Post-Quantum Readiness for Enterprise-Grade Digital Asset Custody
Invite-only gathering hosted by BitGo and Silence Laboratories.
Written by
Jay Prakash
Bay Area California, USA
May 22, 2026
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Post-quantum migration is no longer a research question — it is an engineering one. And right now, the engineering is happening in silos.
Custodians, banks, wallet providers, and blockchain teams are each making PQ choices on their own clocks, against their own constraints. Without convergence on what actually matters, the industry walks into a fragmented landscape that institutional adoption cannot navigate.
This session is about what those choices should weigh — and where the industry can align before lock-in.
Two threads of discussion
1. The spectrum of variables behind a PQ choice.
A PQ migration decision is not "which NIST scheme do we pick." It is a multi-axis trade-off: signature size, key size, verification cost, side-channel posture, statefulness, hardware footprint, agility, regulatory acceptance, and operational fit with existing key-management stacks.
Most public comparisons cover one or two of these axes. Custody architects have to weigh all of them at once, often with incomplete information. We want to surface the full surface — and ask where long-term optimizations should win over short-term expedience, so that isolated choices today do not fragment the institutional landscape tomorrow.
2. MPC-friendliness of PQ signature schemes.
Threshold and distributed signing sit underneath nearly every serious institutional custody architecture. The NIST-standardized PQ signatures — ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon — were not designed with thresholdization as a first-class goal. Gaussian sampling, rejection rounds, statefulness, and floating-point arithmetic each cut differently when the key is split across parties.
The non-standardized schemes that are friendlier to MPC face a regulatory wall. This tension is the central practical question for institutional custody PQ over the next 24 months, and it has not been given honest air time at the major venues.
Agenda
4:00 PM - Doors Open and Check-in. Networking with light refreshments.
4:30 PM - Opening Remarks. Key note talk on the quantum migration imperative for digital assets
5:00 PM - Panel Discussion: A panel discussion on the suitability of NIST-shortlisted post-quantum algorithms for threshold and distributed signature schemes.
5:45 PM - Live Demo. A 10-minute demonstration of executing a post-quantum transaction on testnet, using BitGo and Silence Laboratories tech
6:00 PM - Networking Mixer. Open networking.
7:30 PM - Close.
Format
Invite-only gathering of appx 50 attendees. Security researchers & architects, CISOs, CTOs engineers, and cryptographers from banks, custodians, and digital asset practitioners.
Panelists
Dan Boneh — Co-director, Stanford Computer Security Lab at Stanford University. A leading cryptographer known for work in applied cryptography, blockchain security, and online privacy. His research has influenced modern encryption systems, secure protocols, and digital identity technologies.
Mike Belshe — CEO and co-founder of BitGo, a major digital asset custody and infrastructure company. Previously a key engineer at Google involved in developing SPDY, the protocol that helped shape HTTP/2. He is active in institutional crypto security and custody solutions.
Hart Montgomery — CTO of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust. Focused on enterprise blockchain infrastructure, decentralized identity, and open-source trust technologies. He works on advancing interoperable and scalable distributed systems across industries.
Jay Prakash — CEO of Silence Laboratories, a company specializing in privacy-preserving cryptography and secure multi-party computation (MPC). His work centers on decentralized security, wallet infrastructure, and cryptographic privacy systems for Web3 and financial applications.
Hosts
BitGo is a leading infrastructure provider for institutional digital asset custody, serving banks, exchanges, and financial institutions worldwide.
Silence Laboratories is a cryptography focused deep-tech company working on cutting edge MPC and HSM based digital asset wallet infrastructure used by Banks and Custodians.
