT.COM and Coinstore has been suspended. Both venues are expected to complete delisting within the coming month. Holders with balances on either exchange should withdraw to a self-custodied BNB Chain wallet before the delisting date published by the exchange concerned.
Trading has moved on-chain.
Exchange liquidity has been redeployed to a PancakeSwap V3 pool on BNB Chain:
- Pair
- USDT / QGOLD
- Pool
- PancakeSwap
- QGOLD V1 contract
- 0xdc49a53e1f15fd7fd522e0691cb570f442e9ca6c
This pool is the only venue Quorium has provided liquidity to. Liquidity is limited by design and price impact on larger orders will be significant. Check the quoted price and slippage before trading.
Verify the contract address.
Several tokens using the QGOLD name and ticker circulate on BNB Chain with no connection to Quorium. The contract address above is the only QGOLD V1 contract. Confirm it directly against this page before importing a token or trading a pool.
Exchanging V1 for V2.
Holders of QGOLD V1 will be able to exchange into QGOLD V2. Terms, ratio, mechanism and timing will be published at the launch of V2 and are not yet determined. The twelve-month sundown period is intended to give holders time to complete that exchange.
QGOLD V2 is a different instrument.
QGOLD V2 is not a renamed or upgraded V1. V1 was a gold-pegged token. V2 is a gold-linked digital asset with no peg, no redemption right and no price maintenance mechanism, linked to a dual reserve base by balance-sheet identity. The two should not be compared on price, and the V1 price carries no information about V2.
What V2 changes.
QGOLD V1 launched in an earlier phase of the market, on the standards available then. The ecosystem has matured since, and so has what a gold-linked digital asset is expected to be: reserves you can verify, issuance that is disciplined, and liquidity that holds up under pressure. V2 is Quorium's answer to that, a rebuild from the ground up on the architecture it has developed and documented, not a new coat of paint on the old token.
The architecture earns its keep. The gold relationship becomes an accounting identity: every token sits opposite a dual reserve base of existing bullion and verified in-ground deposits, and issuance is capped against that base rather than left to a switch an owner can flip. Minting is role-separated, with administration held apart from the authority to issue, and the entire state is verifiable on-chain. A token reaches the open market only once the liquidity to support it exists, so what is presented as liquid genuinely is.
For a holder that adds up to something concrete: a gold link that is structural rather than asserted, a supply that cannot be quietly inflated, liquidity that is honest by construction, and a price set by the market rather than propped up by anyone. The comparison below reads both at the level that matters: what the smart contract actually does.
| QGOLD V1 (legacy) | QGOLD V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| On-chain gold link | Asserted claim: gold price peg backed by in-ground resources; the contract enforces none of this (no reserve, oracle, or redemption logic) | Structural identity: gold as numeric unit of account; issuance sits opposite a dual reserve base, without a price peg |
| Supply & minting | Owner-controlled mint, toggleable on and off; supply not fixed | Role-separated minting, capped by the reserve base |
| Reserve base | Not represented on-chain | Existing bullion plus verified in-ground deposits |
| Control | Single owner, not renounced; can blacklist addresses and seize their funds | Administrative control separated from minting authority |
| Liquidity | None: a standard transferable token | Honest liquidity: the Free Market pair is fully covered, with a Route to Liquidity for the Commerce Pool |
| Architecture | Single token contract | Multicontract pool architecture (Treasury, Commerce, Free Market) with a Route to Liquidity |
| Redemption | No redemption function | No redemption right, by design |
Read from the verified V1 contract on BNB Smart Chain: 0xdc49…ca6c.
The difference is one of trust versus verification: V1 asked holders to trust a claim, V2 lets them verify a structure. The full architecture is set out on the home page and in the research.
V1 moves from CEX to DEX.
Sustaining a gold-pegged, centralized-exchange-listed token through the migration period is not operationally viable. Market making on a CEX generates continuous costs that cannot be absorbed over that horizon without structural losses; the gold peg of V1 adds further exposure for a token that is being superseded by a fundamentally different architecture. These two factors together are the basis for the decision.
V1 will be removed from centralized exchange listings. In its place, a trading pool will be established on PancakeSwap, the largest decentralized exchange on BNB Smart Chain, where V1 can be traded for the duration of the migration period without requiring active market-making support. At the same time, V1's gold peg will be dissolved: the token will no longer reference a gold price, and its value will float to wherever the market discovers it.
V1 holders retain full access to their tokens throughout the transition, and the migration options remain available for the duration of the sundown period.
- CEX delisting
- To be confirmed
- DEX pool
- PancakeSwap · BNB Smart Chain · To be confirmed
- Gold peg
- Dissolved at delisting; V1 price floats to market from that point
Voluntary, within the twelve-month sundown period.
Migration is voluntary. A migration tool will be available after the V2 launch, and any V1 holder can convert at any time before the sundown period ends. After 1 August 2027, V1 holders can contact Quorium directly to arrange a swap of their QGOLD V1.
The sundown period runs for twelve months from 1 August 2026. After that, V1 goes offline.
- Migration tool
- Availability to be confirmed
- V1 trading
- Until 1 August 2027 (end of sundown period)
- Voluntary window
- 1 August 2026 – 1 August 2027
- Migration after sundown
- At the end of the one-year period, V1 token holders can contact Quorium to arrange for a swap of the QGOLD V1.
Two ways to convert.
At migration, a V1 holder chooses where the new tokens land. The figures below are V1-to-V2 token conversion ratios; they are not a gold ratio and not a backing claim. In both cases the value of a V2 token is set by the market.
1 V1 → 1 V2, freely tradeable
Each V1 token converts to one V2 token placed directly in the Free Market: economically active and freely tradeable from the moment it arrives, with its price discovered on-chain.
1 V1 → 2 V2, into the Commerce pool
Each V1 token converts to two V2 tokens placed in the Commerce pool: economically active and committed, but not yet on the Free Market. The doubled count is the incentive for choosing this route; the tokens reach the Free Market through the Route to Liquidity, described below.
Option A is immediate liquidity at a 1:1 token ratio. Option B is twice the units, entering through the Commerce pool and reaching the Free Market as liquidity is provisioned.
How Commerce-pool tokens reach the Free Market.
A token reaches the Free Market only when the liquidity to support it exists. For Commerce-pool tokens, the Route to Liquidity is how that happens: the holder registers their tokens, and once the system can cover them with committed liquidity, they settle onto the Free Market within a bounded window.
This is what keeps stated liquidity and real liquidity aligned. A token becomes freely tradeable at the moment its liquidity is actually there, not before, so the doubled Commerce-pool balance never presents itself as more exchangeable than the market can honour.
The pool structure and the Route to Liquidity are explained in full in the research.
Verify on-chain.
- V1 token contract
0xdc49a53e1f15fd7fd522e0691cb570f442e9ca6c· BNB Smart Chain- V2 token contract
- [CONFIRM] · Ethereum · published at the V2 launch
- Migration tool
- [CONFIRM] · available at the V2 launch
- Market data
- CoinGecko
- V1 trading
- PancakeSwap
- V2 trading
- [CONFIRM] · available at the V2 launch
- Redemption
- None. QGOLD confers no claim on physical gold or fiat currency.
Which tokens do you hold?
Enter a wallet address to see your QGOLD V1 and V2 balances. You may hold both. V1 is on BNB Smart Chain; V2 will be on Ethereum. No wallet connection, no transaction.
Read-only. The address you enter is used only to query the chain and is not stored.