{"id":57558,"date":"2025-11-10T08:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57558"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:01:37","slug":"cardano-goes-on-offense-hoskinson-fast-tracks-post-quantum-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57558","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Goes On Offense: Hoskinson Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used a weekend update from \u201cup here at the clinic\u201d in Wyoming to move the quantum-computing debate from speculation to planning. Framing DARPA\u2019s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) as the turning point, he said, \u201cfinally, finally, finally, we have an objective source of truth,\u201d adding that \u201cas of November 6, 2025, DARPA has selected 11 companies to enter the second stage [\u2026] which aims to rigorously verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility scale operation [\u2026] by the year 2033.\u201d<\/p>\n

DARPA Advances 11 Quantum Teams<\/h2>\n

He emphasized<\/a> that QBI is designed to separate \u201cfact from fiction about quantum computers,\u201d and relayed the program manager\u2019s stark split among experts: \u201cHalf of them are convinced that quantum computing is going to be the best thing since sliced bread [\u2026] and the other half are convinced that even if you could build a quantum computer<\/a>, which you definitely won\u2019t be able to do, it\u2019s never going to be more useful than your laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n

The point of QBI, as the manager put it in the clip Hoskinson played, is to answer two questions: \u201cif I had a really powerful quantum computer, what could I do with it?\u201d and \u201cis there a [\u2026] group that has a path to really build that kind of machine in the near term [\u2026] in the next 10 years?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cardano founder walked through QBI\u2019s staged process. \u201cDuring the six month Stage A [\u2026] you are a quantum computer builder [\u2026] you spend six months answering every question they can throw at you [\u2026] and at the end of all of it, they say, \u2018actually, there\u2019s some merit.\u2019\u201d Stage B, he said, is \u201ca rigorous one-year plan\u201d where \u201cyou\u2019ve opened the kimono and they\u2019re taking a look at your quantum computing design.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stage C is the hardware trial: \u201cwork with the government to verify and validate that the utility scale quantum computer concept can be constructed as designed and operated as intended,\u201d meaning \u201cthey\u2019re actually going to watch you run it\u201d on \u201cobjective problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

He named the 11 companies that, in his account, survived Stage A and entered Stage B\u2014\u201cAtom Computing in Boulder, Colorado [\u2026] IBM, IonQ, Nord Quantique, Photonic, Quantinuum [\u2026] Quantum Motion, QA Computing, Silicon Quantum Computing and Xanadu\u201d\u2014and highlighted that \u201cthere\u2019s no canonical approach for quantum computing.\u201d He rattled off the five families he\u2019s tracking, each with variations: \u201ca neutral atom approach\u201d that uses \u201chighly focused lasers known as optical tweezers,\u201d \u201csilicon-based approaches\u201d that look like specialized chips, \u201csuperconducting approaches,\u201d \u201ctrapped ion approaches,\u201d and \u201clight-based approaches\u201d where \u201cquantum information is encoded in the properties [of] photons.\u201d<\/p>\n

For crypto, he made his position explicit: \u201cI am of the belief that quantum computers will exist in the 2030s<\/a> and they will be able to run Grover\u2019s and Shor\u2019s algorithm,\u201d which means \u201cthe majority of mainstream cryptocurrencies will be vulnerable if they do not implement counter measures by that time.\u201d The Cardano founder warned of the \u201carchiving\u201d problem\u2014\u201cencrypted emails, encrypted payloads that were archived can now be decrypted even if they\u2019re re-encrypted later on with a post-quantum scheme because they have a copy of the classical encrypted payload.\u201d<\/p>\n

His countermeasure checklist starts with the US standards track: \u201cwe do have some government standards that NIST came up with called FIPS 203, 204, 205 and 206.\u201d He described them as \u201can array of tools either lattice-based or hash-based or other to do encryption [and] signatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardano Prepares For Quantum Era<\/h2>\n

On Cardano\u2019s privacy and ZK layer, Midnight, he announced a deeper pivot: \u201cwe\u2019re going to be announcing a program project to change the heart of Midnight, PlonK and Halo 2 to a new standard called Nightstream that is relying on lattice-based crypto,\u201d describing it as \u201ca moonshot\u201d co-built \u201cwith a lot of large companies through a project at the Linux Foundation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interim, he said, \u201cnext year as Midnight turns on it\u2019ll turn on with PlonK and Halo 2,\u201d but the design is \u201calready pre-designing it to have a drop in replacement [\u2026] [so] the basement of it is going to be post-quantum,\u201d with the goal that \u201cMidnight will be immune to quantum computers well ahead of the 2033 deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pitched lattices as both defense and performance lever. \u201cTurns out that lattices in particular have capabilities above and beyond what Ethereum is doing in the hash-based space,\u201d he argued, claiming they connect \u201cto what\u2019s going on in the AI space with tensors,\u201d so \u201cyou can use GPUs to accelerate the writing of a proof [\u2026] and the verification of [a] proof,\u201d without \u201ccustom chips like Ethereum is proposing.\u201d In his words, \u201cyou just use the AI chips that are in your phone, your laptop, your desktop computer, and your server, and you can get linear scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

The roadmap for Midnight extends beyond internal upgrades. He positioned it as \u201ca folding engine and a recursion engine unlike any other in the entire private computation space,\u201d asserting that \u201cMidnight can create some of the best and lightest weight state proofs of every system it\u2019s connected to. Cardano, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and so forth.\u201d The strategic aim is to sign \u201cthose payloads with post-quantum signatures,\u201d producing \u201ca post-quantum checkpoint for Bitcoin and for other systems,\u201d so \u201ceven if [a] quantum computer tries to change the state of things [\u2026] you\u2019re going to have a rollback mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also flagged areas still on the checklist: \u201cThere are many other things you have to do. You have to look at post-quantum VRFs and post-quantum VDFs and you have to look at post-quantum random number generation and a litany of other concerns.\u201d The \u201cmost important step,\u201d in his view, is \u201cto lock truth, lock history in a state where quantum computers can\u2019t break it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The upshot for Cardano, he said, is to move now: \u201cAdapt or get cracked.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, Cardano (ADA) traded at $0.5869.<\/p>\n

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used a weekend update from \u201cup here at the clinic\u201d in Wyoming to move the quantum-computing debate from speculation to planning. Framing DARPA\u2019s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) as the turning point, he said, \u201cfinally, finally, finally, we have an objective source of truth,\u201d adding that \u201cas of November 6, 2025, DARPA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-57558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}