# QRL Weekly: New address format completed, 2025-August-26

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Published: 2025-08-26
Updated: 2025-08-26



Author: The QRL Core Contributors
















Highlight: New address format completed! By shortening addresses through descriptor and public key integration, we achieve better crypto-agility, improved usability, and seamless application compatibility.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Old - QRL PoW Before the descriptor was in the address format. - Q010500b8601fb018af63f22b31854f649f32249ffd7c2e887d80694b458bd18ee6ca9f9806c016 New - QRL Project Zond Now addresses are now the last 24 bytes of SHAKE256 hash of (descriptor+public key) - Qc46f0bd621975bd2abd8dad468de1fb15c2dfc0fc923d173 Weekly Development Snapshot Go-qrllib
SPHINCS+-256s unit tests finished along with the wallet implementation Address prefix replaced from Z to Q Refactored code Chrome Extension Wallet
wallet_watchAsset rpc method implementation is in progress Go-zond
Name related changes finished for go-zond Changes are in progress to support SPHINCS+-256s and ML-DSA-87 in go-zond