Crypto custodians should start moving customer assets to quantum-resistant systems now

Banks, asset managers, corporations and pension funds moving into digital assets through custody launches, trading desks and treasury allocations.

Whether quantum computers could break the cryptography securing Bitcoin and other blockchains, and how networks plan to migrate before that day.

The defensive side of crypto, covering how exchanges, protocols and holders get hacked, exploited or scammed, and what is done to prevent it.

Where crypto assets are actually held and who controls the keys, from self-custody wallets to exchange accounts and regulated custodians.

Coinbase's head of cryptography described work on adaptable post-quantum custody safeguards in an interview published September 22, 2026. The approach remains in development and has not been presented as a deployed product.