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NEAR already lets users hold assets in a post-quantum secure way. Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) walks through future upgrades, including shifting block production over to post-quantum cryptography and securing user's multi-chain assets through NEAR's Chain Signatures, all behind the scenes.

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