Solana Founder Warns AI Could Unravel Post-Quantum Cryptography Schemes

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko described artificial intelligence (AI) as the biggest imminent threat to the cryptography of crypto assets. He said AI could break post-quantum cryptography (PQC) signature schemes before the industry strengthens its security.

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

Yakovenko Pushes Multisig Defense for Post-Quantum Cryptography

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

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

“In my opinion, the biggest risk is that the PCQ signature scheme 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 previously asked whether formal verification could cover that gap. However, according to Yakovenko, verification only helps if developers already know exactly what needs to be verified.

He still prefers redundancy using two of three independent schemes.

Bitcoiner Reaches Early Consensus on Satoshi’s Coins

Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, said there is a growing consensus forming around Satoshi’s ownership. He cited several discussions taking place this week in Las Vegas with skeptics, supporters, and other Bitcoiner participants.

Estimated 1.1 million Bitcoin
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attributed to Satoshi is spread across about 22,000 P2PK addresses, each containing 50 BTC. Thorn revealed that a long-range attack would need to compromise every address one by one. Meanwhile, exchanges can migrate to post-quantum addresses before Q-day arrives.

He added that the Bitcoin market can typically absorb sell pressure of more than one million BTC. This shows the network is still able to survive the worst-case scenario without sacrificing the network’s core property rights.