Milestone 4 – June 2027: Future-Proof Infrastructure

6.1 Quantum-Resistant Cryptography

To address long-term security risks, KONET introduces post-quantum cryptographic primitives for signatures and key exchange, ensuring durability against advances in quantum computing.

KONET introduces post-quantum cryptographic schemes in a hybrid mode, allowing gradual migration.

Key Principles

• Backward compatibility with classical cryptography

• Algorithm agility to swap primitives as standards mature

• Protection of long-lived assets and identities

This ensures cryptographic durability for decades-long systems.

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6.2 AI-Assisted Network Monitoring and Resource Optimization

AI-driven analytics will be applied to:

• Real-time anomaly and attack detection

• Predictive capacity planning

• Automated performance tuning

This enables a self-optimizing blockchain network with reduced operational overhead.

Continuous Analysis

AI systems continuously analyze:

• Validator behavior

• Network latency patterns

• Resource utilization

Enabled Capabilities

These systems enable:

• Early anomaly and attack detection

• Predictive scaling decisions

• Automated tuning of block parameters and resource allocation

The result is a self-observing, self-optimizing blockchain network with reduced human intervention.

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6.3 Hardware Acceleration

KONET supports hardware-accelerated cryptography and ZK proof computation using GPUs, FPGAs, and secure hardware modules, improving throughput, cost efficiency, and energy performance.

KONET is designed to offload computationally intensive tasks to specialized hardware.

Accelerated Components

• Cryptographic operations

• ZK proof generation and verification

• Secure key handling via hardware security modules (HSMs)

Supported Hardware

• GPUs for parallel proof computation

• FPGAs for custom cryptographic pipelines

• Secure enclaves for key isolation

This dramatically improves performance efficiency and operational cost predictability.