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Solana's 3-Year Quantum Wedge: Why Yakovenko Told Ethereum L2 Users to Abandon All Hope
·Dora Noda·11 min

Solana's 3-Year Quantum Wedge: Why Yakovenko Told Ethereum L2 Users to Abandon All Hope

Anatoly Yakovenko told Ethereum L2 users to 'abandon all hope' on quantum safety the same hour Anza and Firedancer shipped Falcon-512 verification — opening a 3-year competitive window before Ethereum's 2029 post-quantum deadline.

Solana
Ethereum
layer-2
cryptography
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Optimism's 10-Year Quantum Clock: Why the Superchain Just Became the First L2 to Set an ECDSA Sunset Date
·Dora Noda·10 min

Optimism's 10-Year Quantum Clock: Why the Superchain Just Became the First L2 to Set an ECDSA Sunset Date

Optimism set a January 2036 deadline to retire ECDSA across the Superchain — the first L2 to publish a dated post-quantum migration plan, and a strategic challenge to Arbitrum, ZKsync, and the rest of the cohort.

layer-2
Ethereum
cryptography
security
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Project Eleven's $120M Bet: How a Special Forces Veteran Convinced Coinbase the Quantum Threat Is Already Here
·Dora Noda·10 min

Project Eleven's $120M Bet: How a Special Forces Veteran Convinced Coinbase the Quantum Threat Is Already Here

Project Eleven's $20M Series A at a $120M valuation signals that institutional crypto is taking the post-quantum threat seriously — and that yellowpages, its retrofit-first migration tool, may be the only practical path for the trillions already on-chain.

Bitcoin
Solana
cryptography
security
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Solana's Post-Quantum Paradox: When 40x Signatures and 90% Speed Loss Threaten the Fastest Chain's Identity
·Dora Noda·12 min

Solana's Post-Quantum Paradox: When 40x Signatures and 90% Speed Loss Threaten the Fastest Chain's Identity

Solana's first end-to-end post-quantum signature tests showed 40x larger signatures and a 90% throughput drop. Here is why Anza and Firedancer both chose Falcon, why Solana is uniquely exposed to a quantum break, and how the migration compares to Bitcoin's BIP-360 and Ethereum's account-abstraction path.

Solana
cryptography
security
Bitcoin
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BIP-361: Bitcoin's Most Controversial Proposal Since SegWit
·Dora Noda·11 min

BIP-361: Bitcoin's Most Controversial Proposal Since SegWit

Bitcoin developers proposed BIP-361 to freeze roughly 6.5M quantum-vulnerable BTC, including Satoshi's coins. Here is why the five-year migration plan splits the community.

Bitcoin
cryptography
security
governance
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When AI Agents Hold the Keys: Why Mind Network's FHE Bet Could Define the Next $311B
·Dora Noda·9 min

When AI Agents Hold the Keys: Why Mind Network's FHE Bet Could Define the Next $311B

Mind Network is betting that fully homomorphic encryption is the missing primitive between $311B in stablecoin supply and autonomous agents that can hold private keys without leaking strategy. A look at the stack war shaping the machine economy.

FHE
privacy
AI agents
stablecoins
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Project Eleven's $20M Bet: Inside the Race to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin Before Q-Day
·Dora Noda·12 min

Project Eleven's $20M Bet: Inside the Race to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin Before Q-Day

Project Eleven's $20 million Series A signals the first serious capital cycle into quantum-safe crypto as Google's tighter resource estimates put roughly $440 billion of vulnerable Bitcoin UTXOs on a shorter migration clock.

Bitcoin
security
cryptography
infrastructure
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45 Seconds to Drain Your Wallet: Inside Ledger's MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Exploit
·Dora Noda·9 min

45 Seconds to Drain Your Wallet: Inside Ledger's MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Exploit

Ledger's Donjon team extracted seed phrases from Android hot wallets in 45 seconds by exploiting an unpatchable boot ROM flaw in MediaTek's Dimensity 7300 — the same chip powering the Solana Seeker.

security
cybersecurity
custody
Solana
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Zama's HTTPZ Bet: Can FHE Become the Default Privacy Layer of the Internet?
·Dora Noda·8 min

Zama's HTTPZ Bet: Can FHE Become the Default Privacy Layer of the Internet?

Zama's mainnet is live, cUSDT moved confidentially on Ethereum for 13 cents, and the company is selling a big idea called HTTPZ — private-by-default computation. Here's what's real, what's still hype, and why 2026 is the year FHE exits the lab.

FHE
privacy
Ethereum
cryptography
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