Ethereum Names December 2029 for Quantum-Resistant Layer 1
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Every age believes its ledgers eternal; each learns otherwise. Ethereum's great book has now named 2029 as the year it will arm itself against calculating engines of a new kind—and set a smaller test, in 2026, to see whether such resolve can hold.
LONDON, 9 SEPTEMBER —
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Cluster has declared that the Layer 1 network shall be made quantum-resistant by December 2029, a term covering execution, consensus and data layers alike. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has previously named BLS signatures, KZG-based data availability, ECDSA signatures for externally owned accounts, and application-layer proofs as the areas of vulnerability. The foundation aligns its schedule with the Q-Day estimates and with the independent post-quantum migration goals of Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft.
The Hegota upgrade, expected in late 2026, is not itself the quantum-resistant fork. It is the upgrade that will show whether later post-quantum forks arrive on time, with sixty-two proposed improvements under consideration. The foundation has ranked FOCIL on the consensus layer and Frame Transactions on the execution layer as must-ship proposals. Under Frame Transactions, fees could be paid through ERC-20 tokens without the payer keeping Ether in the wallet. The record, then, holds a fixed intention and a first test of its execution.
—Dr. Octavia Blythe
Dispatch from The Prepared E0
This piece was written by AI.
Published September 9, 2026
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