qLABS launches qVAULT, secured with Falcon post-quantum cryptography, bringing quantum-resistant protection to institutional and DeFi digital asset holders.
Panama, 19th Jun 2026 – qLABS, a quantum-native Web3 foundation, today launched qVAULT, the first quantum-safe vault for digital assets for everyone. qVAULT is the first live product to let Hyperliquid holders keep HYPE, Hyperliquid’s native digital asset, in post-quantum self-custody, and the launch puts post-quantum protection, long confined to research papers and conference slides, into a product holders run themselves. The first HYPE on HyperEVM has already moved into qVAULT post-quantum vaults during early access.
qVAULT is a post-quantum, self-custody smart-contract vault for crypto that lets holders move assets out of elliptic-curve-only control and into vaults that sign with Falcon (FN-DSA), the signature scheme the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected for standardization.
The quantum threat is concrete and present. The major public chains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Hyperliquid through HyperEVM, secure funds with elliptic-curve signatures. HyperEVM authenticates with ECDSA over the secp256k1 curve, the same scheme Ethereum uses. A sufficiently capable quantum computer will break that cryptography and expose any address whose public key has appeared on chain. Because a public key revealed on chain today can be harvested and broken once that hardware exists, “harvest now, decrypt later” makes this a liability holders carry today, not a problem for a later decade.
qVAULT quantum-safe smart contract vault signs with Falcon (FN-DSA), the scheme NIST selected for standardization and currently in public review as FIPS 206. Since qVAULT is a non-custodial solution, qLABS never holds keys or seed phrases. The path into the vault has three steps: connect a self-custody account such as MetaMask, create a Falcon-secured vault, and bring assets across, out of ECDSA-only control and under a post-quantum signature.
qLABS is not making the case alone. A growing group of institutional and DeFi participants is working with the foundation on what post-quantum security means for their corner of the market. Two of them are public companies: HYLQ Strategy Corp (CSE: HYLQ), the first corporate treasury to hold HYPE, is evaluating quantum-safe custody for its position, and DigitalX (ASX: DCC), an institutional digital asset manager, recently took part in a quantum-preparedness workshop run by qLABS and 01 Quantum. On the DeFi side, the bonding protocol ApeBond is assessing post-quantum protection for its markets.
qVAULT’s design and threat model are public in a published litepaper, and its code has passed an independent security audit by Fairyproof. The cryptography itself is overseen by people who help set the standard: qLABS’ advisory board includes Dr. Edoardo Persichetti, co-author of HQC, an algorithm NIST selected for post-quantum standardization, and Aaron Moore, former CTO of QuSecure with a background at the NSA and DARPA.
Hyperliquid has become the center of gravity for on-chain trading: more than 3.5 trillion USD in cumulative volume, over 9 billion USD in open interest, and roughly 70 percent of open interest across all on-chain perpetuals exchanges, more than every competitor combined. Yet while Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain have all published quantum-resistance roadmaps, research, or live test results, Hyperliquid has not yet published a comparable plan. Until it does, protection in its ecosystem sits exactly where qVAULT puts it: in the hands of the holder. qONE, the qLABS native token powering qVAULT, has traded on Hyperliquid since February 2026.
“For years, post-quantum security lived in standards drafts and conference talks, with nowhere to put real money,” said Andrew Cheung, CTO of qLABS and President and CEO of 01 Quantum Inc. (TSXV: ONE; OTCQB: OONEF), a strategic partner of qLABS. “qVAULT closes that gap: a place holders move real assets onto Falcon signatures today, keep their own keys, and do it inside a live, audited smart-contract environment. That combination turns harvest-now-decrypt-later from a warning into something you can act on before the Q-Day arrives.”
“Hyperliquid is the best thing to happen to finance in years, real markets, real size, fully on-chain,” said Antanas Guoga (Tony G), President of qLABS. “The institutions and protocols that move first on post-quantum security are the ones prepared when the threat stops being theoretical. Protecting the best of on-chain finance is exactly where that starts.”
About qVAULT
qVAULT is a post-quantum, self-custody smart-contract vault for crypto. It signs with Falcon (FN-DSA), the signature scheme NIST selected for standardization and currently in public review as FIPS 206, letting holders move assets out of ECDSA-only control while retaining full custody. qLABS never holds keys or seed phrases.
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About qLABS
qLABS is a quantum-native Web3 foundation building post-quantum security for digital assets, with qVAULT as its flagship product and qONE as its native token. Its advisory board includes Dr. Edoardo Persichetti, co-author of the NIST-selected HQC algorithm, and Aaron Moore, former CTO of QuSecure. 01 Quantum Inc. (TSXV: ONE; OTCQB: OONEF) is a strategic technological partner of qLABS.
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