On World Quantum Day, a crypto analyst known as Crypto Growth used a recent video to draw a sharp line between projects quietly rebuilding their infrastructure for a “post-quantum” world and the thousands of tokens they believe will be left exposed.
The focus: Algorand and XDC Network’s push toward quantum-resistant cryptography, and how that ties into broader moves in tokenization by Hedera and Ripple.
Algorand & XDC Treat Quantum As An Engineering Deadline, Not Theory
The analyst centers on comments from XDC Network co-founder Ritesh Kakkar, who warns that trade finance documents signed on-chain today — bills of lading, letters of credit, tokenized receivables — must remain legally valid for 20–30 years.
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Most of those, he notes, rely on ECDSA, “the digital signature standard that secures most of the world’s blockchain transactions today,” and the very primitive expected to be broken by large-scale quantum computers.
Kakkar describes XDC’s “Post Quantum Initiative,” launched in March 2026, as a structured program to rebuild the network’s cryptographic foundations ahead of deadlines set by the EU and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
According to Crypto Growth, XDC already has a working prototype in its development codebase and a four-phase migration plan.
Algorand (ALGO) is presented as being on a similarly early track. The analyst highlights that, since 2020–2022, Algorand has been securing its chain history with Falcon-based quantum-resilient state proofs, and that in 2025 it executed what’s described as the first quantum-resistant transaction on mainnet protecting real assets.
Internal discussions, shared in the video, show Algorand’s leadership weighing trade-offs: a fully quantum-secure consensus could be engineered in roughly a year if they “gave up everything else” such as consumer-grade hardware, high throughput and sub-three-second block times.
Hedera (HBAR) & Ripple (XRP) Lean Into Tokenization & Institutional Rails
Beyond quantum security, the analyst shifts to where real-world value may first appear: tokenization and institutional payment rails.
Hedera is shown engaging with the Swiss Armed Forces in a staged rollout, which the commentator interprets as a sign of institutional trust, alongside existing ties to enterprises like Google and IBM.
A Hedera-focused document cited in the video collects various forecasts for tokenized assets by 2030: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) at $16 trillion, Roland Berger at $10 trillion, and Citi at $5 trillion.
The analyst underscores Hedera’s work with names such as abrdn, Archax and Lloyds on tokenized collateral and points to DOVU’s marketplace, which issues tokenized carbon credits and leverages Hedera’s efficiency to tap into a carbon market that the World Bank estimated at around $95 billion in revenues in 2023.
Ripple’s latest move comes via a pilot with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea’s largest life insurers. According to the video, the two are testing tokenized government bond settlement on blockchain — described as Korea’s first such settlement.
Ripple executives say the partnership aims to compress settlement cycles from T+2 to near real time, reducing counterparty risk and improving capital efficiency, with the analyst stressing Ripple’s characterization of its Korea strategy as “long-term and strategic.”
For investors, the throughline is clear: projects preparing for quantum risk while securing institutional and real-world use cases — trade finance, government bonds, carbon credits, tokenized securities — may be better positioned than purely speculative tokens when both regulation and computing power catch up.
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Algorand and XDC Network are explicitly highlighted as running structured post-quantum efforts and prototypes, with Algorand already using quantum-resilient state proofs.
Most current blockchains rely on ECDSA and related schemes that are expected to be vulnerable to sufficiently powerful quantum computers, putting long-duration contracts and assets at risk.
The video points to Hedera’s role in pilots and products involving institutional players like abrdn, Archax and Lloyds, as well as carbon credit tokenization via DOVU.
Ripple & Kyobo Life Insurance are running a pilot involving tokenized government bonds, aiming for near real-time settlement and signaling a deeper institutional push in the Korean market.
