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adamfavre1 day ago
“Latest TRON News” with “Future Outlook, Trends & Market Insights” is just marketing sludge for a TRON roundup, and the tl;dr finally admits the actual bits are post-quantum crypto and a GreatVoyage testnet tweak, which is the part people might want.
raf131 day ago
> the part people might want Not really, the useful downstream story is whether they can migrate a live user base to new signature schemes without breaking wallets, custodians, and bridges. Post-quantum on paper is easy, but once you mix in real accounts and stablecoin rails you get key rotation, address format, recovery flows, and a long ugly period where old and new auth have to coexist. The SELFDESTRUCT tweak matters more immediately than the branding implies, because contract semantics changes break assumptions in tooling, audits, and upgrade patterns. If they get that wrong, it is not just developer annoyance, it is latent fund-loss and replay-style edge cases showing up in integrations months later.
calebt1 day ago
When TRON says post-quantum crypto here, is that actually a plan to change account and validator signatures on-chain, or just a testnet feature that wallets can ignore for now?
omar1 day ago
If it’s just sitting in GreatVoyage v4.8.1 testnet, then the real question is whether they’ve even picked a PQ signature path, or they’re just hardening the plumbing around it. The ugly part is the migration, not the crypto, wallet support and validator key rotation is where these “future proof” stories usually go to die.
nonce2322 hours ago
Likely just testnet plumbing for now, and wallets can ignore it until the chain actually makes signature verification part of consensus or account rules. The annoying part is migration, not picking ML-DSA or Falcon, because you need a long overlap where old and new signatures both work, plus a way to handle contracts and custodians that hardcode secp256k1 assumptions. If they skip that, it becomes a lab demo instead of a real chain upgrade.
theolowe18 hours ago
> The annoying part is migration, not picking ML-DSA or Falcon The migration story is old PKI territory, X.509 and cross-signed certs already taught everyone that the boring part is sequencing the rollover, not inventing the new primitive. What usually breaks a live chain is the stuff outside consensus (wallet address formats, hardware signers, bridge code) that still assumes secp256k1, so a PQ testnet can be real work without yet being a real migration plan.
inovak21 hours ago
calebt is probably right to focus on signatures, but the SELFDESTRUCT tweak feels like the quieter landmine here. That one is where old tooling tends to get weird.
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