About the Authors

Kranthi Kumar Lella

Contributed equally to this work with: Kranthi Kumar Lella

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kranthikumar.l@manipal.edu

Affiliation Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Shiva Rama Krishna Mallu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Operations & IT, IBS Hyderabad, The ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Competing Interests

Declaration of competing interest Dr. Lella Kranthi Kumar, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India – 576104. Dear Editor-in-Chief, My coauthor and I wish to submit a new manuscript entitled “QRBT: Quantum-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Scalable Blockchain Transaction Processing” for consideration by the “PLOS ONE”. We confirm that this work is original and has not been published elsewhere nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. In this paper, we report on 03/09/2025. We know of no conflicts of interest associated with this publication, and there has been no significant financial support for this work that could have influenced its outcome. As Corresponding author, I confirm that the manuscript has been read and approved for submission by all the named authors. We hope you find our manuscript suitable for publication and look forward to hearing from you in due course. Please address all correspondence concerning this manuscript to me at kranthikumar.l@manipal.edu. Thank you for your consideration of this manuscript. Sincerely, (Dr. Lella Kranthi Kumar).