As the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development accelerates, warnings have emerged that digital asset wallet security systems could collapse before quantum computers reach commercial viability.

Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on the 8th (local time) that the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), widely used in Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets, could be neutralized within months rather than years. This suggests it could happen ahead of “Q-Day,” the point at which quantum computers are expected to break current cryptographic systems.

He assessed that rapid advances in AI and mathematics could expose ECDSA vulnerabilities faster than anticipated. In a…