Mr. Olivier Roussy Newton reports

BTQ TECHNOLOGIES ACQUIRES POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY IP THROUGH STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN KEYPAIR, ACCELERATING CO-DEVELOPMENT OF HARDWARE-ROOTED SECURITY FOR KOREA'S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

BTQ Technologies Corp. has made a strategic investment in Keypair, a leading Korean full-stack security company trusted by major institutions across defence, energy and financial services.

Under the terms of the investment and related collaboration, BTQ will co-own Keypair's existing and future postquantum-cryptography-related intellectual property, and the companies will jointly develop next-generation hardware-based security technologies that are postquantum ready and infrastructure grade.

Keypair's security technologies are deployed across Korea's most critical national infrastructure, including systems supporting LIG Nex1, Hanwha Systems and Korea Electric Power Corp., where Keypair has supplied millions of secure-element-based security chips supporting Kepco's nationwide advanced metering infrastructure program.

"Postquantum security is moving from theory to deployment, and the winners will be the companies that can deliver certified, hardware-rooted security at national scale," said Olivier Roussy Newton, chief executive officer of BTQ Technologies. "Keypair has built deep trust inside Korea's most demanding environments. This strategic investment strengthens BTQ's position as a long-term leader in postquantum, infrastructure-grade security and accelerates our ability to support mission-critical systems as global standards and regulations evolve."

"Keypair has always focused on commercial, long-lived security systems that operate in the real world, not just pilots," said Dr. Jung-Youp Lee, co-founder, co-chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Keypair. "Partnering with BTQ advances our postquantum road map and expands the scope of what we can deliver in next-generation hardware security for critical infrastructure and institutional platforms."

Strategic significance for BTQ

1. Secures strategic postquantum cryptography intellectual property and accelerates co-development across hardware-based security technologies designed for quantum-era threats;
2. Expands BTQ's footprint in Korea through a partner with proven, long-term deployments across national infrastructure, defence supply chains and institutional environments;
3. Strengthens BTQ's infrastructure-first positioning by aligning with systems that are already deployed at scale and built for long service life cycles.

This strategic investment further strengthens BTQ's commercial pathway in Korea by enabling tighter integration of BTQ's postquantum cryptography and hardware-rooted security capabilities into enterprise and government deployments pursued through BTQ's relationships with Finger and Danal, and its broader engagement through Quinsa. By pairing Keypair's proven, at-scale secure element and critical infrastructure footprint with BTQ's quantum-safe security road map, BTQ is positioned to accelerate real-world implementations across payments, identity and regulated institutional systems while supporting standardized, interoperable postquantum security architectures that can be rolled out across partner ecosystems.

About Keypair

Keypair is a Korean full-stack security company delivering system-level security architectures that integrate hardware, firmware, cryptographic chips, servers and issuance platforms, with long-term deployments across finance, national energy systems, defence, aerospace and blockchain infrastructure.

About BTQ Technologies Corp.

BTQ Technologies is a vertically integrated quantum company accelerating the transition from classical networks to the quantum Internet. Backed by a broad patent portfolio, BTQ pioneered the industry's first commercially significant quantum advantage and now delivers a full-stack, neutral-atom quantum computing platform with end-to-end hardware, middleware and postquantum security solutions for finance, telecommunications, logistics, life sciences and defence.

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