What it is. Naoris Protocol is a blockchain run by a cybersecurity company, launched to invited partners rather than to the general public, and designed to resist quantum attacks from its first day instead of being retrofitted later.
What we found. We could check this network ourselves from its public data instead of relying on the company's announcements, and the extra protection is really on it rather than only in the marketing, though its whole life so far is 594 transactions from nine accounts and its records start in July 2026, months after the April 2026 launch it announced.
Why it matters. For anyone who owns the coin that protection is beside the point, because their holdings sit on Ethereum and BNB Chain under the older protection with no published plan to move them, and nobody outside the company can read the software or point to an audit of it.
The network Naoris Protocol publishes as its mainnet (chainId 46512) carries a live classical+post-quantum AND-composition we measured off the wire on 2026-08-19/20: a custom EIP-2718 type-0x6 envelope holding a 2,592-byte ML-DSA-87 public key and a 4,627-byte ML-DSA-87 signature, both exact FIPS 204 sizes and the signature conformant down to its hint encoding, alongside the standard ECDSA secp256k1 r/s/yParity triple, on 585 of 594 indexed transactions. Neither signature could be verified against a message, because the signing pre-image is undocumented and the client is closed-source, so a well-formed but unchecked ML-DSA-87 field would look identical from outside; Gate 1a-Sig fails on the undocumented concatenation combiner, and Migration Stage is capped at 2 by the absence of protocol-enforced dated milestones.
Summary
Naoris Protocol scores QRI 32, Band 4 Architected, Migration Stage 2. We reconstructed the signing path from a public JSON-RPC endpoint and explorer API, not from the operator’s marketing. On the network the operator publishes as mainnet (chainId 46512, a go-ethereum-derived client): a type-0x6 envelope carrying a 2,592-byte ML-DSA-87 public key and a 4,627-byte ML-DSA-87 signature at exact FIPS 204 sizes beside an ECDSA secp256k1 r/s/yParity triple, on 585 of 594 indexed transactions; an on-chain ML-DSA-87 key registry at system precompiles; Keccak-256 block hashing, recomputed and matched. Not observable: the validator sealing scheme, absent from the block header, and any hybrid KEM at validator transport. Gate 1a-Sig fails on the undocumented concatenation combiner: no SUF-CMA or non-malleability argument is published. The diversity cap fires: ML-DSA-87 is the sole post-quantum family deployed, with no SLH-DSA per FIPS 205 or XMSS per RFC 8391 fallback. Milestone discipline binds Stage at 2. Scale and identity qualify it: 594 lifetime transactions, 9 accounts, two block producers, a closed-source unaudited verifier, and a genesis timestamped 2026-07-22 against an announced 2026-04-01 launch. The tradeable $NAORIS supply is an ECDSA secp256k1 EVM token on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, with no published migration path onto the L1.
Forge. Forge-dominant: this chain secures value and operations with signatures, so the principal quantum risk is forgery of spends and attestations once Shor breaks the curve. There is no harvest-now component for forgery - the public key alone enables it. The forge risk is now split unevenly: L1 transactions from registry-bound accounts are protected by an ML-DSA-87 signature alongside the classical one, while the consensus sealing layer, the classical-only path for unregistered accounts, and the entire EVM token economic layer are not. Decrypt/HNDL applies only to transport and RPC confidentiality, where no post-quantum key exchange is documented.
10 announced → 3 shipped on mainnet under a named primitive. QRI cap 65 (>2.0, non-binding: raw 32 < 65) and Dim 5 deduction (>1.5). The 'narrative-only' tag does not apply: the ratio does not exceed 5.0. Announced (trailing 12 months, each reconstructible today): (1) the 'Post-Quantum Signature Schemes (Dilithium-5)' labeling served on the operator's site; (2) the post-quantum-native mainnet launch claims of April 2026; (3) the self-reported testnet figures - 106M+ post-quantum transactions, 603M+ threats, 3.3M wallets, 1M+ nodes - which the one independent outlet covering the launch explicitly declined to verify; (4) CRYSTALS-Dilithium / Kyber named as the cryptographic proof layer on the site, and the FIPS 203/204/205 bundle named in a partnership release; (5) the ELECTRA AI quantum-safe battery-intelligence partnership (2026-06-09), whose language is 'partner to develop'; (6) PQVPN, a post-quantum VPN product listed with no ship date; (7) PetalVault, a post-quantum Bitcoin ownership-evidence product listed with no ship date; (8) AutoMesh, 'post-quantum-ready' machine-to-machine trust, listed with no ship date; (9) a Confidential File Sharing product specified as ML-KEM-1024 plus ML-DSA-87 over AES-256-GCM, listed with no ship date; (10) the 2025-10-08 announcement that an independent SEC submission cites the project as a reference model, including an unnamed zero-knowledge-proof integration. Shipped and independently verifiable, all three confirmed: (1) a live network - public JSON-RPC (chainId 46512) and public explorer API, 174,700+ blocks produced at roughly 12-second intervals, height moving in real time on 2026-08-19/20; (2) a deployed classical+post-quantum hybrid transaction type carrying a 2,592-byte ML-DSA-87 public key and a 4,627-byte, structurally well-formed ML-DSA-87 signature alongside secp256k1 ECDSA, on 585 of 594 indexed transactions; (3) an on-chain post-quantum public-key registry, observable as ABI-encoded 2,592-byte payloads sent to system precompiles 0x...2000 and 0x...2001. Not counted on the announced side: a 'Quantum Fabric' architecture repositioning, which appears on no served page of the operator's site. Not counted on the shipped side: FIPS 204 itself, which is a NIST artifact rather than anything the project shipped..
What the gates say
- Gate 1a, Hybrid signature: FAIL , on non-malleability, not on absence of a hybrid. Naoris's L1 deploys a live classical+post-quantum AND-composition (2-of-2): its custom EIP-2718 type-0x6 transaction envelope is a 15-item RLP list carrying chainId, nonce, the two fee fields, gas, to, value, data, accessList, a one-byte scheme identifier (observed constant 0x02), a 2,592-byte field at the FIPS 204 ML-DSA-87 public-key size, a 4,627-byte field at the FIPS 204 ML-DSA-87 signature size, and then yParity, r, s - the standard secp256k1 ECDSA triple. Both signature components are present in the same envelope on 585 of the 594 transactions the operator's explorer has indexed, and each sending account presents a stable ML-DSA-87 public key across its transactions. This is corroborated by the operator's chief growth officer on the record to an independent outlet (2026-04-02): once an account is bound in the on-chain PQC registry, 'the transaction must contain a valid ML-DSA inner signature' and an ECDSA-only transaction from a bound account is rejected. Why the gate still fails: v3.2 requires SUF-CMA / non-malleability of the composition for consensus- and txid-relevant hybrid signatures. Naoris publishes no specification of the combiner. What is observable is a side-by-side concatenation of two malleable primitives - secp256k1 ECDSA (malleable in s) and ML-DSA (Fiat-Shamir-with-aborts) - with no published binding argument, no proof that the ML-DSA message commits to the ECDSA component or vice versa, and no inspectable verifier. Mitigating: the transaction id is Keccak-256 over the complete signed envelope including both signature fields, which we recomputed and matched, so both components are covered by the id. That constrains the malleability surface but does not discharge the SUF-CMA requirement. Consequence: QRI cap 60, Stage cap 4, both non-binding.
