On January 4, news from Cointelegraph reported that Solana developers have created a quantum-resistant vault on the Solana blockchain to prevent user funds from potential threats posed by quantum computers. Cryptography researcher and Chief Scientist of Zeus Network Dean Little explained in a GitHub post that the 'Solana Winternitz Vault' solution achieves this by implementing a complex hash-based signature system that generates new keys with each transaction. Generating new private keys for each transaction should make it more difficult for quantum computers to perform a coordinated attack on any given set of public keys, as these public keys are exposed every time a transaction is signed. Solana's quantum-resistant feature is currently offered as an optional add-on rather than a network-wide security upgrade. This means that Solana users must choose to store their funds in the Winternitz Vault rather than in a regular Solana wallet to protect their assets from potential quantum threats.