Finance Chiefs Cite Crypto Risks Amid Security Upgrades
Corporate investment remains stalled by accounting complexity even as industry efforts target quantum-era security threats.
Updated on Oct. 23, 2026 in Quantum Computing
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A June 2025 survey of 200 North American finance chiefs revealed that accounting complexity and price volatility remain the primary barriers to corporate cryptocurrency adoption. Meanwhile, major industry players are launching security initiatives, including post-quantum transaction research, to mitigate infrastructure risks.
Why it matters
Corporate treasuries are currently balancing the potential utility of digital assets against significant structural and technical hurdles. Security initiatives aimed at quantum resilience are critical to overcoming these risks and facilitating long-term institutional investment.
Coinbase currently manages assets using multi-party computation to prevent single-party private key reconstruction. BitGo and Silence Laboratories have further demonstrated transaction viability using ML-DSA, a post-quantum cryptographic signature scheme.
The players
Coinbase
A major digital asset exchange providing custodial services and institutional-grade key management infrastructure.
BitGo
A digital asset financial services firm focused on institutional custody, security, and regulated settlement solutions.
Silence Laboratories
A cybersecurity research firm specializing in privacy-preserving computation and post-quantum cryptographic primitives.
Bitcoin Security Consortium
A collective of nine companies committing $15 million over three years to improve the resilience of Bitcoin infrastructure.
The details
Multi-party computation—a cryptographic protocol allowing parties to jointly compute a function without revealing individual inputs—distributes signing control across multiple nodes. This architectural shift prevents any single entity from reconstructing a private key, reducing the impact of a point-of-failure breach. Concurrently, research is shifting toward post-quantum algorithms like ML-DSA, which are designed to withstand potential decryption capabilities offered by future high-scale quantum hardware.
Timeline
June 4-18, 2025: Survey of 200 North American finance chiefs conducted.
May 26, 2026: BitGo and Silence Laboratories performed a post-quantum transaction simulation.
July 23, 2026: The Bitcoin Security Consortium was announced with a $15 million funding pledge.
The Tech Race
The emergence of the Bitcoin Security Consortium marks a move toward hardening financial infrastructure against long-term quantum threats. This effort follows a pattern of industry-led security hardening as firms race to ensure current transaction signing methods remain viable against evolving decryption techniques.
Corporate investment remains limited, with only 15% of surveyed CFOs indicating a likelihood to purchase non-stablecoin crypto within two years. For firms, the current barrier remains a lack of standardized accounting controls for these assets rather than a lack of available trading platforms.
The takeaway
While institutions are actively funding quantum-resistant infrastructure, the path to mainstream corporate adoption is currently bottlenecked by accounting complexities. Watch for the completion of the automated signing pipeline in July 2027 to see if technical improvements begin to lower the barrier for treasury participation.
What happens next
Coinbase is targeting the delivery of an automated signing pipeline by July 2027.
Further reading
For more on the development of cryptographic resilience, see the Quantum Computing section.
Source note: This article includes information reported by TokenPost.
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