Why Eigen Labs is a Design Partner for the World’s First PQ-MPC Wallet Infrastructure

Eigen Labs is an AI research lab building open network technologies for a future where digital systems are more intelligent, more autonomous, and more verifiable. Through EigenCloud, the team is advancing a new class of infrastructure that brings cryptographic verifiability to AI, distributed systems, and large-scale open networks.

That position makes Eigen Labs an unusually informative design partner for a post-quantum migration.

Three reasons stand out.

1. Long-lived AI and open network systems need cryptographic guarantees that survive the future.
As AI systems become more autonomous and increasingly connected to economic, social, and digital infrastructure, the security assumptions behind them must remain valid for years, not just days. The practical question is no longer whether classical elliptic-curve cryptography will eventually be vulnerable to quantum attacks, that is settled, but whether the systems being built today have a migration path before that risk becomes urgent. Eigen Labs is helping size that question now, while there is still room to choose the right architecture rather than react under pressure.

2. Distributed key custody is an MPC-TSS problem at scale.
Open networks and AI-native systems require continuous signing, verification, coordination, and authentication across many services, machines, and participants. The threat model is exactly the one MPC-TSS was designed for: distribute signing authority so no single party, and no single compromised host, ever controls the full key. The unsolved piece, until now, has been doing this with NIST’s lattice-based standards. ML-DSA is not naturally MPC-friendly, and building threshold ML-DSA that preserves the operational properties modern infrastructure relies on is a non-trivial cryptographic engineering project. PQ-MPC Vault is primitive in production form.

3. Eigen Labs’ technical leadership has been shaping the post-quantum conversation publicly.
Sreeram Kannan, Founder and CEO of Eigen Labs and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington, co-authored the Coinbase Independent Advisory Board’s April 2026 position paper on quantum computing and blockchain alongside Dan Boneh, Justin Drake, Yehuda Lindell, Dahlia Malkhi, and Scott Aaronson. The paper concludes that fault-tolerant quantum computers will eventually be built, that the timeline, while uncertain, is increasingly plausible within a decade, and that critical digital infrastructure should begin migration well ahead of the NIST 2035 target. It explicitly favors hybrid, agile approaches that do not sacrifice current security or performance. PQ-MPC Vault is built around precisely that thesis.

Eigen Labs is building open network technologies for a future where AI systems, digital assets, and critical infrastructure need to remain secure for decades, not just today. As quantum risk moves from theory to planning reality, we believe the migration to post-quantum cryptography has to begin early, with practical systems that preserve security, performance, and usability. By serving as one of the initial design partners for Silence Laboratories’ quantum-safe digital asset vault, we’re helping test and collaboratively implement infra  that can support this transition in real-world environments.

Vishnu Patankar

CTO, Eigen Labs

Working with Eigen Labs as a design partner means the migration path we ship is informed by a team building at the frontier of AI, cryptographic verifiability, and open network infrastructure. 

It also means post-quantum MPC moves beyond narrow custody use cases and into the foundation of the verifiable AI systems and open digital networks that will define the next decade.

Learn more about Silence Laboratories' quantum-safe MPC enterprise wallet infrastructure