Gate News reports that on March 26, Castle Island Ventures founding partner Nic Carter stated that Bitcoin developers are making slow progress on quantum resistance upgrades, while Ethereum has prioritized post-quantum cryptography migration as its top strategic goal and has outlined a roadmap targeting 2029. Nic Carter noted that the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) widely used in current blockchains faces potential cracking threats from quantum computers, saying, “Whether in 3 years or 10 years, the era of ECC is coming to an end,” and that networks must embed cryptographic flexibility into their underlying architecture. Regarding Ethereum, co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a quantum resistance roadmap in February this year, covering comprehensive upgrades to validator signatures, data storage, accounts, and proof mechanisms. Previous research by ARK Invest indicated that about one-third of BTC is exposed to quantum threats, but this is characterized as a “long-term risk.” Nic Carter believes that if the Bitcoin community fails to accelerate these upgrades, the ETH/BTC exchange rate will gradually reflect a divergence in priorities between the two.
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