Crypto’s Post-Quantum Shift and Privacy Renaissance Take Center Stage at Quantus and NEAR's Quantum + Privacy Day at TOKEN2049 Singapore

Bitwise, Grayscale, Dragonfly, Balaji Srinivasan, Zcash’s Zooko Wilcox, and NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin convene to plan crypto’s migration to quantum-safe, privacy-preserving infrastructure

Singapore, October 8, 2026 – Quantus and NEAR Foundation will host Quantum + Privacy Day on Thursday, October 8, 2026, as a side event of TOKEN2049 Singapore. Built for security researchers, application builders, and capital allocators, the event features keynotes and panel discussions with crypto and finance industry luminaries such as Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, Hunter Horsley, CEO of Bitwise, Krista Lynch of Grayscale, Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, and Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor and founder of Network School.   Quantum + Privacy Day will take place at Tower Club, Republic Plaza, from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. SGT, followed by an evening of networking. 

The program brings cryptographers, protocol builders, investors, and researchers into one room to dive into the ways the industry can protect blockchain networks from the increasingly powerful quantum computers which will soon have the ability to break the cryptography securing them today.

A quantum computer that forges signatures can not only corrupt blockchain ledgers but also strip the privacy from every transaction they record. The conversations and keynote presentations at Quantum + Privacy Day will look at both quantum-safe cryptographic schemes for securing assets, as well as privacy infrastructure for encrypting assets..