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Bitcoin’s Quantum-Resistant Shift Extends Beyond the Network, WBTC Says

Bitcoin’s transition to quantum-resistant cryptography would extend beyond the network itself to wallets, exchanges, custodians and tokenized assets, with proposals such as BIP-360 still under developer exploration and coordination potentially taking years. Wrapped Bitcoin, with 116,000 WBTC in circulation backed by about $9.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to migrate to new Custodian Bitcoin Deposit Addresses and has said it is exploring a multi-custodian reserve model.

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The significance here is that quantum resistance is being framed as an ecosystem-wide migration problem, not a protocol upgrade — wallets, custodians and tokenized bitcoin all inherit the exposure. For WBTC holders, the practical issue is that a wrapped asset's security depends on the custodian's address architecture, which is why the planned deposit-address migration and a possible multi-custodian reserve model matter more than the BIP debate itself. Whether BIP-360 advances, and whether wrapped-bitcoin issuers coordinate on new address standards before any real threat emerges, is the open question.

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