- Gate 1a, Hybrid KEM: FAIL , . No hybrid KEM combiner is documented at validator transport. What exists: the operator's own site names 'CRYSTALS-Dilithium / Kyber' at family level, and separately names exact parameter sets - ML-KEM-1024 encapsulation and ML-DSA-87 signatures over AES-256-GCM - but only for a Confidential File Sharing product, not for the L1's validator-to-validator transport. A 2026-06-09 partnership release bundles 'the algorithms NIST finalized as FIPS 203, 204, and 205' without assigning which primitive covers which function. Nothing public describes the transport security of the dPoSec validator links, no classical+PQ KEM combiner (for example X25519 with ML-KEM per the IETF hybrid key-exchange work) is documented anywhere, and the documentation hosts are unreachable (the docs subdomain fails DNS resolution; the GitBook returns 404). No documented hybrid KEM combiner -> fails Gate 1a-KEM where in scope.
- Gate 1b, Commit-to-hash: COND , . The deployed composition is an AND-composition (both signatures present and, per the operator's stated enforcement rule, both required for bound accounts), not an OR-composition, so the 1-of-2 commit-to-hash requirement is out of scope.
- Gate 2, Evidence reconstruction: PASS , with caveats. An independent third party can reconstruct the core of this card in well under 48 hours from public artifacts: a public JSON-RPC endpoint answers eth_chainId (0xb5b0 = 46512), web3_clientVersion (Naoris/v1.16.7-stable-577dc160/linux-amd64/go1.24.11), eth_blockNumber, eth_getBlockByNumber, eth_getTransactionByHash and eth_getRawTransactionByHash; a public explorer API paginates the full block and transaction history and reports totals (174,700+ blocks, 594 transactions). From those alone one can measure the PQ share of traffic, read the ML-DSA-87 public key and signature sizes off the raw envelope, confirm the FIPS 204 hint encoding, enumerate the block-producer set, recompute the transaction id and the block hash under Keccak-256, and read the ML-DSA-87 public-key registration calldata at the system precompiles. What remains NOT reconstructible: the consensus client and the ML-DSA verifier are closed-source (the GitHub organisation reports zero public repositories, re-verified via the API); no audit of any kind exists per the public security-listing service, whose coverage is the ERC-20/BEP-20 token contract only; the signing pre-image for either signature is undocumented, so neither the ML-DSA-87 signature nor the ECDSA recovery can be independently reproduced by a third party (we attempted both and could not derive the pre-image); the validator-sealing scheme is invisible because the block header carries no signature field; and the operator's corporate site carries no mainnet status claim, explorer link, or transaction count to cross-check against.
- Gate 3, Primitive naming: PASS , . Every scored primitive is named and, for the signing path, measured rather than asserted: ML-DSA-87 per FIPS 204 (finalized 2024-08-13) for the post-quantum half of L1 transaction signing - public key 2,592 bytes and signature 4,627 bytes read directly off the raw transaction envelope, matching the FIPS 204 parameter set exactly, with the site's legacy 'Dilithium-5' label mapping to the same Level-5 parameter set; ECDSA secp256k1 for the classical half of the same envelope (yParity, r, s) and for the $NAORIS EVM token on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain; Keccak-256 for block hashing and transaction ids, confirmed by recomputing a block hash from its raw RLP header and a transaction id from its raw envelope; ML-KEM-1024 and AES-256-GCM named by the operator, but for a file-sharing product rather than for the chain. Residual naming gaps, now precisely bounded: the validator-transport KEM is unnamed; the consensus/validator sealing signature scheme is unnamed and not observable; and the zero-knowledge system referenced in one 2025 announcement is unnamed.
Burn-vs-rescue policy on file
Declared option f, Undeclared (for the Ethereum/BNB-Chain economic layer). Naoris has no published policy for the quantum-vulnerable EVM token layer: the tradeable $NAORIS supply on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain is secured by ECDSA secp256k1, and there is no documented freeze, rescue, rate-limit/canary, or migration policy for those holdings, nor any timeline to move the economic layer onto the L1. For the L1 itself, a forward-only transition rule is documented rather than a burn policy: the operator's chief growth officer stated on the record (2026-04-02) that once an account is bound in the on-chain post-quantum registry the transition is 'hard, irreversible' and an ECDSA-only transaction from a bound account is rejected. That statement remains publicly served and is consistent with what we observe on-chain - a per-account registry, a stable ML-DSA-87 public key per sender, and 585 of 594 transactions carrying the post-quantum half - but it governs an account's own forward state, not dormant or legacy quantum-vulnerable value anywhere. The classical-only type-0x2 path remains open for accounts that have never registered a post-quantum key, and no policy for closing it is published. The economic-layer policy is undeclared, itself a signal.
Seven dimensions
Each dimension scores 0–100 internally; the weighted roll-up produces the QRI.
1 Cryptographic Exposure weight 15% 59 / 100
The L1 signing inventory is measured off the wire: ML-DSA-87 and ECDSA secp256k1 in one envelope, Keccak-256 for hashing, all three confirmed by independent recomputation from public RPC data. The deductions are precise: the validator-transport KEM is undocumented and no parameter set is fixed for chain use (the ML-KEM-1024 naming attaches to a product, not the chain); the consensus/validator sealing signature scheme is unnamed and, because the block header carries no signature field, not observable at all; and the semantics of the one-byte scheme identifier (item 9, constant 0x02) are undocumented, so the inventory of schemes the client can accept is unknown.
