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He named ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption as the new risk, and said Ethereum's lean roadmap has spent a year moving to hash-based schemes for that reason. His advice to holders was caution about migrating rather than haste: botched migrations have cost him more than every hack combined.
His stated trigger is an OpenAI release of machine-generated mathematics that the company itself describes as unevenly verified. In June he put the odds of a quantum break by 2032 at 50% and named 2029 as a good migration target.
StarkWare's transaction is nonstandard under Bitcoin Core's relay rules, so MARA had to mine it directly. Hours of computation and up to $200 went into moving 10,000 satoshis.
The Nasdaq-listed firm's programme funds migration tooling, post-quantum signature work and formal audits, with an advisory council of academics from Calgary, MIT and Boston University. Applications open immediately.
Ethereum's co-founder published a long essay on Sunday arguing that machine-checkable mathematical proofs, generated and verified by AI, could become the foundational security layer for blockchains, cryptography and critical internet infrastructure — even as the same AI capabilities accelerate vulnerability discovery on the offence side.
Anza and Jump Crypto's Firedancer reached the same conclusion on Falcon without coordinating, and the Solana Foundation has now adopted it as the network's planned post-quantum signature path.
Giancarlo Lelli used a variant of Shor's algorithm on publicly accessible quantum hardware to derive a private key from its public counterpart, claiming Project Eleven's Q-Day Prize and advancing the timeline for practical quantum attacks on cryptographic systems.
Blockstream's CEO told Paris Blockchain Week that Bitcoin should build quantum-resistant upgrades now through voluntary migration, opposing BIP-361's plan to freeze coins in vulnerable address formats on a five-year timeline.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun's prototype lets users prove wallet ownership without a digital signature, solving the collateral damage problem in Bitcoin's most likely response to quantum computing threats.
The 2025 Nobel laureate and Qolab co-founder warns that elliptic curve cryptography — the backbone of Bitcoin's security — is among the easiest targets for a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, giving the network a five-to-ten-year window to prepare.
Stablecoin issuer Circle has published a multi-phase roadmap to equip its forthcoming Arc blockchain with post-quantum cryptographic protections, positioning the network as the first institutional-grade chain designed to withstand quantum computing threats from launch.
