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Cake day: September 5th, 2025

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  • This is active area of research and development. As far as I am aware, we currently have the efforts on Lean Ethereum, which is kind of a longer term effort of bringing deeper improvements to make Ethereum efficient and secure for the long term, by replacing a lot of sub-optimal components with components that are known to be much closer to optimal, like zk-snarks (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge)

    A significant component of lean Ethereum is to future-proof the consensus layer (CL) and data layer (DL), replacing BLS and KZG with post-quantum equivalents

    The community is currently focused on hash-based constructions as the leading post-quantum option, but a healthy diversity of views is expected and welcome, as I’m already hearing about lattice-based options

    A few months ago, lean client teams were sprinting towards a post-quantum devnet as discussed during beam day Cannes in 2025 EthCC

    https://xcancel.com/ladislaus0x/status/1994342897152311665

    Transcription of above tweets:

    @ladislaus0x Ethereum consensus will eventually have to switch to post-quantum (PQ) signatures — and early R&D efforts look promising!
    PQ signatures pose a challenge as they are ~30x larger than today’s signatures. Dealing with aggregated signatures is even trickier, given our goal for consensus participants to verify them on low-compute and low-bandwidth devices
    Tune in to weekly developer calls to track progress and learn more

    @ReamLabs Ream and @zeamETH achieved devnet1 interop! New report of @qdrvm_io also achieving interop just now!
    The first Lean Consensus devnet that integrates post-quantum signature signing & verification.
    Next step: scale up # of validators and performance baseline for future devnets!

    The main efforts driven forward were related to writing specifications for post-quantum signature aggregation and optimizations to the corresponding networking layer, which are necessary to handle the much larger post-quantum signatures

    This is the repo where you can see their findings and you can also follow the progress closely on this community maintained website too: https://leanroadmap.org/

    Post-quantum signature aggregation is also being worked on leanMultisig

    Besides, please correct me if I am wrong, if you ever get worried about quantum, you transfer your funds to a fresh address and not transact with the new account until more guidance arrives. If no existing signature is known from an account, it will be safe.