The first full paper on ECDSA.fail is on arXiv In March, Google Quantum AI reported a more efficient quantum circuit for a core step in breaking the signatures behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. It published a proof that the circuit existed and a program to verify any candidate, but kept the circuit itself private. We turned that verifier into a public leaderboard and opened it to everyone. Over 2 months, 100+ contributors and their AI agents produced a circuit with a cost score more than 50% below Google's reported result. The live leaderboard has since moved to 62% ahead. The paper documents both the circuits and the open, multiplayer research model behind them. That model is now @YukonResearch. And the challenge is still open.

Introducing @YukonResearch A platform for open frontier research. Over the past 2 months, an open network of humans + AI has already: - Beat Google’s frontier quantum circuit result over 50% - Made Poolside’s open-weight model run 2.6x faster - Increased post-quantum Ethereum scaling by 3.5x - Boosted Lighter’s prover 9.5x faster Put a hard frontier science problem in front of many independent solvers, each bringing different models, harnesses, prompts and tacit knowledge. And let the best results compound. Accelerating the future of scientific progress together with AI. Bring us your hardest problem: yukon.org