Overview
- Founder Justin Sun said TRON will add National Institute of Standards and Technology–vetted post-quantum signatures to its mainnet and promised a technical roadmap soon, calling it the first major public chain to do so.
- Post-quantum signatures are designed to resist attacks from future quantum computers that could break today’s public-key cryptography used to secure wallets and authorize transactions.
- Coverage tied the push to research attributed to Google that described how a powerful quantum machine could crack a Bitcoin private key in minutes and enable “on-spend” attacks that disrupt pending transfers, with estimates that millions of BTC could be exposed.
- Sun contrasted TRON’s deployment push with Bitcoin’s ongoing debate and Ethereum’s research committees, casting his network’s approach as build-first on quantum safety.
- The Merkle, citing Lookonchain, reported TRON booked $82.69 million in protocol revenue in Q1 2026 and has $5.115 billion locked on the network, signaling resources to support a complex security upgrade.