Project Eleven is an applied lab of builders & technologists at the intersection of quantum computing and cryptography formed in 2024 who see the coming collision of these two technologies. Today, I'm excited to announce that I've joined Project Eleven as a founder & CEO. Why.

RT @giancarloMKTS: An important first step: Bill introduced in Congress by @RepDavid to use #LettersOfMarque to go after state-sponsored cy….

RT @FT: The world should prepare for the looming quantum era | opinion.

RT @QuantumDaily: Quantinuum eyes $10B valuation in new fundraising round. Bloomberg reports Honeywell-backed Quantinuum is in talks, with….

If the majors are moving *up* their PQC timelines, you should probably be paying attention.

RT @oliverai_music: @apruden08 Neutral atom platforms, especially Rydberg arrays, are leaping ahead with error correction—scalable quantum….

The most obvious initial use case to demonstrate for the minimum viable quantum computer is cryptanalysis. With expert timelines shifting among the physics community, it's time for the cryptography/security community to shift it's timelines, too. Or risk a massive security gap.

IBM + Google both now plan to launch quantum computers by 2028 that are practical for real-world problems. Startups like PsiQuantum (the which just raised $1b) are building on the same timeline. It's looking more and more like a race and less and less like a research project.

There's a major tech story that everyone's sleeping on at the moment. Over the last 6-12 months, the timelines for scalable quantum computing among experts have notably shifted **left** because of the remarkable progress in error correction and more.

RT @pauli_group: Elliptic curve crypto challenges for quantum computers!

I've always believed open-source innovation is the lifeblood of any digital asset ecosystem. Unfortunately, many of the open-source libraries that exist today are built for the ECC era. Excited to fund Doruk & other leading researchers to help build the foundation for the PQC era.

RT @qdayclock: Project Eleven Welcomes Post-Quantum Cryptography Researcher Dr. Doruk Gür as First Grant Recipient. We’re excited to announ….

RT @jillrgunter: Consensus is that Twitter / X has gotten much worse because of the algorithm and incentives to engagement bait / rage post….

RT @preskill: Mark Saffman reviews the remarkable recent progress on quantum computing with neutral atoms.

RT @ConorDeegan4: Researching the impact of quantum cryptanalysis on Bitcoin for the last year, and one thing that’s clear is that educatio….

RT @qdayclock: Announcing: The Bitcoin Risq List v2. Last week, we introduced QuanBot (@quantum_tracker), a real-time way to see quantum-vu….

RT @nuggimane: Another step we’ve taken at Project Eleven toward open-source honesty about the quantum threat to Bitcoin .

Just launched: The Bitcoin Risq List v2 by @qdayclock, our open-source tool that tracks every $BTC address vulnerable to quantum attack. One highlight: a breakdown by address type shows that, contrary to popular belief, most public keys are exposed due to reuse, not legacy

$BTC, $ETH, $SOL. any blockchain network you can think of today will need to be *fundamentally re-architected* from the lowest level. This will take time, and must be done carefully. So even if you believe that a CRQC is a decade away, the time to start that effort is now.

The answer to this question is especially important for blockchains, where the distributed and public nature of the ledger were exactly where signature aggregation & zk proofs found a real world use-case. In a world after ECC, existing architectures will have to change.

The slide above (from the recent ECC workshop celebrating 40 years of elliptic curve cryptography poses an important question. How can we replicate these primitives in the post-quantum world? Neither of the current @NIST-standardized algorithms (based on lattices and hashes).