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[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

This looks great but have you tried the interactive VR version with historical perspective?

https://t.co/zWYgMmQxLb

[Sam M @samerps]

This is another demo showing how Blender's geometry nodes can be used to calculate electric fields in 3D space! These are two spheres with surface charges, watch how the electric field lines change as I move them around and adjust their electric charges! releasing soon! #b3d #geometrynodes #PortfolioDay #electric #Engineering #Science #Physics #electronics #circuits #kicad #artist

[Eigen Labs @eigenlabs]

The paper is led by @jieyilong, CTO of @Theta_Network, with coauthors from @ethereumfndn, @StarkWareLtd, @Starknet, @trailofbits, @brevis_zk, @SeiNetwork, @pauli_group, @OctavFi, @sciencevr, @nasqret at Adam Mickiewicz University, and researchers at Warsaw University of Technology and Stanford's Free Systems Lab.

On the comparison, the 2 efforts use different interfaces and accounting conventions, so the paper treats this as a numerical comparison rather than a formal claim.

Craig Gidney and Tanuj Khattar of @GoogleQuantumAI reviewed the manuscript before publication.

Read the full paper on @arxiv: https://t.co/xE8C5qUe5X

[Theta Network @Theta_Network]

The paper includes coauthors from @ethereumfndn, @StarkWareLtd, @Starknet, @trailofbits, @brevis_zk,
@SeiNetwork, @pauli_group, @OctavFi, @sciencevr, @nasqret at Adam Mickiewicz University, and researchers at Warsaw University of Technology and Stanford's Free Systems Lab.

[Jieyi Long | Theta Network @jieyilong]

For the past three months, a good part of my spare time has gone into https://t.co/BwofRZj7LC. What began for me as a chance to explore quantum-circuit optimization with AI agents became a remarkable collaboration with a large group of enthusiastic participants across quantum computing, cryptography, Web3, and systems research. Today, I’m excited to share our arXiv paper documenting that effort and what we learned from it:
Paper: https://t.co/TNKrutonZS
Full story: https://t.co/SavqQi4rHO

https://t.co/BwofRZj7LC is an open challenge to optimize a quantum circuit for point-addition on secp256k1, the elliptic curve used by Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Why does this matter? Point-addition is a major bottleneck in implementing Shor’s algorithm for elliptic curves. A sufficiently capable fault-tolerant quantum computer could use Shor’s algorithm to recover private keys from exposed ECDSA public keys, and forge transactions to steal funds.

No existing machine can run this attack today. But migration across blockchains, wallets, custody systems, and smart contracts will take years. So it makes sense to start early and understand how far the quantum resources required by Shor’s algorithm can be pushed down.

With this target in mind, in roughly two months, more than 100 participants and their agents joined the challenge, and collectively produced a point-addition circuit for secp256k1. The circuit uses 1,151 logical qubits and 1.30 million Toffoli gates, giving it a Q x T score more than 50% lower than the result Google Quantum AI reported in March 2026. Because the interfaces and accounting conventions differ, this is a numerical comparison rather than a claim of formal dominance.

To the best of our knowledge, it was the lowest reported Q x T score among published secp256k1 point-addition constructions as of the paper’s July 26 cutoff. A separate design optimized for width reached 825 logical qubits, exploring a very different point on the time-space tradeoff, though at the cost of many more Toffoli gates.

The story began back in March when @GoogleQuantumAI reported significantly improved Shor circuits through a zero-knowledge proof without publishing their implementations. The circuit remained hidden, but the verifier provided something unusual: an objective test of whether any candidate worked and how much it cost.

Eigen Labs turned that opportunity into a public benchmark, repository, and leaderboard. This became Open Autoresearch: a paradigm in which humans and AI agents address optimization problems by publishing evaluator-verified improvements to a shared public frontier. Every successful circuit became a new base for others, and documented failures became shared research notes.

Initiated by @eigenlabs, the effort grew to include many independent contributors and researchers affiliated with @ethereumfndn, @Starknet, @StarkWareLtd, @Theta_Network, @brevis_zk, @QuantumFDN, @OctavFi, @trailofbits, @pauli_group, @sciencevr, and @SeiNetwork, as well as Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Warsaw University of Technology, and Stanford’s Free Systems Lab. Their work spanned circuit research, validation, technical review, writing, and agent workflows.

