Nine major Bitcoin firms launched a consortium pledging $15 million to support Bitcoin security research and long-term resilience, including quantum readiness.
Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative to help prepare the Bitcoin network for the potential threat posed by powerful quantum computers.
BitGo launched new quantum-risk tools that help institutional Bitcoin holders identify and reduce potential future quantum-computing exposure in their custody wallets.
Moody's warned that President Trump's new quantum computing executive orders accelerate the need for Bitcoin and the broader digital asset industry to adopt quantum-resistant cryptography.
Guillaume Girard of UTXO Management argues that while a quantum computer capable of breaking Bitcoin may never arrive, the network must prepare now because protocol changes move slowly, like a state legislature.
BIP-361 proposes migrating Bitcoin away from legacy cryptographic signatures to quantum-resistant alternatives through a phased deadline that could eventually make unmigrated coins permanently unspendable.
