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Coinbase announces the establishment of a Quantum Computing and Blockchain Independent Advisory Committee to address future quantum threats. The committee brings together world-renowned experts with the goal of assessing the impact of quantum computing on the blockchain ecosystem and providing clear, independent guidance to the wider community. The committee will release a position paper on quantum risks to provide developers and institutions with defense recommendations and real-time analysis of technological breakthroughs. Coinbase states that the committee is part of its post-quantum security roadmap, with other initiatives including updates to bitcoin address handling, internal key management systems, and support for post-quantum signature schemes such as ML-DSA in the multi-party computation (MPC) system. The committee is expected to release its first position paper on quantum risk assessment and resilience building roadmap early next year. Committee members include Scott Aaronson, Director of the Quantum Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin; Dan Boneh, Co-Director of the Stanford University Blockchain Research Center; Justin Drake, Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation; Sreeram Kannan, Founder of EigenLayer; Yehuda Lindell, Cryptography Director at Coinbase; and Dahlia Malkhi, Distributed Systems expert at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).