Last Month in Quantum ๐๏ธ
As we enter a new month, let's recap all the moving quantum parts that went down in July:
๐๏ธ @WhiteHouse held its first quantum industry summit: over $2.2B in support, industry aligned on fault-tolerant computing by 2028.
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel launched a national quantum computing infrastructure program, NIS 100M to build a country-level R&D hub.
๐ช๐บ The EU's Cloud and AI Development Act arrived, with building up Europe's quantum sector written into it.
โ @VitalikButerin unveiled Lean @ethereum: the biggest overhaul since the Merge, ~7 forks over 3 to 4 years, quantum resistance at the core. His own odds on a cryptographically relevant quantum computer before 2030: one in five.
๐ค @AnthropicAI's Claude Mythos broke HAWK, a NIST post-quantum candidate, in ~60 hours. Withdrawn. ML-DSA and ML-KEM: untouched.
๐ฐ @IBM's CEO put dates on quantum revenue: 2028 or 2029, "a trillion dollars of value" by the late 2030s, a $2B chip foundry behind it.
๐ @Cloudflare: over two-thirds of browser traffic to its network is already post-quantum encrypted, full post-quantum security targeted for 2029. NIST's own message the same week: the migration takes a decade, start now.
โ๏ธ The science moved too:
โ @QuantinuumQC and the University of Chicago entangled 54 qubits via non-Abelian anyons, published in Nature
โ @PsiQuantum signed a $125M agreement with DARPA to advance utility-scale quantum computing
โ According to Quantum Zeitgeist, new qLDPC error-correction codes from USTC and Origin Quantum cut physical qubits per logical qubit by ~8x
The whole world is setting the stage for the post-quantum future. Bullish.
And the signature at the centre of it, ML-DSA, is the standard NaoX transactions can be signed with, at the strongest level NIST defines.
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NIST, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, just said the quiet part about the post-quantum transition: it will take more than a decade. Worth reading, via @QuantumDaily
The article features Andrew Regenscheid, the @NIST mathematician behind the standards work, and two lines stand out:
โ "An adversary doesn't need a quantum computer today to put your data at risk." Harvest now, decrypt later is live: encrypted data intercepted today gets decrypted the day the hardware arrives.
โ Companies follow a yearslong process to adopt these algorithms, and NIST expects the full migration to span over a decade. Their advice: inventory your cryptography, map your most sensitive data, and start immediately.
Now apply that math to blockchains. A live chain migrating to post-quantum cryptography faces the same yearslong process, plus the hardest coordination problem in the industry: moving every user, wallet and contract without breaking anything.
NaoX made that migration unnecessary by building on the finalized standards from the start.
Transactions can be signed with ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204, Level 5). Key enrolment runs on ML-KEM-768 (FIPS 203). Validator entry has required post-quantum keys since genesis.
The industry's transition is measured in decades. Ours was a design decision โณ
Slowly, then suddenly.