Insider Brief Rigetti Computing has revised its roadmap, pushing the general availability of its 108-qubit Cepheus-1-108Q system to around the end of Q1 2026. The delay is driven by additional testing and a new chip iteration to address tunable coupler complexities and improve two-qubit gate fidelity toward a 99.5% median Read more
Insider Brief BTQ Technologies launched the Bitcoin Quantum testnet, the first quantum-safe fork of Bitcoin, replacing ECDSA with NIST-standardized ML-DSA to address long-term quantum risks to the Bitcoin network 17 years after the genesis block. The open, permissionless testnet is designed as a production-grade proving ground for miners, developers, researchers, Read more
Guest Post by Alexander Rogan As the transition toward post-quantum cryptography accelerates, much of the Web3 security conversation has focused on mathematical resilience. With NIST finalising standards such as ML-DSA, the standardised form of CRYSTALS-Dilithium, the industry is rightly preparing for a future in which classical signature schemes can no Read more
Insider Brief Zapata Quantum announced a collaborative research effort with the University of Maryland to develop a verification-first approach to quantum application development using end-to-end formal, proof-based methods. The collaboration applies formal verification to ensure correctness throughout the translation from mathematical algorithm design to quantum circuits, addressing a key source Read more
Insider Brief Quantum annealing–based drug design, demonstrated by PolarisQB’s QuADD platform running on a D-Wave Advantage system, can generate and optimize drug-like molecular candidates in minutes to hours rather than weeks or months, significantly reducing early-stage discovery time and cost. In a head-to-head study using Thrombin as a test case, Read more
Insider Brief Q*Bird has signed an EIC Accelerator 2025 agreement securing €2.5 million in grant funding and €5 million in equity to scale its MDI-QKD-based quantum secure communication technologies in Europe. The funding will support the NEXUS project, focusing on improving MDI-QKD hardware efficiency, expanding production capacity, and developing orchestration Read more
SEEQC announced the formation of a U.S.–Taiwan quantum technology ecosystem bringing together semiconductor, electronics, and academic partners to support commercialization of its SFQ-based quantum computing platform. The ecosystem includes partnerships with Kinpo Group, ITRI, National Taiwan University, and UC Berkeley, covering electronics development, semiconductor process manufacturing, and high-speed CMOS research. Read more
Spectral Capital Corporation announced a binding term sheet to acquire Italy-based Intermatica S.p.A., a telecommunications and technology company, subject to due diligence, definitive agreements, and regulatory approvals. Under the term sheet, Intermatica is expected to deliver up to $10 million in annual free cash flow to Spectral to fully earn Read more
Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy renewed $125 million in funding over five years for the Quantum Science Center to advance quantum-accelerated high-performance computing, with Los Alamos National Laboratory continuing as a principal partner alongside Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hosted by Oak Ridge and supported by three national laboratories, Read more
Insider Brief Quantum advantage has likely been demonstrated through multiple large-scale random circuit sampling experiments that perform programmable computational tasks beyond feasible classical simulation, even if those tasks have no practical use. Scientific skepticism persists largely because the benchmark tasks are contrived, verification relies on indirect proxies and extrapolation, and Read more