White House Outlines $215M Quantum Competition, $2.4B AI Commitments

The quantum competition is the piece that matters most for crypto and RWA markets, since it signals the US government is now funding the very research that could eventually undermine the elliptic-curve cryptography securing most wallets and tokenized assets. The AI commitments are the larger number, but they are industry pledges rather than a direct threat to existing chains. What is worth watching is whether this funding translates into concrete cryptographic standards or migration timelines that token issuers and custodians would have to plan around.