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Planning for a #Quantumcomputing 'adaptive' future for the team. The #CKB Virtual Machine is designed from the ground up to be “crypto-agnostic,” which gives it native, built-in adaptability to quantum-resistant cryptography. This is a major architectural advantage over most other #blockchains. You can tell the community are updating for the future. Flexibility is key to our tech communities survival. The threat of quantum computers is real, if not sensationalised at times and when they become powerful enough, they will break the public-key cryptography that secures almost every major chain today. Algorithms like secp256k1/ECDSA (used by #BTC, #Ethereum, and most others) rely on problems that a sufficiently large quantum computer can solve in minutes using Shor’s algorithm. An attacker could then forge signatures and steal funds from any exposed address or UTXO. Not all addresses are exposed on Bitcoins for instance and work is being down to make sure the rest are ,migrated. Most chains have these cryptographic primitives hardcoded into their consensus rules or virtual machines. Upgrading them would require a risky, network-wide hard fork — something that is slow, politically difficult, and leaves a window of vulnerability for everyone. Without preparation, a “harvest now, decrypt later” attack is also possible: This means attackers can steal encrypted data today and decrypt it once quantum computers arrive. This is not a joke even if it can be overblown at times. Quantum resistance (also called post-quantum cryptography or PQC) uses new mathematical problems (hash-based, lattice-based, etc.) that even quantum computers cannot efficiently solve. NIST has already standardized several, including SPHINCS+ (a hash-based signature scheme under FIPS 205). We use SPHINCS+ if you haven't guessed already. Our users can today create a wallet via the “Quantum Purse” wallet (https://lnkd.in/etMxc7H6) which uses the SPHINCS+ lock by default. Assets remain secure even if quantum computers break ECDSA tomorrow. No hard fork, no consensus change, no network-wide migration required. That's because the CKB VM turns quantum resistance from a painful network-wide upgrade into a simple software choice. This is the architectural foresight CKB is providing and we arent going to hang around. This makes us natively quantum-resistant, rather than trying to retrofit the feature later. No ripping out our guts, no purge , merge or splurging the system by centralised leadership. All done very simplistically. It's this reason why the Jedi coders and community chose the RISC-V+ Cell-model. Open sourced hardware and instruction sets. It future-proofs the entire chain against not just quantum threats, but any future cryptographic breakthroughs!!!

Last Saturday, I had the privilege of attending CKB OffChain—Lagos, Nigeria! For those unfamiliar, CKB OffChain is a global community initiative by The Nervos Network Community account. It brings together builders, developers, and blockchain enthusiasts at the grassroots level, city by city. Lagos joining that map means something. This event holds a special place for me. It marks the final partnership I closed with Techy Jaunt before stepping into my new role at UBA Group. Looking back, what TechyJaunt set out to do was simple but powerful: connect emerging tech talent with the opportunities, communities, and exposure they deserve. Bridging that gap for young Africans has been one of the most fulfilling things I've done professionally, and events like this remind me why that work matters. Grateful for every collaboration, every handshake, and every in-person moment that made this journey real. And I am excited for what comes next! To everyone I connected with at the event, it was great seeing you IRL. 🤝