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QRL Bug Bounty Program

General Requirements

Generally speaking, any bug that poses a significant vulnerability, either to the soundness of protocols and protocol/implementation compliance to network security, to classical client security, as well as security of cryptographic primitives, could be eligible for a reward. Please note that it is entirely our discretion to decide whether a bug is significant enough to qualify for a reward.

Examples include:

• An attack that could disrupt the entire network and harm the validity to the network would be considered a critical threat.
• An attack that would disrupt service to others would be regarded as a high threat.

Please note: the submission quality will be a significant factor in the level of considered compensation. A high-quality submission includes explaining how the bug can be reproduced, how it was discovered, and otherwise critical details. Please disclose responsibly: prior disclosure to any third parties disqualifies bug bounty eligibility.

QRL Citations, Standards, Cryptography and Recommended Technical Reading

Citations

Aggregating hash-based signatures using STARKs
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1048.pdf

Post-quantum blockchain using one-time signature chains
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Post-quantum-blockchain-using-one-time-signature-Linde/f38c562c21fa1a94871e5f577669f7c4b9520632?p2df

Blockchained Post-Quantum Signatures
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/658.pdf

Application and Implementation of Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystem in Blockchain (Short Paper)
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-30146-0_29

Bazo–A Cryptocurrency from Scratch
https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/CSG/staff/bocek/extern/theses/BA-Livio-Sgier.pdf

Towards Post-Quantum Blockchain: A Review on Blockchain Cryptography Resistant to Quantum Computing Attacks
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8967098

ISSA Journal: Application of Quantum Technologies for Practical Tasks
https://issa-cos.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ISSA_Journal_November_2017.pdf

A survey of blockchain from security perspective
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42786-018-00002-6

Novel One Time Signatures (NOTS): A CompactPost-Quantum Digital Signature Scheme
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8959230

QRL Community Code-of-Conduct

Effective Date: 2026-02-20

Code of Conduct (tl;dr. Be decent)

The QRL community is a collective group that works together to engage in positive, forward-thinking, and good-faith discussions. This includes people of all ages, backgrounds, disciplines, and walks of life.

It is sometimes unavoidable that members of a diverse community with such a wide range of perspectives will find themselves in conflict with one another at some point; however, it is imperative that we make an effort to understand the root causes of these conflicts in order to resolve differences of opinion in a constructive manner.