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Pendle admin keys & Quantum Risk
Verdict
Pendle admin keys are not quantum-proof. Market creation and fee modules use classical privileged keys.
Overview
Inventory admins that can affect markets holding substantial TVL in yield tokens.
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: Factory owners, fee collectors, emergency roles
- Hosts/context: Market factory and fee admins
What breaks
- Compromise of admin keys related keys for Pendle
- 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/pendle for protocol context
- Use category hubs: lending, dex, perps, stablecoins
FAQ
Governance?
/is-quantum-proof/pendle-governance
Related?
/is-quantum-proof/ethena-admin-keys
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