This looks great but have you tried the interactive VR version with historical perspective? oculus.com/experiences/quest…

RT @eigenlabs: The paper is led by @jieyilong, CTO of @Theta_Network, with coauthors from @ethereumfndn, @StarkWareLtd, @Starknet, @trailof…

The paper includes coauthors from @ethereumfndn, @StarkWareLtd, @Starknet, @trailofbits, @brevis_zk, @SeiNetwork, @pauli_group, @OctavFi, @sciencevr, @nasqret at Adam Mickiewicz University, and researchers at Warsaw University of Technology and Stanford's Free Systems Lab.

For the past three months, a good part of my spare time has gone into ECDSA.fail. What began for me as a chance to explore quantum-circuit optimization with AI agents became a remarkable collaboration with a large group of enthusiastic participants across quantum computing, cryptography, Web3, and systems research. Today, I’m excited to share our arXiv paper documenting that effort and what we learned from it: Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.09582 Full story: eigenlabs.org/blog/open-auto… ECDSA.fail is an open challenge to optimize a quantum circuit for point-addition on secp256k1, the elliptic curve used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Why does this matter? Point-addition is a major bottleneck in implementing Shor’s algorithm for elliptic curves. A sufficiently capable fault-tolerant quantum computer could use Shor’s algorithm to recover private keys from exposed ECDSA public keys, and forge transactions to steal funds. No existing machine can run this attack today. But migration across blockchains, wallets, custody systems, and smart contracts will take years. So it makes sense to start early and understand how far the quantum resources required by Shor’s algorithm can be pushed down. With this target in mind, in roughly two months, more than 100 participants and their agents joined the challenge, and collectively produced a point-addition circuit for secp256k1. The circuit uses 1,151 logical qubits and 1.30 million Toffoli gates, giving it a Q x T score more than 50% lower than the result Google Quantum AI reported in March 2026. Because the interfaces and accounting conventions differ, this is a numerical comparison rather than a claim of formal dominance. To the best of our knowledge, it was the lowest reported Q x T score among published secp256k1 point-addition constructions as of the paper’s July 26 cutoff. A separate design optimized for width reached 825 logical qubits, exploring a very different point on the time-space tradeoff, though at the cost of many more Toffoli gates. The story began back in March when @GoogleQuantumAI reported significantly improved Shor circuits through a zero-knowledge proof without publishing their implementations. The circuit remained hidden, but the verifier provided something unusual: an objective test of whether any candidate worked and how much it cost. Eigen Labs turned that opportunity into a public benchmark, repository, and leaderboard. This became Open Autoresearch: a paradigm in which humans and AI agents address optimization problems by publishing evaluator-verified improvements to a shared public frontier. Every successful circuit became a new base for others, and documented failures became shared research notes. Initiated by @eigenlabs, the effort grew to include many independent contributors and researchers affiliated with @ethereumfndn, @Starknet, @StarkWareLtd, @Theta_Network, @brevis_zk, @QuantumFDN, @OctavFi, @trailofbits, @pauli_group, @sciencevr, and @SeiNetwork, as well as Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Warsaw University of Technology, and Stanford’s Free Systems Lab. Their work spanned circuit research, validation, technical review, writing, and agent workflows. The arXiv paper explains both what the community built and how the circuits evolved. It presents the leading circuit designs and the key optimizations behind them, including a coherent version of the best-scoring circuit that supports the single-call windowed point-addition interface required by Shor’s algorithm. Building and validating the complete Shor circuit remains future work. Beyond the technical results, the paper formalizes the Open Autoresearch paradigm and distills the lessons learned from the challenge. It provides evidence that when a frontier research problem has a machine-checkable evaluator and a public leaderboard, human insight and agent-scale experimentation can combine across an open community to produce cumulative, verifiable progress. Read the paper and the full story, explore the live frontier, or bring your agent to the challenge: Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.09582 Full story:eigenlabs.org/blog/open-auto… Challenge: ECDSA.fail

in case anyone curious about how electromagnetism was discovered. here is an VR app for a quick history session and interactive experiments @sciencevr @MetaQuestVR @UnrealEngine #EpicMegaGrants oculus.com/experiences/quest…

Michael Faraday was giving a talk with live demos of science experiments to the general public (including women and children) in the mid 19 century. Happy Birthday to Faraday (born Sep. 22, 1791)!

Link to Quest (App Lab) oculus.com/experiences/quest…

James Clerk Maxwell, born #otd June 13, 1831, worked on a mathematical theory of electromagnetism. His inventions changed our world ever since.

Moon Museum is a web-based social learning space populated with digital artifacts from the Smithsonian Open Access. We had an open house last week and it was a lot of fun chatting with all of you. Thanks a lot for coming!! @rachelginsberg @MindWise_CK @yenling_kuo @JackieLeeETH

Congratulations to Sandbox alumni team @sciencevr! They placed first at the @webxrawards in the World of the Year category for their VR capabilities. We're so proud of them!

HONORED to accept the award on behalf of our @sciencevr team @JackieLeeETH & @yenling_kuo 💪 Thanks to @webxrawards for recognizing our #WebXR blend of poetic art, science, history + wonder. 🙏to @juliesmithso @SophiaMosh @XRconnectED @powersimple & more, & @kentbye for covering!

Here is an in-depth article about how we built the moon museum with @MindWise_CK and @rachelginsberg @cooperhewitt #webxr #learning #education

Game-like virtual events are new ways to tell stories inside stories. Thanks to our awesome collaborators to do these experiments with us @cooperhewitt @MindWise_CK @RomGothSam @EricGerlach3 #webxr #metaverse #learning #education @MozillaHubs

Congrats @sciencevr on 2 Poly nominations The 2nd Polys - #WebXR Awards with @juliesmithso & @SophiaMosh on 2.12.22World of the Year, Education Experience of the Year bit.ly/polys2tix thepolys.com

Tremendously honored by this nomination! Thank you @webxrawards! Being a #WebXR experience creator is a joy. Mary Shelley is also happy to be nominated, as her Modern Prometheus tale is all about harnessing 🔥, a WebXR metaphor. #XR @sciencevr @JackieLeeETH @yenling_kuo ⚡️