The Pod: Post-Quantum Readiness
summary
Claims neutral-atom hardware plus improved circuits could run Shor with roughly 26,000 physical qubits versus superconducting estimates near 500,000, and the presenter estimates about a 1% chance by 2030. Practical fixes: migrate ED25519 accounts to Falcon (NIST candidate) and offer a ZK seed-proof migration path that currently compresses from ~400 KB to an optimistic 100 kilobyte ZK proof and generates in ~50 ms. Protocol changes required: avoid bloating a 1,500 byte shred with huge signatures (leader multicast signature + unsigned shreds), add Falcon verification syscalls, and replace BLS aggregation by broadcasting fragments or raw votes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Post-quantum readiness intro
- 1:28Quantum computing progress
- 3:55Neutral atom quantum computers
- 7:03Quantum threat timeline
- 8:06Post-quantum crypto standards
- 9:32Migrating to quantum-resistant sigs
- 11:37Securing Solana beyond accounts
- 13:25Block propagation with larger sigs
- 14:48Consensus security post-quantum
- 16:11Implementation and next steps
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