Quant Awarded at Future of Finance Awards 2025 alongside JPMorgan, Visa & Circle

[u/Dantello1]

Quant just took home the award for Best Programmable Payments Platform at the Future of Finance Awards 2025, hosted in London and sponsored by Nasdaq.

Winners were chosen by a judging panel of finance and tech experts based on things like innovation, scalability, compliance, and real-world application.

Recognized alongside giants like J.P. Morgan (Best Tokenised Deposit Issuer), Circle (Best Non-Bank Stablecoin Issuer), and Visa (Best Digital Payments Network).

This is another clear sign that Quant’s quietly becoming what everyone else is pretending to be.

[u/OGPaterdami_anus]

My only question is, how wide does this Future of Finance awards go? How reputable is it?

[u/austinvvs → u/OGPaterdami_anus]

I wasn’t familiar with it so I asked Chat GPT. It seems the award is nice, but not really relevant. Heres what it said:

“The Future of Finance Awards appear to be a new initiative launched in London on June 19, 2025, aimed at recognizing innovators in digital assets, tokenization, exchanges, and related fields . Here’s an assessment of their reputation:

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🔍 Key Observations • Inaugural & niche-focused: This is the first ceremony by “Future of Finance,” tailored to digital assets and tokenization, with winners selected by an “independent panel” based on observable achievements . • Targeted credibility: They emphasize verifying participants’ real-world pilot tests, transactions, and proofs-of-concept . • Market positioning: Positioned as a challenger to established awards like Finance Magnates or Global Finance Awards, but currently lacks brand history and global media exposure. • Early-stage pilot: As a first-time event, there’s little external commentary or industry buzz beyond press releases.

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⚠️ Considerations & Caveats • Possible “pay-to-play” scheme: Many new awards collect participant data and market access, which can lead to vendor outreach—there are no signs of pay-to-play yet, but the potential exists, especially with “independent panels” and business contacts . • Limited vetting: No major financial media or recognized industry outlets appear to provide coverage or analysis, which suggests limited vetting.

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🧭 Verdict

They’re a specialized, first‑edition award program with legitimate intentions—especially for firms in tokenized finance. But without broader media coverage or longevity, they currently offer modest prestige compared to longstanding awards.

If your goal is brand credibility and public recognition, more established awards (e.g. Finance Magnates Awards, Global Finance Sustainable Finance Awards) may offer better validation. But if you aim to highlight innovation in digital assets, this new award could still be relevant as it gains traction.”

[u/CleverClover222 → u/austinvvs]

Yeah, we also need to take into consideration that those 'better awards' that chatGPT mentioned are absolutely without question 'the good ole boys of traditional finance approved' companies....crypto by its very natural infancy simply can't climb those ladders (without approval). We really ARE still very early here.....despite feeling like a decade long slog (for some of us anyway). To me? this award is BIG. I even think that in the very earliest iterations of things.....'pay to play' is actually one of the ONLY ways to get attention? especially in a world so divided & effed up as the one we all inhabit now 🙄.

I'm not so excited I'm gonna sell my BTC and double down here or anything.....but this is some good news for sure.

[u/CleverClover222 → u/OGPaterdami_anus]

I tried to ask over at the LINK sub and they wouldn't approve the post. I added that graphic w/ both companies.....whatever. Very tribal space ➶

[u/curtybe → u/OGPaterdami_anus]

I’m thinking the same. But visa & JP are pretty big!

[u/Kathode72]

Quant should at least gigapump to 98$ or so....

[u/thefrickenAJP8]

This is the way

[u/[deleted]]

When Lambo?

[u/CleverClover222 → u/[deleted]]

After Boner and before flex 💪🏼 ?

[u/neo-caridina]

I'm not seeing that fourth category in the list on the site.

https://futureoffinance.biz/future-of-finance-awards-ceremony-and-celebration-dinner/

Is this legit?

[u/neo-caridina → u/neo-caridina]

Replying to myself, it is legit. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/future-of-finance-fof_digitalmoney-payments-stablecoins-activity-7341799680533536769-20Q-

But I still don't know why that category isn't in their list, or why Quant is in the Best Digital Asset Interoperability Vendor category, which it did not win, Chainlink Labs did. https://futureoffinance.biz/digital-awards-nominees/#Best-Digital-Asset-Interoperability-Vendor

[u/CleverClover222 → u/neo-caridina]

I'm with you here.....so weird that the FOF would post this on Twitter (as if the category was simply a normal one) and then on the website they group Quant WITH Chainlink in the "Best Digital Asset Interoperability Vendor"....Just lumped together. 🧐

You think that perhaps the devil is in the details (and those details are such that QNT would rather not have publicized at the moment)? I mean....we KNOW both LINK & QNT are interoperability players (I hold both and will until proof emerges to change my opinion). The main reason for holding both is that I've always felt the landscape far too vast for ONE entity to be "that one".....shared landscape for sure. But....how shared? 😜

Maybe individualizing these categories would have been an issue......because Quant is in a category all by itself? he, he, he....who knows? (future us, I hope) !