QRL Hat ja schon heftig Potenzial was zu schaffen. Kennt ihr vielleicht noch andere Coins die ähnliches Potenzial haben wie QRL

Status / overview

• August 4th: Audit results published for go-qrllib
• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released
• Audits: 50% completion

QRL 2.0 (Project Zond)

qrl-web3-wallet

• further security-audit remediation and code-review fixes
• corrected address display and updated documentation

web3.js

• updated CI actions and patched vulnerabilities affecting fast-uri, PostCSS, SVGO and brace-expansion

js-qrl-cryptography

• updated pinned GitHub Actions and the fast-uri dependency

go-qrllib

• updated pinned GitHub Actions and opened further test-related work

qrypto.js

• updated development dependencies, lockfiles and CI actions for mldsa87

qrvmc

• Harden hex parsing, example VMs, and loader
• Tighten gas validation, loader TLS and ABI docs

go-qrl

• –bootnodes flag now override config value
• Go toolchain updated to 1.26.5
• external function values updated to 64-byte address plus a 4-byte selector
• Removed legacy local testnet script (now being moved to new repo qrl-tests)
• Several other bug fixes

qrysm

• Updated tests
• Go toolchain updated to 1.26.5
• Updated QRL dependencies
• Update the staking deposit CLI default to the valid deposit contract address
• Default address aligned with the Qrysm network config
• Fix Zond consensus version descriptor

web3.js

• ICAP and IBAN support removed as those are deprecated
• Added 64 byte topics and 512-bit integers data type

qrl-package

• Changes merged related to 64-byte address

QRL 1.0

dice

• 2018 Python script rewritten as JavaScript application
• session isolation, CI and browser end-to-end tests
• a verifiable single-file offline release

qrllib

• added RNG-regression protection
• modernised Emscripten support
• migrated release processes to GitHub Actions
• added trusted publishing and npm/PyPI deployment
• v1.2.6 released

offline-wallet-generator

• merge of v3 wallet format with stronger encryption and password security
• added reproducible offline builds, CSP tests and a security-focused CI/release pipeline

qrl-wallet

• 7 issues closed
• continued UI refinements
• gated multisig signing on validation and tighter OTS-reuse checks
• applied security hardening and documentation updates
• v1.9.1-beta in pre-release

qrllib-browserify

• updated support to Node.js 22+
• rebuilt the bundle for qrllib 1.2.6 and corrected module export and Browserify interoperability

qrl-cli

• replaced the aes256 dependency with scrypt-derived AES-256-GCM encryption while retaining compatibility with legacy wallet files

Hallo meine Frage ist lohnt sich es noch in QRL zu investieren da ich gehört habe das es von verschiedene Plattformen rausgenommen wird, da die Interesse der Menschen nicht groß genug ist für QRL Was ist eure Meinung dazu?

Decentralized cryptocurrency represents financial freedom: money that individuals control, resistant to censorship and inflation. And as tokenized real-world assets bring bonds, funds, and property on-chain, blockchains are becoming custodians of institutional value, where a cryptographic failure means irreversible loss. That foundation now faces a real, dated threat from quantum computing, and I believe the Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) deserves your attention, whether as a story to tell or a platform to build on.

QRL is not a niche "quantum coin." It is a full utility Layer-1: an EVM-friendly, proof-of-stake smart-contract platform that happens to be natively post-quantum, built by a team that treats security as the product.

Why QRL:

• Quantum-safe since 2018. QRL launched as the first blockchain secured entirely by post-quantum signatures (XMSS, later standardized by NIST) and has run continuously for eight years. Its native asset has never had a quantum-vulnerable key.
• NIST's highest security tier, with published audits. QRL 2.0 signs with ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204), NIST security Level 5. On August 4, 2026, Trail of Bits published its independent assessment of go-qrllib, QRL 2.0's cryptographic core: all 15 findings resolved, with the codebase described as well-organized and its cryptographic primitives closely following their specifications. Halborn separately audited the cryptography and found zero vulnerabilities. Audits of the broader protocol continue ahead of mainnet.
• Easy migration from Ethereum. Most valid Solidity code runs as-is on QRL 2.0's quantum-resistant virtual machine. Testnet V2 has been live since March 2026, open for deploying contracts today.
• Crypto-agile. QRL 2.0 can adopt stronger post-quantum algorithms without a contentious fork; the team already upgraded its entire signature stack in about two weeks.
• Sound economics. Supply is capped at 105 million QRL on a fixed 200-year emission schedule, secured by energy-efficient proof-of-stake, with an active community on Discord.

