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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that AI-accelerated mathematical research may pose new security threats to existing cryptographic systems, especially lattice-based cryptographic schemes, including ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). He believes that advancements in AI in the field of mathematics over the next two years could significantly undermine the practical security of lattice cryptography, and ECDSA may face the risk of being compromised sooner than expected.Vitalik pointed out that over the past year, the Ethereum Lean roadmap has gradually shifted towards pure hash cryptographic schemes, avoiding the use of lattice-based signatures and related zero-knowledge proof structures. He suggested prioritizing the use of hash cryptography whenever feasible and adopting more conservative security parameters for lattice cryptography; privacy protocols should avoid storing encrypted information directly on-chain, and multi-signature wallets should prioritize off-chain signature confirmations. Additionally, Vitalik advised users, when operationally convenient, to store funds in addresses that have not initiated transactions to reduce potential risks, but he does not recommend users immediately migrate assets on a large scale. He emphasized that the migration process itself also carries risks, and his own losses due to migration errors have even exceeded the losses from past hacking attacks.

Cryptography researcher Justin Drake posted on the X platform, calling for the blockchain industry to calmly plan a "bunker mode." He suggested that large holders move most of their funds to new addresses that have never signed transactions, with public keys still hidden behind hashes. Subsequently, each time a signature is made, the remaining funds should also be transferred to the new address.He believes that AI is driving rapid breakthroughs in the field of mathematics, and ECDSA could potentially be cracked by classical algorithms before the quantum computing "Q-Day," possibly occurring in months rather than years, allowing private keys to be recovered in about a week using large GPU clusters. Drake also emphasized that there is no need for panic and hasty migration, stating that Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether could take this opportunity to strengthen their cold wallets.

According to Bloomberg, the European Commission has classified OpenAI's ChatGPT as a "very large online search engine," and listed Reddit and Roblox as "very large online platforms," citing that their monthly active user count in the EU has exceeded 45 million.These platforms are required to enhance their handling of illegal and harmful content under the Digital Services Act (DSA), submit transparency reports, risk mitigation plans, and pay annual fees to the EU, with violations potentially incurring fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue. The DSA also mandates platforms to strengthen protections for minors and advertising transparency, and EU regulatory authorities have initiated over a dozen investigations into various online platforms based on this law.

The TRON network's Nile testnet has officially launched the post-quantum signature feature following the proposal from Committee No. 20628, with FN_DSA_512 enabled on the Nile testnet. This marks a new advancement for TRON in the validation of quantum-resistant cryptography and the evolution of testnet functionalities.TRON welcomes developers to experience the new features on the Nile testnet and to conduct testing and validation in conjunction with the post-quantum signature usage guidelines. The official reminder states that the related features are currently only effective on the Nile testnet and have not yet been launched on the mainnet.

On May 14, BNB Chain released the "BSC Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Report," stating that it has completed the migration testing for quantum-resistant cryptography for transaction signatures and the consensus layer, using the NIST standardized post-quantum signature algorithm ML-DSA-44 (Dilithium) and the pqSTARK aggregation scheme.The report shows that BSC has replaced transaction signatures from ECDSA to ML-DSA-44 and switched consensus voting aggregation from BLS12-381 to pqSTARK to address the potential threats posed by future quantum computing to the existing elliptic curve cryptography system. However, post-quantum signatures also significantly increase the on-chain data volume: the size of a single transaction has increased from about 110 bytes to approximately 2.5KB; the block size in a 2000 TPS scenario has increased from about 130KB to around 2MB; and the TPS in the testing environment has decreased by about 40%-50%.BSC stated that the current network bottleneck mainly comes from the larger transaction data propagation, rather than the consensus protocol itself. Meanwhile, the consensus layer aggregation still maintains high efficiency, with pqSTARK achieving a signature compression ratio of about 43:1, and the additional burden on validators remains within a controllable range. The report concludes that existing technology can achieve "quantum-resistant" deployment for blockchain, but future issues related to network bandwidth and data scalability still need to be addressed.

According to official news, Optimism has released the quantum-resistant roadmap for Superchain, with the core content announcing the gradual phasing out of externally owned accounts (EOA) based on ECDSA signatures over the next decade. The specific plan is that by January 2036, EOA transactions using ECDSA signatures on the OP mainnet and superchain will be deprecated, and all such accounts must delegate their key management to smart contract accounts that support post-quantum signatures.The roadmap covers both user and consensus levels. At the user level, account abstraction technology will be utilized, through standards like EIP - 7702, to gradually delegate signature authority from EOA to smart accounts capable of verifying post-quantum signatures. At the consensus level, L2 sequencers and batch submitters will migrate to post-quantum signatures, while also calling for Ethereum itself to establish a timeline to transition validators from BLS signatures and KZG commitments to post-quantum algorithms. The entire upgrade process will be coordinated through a hard fork, providing the ecosystem with a decade to achieve a smooth transition.

According to CoinDesk, as the crypto industry pushes for recent action from the U.S. Congress on a bill to establish a regulatory framework for the digital asset market, the Blockchain Association has hired Lindsay Fraser from Uniswap Labs to lead its policy affairs.Fraser previously handled policy matters for Uniswap while the industry struggled with how the U.S. government would address DeFi issues. Now, she will take on broader responsibilities for the association, which has 146 member companies, but she stated that her DeFi experience will help advance related discussions. In an interview, Fraser mentioned that the association is one of the leading industry advocacy organizations in Washington and will closely monitor the market structure bill currently being negotiated in the Senate, the implementation of the stablecoin bill established earlier this year, and the future direction of U.S. cryptocurrency tax policy.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Goldman Sachs' multi-department fixed income investment head Lindsay Rosner stated that today's report is insufficient to make him "panic" ahead of the Federal Reserve's expected rate cut next week, and the possibility of a rate cut in December still exists.

ChainCatcher news, Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos stated that a year of research found no significant breakthroughs in account abstraction, suggesting it should have been set as a native feature of Ethereum in its early years.Vitalik Buterin responded that full account abstraction has not been achieved, requiring ECDSA or intermediaries, with intermediaries relying on privacy risks and censorship resistance, while quantum security and privacy protocols still pose challenges.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum founder Vitalik responds to X user Paolo Rebuffo's comments on Pectra's implementation of account abstraction, pointing out that the account abstraction process is currently only halfway complete. He stated that the ultimate goal is to make non-ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) accounts the mainstream account type. These accounts include features such as multi-signature, key changes, quantum resistance, and privacy protocols. Recently, significant progress has been made in simplifying the 7701 standard to promote the realization of this goal.

ChainCatcher news, TRON has become a sponsor of the Crypto Ball event celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump and Vance through its non-profit organization "Digital Sovereignty Alliance" (DSA), and will send a delegation to officially attend the presidential inauguration on January 20. This initiative further solidifies TRON's leadership position in the global blockchain industry. DSA stated that participating in the crypto ball aims to promote policy innovation in blockchain technology and advocate for the critical role of decentralized frameworks in the future technological development of the United States.TRON founder Justin Sun expressed excitement about the opportunities presented by the forward-looking crypto policies that the newly elected President Donald Trump is expected to introduce, which are anticipated to drive growth and innovation in the blockchain industry both in the U.S. and globally.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum founder Vitalik posted on X: "Quantum computing is the biggest driving force. Whether we like it or not, externally owned accounts (EOA) will eventually disappear in the future, as quantum computing will ultimately break ECDSA."