Ethereum Foundation Drops Poseidon for SHA or BLAKE
The decision puts Ethereum's cryptographic foundation in focus, with post-quantum resilience becoming a protocol-level priority for its proof systems.
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The decision puts Ethereum's cryptographic foundation in focus, with post-quantum resilience becoming a protocol-level priority for its proof systems.
Current bitcoin and ether signatures are untouched, but the result lands while BIP-360 and BIP-361 argue the migration window is closing because classical cryptanalysis keeps improving by orders of…
AI-assisted cryptanalysis hit a long-trusted digital signature scheme and a well-known symmetric cipher, signalling the model's research utility is widening beyond code and prose.
The plan would retire remaining elliptic-curve dependencies, add Falcon-512 signatures, and ship migration tooling for live contracts, positioning Starknet ahead of peers still hashing out quantum…
Buterin framed iO as the field's ultimate unsolved problem, then walked back the dream: even the best lattice-based constructions carry computational costs he describes as 'literally galactic.'
But the runtime of today's indistinguishability obfuscation schemes still runs longer than the age of the universe, so the construction is real in theory and absent in practice.
Two executive orders compel federal high-value assets and high-impact systems to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography by 2030 and 2031, putting the US on a clock that private-sector crypto will feel…
A Coinbase-convened advisory council of leading cryptographers says Bitcoin should begin technical planning for…
A May 18 Citi note and a Google Quantum AI paper converge on the same conclusion: bitcoin's governance moves too slowly to outrun a Shor's algorithm attack that could derive a private key in under 10…
The Bitcoin maximalist argument in one line — and the open question of whether a ten-year cryptographic migration is really a faster timeline than the banks' own.
The cryptography migration validates cleanly, but the 37x signature bloat and a 40% cross-region TPS drop show the engineering bill is paid on the data layer, not the protocol.
If a commercial quantum system breaks today's signing and consensus primitives, every chain is on the clock — Cardano is betting on lattice cryptography and the FIPS 203–206 standards.
Mike Belshe calls the 2030 warning a marketing pitch, but Project Eleven's real point — that Bitcoin's bottleneck is coordination, not cryptography — is harder to dismiss.
Migration is not a technical problem but a coordination one — and on Bitcoin's governance timeline, even a decade may not be enough to move $3 trillion in elliptic-curve-secured assets before Q-Day.
Buterin's diagnosis is structural: private chains inherited the worst of both worlds — cartel politics without the openness that makes decentralization worthwhile — and the fix he proposes leans on…
He points to gaps in understanding both the math and the practical deployment of PQC signature schemes, and outlines wallet-level mitigations Solana could ship.
PACTs let holders timestamp address control on-chain without moving funds — a defensive scaffold for the day quantum can break the secp256k1 curve.
A new Bitcoin quantum proposal has surfaced that would allow Satoshi Nakamoto — or any holder of the original keys — to…
Solana has introduced Falcon, a post-quantum digital signature scheme, following independent research conducted by two…