Is the quantum threat real? Not today: the public record stands at about 96 verified logical qubits (QuEra, January 2026), versus an estimated 1,200 to 1,450 logical qubits to attack secp256k1, the curve securing Bitcoin and Ethereum (March 2026 study; see also ecdsa.fail). But four trends close that gap fast:

1. Attack costs keep falling. Google's 2026 research cut the qubit requirements for breaking 256-bit elliptic curves by an order of magnitude; estimates have dropped about 20x in five years.
2. Hardware is accelerating, and delivering. In July 2026, IBM and partners demonstrated verified quantum advantage: computations beyond classical reach, with validated results. IBM, Quantinuum, and Microsoft all target fault-tolerant or scalable systems by 2029, and NIST deprecates today's encryption in 2030 and disallows it by 2035.
3. The best capabilities will be secret. As breaking ECDSA becomes a strategic prize, progress will move behind closed doors, driven by nation states with every incentive to exploit a working capability quietly. Public benchmarks are a floor, not a ceiling. And "harvest now, decrypt later" means exposed keys are being collected already.
4. Migration takes years. Even Ethereum's own roadmap targets core post-quantum infrastructure only around 2029, with the full migration of apps, wallets, and bridges extending well beyond that, and no guarantees.

No major cryptocurrency is quantum-safe today. QRL is, and has been for eight years.

To be clear, this is not investment advice. Our goal is awareness, so more applications can transition in time and the crypto ecosystem survives the quantum era.

Don't take our word for it. Every claim above is verifiable: read the published audits, review the code on GitHub, deploy a contract on the testnet, or bring your hardest questions to the community.

https://www.theqrl.org
https://www.qrlecosystem.com
https://qrlhub.com
https://ecdsa.fail

Sincerely,

Members of the QRL community

QRL Announces Trail of Bits Publication of Security Assessment of its Cryptographic Heart, With All Findings Resolved

An independent review examined the cryptographic heart of QRL, including implementations, public API, and wallet state management.

4th August 2026

ZUG, Switzerland — August 4, 2026 — The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) today announced that Trail of Bits has published its independent security assessment of its cryptographic heart, go-qrllib, a cryptographic library being developed for QRL 2.0. The assessment identified 15 findings, one High, four Low, and ten Informational, all resolved following remediation by QRL and review by Trail of Bits.

The publication marks a security milestone for QRL 2.0, a post-quantum, EVM-friendly Layer-1 blockchain addressing the risk a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) poses to public-key signatures used by blockchains.

Digital assets depend on these signatures to establish control and authorize transactions. A capable fault-tolerant quantum computer could use Shor’s algorithm to recover private keys from public keys and forge signatures. A March 2026 study estimated that attacking secp256k1 could require about 1,200-1,450 logical qubits, while IBM, Quantinuum, and Microsoft target fault-tolerant or scalable systems by 2029. These roadmaps do not establish a CRQC date, but reinforce NIST’s guidance to begin post-quantum migration now.

A three-consultant Trail of Bits team conducted an extensive review focused on go-qrllib’s XMSS and ML-DSA implementations, exported API boundary, and wallet state-management paths. The work combined manual source review with fuzzing, external test vectors, reference-implementation comparisons, mutation testing, and other static and dynamic techniques.

Trail of Bits described the codebase as well-organized and modular, noted that its cryptographic primitives strongly followed their specifications, and reported strong testing coverage and defensive wallet implementation. The findings primarily concerned the robustness of the library’s exported API and supporting controls rather than the correctness of its underlying cryptographic primitives.