ML-DSA-87 (CRYSTALS-Dilithium at Level 5; FIPS 204, finalized 2024-08-13; labeled 'Dilithium-5' on the operator's site) - the post-quantum half of L1 transaction signing. Confirmed by measurement, not by statement: the raw type-0x6 transaction envelope carries a 2,592-byte public-key field and a 4,627-byte signature field, the exact FIPS 204 ML-DSA-87 sizes, and the signature decodes under the ML-DSA-87 encoding with a valid hint structure · ECDSA secp256k1 - the classical half of the same L1 transaction envelope (yParity, r, s in the canonical trailing positions), and separately the signing scheme of the $NAORIS token on Ethereum (ERC-20, verified as an ERC1967Proxy) and BNB Smart Chain (BEP-20), i.e. the economic layer · Keccak-256 - block hashing and transaction ids. Confirmed by recomputation: Keccak-256 over the raw RLP block header reproduces the reported block hash, and Keccak-256 over the raw transaction envelope reproduces the reported transaction id · ML-KEM-1024 (CRYSTALS-Kyber, FIPS 203) with AES-256-GCM - named at exact parameter-set level by the operator, but for a Confidential File Sharing product rather than for the chain. Family-level 'CRYSTALS-Dilithium / Kyber' also appears on the site as the cryptographic proof layer The signing surface is tagged as hybrid rather than pure post-quantum, and the block hash is identified as Keccak-256 with an acceptable Grover margin. Remaining deductions: (a) the consensus sealing scheme is untaggable because it is not observable, which is the single largest unclosed exposure on this dimension; (b) a classical-only transaction path remains open for unregistered accounts; (c) the economic layer is unmitigated Shor-breakable ECDSA secp256k1; (d) the lattice-confidence discount applies; (e) the post-quantum half is a single lattice family with no Shor-diverse fallback; (f) an unnamed zero-knowledge component remains unclassifiable.
ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204) - post-quantum half of L1 transaction signing→ PQ-safe lattice (lattice-confidence discount applies)ECDSA secp256k1 - classical half of the same L1 transaction envelope→ Shor-break-via-DL-without-pairings; but composed AND-wise with ML-DSA-87 for registry-bound accounts, so a Shor break alone does not forge a type-0x6 transactionECDSA secp256k1 - type-0x2 envelopes from accounts with no registered PQ key (9 of 594 observed transactions)→ Shor-break-via-DL-without-pairings, unmitigatedECDSA secp256k1 - $NAORIS EVM token on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain→ Shor-break-via-DL-without-pairings, unmitigatedKeccak-256 - block hash and transaction id→ Grover-weaken (256-bit preimage -> ~128-bit), acceptable marginML-KEM-1024 (FIPS 203) - named for a file-sharing product, not for chain transport→ PQ-safe lattice KEM; not in the scored chain surfaceconsensus/validator sealing scheme→ unknown - the block header carries no signature field and no scheme is documented, so Shor exposure at the block-production layer cannot be taggedzero-knowledge proofs (referenced for GDPR/CCPA compliance in one 2025 announcement, protocol unnamed)→ unclassifiable - no proof system named, so Shor exposure cannot be tagged; nothing resembling a proof verifier appears in the observable chain surface
Exactly ONE post-quantum family is deployed: lattice (ML-DSA-87). Per the 1c rubric, '1 lattice-only = 5 (hard cap)'. The classical secp256k1 half of the hybrid is not a second post-quantum family and earns no diversity credit - it is the component the migration exists to retire. No hash-based (SLH-DSA per FIPS 205, XMSS per RFC 8391, LMS) or code-based (Classic McEliece, BIKE, HQC) signature family is deployed or documented as planned; a 2026-06-09 partnership release name-drops FIPS 205 in a marketing bundle but documents no deployment, and the one-byte scheme identifier in the transaction envelope has been observed at a single constant value. Lattice monoculture is the single-point-of-failure posture the diversity cap targets. Hard-capped at 5.
The deployed post-quantum scheme is ML-DSA-87, NIST security Category 5, and this is now established by measurement rather than by executive attestation: the 2,592-byte public key and 4,627-byte signature match the FIPS 204 ML-DSA-87 parameter set exactly and are unambiguously distinct from ML-DSA-65 (1,952 / 3,309) and ML-DSA-44 (1,312 / 2,420). No deduction for an unconfirmed parameter set applies. Residual deductions: the category of any transport KEM is unknown because no chain-level KEM is documented; the consensus sealing scheme has no category because it is undisclosed; and the classical half of the hybrid, plus the entire economic layer, is ECDSA secp256k1 at roughly 128-bit classical security and no NIST post-quantum category at all.
The ceiling is low and stays low. Positive evidence: the deployed encoder produces FIPS 204-conformant output. The 83-byte hint segment of every sampled signature has 8 trailing cut positions that are non-decreasing and bounded by omega = 75, per-polynomial hint indices in strictly increasing order, and every unused hint byte zero - a condition the FIPS 204 hint-unpacking algorithm rejects if violated, and one that random or padded bytes would fail. That is meaningful evidence of a conformant implementation of the encoding. Negative evidence: no independent audit of any kind exists (the public security-listing service reports no first-party and no third-party audit, and its coverage is the ERC-20/BEP-20 token contract, not the L1); the GitHub organisation reports zero public repositories, so the client and the ML-DSA verifier cannot be reviewed for constant-time behaviour, KyberSlash-class timing-leak resistance, library provenance (no liboqs or comparable attribution is available), or formal-verification status; and the signing pre-image is undocumented, so neither signature can be cryptographically verified by a third party - we attempted to reproduce both the ML-DSA-87 verification and the ECDSA recovery across candidate pre-images and could not derive the construction. ML-DSA itself is cryptanalytic tier 3a (finalized FIPS); the deployed verifier remains unauditable.
2 Quantum Recovery Exposure weight 10% 53 / 100
Forge. 16, on two offsetting factors. In favour: L1 accounts registered in the post-quantum registry sign with ML-DSA-87 alongside ECDSA, so revealing the secp256k1 public key on spend does not by itself enable a Shor-based takeover of the account; a forger would also need to defeat ML-DSA-87. Each sender's ML-DSA-87 public key is stable across its transactions, consistent with a genuine per-account binding. Against: the secp256k1 key is in the signing path and is revealed on every spend, and unregistered accounts can transact under plain type-0x2 ECDSA-only envelopes, so the chain is not uniformly protected. The material deduction is the economic layer: $NAORIS on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, 5.76K reported holders, ECDSA secp256k1 only, public keys revealed on spend and fully Shor-recoverable, with no migration path published.
