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A clear vision of a resilient Post Quantum store of value and communication layer is only as good as the plan and perseverance it's backed up by.
The Next Generation
QRL 2.0 (Codenamed Project Zond)
Build with the next evolution of post-quantum secure distributed ledger technology.
QRL 2.0 eliminates the complexities of making your Ethereum or Solidity-based project post-quantum secure. With minimal adjustments, convert your existing Solidity code to Hyperion and deploy directly to our chain. It's fast, seamless, and future-proof. Show your customers you're not just keeping up. You're leading the charge on quantum security.
Key Features, at a glance
Proof-of-Stake Blockchain
Zond runs on a scalable, energy-efficient proof-of-stake consensus, without compromising security or sustainability.
Stake on testnetEVM Smart Contract Capability
QRL 2.0 offers EVM capabilities, allowing developers to deploy powerful, flexible dApps within a quantum-secure architecture while maintaining a familiar Ethereum development experience.
Deploy your dApp on testnetNIST-Approved DSA
QRL 2.0 integrates CRYSTALS-Dilithium/ML-DSA, a NIST-approved post-quantum digital signature algorithm, providing a secure foundation for protecting blockchain assets against future cryptographic threats using vetted, standardised encryption.
What Makes QRL Quantum Resistant? (video)
QRL 2.0 release milestones
Beta-Testnet
The first public beta of QRL 2.0, following the 2022 devnet pre-release. This milestone opened the doors for the community to run nodes, break things, and shape what QRL 2.0 would become.
Testnet V1
The first versioned QRL 2.0 testnet. This release proved the post-quantum foundation end to end, including post-quantum signatures, a new address format, a working wallet, and consensus. It gave early validators and builders their first complete picture of the network.
Delivered in Testnet V1
- Complete: Dilithium 5 integration across cryptography, execution, consensus and deposit contracts
- Complete: New address format with 3-byte cryptographic descriptors
- Complete: Consensus parameter tuning and stability improvements
- Complete: ZVM opcode updates and ecosystem tooling improvements
- Complete: Zond web3 wallet for account creation, import and transaction signing
Testnet V2
The current public testnet is the first release everyday users can genuinely explore. V2 brought ML-DSA-87 (the NIST-standardized successor to Dilithium) to accounts and validators, along with a wallet, dApp, and smart-contract experience familiar to anyone coming from Ethereum or other EVM chains.
Delivered in Testnet V2
- Complete: ML-DSA-87 across cryptography, execution, consensus and deposit contracts
- Complete: Cryptography/wallet package separation and descriptor refactoring
- Complete: Q-prefixed addresses, QRL/QRC naming and Planck/Shor denominations
- Complete: Argon2id wallet encryption
- Complete: Wallet locking, unlocking and multiple accounts
- Complete: Chain management and switching
- Complete: dApp account permissions
- Complete: QRC20 token management
- Complete: Transaction, contract, filter and subscription RPCs
- Complete: Staking deposits, mnemonic generation and validator CLI fixes
- Complete: Hyperion compiler and QRVM smart contracts
- Complete: 100% code coverage reported for go-qrllib, qrypto.js and wallet.js
Testnet V3
The expected final versioned testnet and the last major checkpoint before release candidates. For validators, this is the near-final network configuration to plan around. For developers, it's the feature-complete platform to build and test against. For holders, it's the clearest signal yet that mainnet is on the horizon, as the focus shifts from new features to hardening, audits, and stability.
Estimated timing is subject to change. Release depends on finalizing network configuration, remaining upstream fixes and any outstanding audit/remediation requirements.
Checklist
- Incomplete: Configuration parameters
- Incomplete: Remaining V2 scoped audits
- Incomplete: QRL v1.0 -> v2.0 migration testing
- Complete: Upstream bug fixes
- Complete: Core 64-byte address and VM64 migration
- Complete: QRL address checksums in go-qrllib and wallet.js
- Complete: ML-KEM-1024 and Falcon-1024 implementations in go-qrllib
- Complete: web3.js ABI, typed-data and event updates for the 64-byte VM
- Complete: Web3 wallet migration to 64-byte addresses
- Complete: Validator deposit commitments and consensus correctness fixes.
