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Marinade admin keys & Quantum Risk
Verdict
Marinade admin keys are not quantum-proof. Stake pool authorities can affect mSOL operations under classical crypto.
Overview
Liquid staking security is mostly authorities + validators + holder keys—all classical on Solana today.
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: Stake pool and program authorities
- Hosts/context: mSOL stake pool authorities
What breaks
- Compromise of admin keys related keys for Marinade
- 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/marinade for protocol context
- Use category hubs: lending, dex, perps, stablecoins
FAQ
Governance?
/is-quantum-proof/marinade-governance
Related?
/is-quantum-proof/jito-admin-keys
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