Forge. Dormant L1 balances sit behind ML-DSA-87 as well as secp256k1 for registered accounts, so L1 cold funds are not forgeable at the signature layer by a future quantum computer that breaks only the curve. Two qualifications now measurable rather than assumed: there is essentially nothing dormant on the L1 to protect - of 594 lifetime transactions exactly one moved a non-zero value, and the token supply lives entirely on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain - and the protection depends on an unaudited closed-source verifier. Deduction: dormant $NAORIS held in Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain wallets is ECDSA secp256k1 and IS cold-key-exposed, with no migration policy published.
Forge. Historical L1 transactions from registered accounts carry an ML-DSA-87 signature recorded permanently alongside the ECDSA one, and the transaction id is Keccak-256 over both, so a future quantum adversary that breaks secp256k1 cannot retroactively produce a valid-looking historical transaction for a bound account without also breaking ML-DSA-87. Deductions: (a) lattice carries the long-horizon confidence discount for very-long-lived signatures; (b) historical type-0x2 ECDSA-only transactions from unregistered accounts are forgeable post-Shor; (c) the consensus-layer seal over every block is of unknown scheme, so the long-term validity of the chain's own history - as distinct from individual transactions - cannot be assessed; (d) the EVM-token economic-layer signatures on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain are ECDSA secp256k1 and forgeable post-Shor.
Decrypt (harvest-now-decrypt-later). Validator-to-validator transport encryption between dPoSec nodes is not described in any public document, and no hybrid post-quantum KEM (for example X25519 with ML-KEM per the IETF hybrid key-exchange work) is documented at the chain's transport layer. The operator does name ML-KEM-1024 with AES-256-GCM at exact parameter-set level, but for a Confidential File Sharing product, not for chain transport, and that product is announced rather than shown. The public JSON-RPC endpoint is reachable over ordinary TLS terminated at a commercial edge, which is not validator-to-validator transport and earns no credit here. The documentation hosts are unreachable. Harvested transport ciphertexts under a classical key exchange would be decryptable once Shor breaks the classical component. Low score: no documented hybrid post-quantum KEM at chain transport.
3 Metadata, Anonymity & Confidentiality weight 13% 17 / 100
Anonymity. Now measured rather than inferred, and the measurement confirms the low score. The chain publishes an open JSON-RPC endpoint and an unauthenticated explorer API that expose from, to, value, nonce, status and block for every transaction, plus the sender's full 2,592-byte ML-DSA-87 public key in the clear on every type-0x6 transaction, and again in the registration calldata. That is a second permanent, high-entropy linkable identifier per account on top of the address, and it is published by the wire format itself rather than by any user action. The architecture is a continuous device-attestation mesh in which every device 'independently proves its security posture' to the network, a design that produces a dense metadata trail by intent. No native shielding, confidential transactions, or stealth addresses are described anywhere public, and none is observable. Low score: the architecture maximizes metadata visibility by design and the wire format adds to it.
Anonymity. Now measured. Exactly one public RPC endpoint is published; the node it fronts reports 7 peers; exactly two addresses sealed every block we sampled across the last ~300 blocks; the network has 9 distinct sending accounts in its entire history. Validator identity distribution, RPC topology beyond that single endpoint, mempool and gossip observability, and any validator metadata-retention policy are all unpublished. Per the rubric the metadata-retention component scores zero when the policy is undeclared, and concentration cannot be assessed favourably for a set this small. Low score, resting on measurement rather than on the absence of disclosure.
Anonymity. The 'Cross-Chain Trust Relay' description this sub-score previously rested on is no longer served anywhere public. What remains reconstructible: the $NAORIS token contract deployed at the identical address on both Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, which implies a bridge or a deterministic cross-chain deployment that no public source explains, and whose bookkeeping is fully visible on both chains; and an announced product that generates a post-quantum key in the holder's browser, verifies classical ownership of a Bitcoin address, and anchors a commitment on Bitcoin mainnet - a deliberate cross-chain linkage between a post-quantum key and a classical address, announced with no ship date and no specification. Low: the L1's own cross-chain posture is undocumented, the one observable cross-chain surface is unexplained, and the announced one is correlation-increasing by design.
Confidentiality. 8. The zero-knowledge claim originates in a 2025-10-08 item that is explicitly labelled a press release from the project, describing how an independent third party's SEC submission characterises it; it is not independent technical reporting. It names no proof system - not Groth16, not a KZG-committed PLONK, not a STARK - so the component cannot be classified for Shor exposure: pairing- or discrete-log-based systems would put proofs and associated payloads at retroactive risk once Shor breaks the curve, while FRI or hash-based systems would not. Nothing resembling a proof verifier is observable in the chain surface we can read. What holds: the ledger design is transparency-first, so most on-chain content is already public and its visibility is not Shor-dependent, and the EVM-token economic layer remains Shor-exposed. The deduction for an unclassifiable zero-knowledge component stands, and the claim is company copy.
Anonymity. No on-chain mixer, no commit-reveal shuffle, no mixnet infrastructure, no batch-ordering and no cover traffic is documented or observable. Block production is a steady ~12-second cadence with almost every block empty, which provides no anonymity set. Naoris offers no structural anonymity-set mechanism, and its transparency-first design is the opposite intent.
4 Migration Architecture weight 10% 59 / 100
There is now one observable agility artifact: the type-0x6 transaction envelope carries a dedicated one-byte field (RLP item 9) immediately before the post-quantum public key and signature, observed at the constant value 0x02 across every sampled transaction. Its position is exactly where a scheme identifier belongs, which is structural evidence of a versioned signature-type framework at the transaction layer - the mechanism a chain would need to add SLH-DSA per FIPS 205 or FN-DSA/Falcon (which has no published draft standard; no FIPS 206 draft appears in the NIST publication listing) without redefining the envelope. What is missing keeps the score low: the field's semantics are undocumented, no specification describes how a second scheme would be registered or activated, no versioned-signature standard is adopted, only one value has ever been observed, and no in-production switch instance exists. The token-governance 'Flash Votes' language is no longer served anywhere and is not counted.
An on-chain post-quantum key registry exists and is directly observable: transactions to system precompiles 0x...2000 (selector 0xd6b522a4) and 0x...2001 (selector 0x318c58c1) carry ABI-encoded dynamic bytes of length exactly 2,592 - the ML-DSA-87 public-key size - and every sender we sampled presents the same ML-DSA-87 public key across all of its subsequent transactions, which is what a stable per-account binding looks like on the wire. Registration itself is bootstrapped by an ordinary type-0x2 ECDSA-only transaction, a coherent design: classical signature to enrol the post-quantum key, hybrid thereafter. This matches the enforcement rule the operator's chief growth officer described on the record: bound accounts must carry a valid ML-DSA inner signature and ECDSA-only transactions from them are rejected. Deductions: no account-abstraction standard is adopted (no ERC-4337, no EIP-7702, no native AA), no key-rotation primitive is specified anywhere public, the registry's semantics and revocation behaviour are undocumented, enforcement cannot be verified without client source, and the migrating population is 9 accounts.
