Whitepaper Reading Club & Monad: The Quantum Era & Pow Chain
In Whitepaper Reading Club Bangalore with Monad is organising a discussion on the topics: (1) Migrating Ethereum and Bitcoin Addresses to the Quantum Blockchain Era and the design on a new proof of work chain (Nockchain).
The event is a roundtable discussion so just come to spectate the join in even if someone is not familiar with the crypto industry.
During the event you will be provided with a summary document for you to go through before the discussion. Current bangalore event is being held with the collaboration with Monad team. So we will also be having a discussions with Monad team during the event on their steps towards Post Quantum era.
Paper / source
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20692 (reference the signature schemes)
Summary link
[SUMMARY COMING SOON]
Format
Short introduction and context setting to start.
Silent reading of the summary before discussion begins.
5-10 minute presentation to frame the key ideas.
Moderator-led discussion with no promotions.
Session Guides:
About Monad
We want to thank Monad for helping make this event possible. Monad is a high-performance, Ethereum-compatible blockchain designed to dramatically increase transaction throughput and reduce latency while preserving the developer experience of Ethereum. Through innovations such as parallel transaction execution, MonadBFT consensus, and deferred execution, Monad aims to enable scalable decentralized applications without requiring developers to learn new programming models or rewrite existing smart contracts.
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