Karsten Wenzlaff, Advisor
August 26th, 2025
September 30, 2026 | NCFA Market Activity | Digital Assets Blockchain And Tokenization, Cyber Security And Quantum, Payments Infrastructure And Money Movement

On September 30, 2026, Vancouver based BTQ Technologies signed a three year commercial agreement with Kaia DLT Foundation to deploy its Quantum Secure Stablecoin Network (QSSN) across Kaia's blockchain infrastructure. BTQ will receive a share of fees from transactions protected by the system and expects six figure U.S. dollar revenue in the first year, although actual revenue will depend on transaction volume.
In May, NCFA said BTQ still needed paid QSSN deployment and recurring revenue to prove the model commercially. The company had already processed blockchain transactions and worked with Finger and iM Bank on post quantum stablecoin infrastructure, but it hadn't disclosed signed recurring deployment terms. While the company hasn't disclosed a production launch date, the Kaia deal now provides that missing piece.
BTQ's technology adds post quantum protection to blockchain accounts and transaction infrastructure without requiring every wallet, stablecoin or application to be rebuilt. Kaia, like other blockchain networks, relies on public key cryptography to authorize transactions. A sufficiently powerful future quantum computer could weaken some of that cryptography, although today's quantum computers aren't known to have that capability. Post quantum migration is already underway because replacing cryptography across financial infrastructure can take years.
BTQ combines existing transaction security with post quantum signatures rather than replacing the blockchain. Its system uses cryptography based on NIST post quantum standards while remaining compatible with existing blockchain infrastructure.
Kaia says the protection will operate at both the account and infrastructure level. Stablecoins are a practical starting point because they combine transferable value, digital wallets, long lived transaction records and growing use in payments and settlement. Kaia and Unifi already support stablecoins including USDT, Japan’s JPYC and Indonesia’s IDRP. BTQ says QSSN can protect those assets at the account level without requiring each issuer to build a separate integration.
The bigger commercial point is how BTQ gets paid. Rather than relying only on integration or licensing fees, the three year agreement gives BTQ a share of fees from protected transactions. If usage grows, security revenue grows with it. That turns QSSN from a technical capability into infrastructure with recurring transactional revenue.
Canada is already preparing for this migration problem. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security requires federal organizations to start planning now, complete migration of high priority systems by the end of 2031 and move remaining systems by the end of 2035. Financial infrastructure faces the same issue across payments, identity, custody and digital assets, where systems may remain in service for many years.
LINE NEXT launched Unifi as a global stablecoin wallet in March 2026, with deposits, transfers, payments and rewards available through LINE Messenger. That gives BTQ a path from blockchain infrastructure into consumer stablecoin use rather than another stand alone technology pilot.
For those who don't know, LINE is one of Asia’s largest messaging platforms, with major user bases in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand. LINE NEXT launched Unifi on Kaia in March 2026, giving BTQ a route from blockchain infrastructure into consumer stablecoin use through LINE Messenger.
BTQ and Kaia point to potential reach of more than 250 million people across the LINE and Kakao ecosystems. That is the size of the connected consumer networks, not 250 million Unifi or BTQ users. Unifi is expected to be among the first consumer applications to benefit as the Kaia deployment rolls out.
BTQ had already shown the technology working in earlier Korean pilots and reported more than 100,000 mainnet transactions in the second quarter. What was missing was recurring customer revenue. In August, BTQ was still discussing a possible production deployment with Kaia. Six weeks later, the parties signed a three year commercial agreement tied to transaction activity.
The question now is whether post quantum security can generate recurring infrastructure revenue before quantum risk becomes urgent. Transaction volume and recognized revenue will show whether that model works beyond pilots.
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