Unchanged. The observable chain has produced blocks continuously since a genesis timestamped 2026-07-22T10:49:03Z and reports a single client build (Naoris/v1.16.7-stable-577dc160, go1.24.11, linux-amd64) with no fork history to inspect. No formal upgrade mechanism, cadence, quorum, timelock or coordinated-upgrade record is published, and with zero public repositories development cadence cannot be independently measured. Low score reflects absence of a track record, not a contested fork. Note that the genesis date is itself part of the unresolved network-identity question recorded in source_disagreement: if the observable chain was re-genesised after the announced launch, that would be a coordination event of exactly the kind this sub-score exists to assess, and it is undisclosed.
Under the v3.1 'hybrid mandatory' framing this dimension rewards a deployed classical+post-quantum co-signing composition on the chain being scored, and Naoris has one running: 585 of 594 indexed transactions are type-0x6 envelopes carrying both a 4,627-byte ML-DSA-87 signature (with its 2,592-byte public key) and a secp256k1 ECDSA r/s/yParity triple, with the transaction id committing to both. The premise that the chain is pure post-quantum and 'by design does not do' hybrid on its own L1 is refuted by the wire format. Deductions holding the score below full: the composition is undocumented, so its security argument cannot be assessed and Gate 1a-Sig still fails on non-malleability; the hybrid covers the transaction layer only, with consensus/validator sealing of unknown scheme; a classical-only path remains open for unregistered accounts; and the whole deployment sits behind a closed-source, unaudited verifier at a scale of 9 accounts.
Naoris deploys no stateful hash-based signature scheme - no XMSS, LMS or HORS is referenced or observable, and the deployed post-quantum scheme is ML-DSA-87, which is stateless. Per the rubric, chains using only stateless schemes score the full 15 by default. The Stage-5 90-day state-management record requirement does not apply.
N/A, and the rationale is now positive rather than merely absent. We enumerated every field of a raw block header and recomputed its Keccak-256 hash to confirm the enumeration is complete: the header carries parentHash, sha3Uncles, miner, stateRoot, transactionsRoot, receiptsRoot, logsBloom, difficulty (0), number, gasLimit, gasUsed, timestamp, extraData (28 bytes, the client version string only), mixHash, nonce (0), baseFeePerGas, withdrawalsRoot, blobGasUsed, excessBlobGas, parentBeaconBlockRoot and requestsHash - a post-Prague go-ethereum header shape - and NO validator signature, seal, or aggregate-signature field of any kind. Block sealing therefore happens outside the header the public RPC exposes, and there is no public statement that validator voting uses Shor-vulnerable BLS aggregation nor that it uses a post-quantum-safe equivalent. Because Shor-vulnerable aggregation cannot be CONFIRMED to be in scope, 4f is marked N/A and its 20 points redistribute across 4a-4e. Dimension score = (5+12+4+11+15)/80 * 100 = 58.75 -> 59. Flagged as the dominant Dim-4 evidence gap: the transaction layer is hybrid and measurable, the consensus layer is opaque. If a disclosure shows BLS aggregation in dPoSec, 4f becomes in-scope and undeclared (score 0), lowering the dimension materially.
5 Deployment Execution weight 22% 28 / 100
The post-quantum share of traffic is now measured, not estimated: we paginated the operator's explorer API through its complete transaction history and found 585 of 594 transactions carrying a 4,627-byte ML-DSA-87 signature and a 2,592-byte ML-DSA-87 public key, about 98.5%; the other 9 are type-0x2 ECDSA-only, of which 4 register post-quantum public keys. The network is live and moving: blocks at roughly 12-second intervals, height 174,700+ advancing in real time on 2026-08-19/20, node reporting eth_syncing false and 7 peers. Three discounts hold the score well below the share it would otherwise earn. First, network identity is unresolved: the explorer titles itself a mainnet explorer, but its host resolves through a load balancer named for a testnet, chainId 46512 is absent from the public chain registry, and the genesis block is timestamped 2026-07-22T10:49:03Z against an announced 2026-04-01 launch. Second, scale is negligible: 594 transactions in the chain's entire history, 9 distinct sending accounts, 585 of the transactions repeat calls to a single system precompile, exactly one non-zero-value transfer, and the overwhelming majority of the 174,700+ blocks are empty. Third, the share is measured against what the operator's own indexer exposes, and no independent archival node exists to cross-check it. The mainnet-traffic cap does not fire: the measured share is far above 20%.
Scored for behaviour only, never for code. No consensus-client source is inspectable: the GitHub organisation reports zero public repositories (public_repos = 0 via the API), so the chain client and the ML-DSA-87 verifier are closed and no commit or merged pull request can be examined. What is now observable is the deployed client's behaviour: it self-identifies as Naoris/v1.16.7-stable-577dc160/linux-amd64/go1.24.11 and stamps 'naoris' plus its Go version into every block's extraData; it implements a custom EIP-2718 transaction type outside the standard 0x00-0x04 range that carries ML-DSA-87 material; it exposes that material through standard RPC methods; and it operates system precompiles that accept 2,592-byte post-quantum public keys. That is real evidence that post-quantum code runs in the client, and it is worth more than zero. It is not code review: constant-time behaviour, verifier provenance, and whether the ML-DSA signature is actually checked rather than merely carried all remain unverifiable. Scored 4 for behavioural evidence under a Gate 2 that passes with caveats.
Marginal credit only. The validator set is countable rather than merely undisclosed: exactly two addresses sealed every block across a ~300-block sample, and the node reports 7 peers. What cannot be established is the thing this sub-score measures. The block header carries no signature field, so the scheme validators use to seal blocks is invisible; nothing public states whether validator identity keys are post-quantum, classical, or hybrid; and the on-chain post-quantum registry we can observe binds ordinary sending accounts, not demonstrably the block producers. Of the 9 sending accounts, at least 4 carry stable registered ML-DSA-87 public keys, but that is user-account adoption, not validator adoption. Scored 3: the set is measurable and tiny; its key scheme is unverifiable.
