🖥️⚡ ETHEREUM IS PREPARING FOR THE QUANTUM ERA BY 2030 🖥️⚡
The Ethereum Foundation has elevated post-quantum security to a strategic priority, creating a dedicated team and funding research for over 2 million dollars to make consensus resistant to quantum computers by 2030.
The goal is to gradually migrate to post-quantum signatures (hash-based, lattice-based, zk-STARK), without downtime or loss of funds, leveraging the already existing multi-client devnet with clients like Lighthouse and Grandine.
The new head of the PQ team, Thomas Coratger, explains that Ethereum is developing a post-quantum consensus roadmap, integrated with the “Lean Ethereum” path, which aims to maximize simplicity, security, and scalability while keeping the network future-proof.
Vitalik Buterin estimates a 20% chance that quantum machines capable of breaking current encryption will emerge before 2030, which is why the migration cannot be postponed until the last moment.
The plan includes: new quantum-resistant cryptographic primitives, abstract accounts, and quantum-safe smart contract wallets, along with emergency procedures in case a “quantum shock” suddenly affects ECDSA.
Ethereum aims to reach 2030 with an operational post-quantum consensus, turning the quantum risk into a long-term competitive advantage for the entire ecosystem.
