Quantum-resistant should come with a clear answer to one question:
Which parts of the system?
The wallet signature? Recovery process? Validator keys? The proof system behind a privacy network?
That is why @quipnetwork latest reminder about the Quantum Alliance is worth revisiting.
Postquant Labs and 8 other organizations launched the Alliance on October 15 to develop shared, public criteria for post-quantum readiness.
The problem it addresses remains unresolved: without a common standard, two projects can use the same security label while protecting very different things.
The Alliance’s initial work covers four areas:
- Migrating live blockchains, including exposed keys and dormant accounts
- Evaluating post-quantum zero-knowledge systems
- Securing wallets, hardware signers and recovery flows
- Making post-quantum keys work consistently across chains
This is an independent, open initiative - not a Quip certification programme. Individual contributors can participate and its outputs are intended to be published openly.
The next milestone to watch is the actual output: test criteria, benchmarks and migration reference designs.
A useful standard should let developers, custodians and users ask the same questions and compare the evidence behind the answers.

