Quantus Weekly: The Suits Are Getting Q-Pilled

The suits are getting Q-pilled.

This week Blackrock published a report on quantum computing and blockchains, and the Whitehouse issued an executive order accelerating their timelines for PQC migration.

Both confirm:

• Going post-quantum is an execution problem (no longer an ideological debate).
• Elliptic curve cryptography is at risk.
• NIST standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA) are the solution.
• The hard part is coordination.
• Migration needs to be completed in under 5 years.

There’s over $2T at risk in the crypto markets, and it’s our objective to secure as much of that as possible before Q-Day.

Here’s what we shipped this week:

Github Activity (12 merged pull requests):

Core Tech & ZK:

• Advanced formal verification of our ZK circuits and a subset of Plonky2.
• Fixed a consensus bug that caused occasional temporary reorgs.
• Consolidated the runtime’s security-critical code into a single auditable surface ahead of security audit.
• Released a JavaScript SDK to make Web3 integration easy.
• Tightened runtime security and reviewed the runtime code surface.

Network & Infra:

• Reminder to miners: recent runtime upgrades require a CLI update to claim rewards.
• Improved the Subsquid deploy strategy for node updates.

Web & Mobile App Updates:

• Added balance and history refresh on incoming notifications.
• Added technical governance notifications and security monitoring.

Content & Partnerships:

Joe Mattia’s full QDay keynote:

Chris joined the wenaltseason X space on the quantum threat to crypto:

Industry Updates:

• BlackRock published a whitepaper on the quantum risk to digital assets. We broke it down here:

• The White House issued an executive order setting deadlines for federal systems to migrate to post-quantum cryptography.

It’s up to us.

Stay frosty, quants.