In the past week, Aptos proposed opt-in post-quantum signatures and Solana ran a quantum-resistant testnet, while parts of the Bitcoin community urged faster work on quantum safety. Several major networks treat quantum risk as a long-term engineering challenge, even as Bitcoin debates how prominently and urgently to address it.

Former SEC counsel Ashley Ebersole said regulatory attitudes, rather than technology, have been the main barrier to compliant real-world asset tokenization, though the Securities and Exchange Commission's stance has begun to shift. He outlined models where tokenized equities are issued through regulated intermediaries with full shareholder rights, while warning that differing global rules and yield structures still constrain cross-border and income-bearing RWA products.