QNT to SOL: Swap Quant (ERC-20) for Native Solana

Quant's QNT has no blockchain of its own. It is an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, so it sits at a 0x address and every transfer of it costs gas in ETH. SOL is different: it is the native coin of Solana, the asset that pays fees on that network.

That difference shapes this swap. On the way in you follow Ethereum's rules: a token contract, ETH for gas and a confirmation of about 2 to 5 minutes. On the way out you follow Solana's: a base58 address and a payout that confirms in under a minute.

Once the SOL lands, nothing else is needed to move it. SOL covers Solana's network fees itself, so you are not left holding a token that is stuck for want of a second coin. That is a real change from QNT, which always needs ETH sitting beside it before it can go anywhere.

A QNT transfer is a call to the token's contract, and Ethereum charges for it in ETH. A wallet that holds QNT but no ETH cannot send it at all. Check MetaMask, Rabby or your Ledger account for a small ETH balance before you open the swap.

The deposit has to be QNT on Ethereum mainnet. Layer-2 networks such as Arbitrum or Base use the same 0x address format, and a wallet will happily show them in the same account. A token sent there never reaches the deposit address on mainnet. Look at the network name in the wallet before you approve.

Send the exact QNT amount the box shows, in one transaction, from an address you control. Splitting the deposit into several small transfers, or sending ETH in place of QNT, does not match the order and slows everything down. Gas prices move with demand; the guide to keeping gas fees down explains when sending tends to cost less.

A Solana address is 32 to 44 letters and numbers, with no 0x at the front. Phantom, Solflare and the Solana app on a Ledger all show one on their receive page. Copy it from there and paste it into the payout field in one go.

The classic slip on this pair is pasting the 0x address you just used for QNT. It looks nothing like a Solana address, so the box should refuse it, but check anyway. A second slip is taking an address from an exchange account you no longer use: the SOL would arrive, but in a ledger you no longer control.

A freshly created Solana address works as the destination. It needs no SOL in advance to accept a plain SOL payout, and the balance shows in Phantom or Solflare once Solana confirms. If the wallet still looks empty, search the address on Solscan. The explorer is the record; the wallet app is only a view of it.

The usual reason is a change of home chain. Someone who has held QNT on Ethereum wants to use Solana apps, pay Solana's fees or keep a balance in Phantom, and SOL is the coin every one of those needs first. Ethereum gas is usually higher than Solana fees, so moving activity across can make later small transfers cheaper.

Another is simplicity. Holding QNT means holding ETH too, just to move it. After the swap there is one coin on one chain, and it pays its own way.

Doing it in one swap also skips a two-step route: trading QNT for ETH, then bridging or trading again on Solana. Here QNT goes in on Ethereum and native SOL comes out on Solana, with no bridge contract and no wrapped token in between. GhostSwap is a no-KYC crypto exchange, so a payout address, a sender address and the deposit are the whole process, with no account or email.

Two rows matter most. The fee row is why you need ETH now and nothing extra later. The address row is why the payout field and the sender field never hold the same string: one is a 0x Ethereum address, the other a Solana address. If you use a Ledger for both sides, the device keeps two separate accounts, one per app, and you copy each from its own app. Etherscan then shows the QNT leaving and Solscan shows the SOL arriving.

The quote comes from aggregated liquidity from leading crypto markets. The box shows how much SOL you receive after fees for the QNT you enter, and the rate floats with the market until your Ethereum deposit confirms. Once it has, most swaps finish within minutes, and Solana adds its own confirmation in under a minute. This pair's lower and upper limits are listed in the box as well.

If a swap cannot be completed, the coins are refunded to the sender address you entered. For this pair that is an Ethereum 0x address, so it must be a wallet you control, not an exchange deposit address.

The QNT to SOL swap gets a status page of its own under the swap ID. The deposit shows on Etherscan by its transaction hash, the payout on Solscan. If Etherscan shows the QNT confirmed and the status page has not moved for a long while, write to support@ghostswap.io with the swap ID. To go back the other way, use SOL to QNT.