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An illustration of the Quantaureum network: a lattice of interlinked quantum crystals.

The quantum-safe blockchain

Quantaureum secures every account and every signature with NIST-standard post-quantum cryptography — built from scratch, open source, and running today.

A protocol designed for the quantum era

Quantaureum is built from scratch around post-quantum cryptography — not patched on top of legacy schemes.

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Post-quantum, by default

Every signature uses ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204, derived from CRYSTALS-Dilithium) and every key exchange uses ML-KEM-768 (FIPS 203, derived from CRYSTALS-Kyber). There is no classical fallback left to attack. Your account stays secure when large quantum computers arrive.

2 NIST standards

FIPS 203 + FIPS 204 at the protocol core

QPOS consensus

Proof-of-stake with GM-QTD threshold signatures: blocks finalize only when the validator committee signs — no single key can forge finality.

QVM smart contracts

A purpose-built virtual machine with the QASM contract language and a JIT engine, designed for parallel execution from day one.

Built to scale

Sharding, erasure-coded data availability with FRI commitments, and built-in rollup support.

Open and independent

Written from zero by an independent developer and released as open source. Everything is public on GitHub.

Architecture

Seven layers, one stack

From post-quantum keys at the bottom to the public API at the top, every layer of Quantaureum is built in-house.

  1. L7

    Public API

    JSON-RPC 2.0, WebSocket and GraphQL endpoints

  2. L6

    Node & txpool

    Node orchestration, mempool and block production

  3. L5

    Consensus & blocks

    QPOS staking consensus with QTD threshold-signature finality

  4. L4

    QVM

    Smart-contract virtual machine, QASM language and JIT compiler

  5. L3

    Networking & economics

    gossipsub peer networking, staking and incentive economics

  6. L2

    Storage & encoding

    Verkle trie state, encoding and embedded database

  7. L1

    Cryptography

    Dilithium3 signatures and Kyber768 key encapsulation (NIST FIPS 204/203)

Roadmap

Where Quantaureum is heading

Security, scale and usability — the public roadmap follows real engineering and is updated as it ships.