Is your wallet quantum-exposed?
Check whether a wallet has revealed its public key on Robinhood Chain, watch your wallets, and move to a fresh address when you choose to — signed by you, step by step.
Why this matters (and why it isn't urgent)
Your address is a hash of your The public half of your wallet's key pair. Your address is a hash of it. It stays hidden until you sign something — every transaction you send reveals it on-chain.. Signing any transaction reveals that key. A large future quantum computer running A quantum algorithm (1994) that can factor numbers and solve elliptic-curve problems exponentially faster than known classical methods — in theory, enough to recover a private key from a public key. It needs millions of high-quality qubits; today's machines have far fewer. could work backwards from a public key to the private key.
No computer can do this today, and nobody knows when one will (The hypothetical day a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break today's wallet signatures. Nobody knows when — estimates range from years to decades — and no machine is close today.). Wallets that have never signed keep their key hidden. This is preparation, not panic.
Quick check
Any Robinhood Chain address — a wallet or a contract. Nothing is saved.
What the result means
- Key hidden — the wallet has never signed a transaction. Only a hash of its The public half of your wallet's key pair. Your address is a hash of it. It stays hidden until you sign something — every transaction you send reveals it on-chain. is on-chain.
- Key exposed · little at stake — it has signed, but holds almost no ETH (check its tokens too).
- Key exposed · holds funds — it has signed and still holds ETH. Moving to a fresh address is the cautious choice.
- Contracts — have no key of their own; we check the keys that control them (owner or multisig signers).
Preparation, not panic: no quantum computer today can break a wallet key. When The hypothetical day a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break today's wallet signatures. Nobody knows when — estimates range from years to decades — and no machine is close today. comes is unknown.
Your watch list
The Guardian re-checks these wallets every 10 minutes while the service runs, and alerts you when a key gets exposed or funds land on an exposed wallet. The list is tied to this browser.
Alerts
Move to a fresh address
Transactions can't be undone. Double-check the new address character by character before you send anything.
- Create a brand-new account in your wallet app
Make a new account (most wallets have "Add account"). Don't send any transaction from it — receiving is fine. Its key stays hidden until it signs something.
- Paste the new address and check it
- Connect the exposed wallet on Robinhood Chain
No browser wallet found. Open this page in a browser with your wallet installed.
- Move your ETH
Sends your whole balance minus the network fee (with a 20% safety buffer, so the transaction can't fail for lack of gas).
- Move tokens, one at a time
Do this before moving all your ETH if you need ETH for the fees. Each token is a separate transaction.
Sending unlocks once steps 1–3 are complete and the checkbox is ticked.