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September 10, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts · ← Back to $THETA Profile · Market Rankings
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10 source posts analyzed· 2026-09-10T14:33:45+00:00For the past three months, a good part of my spare time has gone into ECDSA.fail. 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
AI visual analysis: The image shows the title page of a research paper titled "ECDSA.fail: Open Autoresearch for Optimizing Elliptic-Curve Point Addition in Shor's Algorithm," authored by Jieyi Long and numerous collaborators from institutions including Theta Labs, Starket Foundation, and Revix. The abstract details a benchmark where AI-optimized point-addition circuits in Shor's algorithm reduced qubits from 2,996 to 2,259, achieving 50% better than Google's record. This paper directly relates to the accompanying post, as the author's spare-time quantum-circuit optimization project with AI agents evolved into this large-scale collaborative research effort.
· 2026-09-10T13:36:24+00:00Our very own CTO @jieyilong is the lead author on a paper that cuts the estimated quantum cost of the core operation in breaking Bitcoin and Ethereum's cryptography by more than half.
AI visual analysis: The image features the Ethereum Foundation logo—a gold diamond-shaped Ethereum symbol next to the text "ethereum foundation" in gold—on a black background. It accompanies an announcement that the Ethereum Foundation's CTO co-authored a paper significantly reducing the estimated quantum computing cost needed to break Bitcoin and Ethereum's cryptographic security.
· 2026-09-10T19:46:10+00:00What impresses me most here is not that @jieyilong collaborated with hundreds of the most distinguished researchers from some of the top Web3 including Ethereum foundation, nor that they improved upon Google's Quantum AI by over 50% in 3 months. It's that they pioneered a new
· 2026-09-10T14:47:58+00:00Proud to be a coauthor and friend of @jackieleeeth and @jieyilong (CTO @Theta_Network ) on ECDSA.Fail — now on @arxiv . Jackie invited me into the @eigenlabs challenge, and we found solutions to shrink secp256k1 point-addition circuits in Shor's algorithm. Across the
AI visual analysis: A dark banner featuring a particle-like wave pattern with blue accent dots displays the title "From a Hidden Quantum Circuit to Open Autoresearch: The ECDSA.fail Story," alongside "Yukon" and "EigenLabs" branding, which ties to the post about the ECDSA.fail paper published on arXiv.
· 2026-09-10T14:47:12+00:00It takes a village to raise a child. Turns out frontier research needs one too. 100+ contributors and their agents, with researchers from @Theta_Network @ethereumfndn @StarkWareLtd @Starknet @trailofbits @brevis_zk @SeiNetwork @pauli_group @OctavFi @sciencevr + @nasqret ,
AI visual analysis: A title card on a dark, starry background reads "From a Hidden Quantum Circuit to Open Autoresearch: The ECDSA.fail Story," featuring the EigenLabs logo and "Yukon" branding, introducing the collaborative effort behind exposing the ECDSA vulnerability with 100+ contributors from organizations including Theta Network, Ethereum Foundation, StarkWare, and Trail of Bits.
· 2026-09-10T18:56:27+00:00Optimization of this particular point-addition quantum circuit involves exploring tradeoffs between accuracy and resource cost, which required substantial GPU compute. I ran part of this work on community-operated GPU nodes through @Theta_Network EdgeCloud. It was a great
· 2026-09-10T13:36:24+00:00Google Quantum AI published its estimates in March but kept the circuit private, attesting to it with a zero-knowledge proof. Eigen Labs took that verifier and made it an open challenge at ECDSA.Fail.
· 2026-09-10T23:29:11+00:00
· 2026-09-10T13:36:25+00:00Over two months, 100+ contributors working with AI agents beat the starting circuit by 86 percent, which puts it more than 50 percent below Google's own number. Google's researchers reviewed the paper.
· 2026-09-10T23:26:15+00:00Congratulations to all of you! This is serious work & a much-needed revision of how much quantum hardware breaking Bitcoin would actually take. Hopefully it sharpens some minds. Our community needs people like you!