1/ Bitcoin's latest post-quantum migration proposal, BIP-361, would freeze quantum-vulnerable addresses once the sunset period starts.
Freezing accounts is not ideal, but if you hold an HD wallet seed phrase, you'll still have a path to recover your funds after the freeze.
Here's how 👇🏻
The Coinbase Independent Advisory Board on Quantum Computing and Blockchain dropped a 50-page report on April 21.
Section 4.3 walks through four strategies for migrating execution-layer signatures to PQ.
Only one strategy gets a deployed example, by @SoundnessLabs
Every quantum migration plan you have heard requires new addresses, a hard fork, or moving your assets somewhere else.
Come find out more tomorrow at zkSummit14 in Rome.
At 16:15 mainstage, @Mahdi_seda presents:
“Proof of Seed: ZK-Based Quantum Migration Without Address Changes”
Legacy systems have been our cryptographic backbone for decades.
One challenge in the PQ transition is finding approaches that integrate cleanly into the systems & flows already used today.
That’s what @Mahdi_seda from @SoundnessLabs discussed at the PQTS #7 call last week. 🧵
🔴Today is a big day for quantum threats against blockchains and crypto!
What @GoogleQuantumAI is showing is pretty concrete:
– ~20x improvement in Shor’s algorithm efficiency
– breaking ECDSA keys potentially in minutes, not months
– ~500K physical qubits to reach that level
– and a 2029 timeline that now looks realistic, not conservative
The gap between “theoretical risk” and “practical attack” is closing fast.
The takeaway is simple:
post-quantum is no longer something you prepare for later.
Systems need to be built so they can transition without breaking; because when this hits, there won’t be time to redesign everything from scratch.
That’s the direction we’re building at @SoundnessLabs.
This is a Big news!
Read it like this: all activities of Soundies are now easily traceable.
As a proud partner of @WalrusProtocol, we’re excited to share our stats on @Dune Dashboard in real time: https://t.co/K16gEwyQXi
More cool updates will be added gradually, stay tuned!
Quilt is a cheat code for decentralized data storage. 🪄
We plugged it into our decentralized verificaion layer and "boom" costs dropped instantly. ⚡️
Happy to keep quilting with the @WalrusProtocol team. 🤝
Soundies are our greatest witnesses. 🐬
As crypto goes mainstream, real privacy is no longer
optional, it’s urgent. Soundness is literally building the only thing that delivers.
Proofs you can’t fake, privacy that survives forever.
1/ We’re happy to announce our new landing page.
https://t.co/BNKPu55VIz
It reflects a shift we have been making internally for some time at Soundness.
We are no longer treating PQ cryptography as a distant upgrade. We are building infrastructure for quantum-ready blockchains.
🎉 We just reached 1,000,000 Soundness Proofs!
We’ve just crossed an important milestone together: 1M ZK proofs generated and attested on-chain.
A number this big only matters because of the Soundies behind it.