BTQ Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: BTQ) has announced a strategic investment in Keypair, a South Korean security firm specializing in full-stack hardware-rooted security for national infrastructure. The transaction establishes co-ownership of Keypair’s existing and future post-quantum cryptography (PQC) intellectual property. Simultaneously, BTQ announced its inclusion in the Defiance Quantum ETF (Nasdaq: QTUM), effective December 15, 2025, following the semi-annual reconstitution of the BlueStar Machine Learning and Quantum Computing Index (BQTUM).
The Keypair collaboration focuses on the joint development of infrastructure-grade, hardware-based security technologies designed for systems with long service lifecycles. Keypair maintains established deployments within South Korea’s critical sectors, providing secure-element-based chips for the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) national metering program, as well as defense supply chain support for Hanwha Systems and LIG Nex1. This partnership aims to integrate BTQ’s quantum-safe roadmap with Keypair’s proven hardware to deliver certified PQC solutions for payments, identity, and regulated institutional systems.
The addition to the QTUM ETF represents a significant milestone for BTQ’s capital markets presence, broadening institutional visibility as the company executes its strategy to secure mission-critical networks. BTQ CEO Olivier Roussy Newton noted that these developments accelerate the company’s ability to support standardized, interoperable PQC architectures across its broader ecosystem, which includes partners such as Finger, Danal, and the QUINSA alliance.
Read the full investment announcement here and the ETF inclusion release here.
December 19, 2025
