Aanchal Malhotra, a researcher at RippleX, said, warned The window to prepare for the disruption of quantum computing is rapidly shrinking.
As reported by U.Today, Ripple $XRP Ledger (XRPL) will be fully “post-quantum enabled” by 2028.
Google’s 2026 quantum breakthrough
A groundbreaking whitepaper published by Google’s Quantum AI has prompted various cryptocurrency projects to re-evaluate their quantum readiness.
Previously, the general consensus was that quantum computing would not pose a fatal threat to the world’s financial infrastructure in the near future.
The crypto community believed that cracking 256-bit elliptic curve cryptography (ECDSA), used in networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRPL, required huge machines with tens of millions of physical qubits. However, the tech giant has revealed that this is not the case. In fact, fewer than 500,000 physical qubits may be needed.
Ripple’s 4-step roadmap
As reported by U.Today, Ripple worked with Project Eleven to perform the ordered migration.
If traditional cryptography is suddenly compromised, the network will be forced to become post-quantum capable (this is the worst-case scenario).
The second phase involves active experimentation, with Ripple currently testing NIST-recommended quantum-resistant algorithms.
In the third phase, the network is expected to integrate candidate post-quantum signature schemes in parallel with existing elliptic curve signatures.
The final phase will focus on migrating XRPL to native PQC-based signatures at scale.
