Human scientists and AI agents cut the estimated quantum resources for a key step in attacking blockchain encryption by 86.1%.
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An open research project using human scientists and AI agents cut the estimated quantum resources for a key step in attacking blockchain encryption by 86.1%.
The best circuit at the study’s cutoff used 1,151 logical qubits and about 1.3 million Toffoli gates for elliptic-curve point addition.
The results do not demonstrate a working attack and exclude several costs required to run Shor’s algorithm on future fault-tolerant quantum hardware.
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