Overview
- A dedicated Post-Quantum team led by Thomas Coratger is now operational with Emile and the leanVM project positioned as the effort’s cryptographic cornerstone.
- The Foundation announced $2 million in prizes, including a $1 million Poseidon Prize to harden the Poseidon hash function and a $1 million Proximity initiative for broader post-quantum research.
- Biweekly developer sessions on post-quantum transactions begin in February under Antonio Sanso, focusing on account abstraction, protocol precompiles, and future signature aggregation.
- Multi-client post-quantum devnets are already running with weekly interoperability calls, with participation from teams such as Lighthouse and Grandine and Prysm expected to follow.
- A Post-Quantum Day is set for March 29 in Cannes and a larger workshop is planned for October, with a public roadmap forthcoming that targets a transition without loss of funds or network downtime.