PodcastUnchainedOctober 21, 2026
How Crypto Can Survive If AI or Quantum Computers Break Its Cryptography
No blockchain cryptography is broken yet, but AI and quantum threats make crypto-agile migration — not picking one "winning" algorithm — the urgent priority.
- Nothing broken yet: Conor Deegan (Project Eleven CTO) stresses no production cryptographic scheme — ECDSA, NIST lattices, hash-based — has been broken by AI or quantum computers as of today.
- AI already claimed scalps: Two non-production post-quantum schemes, Hawk (lattice-based) and McEliece, were broken by AI attacks in recent months, one for roughly $100,000 by Anthropic.
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