ECDSA.fail Challenge Crowdsources AI Agents to Optimize Quantum Circuits Against secp256k1

A three-month open challenge called ECDSA.fail, now on arXiv, invites global participants to use AI agents and automated research loops to optimize quantum circuits for point addition on secp256k1, the curve behind Bitcoin and Ethereum's ECDSA—possibly the first crowdsourced research project of this scale.

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