Justin Sun says Tron’s post-quantum cryptography has gone live on testnet
Justin Sun said TRON’s post-quantum cryptography is live on testnet and that the network is ready to bring quantum resistance to mainnet. No launch date for a mainnet rollout has been announced.
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TRON users and builders following the network can see that a post-quantum version has already been put on testnet, and that makes the test environment the place to watch next. The immediate change is that the project is no longer describing this work only as future planning; it is presented as live on testnet and ready for a mainnet move. (per cointelegraph.com)
In practice, what changes is that a mainnet switch is described as something TRON could do at any time, while what stays the same is that no launch date has been given. That means the status is a testnet rollout with mainnet timing still unset, rather than a completed mainnet deployment.
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Has this happened before?
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 16 days ago | TRON Rolls Out Mandatory Anaxagoras Upgrade to Keep Nodes in Sync event | 1 actors in common · 2 news media |
| 21 days ago | OpenZeppelin Expands Audited Smart Contract Tools to TRON event | 1 actors in common · 3 news media |