Not auto-voided (5a > 0 on measured post-quantum traffic), so this zero is scored on merit. No protocol-enforced, dated, independently-verifiable next milestones are published: no consensus-enforced sunset or flag-day for the classical-only transaction path, no dated technical roadmap with shipped artifacts, no enforcement mechanism, an empty blog on the operator's site, and no roadmap served anywhere. The events that exist - a launch announcement, partnership announcements, a product catalogue with no ship dates - are announcements, not protocol-enforced future commitments. The milestone-delivery track record required for full credit is also absent: the one dated commitment we can test against, a mainnet explorer announced at launch as launching 'alongside the network', is only satisfiable by an explorer whose chain history begins sixteen weeks after that launch. Scored 0. This triggers the milestone-discipline cap (Migration Stage <= 2), which is the binding stage constraint.
Announced post-quantum claims exceed independently verifiable ones by roughly 3.3 to 1. Three announced claims are shipped and verifiable (a live network with a public RPC and explorer API; a deployed classical+post-quantum hybrid transaction type carrying measured ML-DSA-87 material on 98.5% of indexed traffic; an on-chain post-quantum public-key registry observable in precompile calldata), and a 'Quantum Fabric' architecture announcement is not counted, because it appears on no served page. The announced side carries four productised post-quantum claims on the operator's site with no ship date, no specification, and no observable artifact. Deductions holding the score at 7: the largest self-reported figures remain unverifiable testnet claims that the one independent outlet covering the launch explicitly declined to verify; no audit of any kind exists; no source is published; and the operator's own current site makes no mainnet claim at all, so the shipped items are discoverable only by going around the marketing to the chain. Ratio ~3.3 -> Dim 5 deduction (>1.5) and QRI cap 65 (>2.0, non-binding); the narrative-only tag (>5.0) does not apply.
Measured, and worse than the rubric's worst band. Per type-0x6 transaction the chain carries 4,627 bytes of ML-DSA-87 signature plus 2,592 bytes of ML-DSA-87 public key, 7,219 bytes of signature material against the 64-byte ECDSA/Ed25519 baseline, about 113x. A sampled raw envelope measured 7,634 bytes end to end against 118 bytes for an observed plain type-0x2 transfer on the same chain. The public key is re-transmitted in full on every transaction rather than referenced from the on-chain registry that already holds it, which is the avoidable half of the cost. No SNARK aggregation, data-availability offloading, batching, or post-quantum transaction-weight de-penalization is documented or observable, and the chain discloses no per-block signature footprint. Per the rubric ('>38x or undisclosed = 0'), a measured 113x with no mitigation scores 0. The cost is a known quantity, measured rather than assumed.
6 Supply Chain Vendor Readiness weight 22% 8 / 100
No named wallet (MetaMask, Ledger, Phantom, Trezor, Safe) has publicly confirmed integration with the Naoris L1, and none publishes a Naoris-specific PQC roadmap. Two wallet touchpoints exist and neither qualifies: a public security-listing service records exchange-wallet partnerships for the $NAORIS EVM token, which concerns an ECDSA secp256k1 ERC-20 and not the L1; and the operator's own site names no wallet vendor at all, its enterprise page offering only a technical-briefing request. Worth noting for a future cycle: an L1 whose transactions carry a 4,627-byte signature and a 2,592-byte public key needs wallet-side support that no third-party wallet is known to have, and all observable signing to date comes from 9 accounts that are plausibly the operator's own. Scored 2.
No bridge or cross-chain-messaging vendor (LayerZero, Wormhole, Axelar, CCIP) has announced integration with the Naoris L1, and none publishes a Naoris-specific PQC roadmap. The 'Cross-Chain Trust Relay' the project once described is no longer served anywhere public. The identical-address $NAORIS deployment on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain implies some bridge or deterministic deployment with no public documentation, and an announced Bitcoin-anchoring product has no specification or ship date. There is no observable bridge between the EVM token layer and the L1 - the L1 carries one non-zero-value transaction in its entire history. Worst-tier alongside custodian and infra; contributes to the supply-chain cap.
Custodian / exchange tile. No custodian (Anchorage, Fireblocks, Copper, BitGo, Komainu) has announced support for the NAORIS token or the Naoris L1, and none publishes a Naoris-specific post-quantum custody roadmap. The $NAORIS EVM token trades on centralized venues and carries an exchange-program listing, all of which is conventional ECDSA-secured EVM custody of an ERC-20 and none of which touches the L1. No custodian MPC path for ML-DSA is documented; ML-DSA is MPC-amenable in principle, but no custodian serving this asset has implemented one. Concentration on the token itself is extreme by the listing service's own indicator, with a large majority of supply in a few holders. Low score.
One RPC endpoint is published and it is operated by the project itself; no third-party RPC provider (Infura, Alchemy, QuickNode, Ankr) serves this chain, so there is no vendor to hold a post-quantum roadmap. No HSM vendor integration (Thales, YubiHSM, AWS KMS, Ledger Enterprise) and no TEE attestation chain (Intel TDX/SGX, AMD SEV-SNP, AWS Nitro) is documented for the L1, and the one infrastructure fact we can observe - the explorer fronted by a commercial cloud load balancer - is hosting, not a post-quantum supply-chain commitment. Cross-tile weak link: with wallet, bridge, custodian/exchange and infra all near-zero, 4 of 4 tiles lack a top-3 vendor post-quantum roadmap, firing the supply-chain cap (Migration Stage <= 3, non-binding because milestone discipline binds lower at 2).
7 Governance & Coordination weight 8% 20 / 100
The set is not merely undisclosed: it is measured, and it is very small. Exactly two addresses sealed every block across a ~300-block sample, giving an effective Nakamoto coefficient of 1, on a network with 9 distinct sending accounts in its entire history and a node reporting 7 peers. Validator identity, stake weighting, hardware configuration and onboarding criteria are unpublished; participation was announced as invite-only for strategic partners, investors and validator operators, and nothing indicates it has widened. Token-weighted influence over cryptographic parameters concentrates among large early holders per pre-launch funding coverage. Low score, evidence-backed rather than inferred from silence.
Unchanged. No coordinated protocol-upgrade record exists on the observable chain, which has run a single client build since its genesis, and no formal upgrade cadence, quorum, timelock or emergency mechanism is published. With zero public repositories, development cadence cannot be independently observed. Cadence under pressure is unproven. Low score reflects the absence of any track record, not a failure event.
