Guest Post: How Tokenized Finance Can Prepare for Post-Quantum Security

Building financial infrastructure is strange: you have to make decisions today for assets that may still exist long after the underlying technology has changed. That is especially true in tokenization because a bond issued on-chain today might mature in twenty years. An interest in a private company could sit on a cap table for decades. Real estate, private credit, funds and other assets being brought on-chain involve legal rights and economic relationships that can persist for a very long time. So when we talk about quantum computing and finance, I think the useful question is not when a sufficiently powerful quantum computer will arrive. I do not know,…