QRL Marks Eight Years of Quantum-Safe Mainnet; QRL 2.0 Audits Reach the Halfway Mark

The QRL Foundation marked eight years of continuous post-quantum mainnet operation, with every transaction signed by hash-based XMSS since June 2018, and reported that the QRL 2.0 (Project Zond) audit program is now 50% fully complete and remediated, following the clean Halborn cryptography audit in April. Mainnet launch remains contingent on the successful completion of the full audit pipeline. While incumbents test their first post-quantum signatures, the chain that never needed a migration is finishing the reviews for its second post-quantum generation.