KOSDAQ-listed Korea Advanced Materials said on the 6th it will officially launch QuantumSafe, a post-quantum cryptography (PQC) orchestration platform that protects the Blockchain ecosystem from quantum computer threats.
According to the company, QuantumSafe is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables post-quantum security to be applied via an application programming interface (API) without changing the existing Blockchain structure. It supports 19 major Blockchains, including Ethereum, Bitcoin and Solana, allowing developers to implement quantum-resilient security immediately without separate protocol modifications.
The platform is designed based on FIPS 204 (ML-DSA) and FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA), the post-quantum cryptography standards finalized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Aug. 2024. It also secured security and reliability by integrating with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 HSM of Amazon Web Services (AWS KMS) in the United States.
In the Blockchain industry, concerns are spreading about the safety of existing cryptographic systems as advances in quantum computing accelerate.
A Korea Advanced Materials official said, "A protocol-level quantum transition for Ethereum will take years," and added, "In the meantime, all Blockchain projects and developers must prepare for quantum threats right now, and bridging this gap is QuantumSafe's core value."