
Here is an uncomfortable truth about quantum security: Waiting for base-layer blockchains to finish multi-year hard forks to protect your funds is a losing game. A quantum computer will break your wallet's account signatures (ECDSA) long before most chains figure out their consensus upgrades. Over 30 percent of Bitcoin (6M plus BTC) sits in addresses with exposed public keys. Once a public key is on-chain, it is exposed permanently. This is why account-level PQC solutions like what Quip @quipnetwork is doing with hash-based signatures (SHRINCS) are the real meta. You secure your funds on your current chains (ETH, BTC) right now without needing a new chain, bridge, or soft fork. Why wait 5 years for a protocol hard fork when you can upgrade your account security today?

