$ICP 🔥 why??? it's not just blockchain, but a new generation Internet infrastructure
💡 If one day quantum computers really threaten blockchain:
• BTC & ETH will have to race to patch vulnerabilities
• ICP is one of the very few networks that has “anticipated this” right from the design stage.
⚡️What has ICP specifically done to counter quantum threats?
💪4 main layers of protection for ICP:
1. Threshold Cryptography
• No complete private key exists in one place
2. Chain-key model
• Unique public key for the entire network#
• But signatures are generated in a distributed manner
3. Crypto agility
• Can change algorithms when needed (PQC-ready)
4. No keys exposed in a traditional way
• Unlike BTC/ETH which expose personal public keys during transactions
🔥Dominic Williams has clearly stated:
ICP is designed to adapt to future cryptographic breakthroughs, including quantum computers.
👉More importantly: ICP has “prepared” for post-quantum
🚀 ICP is designed to upgrade crypto without a hard fork
Unlike BTC:
• BTC wants to change signature algorithms → extremely difficult hard fork
• ICP can:
• Change signature algorithms
• Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
• Not disrupt the network
👉 ICP is currently a MORE SECURE blockchain than BTC & ETH against quantum threats.
🔐 Core reason:
✅ ICP does NOT use ECDSA as its main foundation
ICP uses Chain Key Cryptography architecture with:
• Threshold BLS signatures
• Keys distributed across multiple nodes
• No “single private key” to break
👉 This means:
• Cannot attack a single point (single point of failure)
• Even with quantum → must break multiple distributed signatures
