Solana is working on a major security upgrade against quantum computers

Solana (SOL) is working on a new upgrade that should protect the network from future quantum computers. The plan, Quantumglow, is to prevent powerful computers from breaking the security of transactions. It is striking that Solana wants to maintain its high speed.

On October 22, Solana and software developer Anza presented the proposal for Quantumglow. With this, they want to expand the existing Alpenglow upgrade with new security technology.

Alpenglow was activated on 21 October and caused a major speed improvement. Transactions can now be definitively processed in about 0.15 seconds, compared to 12.8 seconds previously.

Nevertheless, there is still a risk. Solana currently uses digital signatures that could potentially be cracked with sufficiently powerful quantum computers.

Those signatures are important for the security of the network. They are used to approve transactions and to get network administrators to agree on new blocks.

Quantumglow must tackle this problem with new cryptographic techniques that are resistant to attacks with quantum computers.

According to the developers, Solana can implement this security without sacrificing the speed of Alpenglow. An official date for the upgrade has not yet been announced.

The threat of quantum computers is playing out throughout the crypto sector. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) also use security techniques that can become vulnerable in the long term.

Other blockchain projects, including Tron, Starknet, Tezos and Algorand, are also researching or developing solutions.

Google has internally set 2029 as an important deadline for the switch to quantum secure security.

According to data from research platform Migration.fail, the vast majority of the crypto market is not yet fully protected against quantum attacks. Solana is also currently receiving an insufficient one, because its existing network is still dependent on traditional cryptography.

Solana product director Vibhu Norby reacted enthusiastically to the new proposal. According to him, the network is ready for the challenges of quantum computers and artificial intelligence.

For the time being, however, Quantumglow remains a research proposal. The new security has not yet been implemented on the Solana network.