Scenario 1

VaultX — Unshielded

Classical Ed25519 upgrade authority — a single point of failure. When foundational cryptography breaks, customer assets are exposed through malicious protocol upgrades.

Vulnerable · Ed25519

TVL

VaultX · devnet

7kGxP4nF

$1,000,000

$1M test TVL secured behind Ed25519 upgrade authority

Upgrade Authority

Ed25519

Classical — Q-day vulnerable

Authority Pubkey

8xK2mN4pQ7rS9tU1vW3yZ5aB6cD8eF0gH2jK4lM6nP8

Threat Model

  • • Single keypair = single point of failure
  • • Shor's algorithm breaks Ed25519
  • • Malicious upgrade drains all TVL

Transaction History

Bytecode deployed to VaultX

Upgrade Authority (Ed25519) · 2026-05-23T14:22:11Z

confirmed