The journey began on 17 December 2025, when Soqucoin launched pSOQ on Solana. The Layer 1 was still in build. The protocol was designed by a USAF veteran and cybersecurity engineer who had spent more than two decades in combat communications, defense contracting, and enterprise security. The target was a Scrypt proof-of-work chain with AuxPoW from genesis and NIST ML-DSA-44 signatures in place of ECDSA. No premine. No team allocation. Every coin is mined. Halborn completed its node and architecture assessment in April 2026 and published the reports on 20 April. The review covered the Dilithium integration, batch verification, wallet cryptography, and AuxPoW. All 30 findings, 10 issues and 20 informational items, were remediated before stagenet. Since the pSOQ launch, the same team has shipped the surrounding stack. -PQCAT scans code, certificates, and infrastructure for quantum-vulnerable cryptography and scores it against federal and industry frameworks. -SOQUPOOL is the official merge-mining pool. One Scrypt workload pays LTC, DOGE, and native SOQ. The fee is 1.5% before mainnet and 1.69% after. -SOQ-TEC is the gateway to convert your pSOQ to SOQ. Releases soon after its Halborn Security audit. -SoquShield is the self-custodial wallet. Keys are generated on the device and never leave it. Every spend is signed with ML-DSA-44. -Twenty provisional patent applications cover the protocol, privacy design, wallets, and compliance tooling. Testnet ran through the winter of 2025–26. Stagenet is the current operational network. Mainnet block 1 is scheduled for 8 October 2026.

DigiCert surveyed 1,001 security leaders. 87% are pursuing post-quantum cryptography. 7% have it on most of their certificates, up less than two points in a year. The top barrier was legacy system complexity. Awareness stopped being the problem. postquantum.com/security-pqc…

what $PSOQ is, mechanically: an SPL token on solana, live before mainnet. once mainnet runs, it bridges 1:1 to native SOQ through the gateway. gateway custody signs with ML-DSA-44 only. solana is live on devnet today.

Coinbase's chief cryptographer says its custody team is building to support any post-quantum signature scheme, because Bitcoin hasn't picked one. When crypto's largest custodian designs for every outcome, an open question has become an operating cost. crypto.news/coinbase-plans-p…

SOQ emissions, precisely: 100K SOQ per block at launch. six halvings over ~14 months. then 10K per block, perpetual. zero premine and no insider allocation. every coin comes from work.

Mainnet Soqushield is Vibe

The privacy list is still elliptic curves hiding elliptic curves. ZEC included. Institutions do not want Etherscan. They also do not want a box they cannot open for an auditor. Soqucoin designed the private send as lattice math, with a view key, on a Dilithium spend path. Public by default. Hidden when you flip it. Shown to whoever gets the key. It is not live yet. It is built into the chain, not a second migration after the first one. Mainnet is 8 October. The signature is already post-quantum. The shield is the next layer, not the pitch.

Soqucoin has executed an absolute de-corporate-ization hard reset. Project Treasury: 170M Burned Community Migration: 320M+ Burned Project Locks/Future Burns: ~82M No pre-mines. No developer taxes. No insider allocations. Just a raw, 100% fair-launch Layer 1 Proof-of-Work network weaponized from genesis block 1 with Halborn audited ML-DSA-44 lattice cryptography. This post-quantum blockchain is in a league of its own. The native Soqucoin has entered its launch countdown phase people. Buckle your seatbelts.

The migration window closed at 12:00:00 UTC on 5 October 2026. The freeze slot is 453572961: the last finalized Solana slot at or before the close, block time 12:00:00 UTC. Two independent RPC providers agree. The final run covers burns from the open slot, 451635513, through the freeze slot. The final list will be published on soqucoin.org/migration?v=2

the slowest-holder problem: an opt-in signature upgrade protects the wallets that opt in. every other key stays exposed until its owner moves. lost seeds never move. a chain that starts post-quantum has nobody left to persuade.

Token2049 is talking about post-quantum security this week. Soqucoin is launching it. Mainnet is 8 October. Scrypt proof of work. AuxPoW from genesis. ML-DSA-44 instead of ECDSA. No premine. Halborn already closed the audit. The panel is the conversation. Block 1 is the chain.

ViaBTC pays LTC and DOGE for the same Scrypt work. PowerPool does the same. Soqupool adds the third coin. Same L7. Same AuxPoW work. LTC, DOGE, and native SOQ. You are not splitting hashrate. You are not buying a new box. The extra chain spends with Dilithium, not ECDSA. No premine. Every coin is mined. Mainnet is 8 October. The big pools will still be the big pools. They will not be mining a post-quantum Layer 1. Soqucoin is the post-quantum standard.

ML-DSA-44 in numbers. Public key: 1,312 bytes. Signature: 2,420 bytes, roughly 38 times a 64-byte Schnorr signature. That weight had to be designed into block space from genesis. Squeezing it into a chain built around 64-byte signatures is a much harder job.

this week on the quantum clock: - EU supervisors flagged quantum as a systemic risk - US agency migration plans come due ~oct 22 - solana's PQ plan starts with new wallets first - a $10M bridge loss traced back to a parsing bug every item points the same direction.

Leading the way to a post-quantum future.

weekend explainer, AuxPoW in four lines: your rig hashes a scrypt block header. that header commits to blocks on other chains too. each chain checks the same work against its own difficulty. one share, several payouts, zero extra power.

DOE put up to $215M behind a race to the first fault-tolerant quantum computers. The bar: at least 100 logical qubits running hundreds of millions of fault-tolerant operations. Applications close October 19. Governments fund what they expect to arrive. energy.gov/science/articles/…

Soqucoin is launching: the post-quantum Layer-1 built to keep mining, signing, and surviving after quantum breaks the rest.

Your L7 is already paid for. It does not need a new algorithm. Point it at Soqupool and the same Scrypt work pays LTC, DOGE, and SOQ. AuxPoW is on from genesis, so you are not leaving the Litecoin hashrate to secure a new chain. Fee is 1.5% until mainnet. Mainnet is 8 October. ML-DSA-44 on the spend path. ECDSA is not in it. No premine. Every coin is mined. Old boxes. New signatures. That is the whole pitch.

I've already burnt half my pSOQ bag and I'm still buying more.

The race is already on. Most chains are still writing the migration plan. Soqucoin mainnet is 8 October. Scrypt proof of work. AuxPoW from genesis. ML-DSA-44 instead of ECDSA. No premine. Halborn already closed the audit. Ready is a date, not a roadmap.