Ethlabs urges Ethereum developers to move quantum-safe upgrade to 2027

What Ethlabs proposed

Ethlabs, an organisation founded by former employees of the Ethereum Foundation, has asked Ethereum developers to bring the network's post-quantum security upgrade forward to 2027, according to a report by Bits.media published on 12 November 2026. That would be two years earlier than the date currently set for the change.

Post-quantum security refers to cryptography designed to resist attacks from quantum computers, a class of machine that could in theory break some of the cryptographic methods used today. The report describes the upgrade as a change to the network's security rather than to its economics or applications.

Bits.media did not state the current scheduled date for the upgrade, the specific technical changes Ethlabs is asking for, or how the proposal was submitted to developers.

What is not yet known

There is no reported response from Ethereum's core developers or from the Ethereum Foundation, which the report names only as the former employer of Ethlabs' founders. Whether the 2027 date has support among client teams or researchers is also unclear.

The report gives no timeline for a decision and does not say whether the proposal has been raised in any formal Ethereum governance process. Bits.media also did not say whether Ethlabs published a technical paper alongside the request.