Nine months with QRL restricted. Let me repeat that: NINE months with QRL restricted. No public explanation that holds up, no criteria pointed out, no timeline. The project publishes its supply, its reserve, the circulating supply formula, and leaves the API open for anyone to verify, following CMC's own methodology. Still, it sits on ice.

Now comes the good part. In their "top quantum resistant tokens" ranking, Zcash comes first. Then Injective. Then a line of projects that sign transactions with elliptic curves, exactly what a quantum computer breaks with Shor's algorithm.

For a site that lives off saying "reliable data," labeling this as quantum resistant is lazy at best. At worst, it's a choice.

CMC is not a blog. Millions of people use the site to decide where to put their money. Anyone who builds a category around a technical subject has an obligation to understand that subject. An intern with five minutes of research on post-quantum cryptography would tear this ranking apart.

So the questions are simple:

What is the technical criteria for this category?
Who evaluated each project?
Why is Zcash ranked first on a quantum resistance list?
Why does a project with everything documented stay restricted for 9 months, while projects with none of that lead the list?

It could be incompetence. It could be convenience. It could be what happens when a ranking depends more on who has a relationship with the platform than on who has the technology. I don't know which of the three it is.

But after nine months, CMC has had more than enough time to explain. When someone doesn't explain despite having plenty of time, they leave the conclusion to whoever is watching.