The EF’s Post-Quantum and Cryptography teams have consolidated an 8-year research push into an open resource with a roadmap and specifications.
The Ethereum Foundation on Tuesday launcheda dedicated website consolidating the organization’s post-quantum (PQ) security work into a single public resource.
The site represents the public-facing culmination of what the EF describes as an 8-year effort that began with early STARK-based signature aggregation research in 2018.
“Ethereum is designed to serve as resilient, self-sovereign infrastructure — not for decades, but for centuries,” the site reads. The EF frames the transition as an opportunity to strengthen the protocol’s security, simplicity, and decentralization rather than simply swapping one primitive for another.
The resource brings together several strands of work. It breaks down how post-quantum cryptography affects each protocol layer — execution, consensus, and data — and maps out a phased migration across named forks onthe EF Architecture team’s living draft roadmap.
The team’s current assessment places Layer 1 (L1) protocol upgrades as potentially complete by 2029, with full execution-layer migration taking additional years beyond that.
On the threat timeline, the FAQ states that most engineering roadmaps place cryptographic relevance in the early-to-mid 2030s, but that upgrading decentralized global infrastructure will take many years, making early preparation essential.
The PQ milestones are part of the EF’s broader strawmap. Post-quantum L1 is one of five “north stars” alongside fast L1, gigagas L1, teragas L2, and private L1. The strawmap outlines seven forks through 2029 on a roughly six-month cadence, though the document notes that AI-accelerated R&D could compress timelines.
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Source: https://thedefiant.io/news/blockchains/ethereum-foundation-launches-post-quantum-research-hub
