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Convex admin keys & Quantum Risk
Verdict
Convex admin keys are not quantum-proof. Platform controllers can affect staking and reward flows under classical crypto.
Overview
Meta-governance platforms concentrate operational keys—inventory them explicitly.
Cryptographic profile
- Signatures: Host-chain account signatures for role holders (typically classical ECDSA/Ed25519), Multisig/module keys as deployed
- Hash: Host-chain dependent
- Public-key exposure: Platform owners, treasury, strategy admins
- Hosts/context: Booster and platform admins
What breaks
- Compromise of admin keys related keys for Convex
- Equating role separation or multisig with post-quantum algorithms
- Untracked multi-chain deployments of the same protocol
Mitigations
- Document privileged addresses from official docs per chain
- Hardware/MPC for guardians, admins, and large governors
- Return to /is-quantum-proof/convex for protocol context
- Use category hubs: lending, dex, perps, stablecoins
FAQ
Governance?
/is-quantum-proof/convex-governance
Related?
/is-quantum-proof/curve-admin-keys
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