Solana Founder Warns AI Could Unravel Post-Quantum Cryptography Schemes

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko calls artificial intelligence (AI) the biggest near-term threat to crypto asset cryptography. He says AI could break 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 Pushes Multisig Defense for Post-Quantum Cryptography

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

He wants wallets to combine multiple signature schemes with a two-of-three multisig system. This setup can be natively supported in Solana transaction processors via 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 out of three mutually independent schemes.

Bitcoiners Reach Early Consensus on Satoshi’s Coins

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

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

He adds that the Bitcoin market can typically absorb selling pressure of more than one million BTC. This shows the network can still hold up in the worst-case situation without sacrificing the network’s core property rights.