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[Quranium @quranium_org]

🇫🇷 France is the latest.

Around the world, governments, regulators, and enterprises are already preparing for the quantum era.

Quantum-resistant security is no longer a choice.

It’s a necessity.

The post-quantum transition has begun.

#QuantumSecurity #PostQuantum #Quranium

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🇫🇷 NOW: France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI will stop certifying products without quantum-resistant encryption starting 2027, with full adoption required by 2030.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

First they laughed at quantum.

Then Microsoft, Google, IBM, Intel and NVIDIA started racing toward it.

Now the world is waking up to a simple reality:

The biggest opportunity isn’t quantum computing.

It’s securing everything before quantum computing arrives.

Welcome to the age of Quantum Security.

#Quranium #PostQuantum #quranium

[Quranium @quranium_org]

@Microsoft 🚀 Major milestone for the quantum ecosystem. As practical quantum computing moves closer to reality, the focus must also shift to quantum-resilient infrastructure. Exciting times ahead for builders working on the future of secure digital systems.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

@Microsoft Great news 🚀

[Quranium @quranium_org]

⚡️TODAY: Microsoft unveils its Majorana 2 Quantum chip, betting it can deliver a commercially useful quantum computer by 2029.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

The quantum conversation just changed.

Google’s 10x breakthrough in Shor’s algorithm. Hidden optimizations. AI-assisted quantum research. Neutral-atom architectures. Community-driven improvements arriving within weeks.

Individually, these are important developments.

Collectively, they signal something bigger:

The timeline to Q-Day may be compressing.

For years, the industry treated quantum threats as a distant problem. Today, leading researchers are openly discussing the possibility of cryptographically relevant quantum computers within the next decade.

The question is no longer whether quantum computing will impact blockchain security.

The question is whether the ecosystem will be ready when it does.

At Quranium, we’ve believed from day one that quantum resilience must be built into the foundation not added as an afterthought.

⏳ The clock isn’t stopping.

#QuantumComputing #QDay #PostQuantum #Blockchain #CyberSecurity #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Quranium

[Justin Drake @drakefjustin]

Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.

On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.

But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!

As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.

Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.

Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.

Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!

The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)

Part 2: neutral atoms and qday

The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.

Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.

Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.

My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".

Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.

So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.

Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.

Part 3: post-quantum cryptography

There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.

These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.

The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.

Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

Tag a dev who still thinks quantum is “10+ years away.”👇

[Quranium @quranium_org]

Quantum is next!

[IonQ @IonQ_Inc]

Celebrating 250 years of breakthroughs. Next is quantum.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

Every transformative technology had a “before it was obvious” window.
The internet had one. Smartphones had one. Crypto had one.
Post-quantum is in that window right now.
Most people will only notice when it’s too late to be early.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

Attackers don’t need a quantum computer today to break your data tomorrow.

They just need to store your encrypted traffic now and decrypt it once quantum hardware catches up. This is called “harvest now, decrypt later.”
Your TLS handshake from 2024 may already be in someone’s archive.
What expires? What doesn’t?

[Quranium @quranium_org]

By the time the world realizes the threat is real, quantum will already be here.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

This isn’t just a Bitcoin problem, the entire crypto industry is at risk.
Everyone is slowly adding post-quantum security to their roadmaps.
But for Quranium, It was never a roadmap item.
It’s our foundation from Day 1.
$QRN #Quranium #PostQuantum

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🔥CHARLES HOSKINSON ON BITCOIN’S QUANTUM CRISIS:

"TO DO NOTHING WOULD RESULT IN OVER 8 MILLION $BTC BEING STOLEN.”

Hoskinson says Bitcoin cannot ignore the quantum threat forever.

He suggested the network to either add optional post-quantum signatures, or freeze legacy accounts that fail to migrate.

His bigger argument, however, was that Bitcoin lacks a clear governance layer to make that choice.

During the Consensus Miami event, he warns of over 50% chance quantum computers could threaten crypto security by 2033.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

McKinsey estimates quantum computing could create $622 billion in value for financial services by 2035.

The networks that will lead that transition are the ones preparing for the quantum era today.

Quranium has been building quantum-secure chain infrastructure since 2024.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

The future won’t wait for upgrades.

Technology is moving faster than ever.
The infrastructure behind it should be ready from day one.

Quranium is Quantum-Resistant by Design.

#QuantumComputing #CyberSecurity #Blockchain #AI #Tokenization #Quranium

[Quranium @quranium_org]

Quantum + AI changes the rules - not the game, the rules.

Security built for yesterday won’t survive tomorrow.

This shift needs coordination, not competition.

We’re ready to work with the ecosystem to build and transition before the break happens.

[BeInCrypto @beincrypto]

Solana founder @toly has issued a major quantum warning.

He says AI could crack post-quantum crypto sooner than we think...

He wants wallets to combine multiple signature schemes through two-of-three multisig.

@solana is already getting ready for the quantum era with the Falcon upgrade.

Quantum + AI era is coming faster than expected.

Are we ready? 👀

[Quranium @quranium_org]

When we began, quantum security was a footnote. Today, it’s the headline.

The shift is real and it’s encouraging to see builders leaning in.

This isn’t a race. It’s a responsibility.

We’re here to collaborate and secure what comes next.

[Quranium @quranium_org]

🚀 BIG MOMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY 🚀

We’re proud to announce that Quranium is now a TOP TRENDING pre-launch project on CertiK Skynet!

@CertiK is one of the most trusted Web3 security firms, providing real-time security ratings, audits, and monitoring across 17,000+ projects using its Skynet scoring system.

Being featured on @CertiKCommunity and trending here means strong fundamentals, security, and growing community trust.

This is just the beginning.

We’re not here to follow trends.
We’re here to define the future of post-quantum infrastructure.

⚡️ We’re just getting started.

🔗 Check it out: https://t.co/6SRC2q7n91

[Quranium @quranium_org]

Don’t miss NVIDIA Quantum Day

NVIDIA is bringing together leading researchers and pioneers to push the boundaries of quantum innovation.

Quranium supports all initiatives driving quantum innovation.

📅 April 14, 8 AM – 1:30 PM PT
📍 Online
💡 6 sessions + live Q&A

🔗 Secure your spot: https://t.co/zOXWqvmhkO

[Quranium @quranium_org]

BREAKING: Founder of Binance, CZ warns:

“Quantum computing may break existing encryption.”

The risk is real.

While others prepare, Quranium is already built for the post-quantum era.

Ready before it’s needed.

#PostQuantum #BeUncrackable

[Quranium @quranium_org]

“Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” is already happening.

Data you encrypt today can be stored and broken in the future.

Quranium’s infrastructure is ready to tackle tomorrow’s problem today.

#BeUncrackable