Ryan Sean Adams

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Bankless · Ethereum’s Quantum Strategy with Justin Drake · 23 Mar 2026 podcast

I recall him saying he was kind of hedging at that time.

This was a year ago.

This was, I think, in January 2025.

And he said within 10 years, we should have useful fault tolerant quantum computers.

But he was very careful to say that doesn't mean that we would be breaking, able to break ECDSA.

And generally, he wouldn't commit to a date because he said it was a staggeringly hard engineering problem.

I have noticed that his tone has changed a little bit over the past year.

And indeed, he's actually joined some organizations and foundations to help cryptocurrencies navigate quantum.

It seems like maybe his thinking has changed on this.

Is this for the three reasons you emphasize?

We've got breakthroughs and algorithms.

We've got...

some fault detection, I think you called this, which allows us to scale logical qubits, which I think that is the main thing that must be scaled in order to break ECDSA and then also all of the billions in VC and funding that is poured into it.

Wow.

Okay.

So governments are getting involved in this, it sounds like.

So we're not actually sure all the work that's going on behind the scenes even.

We're aware of the commercially viable work at this point.

Okay.

So on the logical qubit piece, you said we have like one logical qubit right now.

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