Abelian for Institutions · Hong Kong
For banks, custodians, digital-asset platforms and stablecoin issuers: quantum-readiness assessments and post-quantum infrastructure, from the team that has run post-quantum cryptography in production since 2022, more than two years before NIST published its standards.
Who this is for
You have a QPI score to report against a 2030 target, and most of your estate is vendor software you cannot see into.
Custody and signing keys run on classical signatures, and every public key already published on chain is waiting to be harvested.
You are designing rails now, under regulatory scrutiny. Quantum-safe design costs least before launch and most after it.
Also working with insurers, payments providers and corporates. See every sector
How we work with institutions
Every institution starts in the same place. After the assessment there are two separate tracks, and you can take either, both or neither.
Research, briefings and the Q-Day Simulator help boards and risk teams see what is exposed and on what timeline.
Our researchAn executive briefing, discovery of your cryptography, a Cryptographic Bill of Materials and a gap plan, delivered by our team in Hong Kong.
Readiness assessmentOngoing readiness across your organisation, through a specialist platform partner. We stay on the ground as your local support.
Issue tokens, anchor records and run pilots on a network that is post-quantum today.
The two tracks are independent. You do not need to build on Abelian to work with us on readiness, and you do not need an assessment to build on Abelian.
Why now
The HKMA published its first Quantum Preparedness Index in July 2026, alongside a quantum preparedness whitepaper. The first reading was low, the target date is fixed, and banks with a transition plan expect implementation to take more than five years.
The HKMA's quantum preparedness whitepaper expects banks to keep a living inventory of algorithms, keys, certificates, libraries, protocols and third-party systems.
The HKMA, HKUST and the Hong Kong Fintech Association are preparing a joint PQC migration blueprint for financial institutions.
Licensed platforms hold custody keys on classical signatures, and stablecoin issuers are designing new rails now, when quantum-safe design costs least.
The Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Ordinance places cybersecurity obligations on operators in finance, energy, telecoms, transport and healthcare.
Understand · Abelian Research
Our institutional work grows out of Abelian's research. Before any project is discussed, we want decision-makers to see the threat clearly: what is exposed, what a quantum computer would do to it, and how far away that is.
An interactive model of what a cryptographically relevant quantum computer would do to the base layer of Bitcoin, Zcash and Abelian. Every figure is sourced, every timeline is an assumption the reader controls, and it is available in English and Chinese.
Technical and opinion papers, podcasts and recorded discussions with researchers and industry bodies on post-quantum security, cryptographic agility and privacy for regulated institutions. Executive briefings are available on request.
The simulator's first stage is harvest now, decrypt later. The same applies to institutions: encrypted archives, customer records and network traffic captured today can be read once the cryptography protecting them is broken.
Assess · delivered by Abelian
For most mid-sized institutions the first job is to find out where their cryptography sits. It is the inventory the HKMA now expects, and no plan can be made without it.
A session for the board, risk and technology leads on the threat, the regulatory timeline and what an assessment involves, followed by a short readiness questionnaire.
We locate the public-key cryptography in your priority systems, including certificates, keys, protocols, libraries and vendor products, and record it in a standard format your team keeps.
We take your team through what the inventory shows: where long-lived data is exposed, which vendors you need answers from, and what a sensible next phase looks like.
If you decide to act on your findings, we introduce you to our specialist platform partner for ongoing readiness management across your organisation. The partner's platform carries the work from there.
We stay alongside you on the ground in Hong Kong, as your local point of contact and support through that relationship.
How long must your most sensitive data stay confidential?
Roughly how many applications are in scope?
Do you have an inventory of the cryptography in your production systems?
How long would it take to change a cipher suite or certificate authority across the organisation?
How much of the relevant estate is vendor-supplied or SaaS?
On these answers, migration would finish around 2031, and data encrypted then must stay confidential until 2041, beyond your 2035 assumption. Data encrypted today is already inside that window.
Discuss your resultBuild on Abelian · the network
Separately from readiness work, institutions can build directly on Abelian. Everything in this section runs on the Abelian network, secured by lattice-based cryptography from its first block.
The Abelian User Token protocol lets an institution issue its own tokens on post-quantum rails, such as stablecoins, settlement tokens, tokenised deposits or fund units.
Partners have launched stablecoins on Abelian's infrastructure and continue to operate them today.
Amounts visible and flows traceable, suited to regulated issuance and reporting.
Amounts and links hidden, for flows where confidentiality is required.
The issuer sets the privacy level for each use, and we agree the disclosure and reporting your auditors and regulator need before anything is issued.
Record a fingerprint of a document, audit log or data set on Abelian so its integrity and timestamp can still be proven decades from now. The underlying data never leaves your systems.
Run a bounded pilot of a settlement or tokenisation flow on Abelian alongside your existing systems, including within a regulator sandbox or industry programme, with measured performance and operating costs.
Abelian has run on lattice-based cryptography, the same mathematical family as the NIST primary standards, since its first block. The next stage on the published roadmap makes the network's own cryptography upgradeable.
Brings post-quantum cryptographic agility to the Abelian protocol, so the network can introduce and move between post-quantum algorithms without a disruptive migration.
Planned and not yet live. Nothing here commits to a delivery date or a specific design.
Every sector we work with
The full list. Most start with an assessment, and for some there is also a natural use of the Abelian network.
| Who | What is driving it | Building on Abelian |
|---|---|---|
| Digital banks | A QPI score to report and a cloud-native estate where an inventory takes weeks, not months. | Tokenised deposit pilots; anchoring of audit records |
| Mid-tier banks | The same obligation as the largest banks, with legacy core banking and a smaller security team. | Anchoring of long-retention records |
| Stablecoin issuers | New rails under design and regulatory scrutiny on reserve and redemption integrity. | Issuance on post-quantum rails, with privacy set per flow |
| Virtual asset platforms | Custody keys on classical signatures, where compromise is existential. | Supporting and settling assets issued on Abelian |
| Insurers | Policy data that must stay confidential for 30 to 50 years. | Anchoring of policy and claims records |
| Corporates | Operational cryptography with 20-year lifetimes, now under the critical infrastructure ordinance. | Supply-chain and document attestation |
Who we are
Abelian's founders are professors and researchers whose published work covers the areas post-quantum security depends on: lattice-based constructions, digital signatures and privacy-preserving protocols.
Peer-reviewed research across the founding team.
Published at CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, CCS, PKC, PQCrypto and the Journal of Cryptology.
Research leadership in lattice-based cryptography, the family behind ML-KEM and ML-DSA.
Co-invention of the linkable ring signature, now used in production privacy systems.
Our advice comes from people who publish the research on post-quantum cryptography.
We have carried the real costs of post-quantum signatures at scale since 2022.
For institutions with mainland or Greater Bay Area links, we assess NIST and Chinese commercial cryptography together.
Scientific directors lead each engagement, supported by vetted doctoral researchers.
For consulting and security firms
Your clients are starting to ask about quantum readiness, and building that expertise in-house takes time. We can deliver the readiness assessment behind your existing relationship, co-branded or under your name.
Contact
Whether you need an assessment, want to explore building on Abelian, or want to work with us as a firm, we will reply within two working days to arrange a short call.
Or write to us directly
We are happy to sign a non-disclosure agreement before any detailed discussion of your systems.
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