Release Candidate
A Release Candidate is a mainnet-grade build with no known blockers. Everything works, everything is audited, and the network is exercised at full scale before real value is at stake. It marks the moment the community is asked to give its last look: validators rehearse their mainnet setup, developers freeze and verify their deployments, and a successful stabilization period here is the green light for launch.
In parallel toward mainnet
Network Performance Optimization
Refine and adjust network parameter values to ensure the system operates smoothly and efficiently. This involves analyzing current configurations, identifying potential bottlenecks, and implementing optimal settings that support reliable and high-performance network interactions.
Overall estimated progress: 60%
Checklist
- Complete: Automated testnet deployment, monitoring and transaction spamming
- Complete: Initial stress test at 952 transactions per block
- Complete: Transaction broadcast and retrieval limits increased
- Complete: Committee, attestation and active-validator limits updated
- Complete: Worst-case block-size checks against network message limits
- Complete: Reduced memory use during beacon-chain state replay
Comprehensive Security Audit & Review
A thorough audit of the project's code, with a focus on cryptography and security, to identify areas for improvement and ensure the overall quality of the codebase.
Overall estimated progress: 60%
Checklist
- Complete: Halborn audit of qrypto.js, with all 13 findings resolved
- Complete: Trail of Bits audit of go-qrllib, with all 15 findings resolved
- Complete: Ledger app audit and remediation
- Complete: Review of published ML-DSA attack cases, with regression tests
- Complete: 100% code coverage achieved for go-qrllib, qrypto.js and wallet.js
- Complete: web3.js keystore hardening and reproducible supply-chain checks
- Complete: QRL Release Verifier audit completed
Essential tooling
Wallet, compiler, node, provider, hardware-wallet, integration, and documentation requirements continue to be developed and validated for production workflows.
Overall estimated progress: 30%
Checklist
- Complete: Hyperion and QRVM tooling updated for 64-byte addresses
- Complete: 20 web3.js packages released
- Complete: Web3 wallet account, chain and QRC20 support
- Complete: go-qrl node tools released
- Complete: Local development network and nightly end-to-end tests
- Complete: Hyperion VS Code extension created
- Complete: Initial Hardhat-style tool documentation written
- Complete: Ledger signatures and transactions verified in smoke tests
Post-Mainnet Upgrades and Enhancements
Following the successful launch of the mainnet, our focus will shift to continuous improvements and enhancements to ensure the QRL remains at the forefront of blockchain technology.
Integrate SLH-DSA
Fully integrate SLH-DSA (formerly SPHINCS+) and potentially other post-quantum digital signature algorithms to further strengthen cryptographic diversity.
Add ZK-STARKs
Explore ZK-STARK integration, with a focus on efficient and accessible zero-knowledge proof generation.
Disclaimer: The sections here are very simplified estimates of progress on a very complex system, and as such are subject to change.
Network Stats
60s blocktime
Since Genesis
Since Genesis
Since Genesis
Max population 105,000,000
Exponential decay over 200y
Note: Network statistics are pulled periodically and aren't live.
GitHub
Looking at what we've built
Our Current Features
A visionary blockchain with digital asset security as a core value
After being built from the ground up with post-quantum security at its foundation, the QRL went through two years of testing and multiple external audits before the release of mainnet.
Crypto-agility with an extensible address format
The introduction and solidification of variable key heights and signature space allows QRL to ensure future compatibility with almost anything. Our blockchain includes the possibility to upgrade signature schemes (XMSS, SPHINCS, Falcon, + future) and through an address format update, support different cryptographic hash functions (SHA2_256, SHAKE_128, SHAKE256 etc).
Full multi-platform wallet support
Weighted threshold multisignature transactions
Advanced multisignature addresses & transactions allowing for a wide range of custodial scenarios for secure asset management.
Ephemeral messaging system (EMS)
File notarisation
Fraud prevention through the use of quantum secure notarisation easy accessible through a clean user interface.
Documentation, API's and Tooling
Fully documented with API’s and tooling to get started building, deploying, and maintaining digital assets.
Planning Ahead
Current QRL improvement proposal (QIPs)
- QIP 002
A standard message encoding format to indicate encoded data in MessageTransaction transactions
Proposal Accepted Completed
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