The Ethereum Foundation has made this a top priority by creating a dedicated Post Quantum (PQ) team.
The new group is led by Thomas Coratger, a cryptographic engineer at the foundation, and is supported by Emile, a cryptographer affiliated with leanVM, according to researcher Justin Drake.
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Drake said in a post on X, “After years of quiet R&D, EF management has officially declared PQ security a top strategic priority. It’s now 2026, timelines are accelerating. Time to go full PQ”.
Drake noted that leanVM, a small zero-knowledge virtual machine, could become part of Ethereum’s post-quantum security approach.
To prepare the ecosystem, Ethereum researchers are launching a developer series next month. The biweekly sessions, led by Antonio Sanso, will cover tools that improve user protection.
These include cryptographic updates at the protocol level, new approaches to account abstraction, and methods for combining transaction signatures using leanVM.
Drake also announced two separate $1 million programs: the Poseidon Prize, which focuses on improving the Poseidon hash function, and the Proximity Prize, which aims to advance post-quantum cryptography research.
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