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Paper 7 — Quantum-Native Financial Verification
Native Quantum Primitives in Settlement, Attestation, and Risk
Robert Stillwell and Abel Gutu (LedgerWell Corporation)
Abstract
This paper examines how native quantum primitives reshape financial verification. Rather than treating quantum capability as an enhancement to classical settlement and attestation, we examine the design space when quantum mechanisms are first-class — quantum-secured signatures, entanglement-based oracle attestation, quantum random beacons for unbiased rate selection, and quantum-resistant settlement guarantees. The framework places this in the regulatory context of Basel SCO60 verification eligibility and the Universal Verification Framework introduced in Paper 5.
Research questions this paper addresses
- How do quantum-native primitives change settlement-finality guarantees in distributed financial systems?
- What does cross-jurisdictional attestation look like when oracle randomness is quantum-sourced?
- How does the Universal Verification Framework apply when the inference layer is quantum-native?
- What are the composability bounds when classical and quantum-native settlement layers interoperate?