Announcements Research Aerie: Aggregating 32,000 Post-Quantum Signatures in Under a Second Today we're sharing new research from LayerZero Labs, a16z crypto research, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London introducing Aerie, a new system for aggregating post-quantum cryptographic signatures.

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LayerZero Labs and its research partners introduced Aerie, a system for aggregating post-quantum cryptographic signatures. The project is described as using Akita and as handling 32,000 Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on a MacBook Pro without GPU acceleration. Crypto Briefing separately framed the work as addressing post-quantum signature bloat and linked it to blockchain adoption of post-quantum security.

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LayerZero Labs, a16z crypto research, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London introduced Aerie as a new system for aggregating post-quantum cryptographic signatures.
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Aerie uses Akita, the lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme recently introduced by LayerZero, in its design.
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Crypto Briefing described Aerie as a response to post-quantum signature bloat and tied it to blockchain adoption of post-quantum security.

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Users and developers working with blockchain systems notice a concrete technical update today: Aerie is presented as a way to pack post-quantum signatures more efficiently. That matters for people building or using systems that need post-quantum security while keeping signature handling manageable, because the project is framed around aggregation rather than a change to the underlying signatures themselves.

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