Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a plan to address four areas he sees as most vulnerable to quantum attacks on the network. Quantum computing and crypto have been in the headlines lately as concerns grow about the resilience of Bitcoin and other blockchains against quantum-capable supercomputers. Buterin shared his quantum resilience roadmap for Ethereum on Thursday, identifying the four areas as validator signatures, data storage, user account signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs. He stated that replacing the current BLS (Boneh-Lynn-Shacham) consensus signatures with “Lean” quantum-secure hash-based signatures would address this component. The challenge is choosing a suitable hash function, as this choice is likely to remain in effect in the long term. “This could be ‘Ethereum’s last hash function,’ so choosing wisely is important,” he said. Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake proposed a “Lean Ethereum” plan for making the network quantum-secure by August 2025.#USIsraelStrikesIranBTCPlunges