NEAR Draft Adds ML-DSA-65 Signing Support, Targets Lower Issuance

NEAR Protocol is considering narrower post-quantum signing support for account access keys and transactions while a separate governance draft targets lower annual issuance of the NEAR token (NEAR). The NEP-645 draft would add ML-DSA-65 as a third transaction-signature scheme alongside Ed25519 and ECDSA. Users would be able to add an ML-DSA-65 access key without changing account creation procedures or migrating existing account state. The proposal does not cover validator keys, block signatures or implicit-account derivation. Those components remain outside its documented scope, making the measure a targeted change rather than a network-wide quantum upgrade.

Source: TokenPost