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Fluid admin keys & Quantum Risk
Verdict
Fluid admin keys are not quantum-proof. Unified liquidity products still expose classical privileged controllers.
Overview
Fluid-style vaults concentrate admin power over user capital. Inventory those roles next to user EOAs and allowances.
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: Protocol admins and vault controllers
- Hosts/context: Fluid liquidity / lending deployments
What breaks
- Compromise of admin keys related keys for Fluid
- 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/fluid for protocol context
- Use category hubs: lending, dex, perps, stablecoins
FAQ
Protocol page?
/is-quantum-proof/fluid
Category?
/is-quantum-proof/lending and /is-quantum-proof/dex
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