NEAR Protocol Quantum-Safe Signing (Upgrade 2.13, ML-DSA/FIPS-204)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Ready

Primary summary from verified readiness

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

Human editorial judgment · 2026-07-21

Track; not yet

Why: The underlying FIPS-204/ML-DSA primitive is NIST-finalized and mature (Aug 2024), and NEAR's account-key-rotation design is a genuinely elegant migration path — but the blockchain-specific shipment is days old at research time (nearcore release 2026-07-09, mainnet activation 2026-07-20), carries disclosed gas/cost overhead and a breaking validator migration, and has zero independent verification of real adoption volume yet; too early to call it a proven pattern.
Next: Re-check in 60-90 days for: (a) wallet/hardware PQ support beyond Ledger, (b) real-world ML-DSA key-rotation adoption rate among NEAR accounts, and (c) whether the 100 Ggas overhead and ~10x account-creation cost increase materially slow adoption before treating this as a reusable pattern for any pragma.vision crypto-adjacent integration.

Constraints

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

AI-assisted assembly

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Initial public reading