Solana pitches Quantumglow to shield Alpenglow from quantum attacks
- —Quantumglow changes validator signatures and block authentication; no deployment date announced
- —Anza published the research on July 30, authored by Kniep, Sliwinski and Wattenhofer
- —Alpenglow activated on mainnet Oct. 21 in epoch 1064 with a 150 ms finality target
- —No Quantumglow-specific SIMD has been published
Why it matters: Quantum threats to Ed25519 signatures affect Solana consensus and accounts, but the proposal remains research-stage with no rollout timeline.
Source: crypto.news