BNB Smart Chain’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Test Cuts Throughput by 40%

TLDR: BNB Smart Chain’s post-quantum test reduced native transfer TPS from 4,973 to 2,997, a 40% drop. Transaction signatures grew from 65 bytes to 2,420 bytes after shifting to the ML-DSA-44 standard. pqSTARK consensus aggregation achieved a 43:1 compression ratio, keeping validator overhead manageable. Cross-region P99 finality degraded from 2 to 11 slots due to [...]

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