Quantum-Proof Blockchain

Autorentext

Stefano Tempesta, MBA, is a technology executive specialized in blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, cloud-native systems, and applied artificial intelligence. With more than two decades of international experience building enterprise-grade platforms across fintech and emerging technologies, he has led the design and delivery of highly scalable distributed systems operating in regulated, mission-critical environments.

His work focuses on the intersection of blockchain, cryptography, AI, and next-generation financial infrastructure, with expertise in tokenization platforms, multi-chain architectures, cloud transformation, and secure transaction orchestration. Stefano has worked extensively with institutional digital asset ecosystems, including custody integrations, smart contract architectures, compliance-aware token standards, and real-world asset tokenization.

Klappentext

This is a book for the people who build and for the people who decide what gets built. Blockchain or smart-contract developers who want to future-proof their skills are exactly the intended audience. Architects, chief technology officers, or security officers evaluating infrastructure that has to remain trustworthy for decades will find the book provides the technical grounding to make those decisions well. Founders weighing platform choices, auditors extending their practice to post-quantum contracts, and researchers and educators looking for a practical complement to the theory will all find a path through it.

Readers will get the most from these pages if they arrive with working knowledge of Solidity and a basic understanding of how a blockchain operates. A background in cryptography, mathematics, or physics is not required: the relevant ideas are introduced from the ground up, at the depth a builder needs and no deeper.

The book is a practical one, and practice means code. More than thirty hands-on labs accompany the chapters, and a companion repository hosts every example, test, and deployment script in full, so readers can run, modify, and build on them rather than retyping them. Readers are encouraged to keep an editor open as they read; the concepts settle far more firmly once they have deployed them themselves, and the final chapter assumes they are ready to do exactly that

Inhalt

I. The Quantum Threat and Post-Quantum Foundations 1. The Quantum Threat to Blockchain 2. Post-Quantum Cryptography Foundations 3. Architecting a Quantum-Resistant Chain II. Development Fundamentals 4. Setting Up a Quantum-Resistant Development Environment 5. Smart Contract Patterns for Post-Quantum Chains 6. Fungible Tokens: From ERC-20 to Quantum-Safe Standards 7. Wallets and Key Management Under Post-Quantum Constraints III. Building Applications 8. Decentralized Exchanges and AMMs 9. Cross-Chain Bridges Between Quantum and Classical Worlds 10. AI-Integrated dApps on Quantum-Resistant Foundations IV. Production Engineering 11. Security and Auditing for Post-Quantum Contracts 12. Gas Optimization and Performance at Scale 13. Testing, Deployment, and DevOps 14. Upgradeable Contracts and Crypto-Agility V. Advanced Domains 15. Governance and DAOs Across Generations 16. Tokenomics for 50-Year Timelines 17. Real-World Asset Tokenization 18. Layer 2 and Scaling Solutions 19. Privacy and Confidential Transactions VI. Synthesis and Outlook 20. Case Studies: What Worked and What Failed 21. Migration Playbook: Making an Existing Chain Quantum-Resistant 22. Capstone: Build and Deploy a Quantum-Resistant dApp in One Hour