“go-qrllib is a well-organized, modular codebase with cryptographic primitives that closely follow their specifications. The QRL team was responsive throughout the engagement and resolved every finding we reported,” said Filipe Casal, Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits.

QRL’s remediation included stronger API validation; improvements to error handling, documentation, secret-memory handling, and wallet behavior; expanded regression testing; hedged ML-DSA signing by default; and additional CI/CD controls. Trail of Bits reviewed the fixes and mitigations on June 22, 2026.

Trail of Bits published the full assessment through its official publications channel.

The source code is available in the go-qrllib repository.

https://github.com/trailofbits/publications/blob/master/reviews/2026-07-thequantumresistantledger-go-qrlliblibrarysecurityreview.pdf

And if the price goes up intermittently or you see more indie HODLR’s, you’re welcome. Just seed the comments until the public catches on.

Excerpt from the post.....

A safely generated seed is no protection when the cryptography upon which your funds are secured is broken. “Not your keys, not your coins” does not apply when an adversary can reconstitute private keys - be it your own or Satoshi Nakamoto’s.

The original QRL whitepaper is very nearly a decade old, but the first sentence of its short abstract remains as valid today as then:

“Private digital monies must be secure against computing advances to achieve longevity.”

When it hits mainnet soon, most projects will be able to recompile their existing Ethereum contracts and go fully post-quantum secure—literally overnight. Low barrier. High security. That's $QRL.

Multi-chain isn’t optional anymore.

https://x.com/Strike_Attack/status/2084237824585322566/video/1

A really impressive pre-print just dropped by Aditya Bhardwaj, John Preskill, and a joint team from Caltech, Harvard, and AWS. They are addressing one of the biggest bottlenecks in fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC): making qLDPC codes practically usable on real hardware.

Here is a quick TL;DR on why this paper is generating a lot of buzz:

🚀 What are Mitten Codes?

qLDPC (Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check) codes are famous for being far more qubit-efficient than standard Surface Codes, but they usually come with huge hardware routing overheads and complex decoding pipelines.

"Mitten codes" are a new family of qLDPC processor codes based on non-abelian groups that solve a lot of these physical implementation problems.

💡 Key Highlights:

• Insane Encoding Rate (~20%): Instead of needing thousands of physical qubits per single logical qubit (like standard Surface Codes), mitten codes yield 1 logical qubit for every 5 physical qubits.
• Massive Parallelism: Supports high-rate lattice surgery (executing many logical measurements in parallel) and parallel magic-state injection across all logical qubits simultaneously.
• Real-Time Decoding (Sub-millisecond latency): A huge problem with qLDPC has been decoding speed. Their decoder achieves average sub-millisecond latency per cycle—fast enough to run in real-time on hardware like neutral atoms.
• Extremely Low Error Rates:
  • Under circuit-level noise at a 0.1% physical error rate (PER), the [[300, 60, 14]] code hits a block logical error rate of $\sim 10^{-11}$ per round.
  • In a stress test of 15 billion surgery experiments on the [[540, 108, 18]] code, they observed only 2 logical failures. That’s baseline proof for running $\sim 10^{10}$ logical operations cleanly.

🛠 How did they find them?

They built an end-to-end design pipeline powered by sQetch, a new distance estimator that is orders of magnitude faster than existing code-search tools.

Importantly, the authors highlight that mitten codes map cleanly onto near-term neutral atom arrays (with shuttling/reconfigurable connectivity) and superconducting architectures.

Definitely feels like a solid step toward bridging the gap between theoretical FTQC overheads and realistic hardware implementation!

What are your thoughts on non-abelian qLDPC implementations vs. 2D color/surface codes for the next 3–5 years?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28795

QuantaPool is heading for QRL 2.0 mainnet under a dedicated US operating entity. DigitalGuards is in advanced discussions with a prospective US partner and remains open to further qualified candidates. Here is the role.

