ECDSA.fail: a global agent-driven research loop to shrink quantum circuits breaking secp256k1
gajesh · x · 2026-09-11
A viral post introduces ECDSA.fail, likely the first massive collaboration project organizing researchers worldwide through auto-research loops with agents around one task: designing a quantum circuit implementing a Shor's-algorithm variant for the discrete logarithm problem on secp256k1 elliptic curve point addition. The community studies agent coordination and pushes circuit constructions; the site benchmarks spacetime scores against Litinski, the previous best published construction, on a qubit-Toffoli product metric, with challenges and leaderboards.
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