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For money, I want the most boring cryptography there is.
That's why the PQ1 signs with hash-based SPHINCS+.
To forge a signature, you have to break SHA-256. Nothing else.
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Neither secure chip in the PQ1 knows your seed.
There are two of them, from two different companies: an Infineon OPTIGA and an NXP SE050.
Each holds a share. And one share alone is worth exactly zero ๐
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I keep saying this and people keep pushing back. So once more:
An EVM upgrade won't save your ETH from quantum computers.
Even if Ethereum ships post-quantum signatures at protocol level tomorrow, your coins still sit behind an ECDSA key.
Everyone, individually, has to move.
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"Open source hardware wallet" has a gap most people never think about.
You can read the code on GitHub.
But how do you know that's the code running on your device?
On the PQ1, the device tells you. In 8 words ๐
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if you're going to buy a hardware wallet you should probably buy a PQ1 from freedomfactory.io
(shout out @nceornea_eth and @mhaas_eth)
if you're going to build one, build a @wedgiedev
(and technically i will ship you one from wedgie.dev)
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I put the exact same @CoWSwap order on a Ledger and on a PQ1.
The Ledger showed me a hash.
The PQ1 showed me the trade.
Watch ๐
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Same Safe transaction. Two hardware wallets.
Ledger: "Domain hash. Message hash." That's it.
PQ1: @base, the Safe, the recipient, exactly 900 USDC.
One of them makes you sign blind. Watch ๐
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A few weeks ago I pre-ordered three of these PQ1โข, the first quantum-secure hardware wallet. Hope the guys at @FreedomFactory keep cooking!
oh btw ethereum already has a quantum proof hardware wallet, and the upcoming Hegotรก upgrade has โFramesโ which makes EVERY account cryptographically agile so they can all become post-quantum.
this bunker is cozy.
Introducing PQ1: The worldโs first quantum-proof hardware wallet.
If Q-day arrives, your assets are safe.
Reserve now at freedomfactory.io
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdลs unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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Replying to @drakefjustin
Migrating to post-quantum accounts is highly important, that's why we built PQ1!
- Fully open source, and verifiable
- Local Safe and CowSwap tx decoding
- Clear Signing using 7730
xitter.cf/FreedomFactory/status/โฆ
Introducing PQ1: The worldโs first quantum-proof hardware wallet.
If Q-day arrives, your assets are safe.
Reserve now at freedomfactory.io
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Bybit lost $1.5B in one transaction.
The signers approved it on hardware wallets that couldn't show them what it really did.
We replayed the exact same transaction on PQ1.
Watch what happens ๐
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For those still needing a dGEN1 or want a PQ1, you can get BOTH in 1 bundle.
Introducing the Freedom Stack, both of our hardware devices for only $495.
The dGEN1 ships now, and the PQ1 early 2027.
Get it here: shop.freedomfactory.io/produโฆ
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828 days : 7 hours : 36 mins
Post-Quantum is real and it's closer than what you think. Start off with getting a PQ ready hardware wallet from @FreedomFactory
Also, check if you are exposed, @postquantumize
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Fully locally decoded @CoWSwap transaction!
On PQ1, you see exactly what you are signing on Cow Swap!
Plus itโs fully open source!
Freedom Factory retweeted
The first purpose-made hardware wallet to be a @safe signer!
Check out this video where I show you how signing Safe txs is made secure, using local decoding and verification on the PQ1!
Freedom Factory retweeted
First ever USDC on Base transfer using post-quantum wallet!
We have a little update for PQ1, we now have the working e2e devices. Here is a little demo :)
Freedom Factory retweeted
If you're building a cool protocol that could benefit from being integrated into a cool hardware wallet
Dm me!
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I'm speaking at @EFDevcon 8!
"Building the PQ1: The first verifiable post quantum hardware wallet"
Join me in Mumbai ๐ฎ๐ณ November 3-6, 2026. devcon.org/schedule/devcon8/โฆ
For thirty years cryptography spread across the world because code is free to copy. Silicon is not. The last wall between strong cryptography and every home is no longer mathematics, it is manufacturing. This week someone leaned a ladder against that wall : freedomfactory.io/
Software is living its great acceleration. What took a team a year now takes a few people a month. Hardware has not had that moment. It moves slowly for honest reasons: tooling, supply chains, certification, and the cost of being wrong when you cannot patch a soldered chip.
But there is a clock on the locks now. Every signature guarding every wallet on earth rests on mathematics that a quantum machine will one day undo. The locks we use today will, in time, open by themselves. Slow is no longer free.
So it is a good sign to see a small team publish a whole post-quantum wallet in the open. Freedom Factory's PQ1: board schematics, firmware, and a ~$150 parts list, released while the thing is still unfinished rather than after it ships.
Open hardware has a hard edge and it is worth naming plainly. The schematics are open. The chips soldered onto them are not. The processor and both secure elements are proprietary parts from ST, Infineon and NXP, and there is no open equivalent to reach for, because none exists yet. That is the ceiling, and breaking it would change far more than wallets. The mathematics is public. The code is public. Then the chain of trust ends in a factory you are not allowed to see, and you take the last step on faith. Open that last step and the whole path becomes checkable by anyone: mathematics, code, board, silicon, verified end to end. A security supply chain with no article of faith left in it. For the first time, a person could hold something a nation state cannot quietly subvert.
The people who can break that ceiling exist. They are the avengers of hardware attack. They have started talking to each other. They are natural allies of ethereum and they chose to work with us. If they succeed, the balance of power shifts.
The right answer to a part you cannot audit is not to trust it less, it is to need it less. With PQ1, your recovery phrase is split across two secure chips from two different companies, and neither one ever holds all of it.
They also published while it is unfinished. The repo says so plainly: still being built, the audit still running. Publishing a design while people can still argue with it is harder than publishing a finished one, and braver.
Bias up front: it uses cryptography from our EF work. Find more at. I am not an investor and no money changed hands. I am happy to see the first hardware building on top of the SPHINCS minus work.
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freedomfactory.io/learn/is-sโฆ
Open research, then open plans, and one day open silicon. Cryptography will reach every home. It will arrive as objects, not only as code.
The ceiling keeps moving. Good to see people building right up against it. Godspeed PQ1 ๐ซก
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Ethereum can already start preparing accounts for a post quantum world, without waiting for a hard fork.
Today, it would be just 0.07$ .
Further audits incoming. Though I squeezed in a review with Fable before Uncle Sam crashed my party. Verity formal proof included for my lean enjoyers
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