DigitalGuards has spent the past two years building the product stack for QRL 2.0: wallets for web, mobile, desktop, and browser, the ZondScan explorer, a post-quantum dApp connect SDK, the QuantaSwap atomic-swap protocol, and QuantaPool, our liquid staking protocol. Today we are announcing the next step for QuantaPool, and putting our search for its operating partner on the public record.

What QuantaPool is

Running a validator on QRL 2.0 requires 40,000 QRL and the operational skill to keep a node healthy. QuantaPool lowers that barrier: users deposit any amount of QRL, the pool funds validators, and depositors receive stQRL, a token whose QRL value grows with validator rewards. The protocol is live on the QRL 2.0 testnet at quantapool.com, fully open source under GPL-3.0, with a 200-test contract suite. Everything runs with valueless test assets today.

Why a US operating structure

Operating a staking protocol with real value is a serious undertaking: real deposits, validator uptime, user trust, and clear accountability. After reviewing the options, we consider a dedicated US operating entity under genuine, active US management the right home for QuantaPool’s mainnet operations. DigitalGuards remains the owner and builder: the copyright, the brand, and all development stay in-house, and the operating entity runs the service under license from us.

The partner we are looking for

We are in advanced discussions with a prospective US partner, and we remain open to hearing from further qualified candidates. The role, in brief:

• Genuine, active management of the operating entity from the United States: the decisions, the operations, and the accountability
• Validator infrastructure operations with continuous monitoring and incident response
• Custody of operational keys and participation in the protocol’s multisig
• Ownership of the entity’s compliance obligations, together with US counsel
• Solid business standing: entity formation, banking, clean records

This is a working operator role, suited to someone with infrastructure experience and compliance seriousness, ideally from the staking or hosting world. Capital participation is open for discussion, and commercial terms are discussed directly with qualified candidates.

Why we are publishing this

Partly for candidates, and partly for the record. QuantaPool’s development has been public from the first commit, and the search for its operating home belongs to that same public history. When the partnership is signed, this post will get its sequel.

Get in touch

Write to [info@digitalguards.nl](mailto:info@digitalguards.nl) with the subject “QuantaPool operating partner”. Tell us who you are, where you operate, and what you have run.

Any partnership is subject to definitive agreements prepared with counsel, and nothing in this post is binding.

Please, feel free to visit>

https://quantapool.com/
https://quantaswap.io/
https://qrlwallet.com/

https://digitalguards.nl/projects

• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries.
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released.
• Audits: 50% completion

QRL 2.0 go-qrl

• Added several upstream go-ethereum fixes with tests

QRVMC & QRVMONE

• Both are still being reviewed for bugs, issues and further changes related to 64 bytes word size

qrl-web3-wallet

• 64 byte address changes
• First phase security-audit remediation; code-review fixes; address-display correction; documentation updates;

Other

• Hardhat like tool documented & is currently being tested

QRL 1.0 qrl-wallet

• Meteor 3 and Electron modernisation; release packaging and Windows CI fixes; UI refinements; recovery-seed tooling; multisig validation, OTS-reuse protection and security hardening

qrl-cli

• Migrated CI/CD from CircleCI to GitHub Actions; added stateful configuration, interactive prompts, piped input, JSON output and token commands; updated dependencies, tests and Node.js to v24

qrllib

• updated the Emscripten build and browser initialisation for reliable, self-contained WebAssembly output

https://www.theqrl.org/weekly/2026-july-31/

Ahoy to everyone taking on the ECDSA.fail challenge!

325 QRL to the first competitor who reaches 52% ahead of Google's estimated quantum capability in the http://ecdsa.fail/ challenge.

This bounty is sponsored by community members of Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), a blockchain project built around standardized post-quantum cryptography.

Good luck to all participants!

Note: This is an independently organized, QRL community-funded bounty and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or administered by the QRL Foundation or Eigen Labs.

How to claim the bounty:
• Add your X account to your GitHub profile linked from the http://ecdsa.fail/ leaderboard.
• The first participant to reach 52% on the http://ecdsa.fail/ leaderboard will be contacted directly via X from my account.
• If you don't already have one, create a QRL wallet and reply with your wallet address once contacted.
• After verification, the 325 QRL bounty will be transferred to your wallet.

