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Development Progress

Building Bitcoin for the quantum era

Development Roadmap

Our path to delivering quantum-resistant Bitcoin

Phase 0: Foundation

2025 Q3
  • Initial research into post-quantum cryptographic algorithms
  • Bitcoin protocol modification analysis
  • Selection of NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms
  • Foundation architecture planning

Phase 1: Integrating Dilithium

2025 Q4

Extending Dilithium support for addresses, transactions, scripts and consensus/mining

Phase 2: Testnet

2025 Q4

Security, testing, and deployment, and whitepaper release

Phase 3: Mainnet

2026 Q1

Mainnet launch with Dilithium support and open-source release

Releases

Pre-Release v0.1.0

2025-08-20

Introducing major consensus changes in preperation for PQC signatures, regtest mining support, and genesis block configs

v0.1.0

Latest Developer Notes

Dilithium Integration Phase 1 Complete

2025-09-10

Phase 1 of Dilithium integration is complete. This milestone lays the foundation for address, script, and wallet integration. Moving onto Phase 2 of Address and Script Integration

by Core Team

SegWit v2 for PQC: Architectural Decision

2025-09-05

We’re integrating post-quantum signatures via SegWit v2. Consensus-level changes like quantum PoW are deferred, keeping focus on the immediate risk: signature security.

by Core Team

Pre-Release: Chain Live for Testing

2025-08-19

BTQ Core v0.1.0 is live. This baseline unlocks the next stage: rigorous test coverage and protocol work for PQC signatures.

by Core Team

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