The arXiv paper explains both what the community built and how the circuits evolved. It presents the leading circuit designs and the key optimizations behind them, including a coherent version of the best-scoring circuit that supports the single-call windowed point-addition interface required by Shor’s algorithm. Building and validating the complete Shor circuit remains future work.

Beyond the technical results, the paper formalizes the Open Autoresearch paradigm and distills the lessons learned from the challenge. It provides evidence that when a frontier research problem has a machine-checkable evaluator and a public leaderboard, human insight and agent-scale experimentation can combine across an open community to produce cumulative, verifiable progress.

Read the paper and the full story, explore the live frontier, or bring your agent to the challenge:

Paper: https://t.co/TNKrutonZS
Full story:https://t.co/SavqQi4rHO
Challenge: https://t.co/knLDX4UdOi

[jackie lee @JackieLeeETH]

in case anyone curious about how electromagnetism was discovered. here is an VR app for a quick history session and interactive experiments @sciencevr @MetaQuestVR @UnrealEngine #EpicMegaGrants

https://t.co/jSlrkM1G8N

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

@theantimusk Here is a key that u can use for our PC version - RKKNW-FKAA9-7CC7T-MR6W9-JT77N, redeem at https://t.co/EE9TjlFz0V

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

This looks great but have you tried the interactive VR version with historical perspective?

https://t.co/zWYgMmQxLb

[Sam M @samerps]

This is another demo showing how Blender's geometry nodes can be used to calculate electric fields in 3D space! These are two spheres with surface charges, watch how the electric field lines change as I move them around and adjust their electric charges! releasing soon! #b3d #geometrynodes #PortfolioDay #electric #Engineering #Science #Physics #electronics #circuits #kicad #artist

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

@tiltfive Awesome! We can port over using the Unreal SDK!

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

Michael Faraday was giving a talk with live demos of science experiments to the general public (including women and children) in the mid 19 century. Happy Birthday to Faraday (born Sep. 22, 1791)!

[Steve Hinan /high'nin/ @Hinan]

@sciencevr Link to Quest (App Lab)
https://t.co/IWOTje5zbD

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

James Clerk Maxwell, born #otd June 13, 1831, worked on a mathematical theory of electromagnetism. His inventions changed our world ever since.

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

We have a list of thinkers we covered during our previous virtual event series

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

Visualizing Lewis Carroll's book - The Game of Logic in a wonderland garden maze

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

Moon Museum is a web-based social learning space populated with digital artifacts from the Smithsonian Open Access. We had an open house last week and it was a lot of fun chatting with all of you. Thanks a lot for coming!! @rachelginsberg @MindWise_CK @yenling_kuo @JackieLeeETH

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

Thank you all for joining our Moon Museum event!! It was a lot of fun!!!

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

PSVP for our Feb 25th WebXR event - Moon Museum Open House (only a few tickets left). We will have a guided tour for this web-based social learning game + Q&As by @MindWise_CK @yenling_kuo @JackieLeeETH

https://t.co/4msGwwXWAV (special guest @rachelginsberg from @cooperhewitt)

[MIT Sandbox @MITSandbox]

Congratulations to Sandbox alumni team @sciencevr! They placed first at the @webxrawards in the World of the Year category for their VR capabilities. We're so proud of them!

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

@MindWise_CK @JackieLeeETH @yenling_kuo @webxrawards @juliesmithso @SophiaMosh @XRconnectED @powersimple @kentbye great thanks to our webxr creators and collaborators doing a series of experiments with us @MindWise_CK @RomGothSam @EricGerlach3 @amany_eth @skullapes @sagefreeman @MattBCool @MozillaHubs

[Caitlin Krause: wellbeing through wonder & awe @CaitlinKrause_]

HONORED to accept the award on behalf of our @sciencevr team @JackieLeeETH & @yenling_kuo 💪
Thanks to @webxrawards for recognizing our #WebXR blend of poetic art, science, history + wonder. 🙏to @juliesmithso @SophiaMosh @XRconnectED @powersimple & more, & @kentbye for covering!

[ScienceVR @sciencevr]

Here is an in-depth article about how we built the moon museum with @MindWise_CK and @rachelginsberg @cooperhewitt #webxr #learning #education

[Caitlin Krause: wellbeing through wonder & awe @CaitlinKrause_]

Social learning makes experiences more animated, and the sense of discovery heightens when shared!
Hear about our @sciencevr game-building journey with @smithsonian and @cooperhewitt in my recently penned "Design Retrospective: ScienceVR Treasure Hunt" 🚀
https://t.co/QfRk4xSJeZ