# Google Research — Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum vulnerabilities responsibly

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-31T02:03:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Source: https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1352-safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly

Google Research publishes a whitepaper with updated quantum resource estimates for breaking elliptic curve cryptography, showing a 20-fold reduction in physical qubits needed, and proposes a responsible disclosure method using zero-knowledge proofs, urging the cryptocurrency community to transition to post-quantum cryptography.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/safeguarding-cryptocurrency-by-disclosing-quantum-vulnerabilities-responsibly/:

> In a new whitepaper, we show that future quantum computers may break the elliptic curve cryptography that protects cryptocurrency and other systems with fewer qubits and gates than previously realized.

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