Justin Drake Targets December 2028 for Ethereum’s Post-Quantum Transition
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Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed targeting December 2028 for the network's post-quantum transition, laying out a fork sequence intended to accelerate work across three protocol layers. The plan would upgrade Ethereum's consensus, execution and data layers for quantum resistance, though migrating existing wallets remains a separate, unsolved task. The timeline matters because quantum computers could eventually break the elliptic-curve cryptography securing Ethereum wallets and validator keys, and a multi-year, multi-fork effort would need to begin well before that risk materializes. Drake's proposal is a scheduling target rather than a committed roadmap, so the next things to watch are whether core developers formally adopt the 2028 date and how wallet-level migration—arguably the hardest part—gets scoped.
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