NEAR said its accounts now support the post-quantum ML-DSA signature scheme, and users do not need to migrate assets. According to ChainCatcher, the blockchain said cryptographic agility is a basic requirement for the industry and that signature upgrades should become routine.

NEAR’s core development team, Near One, is advancing NEP-655, which covers commitment-based implicit accounts derived from an initial state hash. Assets remain behind that hash, and the chain does not expose public keys or key hashes on-chain. The feature is already live on testnet, with mainnet launch planned for the coming weeks.

For developers, the team is designing the NEAR Intents wallet contract to support custom signature extensions, including ML-DSA and hash-based schemes. For chains that cannot yet add post-quantum keys, NEAR is also working on a Q-day recovery registry, allowing users to submit recovery keys in a rotatable hash form. NEAR said quantum computing was already considered in its 2018 design.