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Quantum-Ready Crypto Becomes Credibility Test as NIST Sets 2035 Deadline
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Quantum-Ready Crypto Becomes Credibility Test as NIST Sets 2035 Deadline

NIST finalized post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024 with a 2035 deprecation deadline, forcing crypto projects to demonstrate concrete quantum-readiness plans. Coinbase warns that roughly 13.6 million Bitcoin addresses have exposed public keys, while Google's research shows quantum computers could break elliptic-curve cryptography with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits. Projects without clear migration roadmaps risk losing institutional credibility.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness Becomes Credibility Test for Crypto Industry
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Tech·4/22/2026AI summary

Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness Becomes Credibility Test for Crypto Industry

NIST finalized post-quantum cryptography standards in August 2024 with a 2035 deprecation deadline, prompting Coinbase and Google to publish migration roadmaps. The crypto industry faces a full-stack migration challenge across consensus layers, wallets, exchanges, and hardware, with vendors like Trezor and AWS already marketing quantum-ready products. The convergence of these directives transforms post-quantum planning from a technical debate into a governance and credibility test, where firms with concrete end-to-end migration plans may gain institutional advantage.

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Ripple Sets 2028 Target for XRP Ledger Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness
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Ripple Sets 2028 Target for XRP Ledger Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness

Ripple announced a multi-stage plan to prepare the XRP Ledger for post-quantum cryptography with a 2028 target for full readiness, responding to Google Quantum AI research showing roughly 500,000 physical qubits may be enough to attack ECDLP-256 cryptography. The four-phase roadmap begins with contingency planning in 2026, followed by research and testing, controlled environments on Devnet, and a production transition involving a new XRPL amendment.

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