Ryan Sean Adams

Quickly, could you talk about the data layer?

KZG needs to be upgraded to something post-quantum and the consensus layer where we have BLS signatures.

Is that sort of similar in terms of the level of effort to the execution layer in replacing ECDSA?

So I think now listeners might be thinking at this point of the conversation, okay, it sounds like the Ethereum community has a plan to upgrade to post-quantum.

They're acknowledging that quantum computers will exist and there is a QDA and they have a plan.

Now they're wondering about timeline and level of effort.

So I took Vitalik's post-quantum roadmap tweet and I threw it into Claude and I was like, hey, Claude, what's the level of effort here?

What are we talking about?

How difficult really is this?

And cloud responded like, think of this as like a nine out of 10.

Okay, this is one, the most significant upgrade, maybe one of or the most significant upgrade that Ethereum will ever do.

It compared it actually to the merge, where we sort of had to, we had a plane and mid flight, we had to swap out the proof of work engine for proof of stake.

Well, now we're swapping out many of the core cryptography of Ethereum, and that feels like a pretty large level of effort.

So can you, I guess, scope this for us?

First of all, are we going to be ready for this by 2032?

And also, how difficult is this as you're getting into it?

Does it seem possible for us?

Does it seem daunting to you?

So will we be ready by 2032?

At what point will we be ready?