To protect tokenized assets, Casper Network plans to use quantum-secure keys in 2027

Connecting the Ethereum ecosystem

The Casper Association on May 12 unveiled a multi-year technical roadmap that aims to position the Casper Network as the primary regulatory asset token infrastructure and for the growing machine-to-machine economy.

Casper Association president and CTO Michael Steuer, who introduced the strategy at the Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda, said the roadmap has shifted from “crypto-native hype” to a practical infrastructure to ride trillions of dollars in real-world assets. RWAs).

“Few are building the infrastructure that will power the next billion users, the next trillion dollars in tokenized assets, or the first billion machines,” Stier said. “For users, blockchain It should be invisible. Make a tap. end up.”

Known as the Casper Manifesto, the roadmap outlines nine major tasks designed to eliminate the misunderstandings that commonly accompany this. blockchain Technology. The central pillar of the plan is the full entrance Ethereum virtual machine ( EVM) compatibility.

While the Casper Foundation builds on Webassembly (Wasm), it also uses the EVM Compatibility allows developers to migrate existing Ethereum based Smart contracts And tools – like Solidity and MetaMask – without an upgrade to the Casper Network. The association described the move as “one chain, two enforcement areas, zero division.”

Targeting the $16 trillion market for scalable real-world assets, the roadmap integrates regulatory compliance directly into the protocol. Casper is currently complying with the ERC-3643 standard, which manages approximately $28 billion in on-chain assets.

The roadmap also focuses on autonomous systems. By implementing the X402 open payment standard, Casper aims to be the first Wasm-native. Layer 1 blockchain To support programmatic, machine-to-machine micropayments over HTTP. This allows A's agents to pay for data queries or computing power in Stablecoins without human intervention, using “smart accounts” to manage spending limits and permissions.

Pioneer quantum resistance

A key differentiator of the roadmap is Casper's proactive approach to quantum security. Designed to support several key algorithms since its inception, the network currently uses Ed25519 and secp256k1 in production.

According to Stier, Casper plans to deploy quantum-secure cryptographic algorithms alongside current classical public-key cryptography by 2027. This dual-track system is intended to provide a smooth migration path for network participants.

Our design allows us to support a variety of key algorithms from day one, Steyer told Bitcoin.com News, adding that the goal is to secure the ecosystem before quantum security becomes an industry-wide emergency.

Meanwhile, the Casper Association confirmed that the initiatives will be rolled out in phases until 2027. The X402 micropayment system is expected to launch within weeks. Later in 2026, the network will launch EVM compatibility and compliant security tokens. Features related to transaction privacy and the final quantum-secure algorithms are scheduled to be completed by 2027.

The Casper network underwent a significant upgrade in mid-2025, Casper 2.0, which introduced deterministic finality and a multi-VM enforcement layer, providing the technical foundation for Manifest.