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‘The great quantum migration’ is coming as more than $2 trillion in digital assets is at risk—nearly the entire value of the overall crypto market
Summary
More than $2 trillion in digital assets could be exposed to future quantum attacks because they rely on elliptic-curve cryptography. The risk potentially covers nearly the entire cryptocurrency market.
The decisive shift is that quantum computing could eventually undermine the cryptography securing most digital
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Crypto firms face a market-wide security transition that must happen before quantum computers can exploit existing keys.