On January 4, Cointelegraph reported that Solana developers created a quantum-resistant vault on the Solana blockchain to protect user funds from potential threats posed by quantum computers. Dean Little, a cryptography researcher and chief scientist at Zeus Networks, explained in a GitHub post that the "Solana Winternitz Vault" solution achieves this by implementing a complex hash-based signature system that generates a new signature every time a transaction is made. key. Generating new private keys for each transaction should make it more difficult for quantum computers to conduct coordinated attacks on any given set of public keys, since those public keys are exposed every time a transaction is signed. Solana quantum-resistant capabilities are currently available as an optional add-on feature rather than a network-wide security upgrade. This means Solana users must choose to store their funds in a Winternitz vault rather than a regular Solana wallet to ensure their assets are protected from potential quantum threats.