Founder of Solana Warns AI Could Break Post-Quantum Cryptography Schemes

Co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, considers artificial intelligence (AI) as the biggest imminent threat to cryptocurrency cryptography. He states that AI could crack post-quantum cryptography (PQC) signature schemes before the industry strengthens its security.

Bitcoin developers and analysts are now beginning to agree on the future quantum threat without disrupting Satoshi Nakamoto's ownership.

Yakovenko Advocates Multisig Defense for Post-Quantum Cryptography

The Solana co-founder believes that the industry has not fully understood the mathematical weaknesses or implementation flaws of PQC.

He wants wallets to combine multiple signature schemes with a two-out-of-three multisig system. This setup can be natively supported in Solana's transaction processor through Program Derived Addresses.

“In my opinion, the biggest risk is that PQC signature schemes will be broken by AI. We don't even know all the traps on the implementation side, let alone the mathematics,” Yakovenko said.

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov once asked whether formal verification could cover these vulnerabilities. However, according to Yakovenko, verification only helps if developers already know exactly what needs to be verified.

He still prefers redundancy with two out of three independent schemes.

Bitcoiners Reach Early Consensus on Satoshi’s Coins

Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, says there is a growing consensus regarding Satoshi’s ownership. He cites several discussions held this week in Las Vegas with skeptics, supporters, and other Bitcoiners.

Estimated 1.1 million BTC
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owned by Satoshi are spread across approximately 22,000 P2PK addresses, each containing 50 BTC. Thorn explains that a long-range attack would need to breach each address individually. Meanwhile, exchanges could migrate to post-quantum addresses before the Q-day arrives.

He adds that the Bitcoin market can typically absorb selling pressure of over one million BTC. This indicates that the network can still withstand worst-case scenarios without sacrificing the core property rights of the network.