Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs

Ethereum elevated post-quantum cryptography to a top strategic priority this month, forming a dedicated PQ team led by Thomas Coratger and announcing $1 million in prizes to harden hash-based primitives. The announcement came one day before a16z crypto published a roadmap arguing that quantum threats are frequently overstated and premature migrations risk trading known security […] The post Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs appeared first on CryptoSlate.