The deduction rests on an attribution problem rather than on a gap in the people named. A full executive and advisory roster is published and verifiable - founder/CEO/chief scientist, chief strategy officer, CFO, co-founder/CBO, founding CTO, investor relations, plus a defence-weighted advisory board of retired senior officers and a family-office executive. Two qualifications. First, that roster is published by the entity whose own machine-readable site metadata states it has 'no affiliation, ownership, or relationship of any kind with Naoris Protocol, the Layer-1 blockchain', while a 2026-06-09 partnership release names the same founder as chief executive of that entity and every chain-related domain redirects to it. Until the corporate structure is disclosed, the named leadership cannot be cleanly attributed to the chain's governance, which is what this sub-score measures. Second, a cryptography figure is named: the chief strategy officer's published biography describes him as a cryptographer and former chief scientist at a major technology company. The substantive deduction stands on both counts: no officer is identified as the owner of the ML-DSA-87 implementation, no lattice-cryptography credential is stated for anyone, the founder holds both the CEO and chief-scientist titles with no separation of duties, and the advisory board is defence- and strategy-weighted with no stated post-quantum cryptography expertise - a governance gap for a chain whose whole thesis is one post-quantum primitive.
Unchanged. Building a hybrid signing path before any adversarial pressure exists is a positive structural signal and is credited modestly. But no cryptographic migration has been executed under live adversarial pressure, no incident-response plan is published for a post-quantum-algorithm-compromise scenario, and the one coordination event the evidence hints at - a genesis timestamped sixteen weeks after the announced launch - is undisclosed and therefore cannot be credited as demonstrated coordination. An actual adversarial-coordination test is absent and untested.
No canary, honeypot, rate-limited-spending rule, or cryptographic tripwire is documented in Naoris's consensus or governance materials, and none is observable in the chain surface. Scored 0 per rubric. Note that a tripwire would be most relevant precisely where none exists: on the classically-secured EVM token economic layer on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, which holds essentially all of the project's value, and on the classical-only transaction path that remains open on the L1 itself for accounts with no registered post-quantum key.
Source-disagreement disclosure
v3.1 requires every chain card to publish material divergences among authoritative sources, plus the delta-QRI under alternative weighting.
UNRESOLVED, and the most consequential open question on this card. Evidence that the observable network is the mainnet: the explorer page served at the explorer subdomain of naorisprotocol.network carries the literal document title 'Naoris - Mainnet Explorer'; its JSON API is the sole chain-data surface the operator publishes; the client identifies itself as Naoris. Evidence against: the genesis block of that network is timestamped 2026-07-22T10:49:03Z, roughly sixteen weeks after the announced 2026-04-01 mainnet launch, and block 1 follows fourteen seconds later, so the chain state we can read does not extend back to the announced launch; the explorer hostname resolves via CNAME to an AWS application load balancer whose name contains the string 'testnet'; and chainId 46512 is not registered in the public community chain registry. Three readings are consistent with the evidence and we cannot choose between them from public artifacts: the network was re-genesised in July 2026; the explorer indexes a different network from the one launched in April; or the April event did not put this chain into continuous operation. LayerQu scores the cryptography we can read on the network the operator publishes, and discounts the deployment sub-scores for the unresolved identity. A published genesis specification, a chain-registry entry, or an explorer covering April-to-July would settle it.
Some readings score Naoris as a pure post-quantum chain with no classical+PQ composition, and failed Gate 1a-Sig on that basis. On-chain evidence refutes it. The raw type-0x6 envelope for a sampled transaction is 7,634 bytes and decodes as a 15-item RLP list whose items 10, 11 and 13/14 are, respectively, 2,592 bytes (ML-DSA-87 public key size per FIPS 204), 4,627 bytes (ML-DSA-87 signature size per FIPS 204), and the 32-byte ECDSA r and s. Item 9 is a single byte, constant 0x02 across sampled transactions, positioned as a scheme identifier. Both signature components are therefore carried in one signed envelope, and the transaction id is Keccak-256 over the whole of it. Independent journalism from 2026-04-02 records the operator's chief growth officer describing exactly this enforcement rule ('the transaction must contain a valid ML-DSA inner signature'; ECDSA-only from a bound account is rejected), which the wire format corroborates. The disagreement worth logging is therefore between Naoris's own marketing - which positions the chain as post-quantum-native, implying replacement - and its deployed wire format, which is a hybrid. Hybrid is the stronger engineering position under this methodology; the marketing understates it.
RESOLVED in the project's favour. Naoris's site labels its scheme 'Post-Quantum Signature Schemes (Dilithium-5)' - the pre-standardization CRYSTALS-Dilithium team's Level-5 label - while NIST's finalized standard uses ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87 for security categories 2, 3 and 5. A weaker route corroborates only the ML-DSA-87 reading from an executive statement to an independent outlet. The wire corroborates it directly: the public-key field is exactly 2,592 bytes and the signature field exactly 4,627 bytes, which are the ML-DSA-87 sizes and are distinct from ML-DSA-65 (1,952 / 3,309) and ML-DSA-44 (1,312 / 2,420). The signature further decodes under the ML-DSA-87 encoding: a 64-byte commitment hash, a 4,480-byte z (7 polynomials at 640 bytes), and an 83-byte hint whose 8 trailing cut positions are non-decreasing and bounded by omega = 75, with every unused hint byte zero - a condition FIPS 204 hint unpacking rejects if violated, and one random bytes would not satisfy. The residual gap is narrow: the parameter set is measured, but no Naoris technical document fixes it, so a future client change would not be announced anywhere public.
UNRESOLVED and material to how much of the operator's own material can be attributed to the chain. Every Naoris corporate domain we checked - naorisprotocol.com, naoris.com, and their www forms - 307-redirects site-wide to naorisquantumprotocol.com, preserving the path. That site's machine-readable organization metadata states verbatim that 'Naoris Quantum Protocol is a post-quantum cybersecurity and distributed-trust infrastructure provider - not a blockchain, a Layer-1 network, or a cryptocurrency. It is an independent brand with no affiliation, ownership, or relationship of any kind with Naoris Protocol, the Layer-1 blockchain.' That disclaimer appears only in the structured data, not in visible page text. It is contradicted by the redirect itself, and by a 2026-06-09 partnership release that names the same founder as 'CEO and Co-Founder of Naoris Quantum Protocol' while earlier coverage names him founder and CEO of Naoris Protocol. LayerQu therefore treats the successor site as a source for the operator's product and personnel claims but does NOT treat its content as a governance artifact of the L1, which is the main constraint on 7c. A corporate-structure disclosure, or removal of the contradiction, would settle it.
