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Bridge off that PEPE now folks... (or just swap it for something else.. )

Algorand is steadily carving out a role in agentic commerce. • Official partner for @Google’s Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2) • Full integration across the x402 stack @Algorand is increasingly well-positioned for AI-native payments.

Only 2 blockchains in the entire industry have earned an A-Grade on the Quantum Threat Tracker from @tectonicxyz. Algorand is one of them. We've been building for this since day one.

The EU recently confirmed that by 2027, every battery, textile, and electronic device sold in Europe will need a verifiable Digital Product Passport. The infrastructure to support this at scale already exists on Algorand. Companies like Repsol, Thai Union, Estée Lauder, and Lavazza are using it today. A thread on who's building it 🧵

Android app testing coming Thursday & The Haystack router has officially landed in the Akita app!

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.

☢️ Scam warning - @algoblow Received two credible reports that algoblow[.]com rekeyed accounts when users connected to check airdrop The scam is a $BLOW asset optin that also rekeys the user account. Users who sign these transactions have their accounts rekeyed, thereby permanently losing access to them. It may only trigger for high value accounts. 4 accounts have been rekeyed so far: A43BSFDDZGPEVB2XUUX652OOHNHRA3OZVP4FNM7MF5TDOCUFZWGLS7MR6A TJ7SMOGG52KCSEDWGP4NNCJMJFFLBFI5IKQS7GDUJN5UZJWCP7NTPPFMJ4 XTC4LUY4T5U2KBGRMJD5STGLS2UQJM6QW2N7PCYFB76BYGSH7PV3WOQ22U YKTO4C2WAC2BSMJMYKM43YCGUYHU3XHAHAYG6UUSF3BLOF6VMGRXKYB7ZU Exercise extreme caution $BLOW

THE REAL STORY of the Silvergate Bank “collapse” is finally starting to come out, due to the SEC lifting its “no-deny”/“no criticism” restriction on SEC settlements this week. @jaredkate, Silvergate’s then-COO, has started to talk👇 & more of Silvergate’s side of the story will come out, no doubt. As @nic_carter has reported, Silvergate didn’t actually collapse; rather, it was purposefully demolished as part of #OperationChokePoint2.0 — and it stands pretty much alone in banking history as a bank that paid out depositors amid a bank run without sticking the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund with losses. I’d already learned what happened from a different insider who was at the table back then: the insider witnessed the Fed ordering Silvergate to de facto liquidate by ceasing to service the crypto industry, the “voluntary” announcement of which started the bank run. The insider named names, and a senior Fed official later asked for that list of names (note: many of the people have since left the Fed or no longer in senior positions there). I can’t wait for the interviews of Silvergate executives who previously couldn’t talk but can now. I hope @MaxfieldOnBanks runs with this — he did a big analysis of the Silvergate story a few years ago and figured out that the mainstream narrative wasn’t correct. I look forward to hearing more from the execs, who successfully liquidated a bank under extreme bank run pressures. Are you ready to hear what they have to say???

$ALGO is now available to trade on Robinhood Crypto, including NY.

In today's episode of Built to Build, meet Argimiro del Pozo, Senior Software Engineer at the Algorand Foundation. He shares his journey into blockchain and what excites him most, from post-quantum cryptography to zero-knowledge privacy tools.

🧵 1/6 The CLARITY Act cleared Senate Banking and its real progress. After 10 months of stalls and backroom fights, the most important crypto market structure bill in US history is moving. But the next 90 days are where this actually gets decided. Here’s what you need to know.

Quantum computers will eventually break the cryptography securing most blockchains. Algorand already has a plan. Our post-quantum ledger strategy, explained. A blog by @cusma_b. Read below.

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

Algorand has 2,800 total nodes distributed across 81 countries worldwide. With 1,500 actively participating in consensus, @Algorand is among the most globally distributed Layer 1 blockchains. This is what decentralized global infrastructure looks like.

Failed transactions aren't an option on Algorand. If a transaction is invalid, it's rejected before reaching the chain. No on-chain failures. No wasted fees. At scale, that can mean millions of dollars saved. That's what better blockchain infrastructure looks like.

The pools screener is now live on hay.app! 🏊 Scan for LP opportunities, add/remove liquidity, and farm rewards, all in one place. @tinymanorg pools and farming available now. @pact_fi support coming soon. 🌾

Calling all xGovs! There are currently 11 live proposals on the xGov portal, with 10 ending in less than a week. Don't miss your chance to cast your vote. Help shape what gets built on Algorand! 🗳️

Algorand has been on fire lately: • @Google and @Coinbase both highlighted Algorand's post-quantum capabilities already live on mainnet • Millions of EVM users can now access Algorand dApps via their existing wallets, starting with @alphaarcade • Algorand now supported across the full x402 stack • SEC confirmed ALGO is a digital commodity • @Algorand protocol development and ecosystem growth are now unified under one roof • Algorand featured in @UNDP's latest report on real-world blockchain use cases • ALGO was added to Japan's JVCEA Green List for fast tracked exchange listings • @PeraAlgoWallet launched Shared Accounts • @FolksFinance brought cross-chain $WBTC & $WETH on Algorand • Algorand staking is now available on @Revolut • @Allbridge_io surpassed $1M stablecoins bridged to and from Algorand • @AlgoBharat surpassed 100 blockchain clubs across 100 universities in India

"If quantum computers start breaking cryptography a few years from now, don't you dare come to this blog and tell me that I failed to warn you. This post is your warning." Newly elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences and quantum computing professor Scott Aaronson, writing on his blog today. Google and Coinbase, amongst many others, have recognised Algorand's leading post-quantum work. Our Chief Scientific Officer @ChrisPeikert helped create Falcon, a cryptographic algorithm selected by NIST as a global standard for quantum resistance, which we run in production on Algorand today. Quantum-secure chain history since 2022. Quantum-secure transactions and accounts since 2025. We heard the warning years ago.

Fantastic job! Looking forward to getting it into use-wallet v5 for everyone to use! 🫡