The US Treasury has launched a Quantum-Readiness Task Force with a dedicated digital-assets and emerging-technology workstream to coordinate financial-sector preparation for post-quantum cryptography. Announced on August 24, the public-private initiative brings together government agencies, financial institutions, market infrastructure operators, custodians, and technology providers. Executive Order 14412 deadlines remain limited to federal systems and covered contractors, rather than imposing a broad migration mandate on Bitcoin, Ethereum, private digital-asset companies, or the wider custodial sector. The task force will identify cryptographic dependencies, improve interoperability, and address implementation challenges involving third-party infrastructure. For crypto firms, preparation includes reviewing custody, transaction signing, authentication, and other systems, while blockchain-level signature changes require separate engineering and governance decisions. The initiative comes as industry groups and Ethereum researchers pursue parallel post-quantum work, including responses to the estimated 7 million Bitcoin potentially vulnerable because of exposed public keys or address reuse.