Digital assets face a migration problem that no single organization can solve. Signature schemes are consensus rules, wallet populations are held by users who may never respond, and the governance path to changing either runs through a community rather than a change board. Custodians and exchanges sit downstream of all of it.
This is a working day. You bring your own key architecture, your own asset coverage, and your own custody model, and you leave with a plan that distinguishes what you control from what you can only prepare for.
Who this intensive is for
Exchange and custodian security leads, key management and HSM engineers, protocol and wallet engineering teams, and the risk and compliance staff responsible for custody obligations.
Protocol teams and custodians work well in the same room, because each one’s timeline is the other’s constraint.
What you’ll be able to do afterward
- Separate exposure that is a protocol problem from exposure that is a key management problem inside your own walls
- Assess the relative urgency of the exposures across the chains you actually support
- Plan wallet and address migration at scale, including the population that will not act
- Evaluate post-quantum signature schemes against the constraints of the chains you support
- Sequence custody key hierarchy migration without a custody gap
- Set a governance engagement position for the protocols whose decisions bind you
What you leave with
Every participant receives the course handbook, a PDF of the full material with the instructor notes written out, and a PDF copy of Quantum Ready. The day itself produces a per-chain exposure assessment across the assets you support, a custody key hierarchy migration plan, a wallet and address migration model including the unreachable population, and a protocol governance engagement position. All are editable and yours to keep.
The day
Morning, first block. Where the exposure is. Protocol-level against operator-level. Sizing each across the chains you support rather than in the abstract.
Morning, second block. Custody and keys. Key hierarchies, HSM estates, and migration without a custody gap. The part you fully control.
Afternoon, first block. Protocol and governance. Post-quantum signature options, wallet migration at scale, and how decentralized governance actually reaches a decision.
Afternoon, second block. The plan. Assemble the roadmap. Draft the governance and customer communications the plan depends on.
Where this sits in your path
Quantum-Safe Digital Assets is the prerequisite in substance rather than in rule. It covers the same ground at overview depth, and participants who arrive having taken it start the day with the vocabulary already shared. Afterward, PKI Modernization for Post-Quantum for key infrastructure teams, and Cryptographic Agility for the protocol engineering side.
Why we teach this
The day is built on the Digital Assets Extension of the Applied Quantum PQC Migration Framework, published openly under Creative Commons at pqcframework.org. The instructors run migration programs in this sector, and that is where the constraints in this material come from.