NEAR Protocol is adding post-quantum cryptography support

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Golden Finance reports that on May 7, NEAR Protocol announced on the X platform that the team is adding post-quantum cryptography support to the network. NEAR’s account model is different from Bitcoin and Ethereum; accounts are decoupled from cryptography and controlled through rotatable access keys.
The NEAR One team is adding the NIST-approved lattice-based FIPS-204 scheme as the first post-quantum signature option. After launch, any NEAR account holder can rotate keys through a single transaction to achieve quantum security. NEAR is also working with software and hardware wallets to advance post-quantum support.
Through the chain signature feature, NEAR can provide threshold signatures for over 35 chains. The NEAR Intents team is developing quantum-secure cross-chain signature schemes. If other chains are slow to adopt post-quantum cryptography, NEAR can offer a quantum-secure environment.
Consensus mechanisms, validators, block synchronization, and transaction signatures also need to evolve for the post-quantum era, with the goal of achieving a one-time, future-compatible migration.

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