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What if the computation used to secure a blockchain could also earn money from paying clients?
QMS is designing Proof-of-Useful-Work so the same solver run could earn a block reward and a payment for a qualifying solution. The marketplace is planned for a later release.
The complexity behind a simple investment decision:
60 tokens. Room for 8.
That gives you over 2.5 billion possible baskets, before deciding how much to put in each.
QMS is building a network where miners compete to find portfolios that meet a client's risk limits and objectives.
What makes QMS a blockchain for the quantum era?
Here are 5 things to know:
> QMS is a Layer-1 blockchain, with Ethereum-compatible execution so developers can use familiar smart contracts and tools.
> QMS is purpose-built for the post-quantum era. Its design considers both sides of quantum computing: the threat to existing cryptography and the opportunity to use quantum hardware for useful computation.
> QMS’ block production is quantum-resistant by design. Its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) mechanism doesn't rely on public-key signatures. That protection is specific to block production; account security and finality are separate parts of the system.
> QMS is designed to accommodate quantum hardware without depending on it to launch. Classical miners provide the starting point. Hybrid systems can introduce quantum assistance, while native quantum mining requires a new proof framework that is still being developed.
> The quantum-era focus shapes the wider network design. QMS considers block time, consensus, and tokenomics together. Its planned useful-work marketplace would let clients pay miners for optimization results, helping fund network security alongside block rewards and transaction fees.
Banks can coordinate security upgrades centrally. On public blockchains, exposed public keys remain in transaction history, while upgrading protection can require users, wallets, and the network to move together.
That coordination takes time. Waiting until quantum attacks are possible could leave funds exposed while the ecosystem is still upgrading.
For users, a quantum-resistant wallet is only part of the protection. The network that validates transactions and makes them final also needs to be secure. That’s why quantum readiness has to cover both users’ accounts and the protocol securing them.
A September 2026 snapshot of where Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and major Ethereum L2s stand on post-quantum migration:
Bitcoin: BIP-360 and BIP-361 remain drafts. Neither is activated. BIP-360 addresses long-exposed public keys; BIP-361 proposes a future migration and legacy-signature sunset.
August brought additional progress: a prototype SHRINCS signature specification and StarkWare’s reported quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet. The latter used existing rules, expensive off-chain computation, and a direct mining path. It demonstrates a specialized construction, not a network-wide migration.
Ethereum: On September 7, the EF Protocol cluster set a self-imposed December 2029 deadline for quantum resistance across execution, consensus, and data. EIP-8141 Frame Transactions is now selected for Hegotá, providing a native account-abstraction path toward alternative signatures. This is a firmer delivery commitment, but the migration is still ahead.
Solana: Falcon implementation work is now complemented by Quantumglow, Anza’s proposed post-quantum adaptation of Alpenglow. Published in late July, it explores hash-based validator signatures and changes to consensus communication. It remains research, while ordinary Solana transactions still use Ed25519 signatures.
Major Ethereum L2s: Starknet has demonstrated an experimental, unaudited Falcon-512 account transfer on mainnet. Its broader migration remains incomplete, with bridge and data availability dependencies on Ethereum. Optimism also has a published roadmap, including a January 2036 target to deprecate ECDSA-based externally owned accounts, subject to governance approval. These are different milestones, not completed network-wide protection.
A post-quantum wallet is one part of the migration. Consensus, settlement, and data availability need protection too.
The ECDSA(.)fail paper just went public.
In March, Google Quantum AI reported a more efficient circuit for a core step in a quantum attack on signatures used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. It published a proof and a program to check other people’s circuits but kept its own circuit private.
Eigen Labs turned that checker into a public contest. Over roughly two months, more than 100 contributors working with AI produced a benchmark score more than 50% below Google’s lower published benchmark, reaching that result by July 26.
The leaderboard has since moved to about 62% below. Differences in the circuit designs and how resources are counted prevent a direct comparison. This research did not recover a private key.
Moving systems to quantum-safe signatures takes years. This benchmark improved in roughly two months, in public, and the contest is still running.
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