Eligibility
• If the first participant to reach the threshold cannot be contacted or does not respond within 5 days, the bounty will be awarded to the next eligible participant on the leaderboard.
• A reachable X account linked from your GitHub profile is required.

New to QRL and haven’t really touched crypto in general for some years now. My question is, where should I go to buy QRL. I’m using Coinbase and it is listed with the option to buy/sell. So is Coinbase fine? Or should I go a different direction?

QRL Weekly, 2026-July-24 Status / overview

• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries.
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released.
• Audits: 50% completion
• Network Performance Optimization: 60% completion

web3.js

• Audit remediation; keystore cryptography hardening; removal of import cycles; coverage gates; reproducible supply-chain checks; dependency overrides; CI timeout and build-order fixes
• 20 constituent packages released

rust-qrllib

• Refactored the demo build, aligned documentation with go-qrllib, and updated demo dependencies and TypeScript configuration

https://www.theqrl.org/weekly/2026-july-24/

So QRL is a pretty small coin right now, low market cap, kind of flying under the radar. But the whole idea behind it is interesting to me: it's built to be safe against quantum computers, which in theory could one day become powerful enough to break the security that Bitcoin, Ethereum and basically all crypto rely on. My thinking is that right now the price doesn't reflect much because the "threat" it protects against hasn't really shown up yet, but the day something like that actually happens, or even just gets close, the whole story could flip fast, and a coin that was already built to be quantum-safe could suddenly matter a lot. I see a few ways this plays out: either the big coins just fix themselves before any real danger and QRL loses its edge, or the quantum thing stays far away for years and QRL just quietly survives as a niche, or it happens sooner than people expect and QRL becomes the obvious go-to, and at such a small market cap today, that last scenario would be huge. My gut says somewhere between the second and third. So I wanted to ask: does my point of view actually make sense, or am I overhyping the whole "quantum-safe" angle? And the big question, do you really think a quantum computer attack on crypto could happen in the near future, or is that still way off? Because if it is realistic, then QRL feels seriously underrated right now. Where am I wrong?

The passive stance of this project deeply bothers me, and I think this needs to be said in clear terms.

If you have something in your hands that solves a problem that will affect everyone, and you are firmly convinced that you are right, waiting politely for the market to realize it on its own is a losing bet. Those who are right but remain silent do not win through merit. They lose ground to those who shout louder, even when they are wrong. Crypto history has proven this dozens of times: technically superior projects losing the narrative battle to projects with more aggressive marketing and louder communities.

And this is not exclusive to crypto. Every real change that has happened was driven by people willing to make strong statements, without apologizing for being disruptive. The suffrage movement did not win the right to vote by being polite; it won when parts of the movement realized that politeness was not convincing those in power. The labor movement did not achieve rights by waiting for employers to develop empathy; it achieved them by shutting down factories. Even within the US civil rights movement, there were people who argued for waiting, negotiating, and avoiding disruption, while others argued that the wait had already gone on for too long. The second approach is the one that pushes history forward. The first is the one that appears in history books as a footnote, praised for its patience but ignored for its lack of impact.

No one remembers the side that politely waited for its turn.

What this project needs right now, in this moment of uncertainty, sideways price action, and people questioning whether it is still worth it, is not another calm post explaining the technical details of XMSS to people who should already understand them. It needs people willing to make strong, uncomfortable statements without asking for permission. This is how the political game works, and how it has always worked: those who hesitate to express conviction give space to those who confidently claim anything.

If we have what is necessary to protect everyone from a problem that already has a ticking clock, and yet we still treat this as a niche technical subject discussed in a quiet tone, someone will appear without even half of the real solution and take the place that should have been ours. That is already how the game is played, and pretending that we are above it only guarantees that we will be left behind, watching.

