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Y2Q warning — quantum computers will break RSA & ECDSAtime to quantum 2029 · migrate to lattice
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why every chain is on a clock

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why every chain is on a clock

by Amar Jafari · Mar 21, 2026

Every blockchain signs with ECDSA. Every ECDSA key is one shor's-algorithm away from being recovered. So every chain — every wallet, every bridge, every contract — is on a clock, and the clock ends when a quantum computer is big enough.

Nobody knows the exact date. What's certain is the direction: qubit counts are climbing, error correction is real, and the algorithms that break ECDSA are already written and tested on small numbers.

today:  ECDSA —  safe, for now
soon:   ECDSA —  broken by shor
always: lattice —  no known quantum attack

the migration is the product

This isn't a new feature. It's the single most important upgrade in the history of crypto — moving every signature from a system a quantum computer can break to one it can't. Lattice is that upgrade, packaged as a layer.