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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

June 2026

Software Ate the World. Now Services Are Eating Software. The defining companies of the next decade will look like services businesses to their customers and operate like software companies underneath. Deployment Thesis 5 min

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 min