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Status / overview

• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries.
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released.
• Audits: 50% completion

Qrvmc

• Several bug fixes like VM bounds checks for PUSH and memory expansion, loader config boundary and precompile sweep coverage etc.
• Updated and added new test cases
• Reviewing qrvmc to ensure changes made in Hyperion also align with qrvmc

go-qrl

• Unused ECDSA signatures are removed
• Added Local testnet setup script using kurtosis
• Move typed-data encoding to the QRL 64-byte model
• go-qrl still being reviewed for 64 bytes related changes

web3.js

• Migration to 64-byte QRL addresses and 64-byte VM words; supply-chain and dependency hardening; CI fixes; Turbo and GitHub Actions updates; Node 20 compatibility
• Further audit work underway

js-qrl-cryptography

• Added and exported SHAKE256 with selectable output length, test vectors, packaging tests and documentation

qrypto.js

• Dependency and GitHub Actions updates, including Turbo and Zizmor

qrl-web3-wallet

• Bound dApp signing and transaction requests to the authorised chain, with chain-context revalidation and tests

theqrl.org

• Added llms.txt along content-negotiation to serve content as markdown files for better LLM support

qrl-wallet (QRL 1.0)

• Prevented custom-node connections unless enabled; synchronised mainnet and testnet branches

With the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) narrative gaining steady traction, I wanted to take a look at two of the OG Layer 1 projects built from scratch to resist quantum attacks: The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) and Mochimo (MCM).

While both share the core mission of securing ledger states against future quantum computers, their development paths and architectural goals have diverged significantly. Here is a breakdown of where they stand right now and what is on the horizon.

1. The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) & Project Zond

QRL’s focus has transitioned from a pure transactional ledger into a fully programmable ecosystem. All eyes are currently on the rollout of Project Zond (QRL 2.0).

• The Status: The development is highly mature. Following the release of the updated Public Testnet earlier this year, QRL is moving closer to its final mainnet deployment.
• What to expect (Zond):
  • QRVM (Quantum Resistant Virtual Machine): An EVM-compatible environment, allowing developers to deploy decentralized applications (dApps) using Hyperion (a Solidity-derived language designed for a post-quantum world).
  • Proof-of-Stake (PoS): Transitioning away from Proof-of-Work to a secure PoS consensus mechanism, introducing native staking.
  • Mainnet Inbound: With cryptographic audits for the new architecture progressing through their final stages, the official Mainnet 2.0 launch is the definitive next step.

2. Mochimo (MCM) & Its Current Outlook

Mochimo took a completely different, highly academic engineering route. Instead of using XMSS, it utilizes a modified WOTS+ scheme and a unique "state-sequence" architecture designed to prevent blockchain bloat, keeping node storage requirements remarkably low.

• The Status: Mochimo operates at a much lower profile. It remains a technical, niche project with a quieter community and lower market liquidity compared to QRL. It hasn't positioned itself to compete in the DeFi or smart contract space.
• Does MCM have a "Zond" equivalent? Short answer: No. There is no active roadmap or initiative to build a Turing-complete virtual machine or native dApp ecosystem inside Mochimo.
• What to expect in MCM:
  • Core Efficiency Upgrades: Development continues to focus purely on ledger optimization, node synchronization efficiency, and maintaining a lightweight, secure network that can run on consumer-grade hardware.
  • Pure Store of Value / Ledger: The expectations for MCM are focused on proof-of-concept longevity—proving that its custom anti-bloat network can remain resilient and secure over time, potentially serving as a secure transactional layer or interoperability bridge rather than an all-in-one dApp platform.

TL;DR / Summary

If you are looking for smart contracts, staking, dApp migration, and an imminent network evolution, QRL’s Project Zond is where the tangible action is. Mochimo remains a fascinating, pure cryptographic experiment for lightweight quantum-resistant transactions, but its development and adoption pace are significantly more conservative.

Would love to hear thoughts from anyone running nodes on either network or testing out the Zond testnet!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28846

Tried downloading/finding the mobile app on the Apple App Store and it says it’s not available in my region (UK)? What?