Happy two year QRL anniversary!

2 years ago, QRL mainnet was released on 26 Jun 2018, and has operated a fully post-quantum secure blockchain network not only without incident such as lost funds or a network hiccup, but also with the same capacity of the bitcoin network. It can, and has been done.

This stability is thanks to mainnet not only running one and a half years of testnet, right back to the seminal github commit on 16 Oct 2016 from Peter Waterland (surg0r), but also to our two audits from red4sec and x41 D-sec before the final release.

Relative to the date of this blog, this brings QRL, as a codebase, and the corresponding whitepaper release, to three-and-a-half years of age.

We’ve delivered on 13 different core features and 6 ecosystem features from a total of 8542 total contributions between 49 contributors over 29 repositories.

Core

• Quantum secure blockchain using XMSS with a 100% pq-secure address space
• GUI wallet for Mac, Windows, and Linux
• Full block explorer functionality
• Quantum Resistant Tokens (QRT’s)
• Notarisation
• Multiple external audits red4sec and x41 D-sec
• Extensible address format
• Multi-platform QRL node release
• Multisignature transactions
• Integration of Cryptonight v7, then RandomX PoW algorithms
• Backwards compatible state upgrades
• Ephemeral Messaging System (EMS) Stub and Tooling

Ecosystem

• Keybase Integration
• Multiple API’s
• Hardware wallet support with Ledger Nano S/X
• Mobile wallets for iOS and Android
• Offline wallet generator
• Docker QRL Node Support

Special thanks

While the core team is a big part of it, so were a lot of QRL contributors. Special thanks goes out to som-dev, JSmithCrypto, bidulemachin, claudio-viola, bmoscon, kstuart, leagueofdelegates, IMac318, hadacnot, randomusergenerator, Wyc0, DominicRoyStang, Neurone, nickycakes, Vadim1024 and more who contributed to get these features where they are today.