The tradeable $NAORIS token is an EVM token deployed at the identical address 0x1b379a79c91a540b2bcd612b4d713f31de1b80cc on both Ethereum (verified on the block explorer as an ERC1967Proxy, compiler 0.8.29, max total supply 4,000,000,000, 2,542 holders on that contract) and BNB Smart Chain, both secured by ECDSA secp256k1. One market-data service reports 5.76K holders in aggregate and circulating supply of 599.26M. The identical-address deployment on two chains implies a bridge or a deterministic cross-chain deployment that no public source explains, and there is no documented bridge or migration path from the EVM economic layer onto the L1. The L1 itself carries essentially no economic activity: of 594 lifetime transactions, exactly one moved a non-zero value, and 585 were repeat calls to a single system precompile. A reader taking 'post-quantum-native' at face value would not learn from the project's own materials that the token, investor and exchange-liquidity layer is classically secured and lives somewhere else entirely. LayerQu scores the L1 cryptography and the economic-layer exposure separately.
Two market-data aggregators now present the asset under the name 'NaoX Protocol' with the ticker unchanged, and one carries an explicit notice that 'Naoris Protocol (NAORIS) has rebranded to NaoX Protocol (NAORIS)'. We found no primary-source corroboration: no announcement from the operator, no press coverage, no change on the corporate site (which says 'Naoris Quantum Protocol Inc' throughout), and the public security-listing service still lists the project as Naoris Protocol with naorisprotocol.com as its website. Treated as a monitor item, not a scored fact. Separately, one aggregator tags the asset 'Layer 0 (L0)' while all self-description and press says Layer 1; not resolved, not scoring-relevant on its own.
One market-data service's AI-generated updates page claims a 'Hybrid Transaction Model' was introduced 2026-08-13 combining classical ECDSA with ML-DSA-87 per transaction. The same page asserts the testnet 'concluded 12 November 2025' and that 'the mainnet launch timeline remains unspecified as of August 2026', contradicting the primary-source-documented April 2026 launch and contradicting its own claim of a model running on a live network. It remains excluded from scoring as an internally self-contradictory, uncorroborated, machine-generated source. It is worth recording that its central technical claim - per-transaction ECDSA plus ML-DSA-87 - is directionally consistent with what we independently measured on-chain, while its date is not: the oldest transaction the explorer indexes carrying an ML-DSA-87 signature sits in block 181, produced on 2026-07-22, three weeks before the claimed 2026-08-13 introduction. A source being accidentally close to right on one point does not make it usable; the on-chain artifacts, not this page, carry the finding.
Some sources describe the 2026-04-01 mainnet launch as 'press-corroborated by multiple independent outlets'. That overstates it. Two of the items relied on - the 2026-04-01 launch article and the 2026-06-09 partnership article on a quantum-industry outlet, and the 2025-10-08 SEC-submission article on the same outlet - are each explicitly labelled 'PRESS RELEASE' in their body text and reproduce the company's own copy. One outlet's 2026-04-02 piece is genuine independent reporting with a named reporter and editor, and it is the source of the ML-DSA-87 attribution and the enforcement-rule quote; it also states plainly that it 'has not independently verified' the testnet figures. LayerQu therefore treats the launch event as documented by one independent outlet plus the operator's own distributed press release, not as multi-outlet independent corroboration.
Delta-QRI under alternative weighting
Under an alternative weighting that down-weights Supply Chain (Dim 6) - where the evidence is thinnest and concerns the EVM token rather than the chain - and up-weights Cryptographic Exposure (Dim 1) and Migration Architecture (Dim 4) - where the deployed hybrid is now measurable - QRI would rise into the high 30s, still Band 4 Architected, still capped at 60 by Gate 1a-Sig and the diversity cap. Conversely, a weighting that made independently-audited, open-source implementation a precondition for any deployment credit would push the score back toward the low 20s, because nothing about the verifier or the consensus layer can be inspected. This card is highly sensitive to whether the rubric credits verifiable wire format or requires verifiable source: on the wire Naoris now scores well; in the source tree there is nothing to score at all.
Announcement-to-shipped ratio
Announced: 10. Shipped: 3. Ratio: 3.3.
Tag: QRI cap 65 (>2.0, non-binding: raw 32 < 65) and Dim 5 deduction (>1.5). The 'narrative-only' tag does not apply: the ratio does not exceed 5.0. Announced (trailing 12 months, each reconstructible today): (1) the 'Post-Quantum Signature Schemes (Dilithium-5)' labeling served on the operator's site; (2) the post-quantum-native mainnet launch claims of April 2026; (3) the self-reported testnet figures - 106M+ post-quantum transactions, 603M+ threats, 3.3M wallets, 1M+ nodes - which the one independent outlet covering the launch explicitly declined to verify; (4) CRYSTALS-Dilithium / Kyber named as the cryptographic proof layer on the site, and the FIPS 203/204/205 bundle named in a partnership release; (5) the ELECTRA AI quantum-safe battery-intelligence partnership (2026-06-09), whose language is 'partner to develop'; (6) PQVPN, a post-quantum VPN product listed with no ship date; (7) PetalVault, a post-quantum Bitcoin ownership-evidence product listed with no ship date; (8) AutoMesh, 'post-quantum-ready' machine-to-machine trust, listed with no ship date; (9) a Confidential File Sharing product specified as ML-KEM-1024 plus ML-DSA-87 over AES-256-GCM, listed with no ship date; (10) the 2025-10-08 announcement that an independent SEC submission cites the project as a reference model, including an unnamed zero-knowledge-proof integration. Shipped and independently verifiable, all three confirmed: (1) a live network - public JSON-RPC (chainId 46512) and public explorer API, 174,700+ blocks produced at roughly 12-second intervals, height moving in real time on 2026-08-19/20; (2) a deployed classical+post-quantum hybrid transaction type carrying a 2,592-byte ML-DSA-87 public key and a 4,627-byte, structurally well-formed ML-DSA-87 signature alongside secp256k1 ECDSA, on 585 of 594 indexed transactions; (3) an on-chain post-quantum public-key registry, observable as ABI-encoded 2,592-byte payloads sent to system precompiles 0x...2000 and 0x...2001. Not counted on the announced side: a 'Quantum Fabric' architecture repositioning, which appears on no served page of the operator's site. Not counted on the shipped side: FIPS 204 itself, which is a NIST artifact rather than anything the project shipped.
Peers in the L1 profile
9 chains closest to Naoris Protocol by Stage then QRI.