Cold storage doesn’t protect you from quantum threats and most people don’t realize why


Your private key isn’t getting “hacked” off your device. the attack is math, not malware
The second you’ve ever sent a transaction, your public key is visible onchain. a quantum computer doesn’t need access to your ledger, it just needs that public key to derive your private one
Doesn’t matter if you’re on a hardware wallet, multisig, or MPC. the vulnerability isn’t the device, it’s the cryptography underneath it
@quipnetwork is building around this with a firewall contract that wraps your key pair in post quantum cryptography, basically upgrading the lock itself instead of just hiding the key better
Hardware wallets aren’t dead, they just can’t fix this problem alone. the protection has to happen at the key level
This is the kind of infra that doesn’t get attention until it’s too late, worth keeping on your radar
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