COINDESK · 2026-11-12 11:52 UTC

Ethereum researchers drop faster blocks to race toward quantum defenses in 2027

Ethlabs withdrew its faster-block proposal from the planned 2027 Hegotá upgrade and urged developers to prioritize post-quantum security, aiming for 2027 instead of the current 2028 target. The vulnerability is that wallet public keys are visible on-chain, and a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could in theory derive secret keys and drain accounts; the Ethereum Foundation's protocol team had set a December 2029 target in September. Ethlabs proposes building Hegotá around Frame Transactions, delaying FOCIL, and citing AI-driven bug hunting as added urgency; the schedule change is only a…

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