One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?

One Type of Post-Quantum Cryptography Is Most Popular. Why Is Crypto Trying Out Three?

Published: August 25, 2026

Duration: 1:02:57

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger's Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

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In March, a Google research team published a paper on breaking cryptographic keys with a quantum algorithm, so cautious about the finding that it released only a zero-knowledge proof the algorithm existed. Weeks later, an EigenLayer AI competition improved on that method in roughly 48 hours.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, and...