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Marinade governance & Quantum Risk
Verdict
Marinade governance is not quantum-proof. MNDE voting uses classical Solana signatures.
Overview
mSOL holders and MNDE governors are different roles—inventory separately.
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: MNDE voters and DAO
- Hosts/context: MNDE governance
What breaks
- Compromise of governance 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
mSOL page?
/is-quantum-proof/msol
Related?
/is-quantum-proof/liquid-staking
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