QMS Network is a Layer-1 blockchain built for the post-quantum era. Waitlist is open, visit our website below to join:
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The QMS white paper is now live.
It outlines the network we’re building: a layer 1 for the post-quantum era, featuring proof-of-useful-work consensus, no public-key signatures in block production, a separate post-quantum finality layer, EVM-compatible execution, and a path for quantum hardware to join the miner network.
The final section covers how we plan to roll these pieces out progressively over time.
Full white paper: docs.qms.finance/whitepaper
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If you have the Qubit role in the QMS Discord, you can now claim a special role in the QWAP Discord too.
It’s called Qwabbit, and claiming it gives you a Quanta boost.
Check our Discord for the event details!
QWAP Discord is open!
When you join, you can claim one of two roles:
→ Qwapper: for QWAP community members
→ Qwabbit: a special role created with @QMSNetwork for Qubit holders in their Discord
Come say hello: discord.gg/qwapofficial
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A post-quantum signature can fail in the math or in the code.
Last week, two papers showed one of each. Both schemes, SNOVA and MAYO, are still under NIST evaluation, which is exactly when you want this found.
➤ SNOVA's signing code leaked secret keys.
IBM Research showed that SNOVA's signer picks some random values slightly more often than others. That small bias was enough to recover secret keys for four of its alternative settings, using 9 to 180 million signatures. The recommended settings weren't affected by this bug, and picking the values evenly would close it.
➤ New math pushed MAYO to change its settings.
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Radboud found a cheaper way to attack this family of signatures. By their estimates, four of MAYO's alternative Round-2 settings fall below their claimed security. After a private heads-up, the MAYO team dropped a setting planned for Round 3 and raised its parameters.
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QMS is designed so that producing a block takes no signature. Block production runs on proof-of-useful-work, which relies on hash functions. Post-quantum signatures come in at the finality layer, where they mark blocks as final. More in our white paper:
The QMS white paper is now live.
It outlines the network we’re building: a layer 1 for the post-quantum era, featuring proof-of-useful-work consensus, no public-key signatures in block production, a separate post-quantum finality layer, EVM-compatible execution, and a path for quantum hardware to join the miner network.
The final section covers how we plan to roll these pieces out progressively over time.
Full white paper: docs.qms.finance/whitepaper
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QWAP is the first dapp building on QMS, and we're glad to have them here.
They're bringing onchain trading to a network designed with the quantum era in mind.
Every onchain trade depends on cryptography.
A powerful enough quantum computer could one day break much of the public-key cryptography crypto relies on today.
We’d rather prepare for that future now.
That’s why we’re building QWAP on @QMSNetwork.
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The QMS white paper is now live.
It outlines the network we’re building: a layer 1 for the post-quantum era, featuring proof-of-useful-work consensus, no public-key signatures in block production, a separate post-quantum finality layer, EVM-compatible execution, and a path for quantum hardware to join the miner network.
The final section covers how we plan to roll these pieces out progressively over time.
Full white paper: docs.qms.finance/whitepaper
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Want to try QMS when testnet beta opens?
Bookmark qms.finance
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Find the bugs before real funds depend on the code.
That’s what a testnet is for: trying transactions and wallet interactions with test tokens intended to have no monetary value. The software can change as issues surface.
QMS testnet beta gives you a place to try the available features and flag what needs fixing before production use.
What would you try first on QMS?
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QMS brings different sides of the network together.
→ Miners secure the chain and can earn from both block rewards and solving real problems.
→ Clients pay to get optimization problems solved.
→ Users get the security of proof of work, while client payments help reduce the network’s reliance on token inflation.
One network, with useful work built into how it runs.
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Adding quantum-resistant signatures to a blockchain leaves a separate job: making them usable and safe in a wallet.
1️⃣ Circle’s Arc can check quantum-resistant signatures in smart contracts. Native wallet transactions using them are still planned.
2️⃣ Ledger’s review of SHRINCS, a draft Bitcoin proposal, highlights a recovery challenge. Rolling back the counter that tracks used signing keys could cause key reuse and enable forgery. When the signing history is lost or uncertain, the design supports recovery through a larger fallback signature.
3️⃣ Researchers also recovered a secret key from an implementation of Falcon, a quantum-resistant signature scheme. The attack required physical access to inject one hardware fault, then about a million ordinary signatures.
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Busy week behind the scenes.
A lot has come together, and we’re excited to show you what’s next.
In the meantime, join us on Discord, take part in the weekly challenges, and earn Quanta along the way: discord.com/invite/qmsnetwor…
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Swapping Ethereum’s signatures for post-quantum ones creates a much bigger job than it sounds.
A BLS signature today is 96 bytes. The leanXMSS replacement is 3,112 bytes, and you lose native aggregation along the way.
So now Ethereum has to rebuild that aggregation with zero-knowledge proofs, and that’s just one piece of the migration.
We unpacked the rest here, plus why QMS approaches block production differently:
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Many of you are new to QMS.
Welcome, and please meet our core tech team (again).
From protocol architecture and consensus to cryptography, verification, and infrastructure, they’re turning QMS from research into a working network. ↓
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6/ Alessio Onori, Lead Site Reliability Engineer
7+ years running production infrastructure, with deep blockchain experience.
He spent five years managing production Kubernetes infrastructure at Web3 Foundation, supporting RPC and validator nodes across multiple clouds.
At QMS, Alessio owns the infrastructure and observability that keep the network running.
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