QRL Weekly, 2026-July-03

Development Snapshot

Status / overview

• April 3rd: Audit complete of 2 cryptographic libraries.
• March 31st: QRL 2.0 Testnet V2 Released.
• Audits: 50% completion

64 byte addresses

• Most of the changes related to 64 bytes address done for Hyperion.
• go-qrl is currently being fixed with some remaining changes related to 64 bytes address.

Tooling

• Hardhat like tool is being developed for the QRL 2.0 along with the documentation.

P2P Layer

• Falcon-1024 PR is still being reviewed.

Content

Eight Years of Building the Quantum-Safe Future

After eight years of secure quantum-resistant blockchain operations, QRL reflects on its mainnet journey and looks ahead to QRL 2.0: an EVM-friendly, post-quantum Proof-of-Stake network designed to bring smart contracts, and long-term cryptographic resilience to the blockchain ecosystem.

The Core Problem With Migrating Classical Blockchains To Post-Quantum Cryptography

Post-quantum cryptography expert, Dr. Joseph Kearney, joins for a conversation that goes deep into the Core Problems faced when Migrating Classical Blockchains To Post-Quantum Cryptography