What happened
- Project Eleven, a post-quantum security company for digital assets, named Relm Insurance on October 20, 2026 as a development partner for Strongpoint, its institutional custody product.
- The collaboration will explore how an institution’s post-quantum controls could be evaluated within digital-asset insurance underwriting.
- Strongpoint combines classical and post-quantum signing, and separates institutional controls from the cryptography layer: signing algorithms can be replaced without losing approval rules or audit history.
- Relm will advise on the design: security controls, auditability and the evidence an institution could show an insurer.
- There are no results, amounts or effects on premiums. The Quantum Insider reproduces the companies’ press release.
Why it matters
- Insurance is the point where a technical risk becomes a cost. If insurers start asking for evidence of post-quantum readiness, migration stops being an engineering decision and becomes a contract condition.
- For Latin American custodians, exchanges or fintechs covering digital assets, the notice is about order: whoever tidies up first will have a shorter conversation with their insurer.
- The consequence the release does not state: the phrase “could be reflected” leaves a lower premium as a hypothesis. The only real commitment is that it will be evaluated, under Relm’s independent processes.
The number
0 figures. The deal reports no amounts, premiums or results. It is an exploration.
Context
The threat is that a quantum computer at scale breaks the digital signatures that protect the keys of crypto-asset accounts. Today the progress is in the lab: Xanadu received up to US$ 10 million from DARPA for its photonic computer and NowSecure measures the lag in mobile apps.
What’s next
- Relm will advise on Strongpoint’s design and development, with no public timeline.
- Any effect on underwriting or premiums requires later evaluation and Relm’s independent process.
- No announced dates.
Bottom line
Insurers tend to reach a new risk before regulators do, and they do it with a form question. This deal is a sign that quantum computing is starting to enter that list.
Sources
Edited by Rodrigo Cornejo. How we select and verify: who writes these notes.
