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Quantum readiness briefings
Analysis of post-quantum migration: the standards, the deadlines, and the decisions they force.
7 briefings since May 2026 · published here first · RSS
May 2026
The $7.1 billion floor: what the US federal PQC migration estimate leaves out $7.1 billion is one government's written floor for civilian PQC migration, and the work it prices scales with calendar, not budget. Regulation 3 min CNN's Q-Day story of 17 May 2026 moved post-quantum migration into the mainstream Mainstream Q-Day coverage ends the awareness bottleneck. The remaining gap is execution: the distance between deciding to migrate and having migrated. Quantum Market 3 min LayerQu, the post-quantum readiness reference for L1 and L2 chains Public chains have no CISO and no audit deadline, so post-quantum readiness needs a public reference. LayerQu scored 67 chains under the v3.1 methodology at launch (May 2026). Blockchain 3 min Meta's five-level post-quantum migration framework, April 2026 Only 43% of organisations report full visibility into their own certificates (Entrust and Ponemon, 2026). A migration plan written on an unknown inventory is fiction. PQC Migration 3 min DORA's implicit post-quantum mandate: RTS 2024/1774, Articles 6 and 7 The RTS under DORA does not mandate PQC by name. It mandates cryptographic agility, and quantum is the named test of that agility. Regulation 3 min The 11-to-1 gap: $12.6 billion into quantum in 2025, just over $1 billion back The 11-to-1 capital-to-revenue gap marks the deployment layer as the un-consolidated layer of the quantum economy. Quantum Market 3 minNo briefings under this topic yet.