BTQ Technologies has launched Bitcoin Quantum, a permissionless fork testnet that replaces ECDSA with ML-DSA and increases block size to 64 MiB. The clean-slate fork aims to provide a testing ground for quantum resistance without affecting the Bitcoin mainnet.

NEAR has rolled out mainnet version 2.13.0, adding ML-DSA-65 post-quantum signatures, automatic shard splitting, NEP-611 gas keys, and peer-to-peer node sync.

Solana and Project Eleven tested a post-quantum setup using ML-DSA on testnet. Signature sizes rose from 64 bytes to roughly 1,300-2,500 bytes, while network throughput fell by about 90%.

BitGo and Silence Laboratories completed a post-quantum MPC transaction simulation using the NIST-standard ML-DSA algorithm for institutional crypto custody. The test comes as BitGo prepares for a $200M IPO and as the industry gears up for quantum-resistant upgrades.

BSC said its post-quantum migration worked in testing, keeping wallet addresses unchanged and existing tools compatible. The trade-off was steep: transaction size jumped nearly 37x and TPS fell 40% in cross-region transfer tests.

IOSG argues that quantum computing is not a doomsday button for cryptocurrencies, but it does pose a serious long-term threat to the cryptographic foundations of Web3. In a reposted article by 0xjacobzhao, the firm says the real danger is not that blockchains suddenly stop working, but that a cryptographically capable fault-tolerant quantum computer could derive private keys from already exposed public keys and produce valid signatures on-chain. That would put extreme pressure on three core properties of public blockchains: permanently public ledgers, irreversible asset transfers, and self-custodied private keys. The article says the industry’s problem is no longer a lack of post-quantum cryptography. Instead, the hard part is coordination. Bitcoin and Ethereum face different migration problems: Bitcoin must deal with exposed legacy UTXOs, signature-size expansion, and governance disputes over dormant coins, while Ethereum is working on a broader migration across accounts, validator signatures, data availability, and zero-knowledge systems. IOSG points to a 5 to 8 year “engineering comfort window” before quantum risk becomes much harder to manage, even though broader Q-Day estimates remain centered around 2035 to 2045, with faster scenarios falling in the 2030 to 2035 range.

Justin Sun announced Tron will launch a post-quantum cryptography upgrade integrating NIST standards. The initiative aims to counter future quantum threats but may impact performance due to 10x larger signatures. TRX trades near $0.33 as details remain scarce.

Asentum has launched its public testnet, a Layer1 blockchain built from scratch with post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA-65), native JavaScript smart contracts, consumer-grade hardware validators, and on-chain governance. The native token ASE has a fixed supply of 1 billion and a public sale is now live.