Nine blockchain organizations — spanning base-layer protocols, privacy networks, rollups, hardware wallets, and security auditors including Quantus, Postquant Labs, Midnight Foundation, Keystone, and Abelian — launched the Quantum Alliance on Thursday. The open standards body has one mission: to settle the industry’s murkiest question — what it actually means for a blockchain network to be safe from quantum computers.
The urgency is real. The alliance warns that elliptic-curve signatures (used by Bitcoin and nearly all crypto) leave roughly 6.04 million BTC — about 30 percent of total supply — exposed, with some forecasts placing the first practical attack in the late 2020s. Much of that total sits in Satoshi-era coins whose legacy addresses expose public keys directly.
Modeled on the IETF, the alliance will work across four groups: cryptography migration, zero-knowledge systems, wallet security, and cross-chain compatibility. Its goal is to make testing and verifying “quantum-ready” claims uniform — not a free-for-all of project marketing.
For crypto holders in Indonesia, the practical message is: no need to panic today. No quantum attack has occurred, and cryptographic migration is a years-long process that is, at last, being coordinated. But the moment underscores one thing — crypto security is not an eternal guarantee, but a race between quantum progress and improving defenses.