Quantus has launched a proof-of-work mainnet built with quantum-resistant cryptography, according to a report cited by Odaily and sourced to Bitcoin.com News. The network includes ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87 digital signature mechanisms as part of its design. Quantus also set the maximum supply of its native token, QTC, at 21 million coins. The project said PoW mining is available from the start of the mainnet launch. The update centers on network architecture, token issuance limits, and mining access, with no other rollout details disclosed in the brief announcement.

Chinese cloud AI chipmaker Enflame Technology officially began trading on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Sept. 11, with an IPO price of ¥142.18 per share. At press time, the stock was quoted at ¥418, up 193.99% from the offering price. Turnover reached ¥3.404 billion, turnover rate stood at 44.82%, amplitude was 47.83%, and the intraday range ran from ¥407 to ¥475. The company’s total market capitalization was ¥179.887 billion. Founded in March 2018, Enflame uses a self-developed DSA architecture and has rolled out five cloud AI chips across four architecture generations. Its product lineup covers AI chips, accelerator cards and modules, as well as intelligent computing systems and clusters. The company said cumulative shipments of its third-generation S60 product reached 160,000 units. Revenue came in at ¥301 million in 2023, ¥722 million in 2024, and ¥990 million in 2025. In the first half of 2026, revenue reached ¥1.12 billion, up 279.08% year over year. Tencent-affiliated entities are Enflame’s largest external shareholder, holding 20.26% together with persons acting in concert, and also its largest customer, accounting for 83.79% of 2025 sales revenue. The company issued 43.0352 million shares in the offering, raising about ¥6.119 billion for fifth- and sixth-generation AI chip R&D and commercialization.

Just two days after OpenAI said it had solved the Navier-Stokes equations in 88 hours, fresh speculation has emerged around two more Millennium Prize Problems. A post circulating on X claimed OpenAI is close to completing a verification of the Hodge conjecture. Around the same time, a New York Times feature said OpenAI teams had made substantial progress over the past five years on another Millennium Prize problem and were preparing to disclose the result. The report also said rumors are now spreading around both OpenAI and Anthropic, with the two companies described as being in a quiet race toward the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, or BSD conjecture, with some work allegedly already in the verification stage. If those claims are borne out, AI systems could end up touching three Millennium Prize problems within roughly a month. The article reviews what the Hodge conjecture and BSD conjecture ask, tracks the latest status of the Millennium Prize list, and places the math claims alongside OpenAI’s own AGI milestones, from its 2018 charter definition to later capability tiers, IMO-level results, GPT-5.2 research claims, and Greg Brockman’s recent statement: 「Welcome to the AGI era.」

Researchers working with AI coding agents have sharply lowered the resource benchmark for a crucial step in a potential quantum attack against the cryptography used by Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to a paper posted Wednesday. The work came out of ECDSA.Fail, an open competition launched by Eigen Labs in late May, where more than 100 participants built circuits for secp256k1, the elliptic curve behind transaction signatures on both networks. By July 26, the benchmark score had fallen 86%, from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion. The top design used 1,151 logical qubits and about 1.3 million Toffoli gates. Researchers said the tests verified the circuit’s calculations but did not crack a Bitcoin private key. The paper also frames ECDSA.Fail as a case study in “Open Autoresearch,” where human researchers and AI agents iteratively generate, implement, test, and share improvements against a common measurable target. The report lands as crypto firms put more money into quantum defense research, with Galaxy Digital committing up to $5 million in July and nine firms, including BlackRock, Coinbase, and Strategy, pledging a combined $15 million over three years for broader Bitcoin security work that includes quantum defenses.

The US Department of Commerce on Sept. 8 finalized CHIPS research and development awards for Rigetti, D-Wave, and Quantinuum, with each company eligible for as much as $100 million and the three together receiving up to $300 million. The same day, PsiQuantum was approved for up to $100 million, while GlobalFoundries was approved for up to $375 million, including support tied to domestic quantum foundry capacity. Earlier in May, the department had already announced $2.013 billion in intended quantum industry investments across nine companies. The latest funding has sharpened attention on a long-standing risk for Bitcoin: a future quantum computer powerful enough to break current cryptography. While there is no evidence such a machine is close to breaking Bitcoin today, developers are debating how long a migration away from quantum-vulnerable setups could take. BIP-360 focuses on reducing long-term public-key exposure through a new output type called Pay-to-Merkle-Root, or P2MR. BIP-361 goes further by outlining how the network might phase out vulnerable addresses and eventually restrict ECDSA and Schnorr-based spending. According to material cited in the draft, more than 34% of Bitcoin’s supply had exposed public keys on-chain as of March 2026.

Crypto markets saw an unusually dense flow of developments between Sept. 9 and Sept. 10, with LAPTOP drawing the most attention after its launch, airdrop claims, market-maker allocations, liquidity incentives and extreme price moves all unfolded in quick succession. Security concerns emerged at the same time, including phishing warnings tied to LAPTOP and a separate email phishing alert from hardware wallet maker Trezor. Beyond LAPTOP, on-chain activity showed large ZEC buying through three wallets, a profitable six-month run in VVV and LIT by whale address 0x7378, and fresh positioning by trader Based16z. Binance listed Niulai and expanded related services, while Binance Alpha added 4Stock and A Meme Coin. Institutional and infrastructure news also arrived in size. Aave launched an official MCP server for AI agents, Consensys spun out MetaMask into an independent entity, U.S. Bank tested cross-border payments using USBDC on Stellar, PayPal formally rolled out its PYUSDx platform, and Tether teamed up with Fasanara Capital on a $400 million private credit fund. Regulators and policymakers were active as well, with U.S. enforcement action against Xinbi Guarantee, fresh pressure in Washington around the CLARITY Act, and an EU move to extend local contact-point rules to crypto service providers.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined EIP-8288, a proposal for a recursive STARK mempool, and said he hopes it will be included in the I-star upgrade that follows Hegota. The proposal moves signatures and proofs out of Ethereum’s core execution path and recursively aggregates STARKs in the mempool, with the aim of reducing on-chain computation and data costs. According to Buterin, the design could enable low-cost quantum-safe signatures and privacy protocols. He said the cost of quantum-safe private transactions could fall from roughly 10 million gas to tens of thousands of gas. The proposal is also designed to work without changes to the Ethereum Virtual Machine, allowing compatibility with newer signature or proof systems such as Falcon and ML-DSA while also supporting private account abstraction. Under the proposed workflow, nodes would periodically aggregate transaction dependencies and generate recursive STARKs, while block builders would create proofs for transactions selected for inclusion. The added on-chain overhead per block would be about one 100 KB to 300 KB STARK plus 96 bytes of data for each claim being proven.

Quantus founder and CEO Yuvi Lightman said on X that the quantum-resistant blockchain’s mainnet is scheduled to go live on Sept. 9, a Wednesday. At launch, mining will be the only way to obtain tokens, while liquidity and trading functionality are expected to come several weeks later. Lightman said the team has merged its Immunefi security work into the public codebase and completed all fixes from its audit contest. He also outlined several protocol and infrastructure measures ahead of launch, including support for ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87, contextual binding for every signature under the FIPS 204 standard, fail-closed handling for undecodable multisig transactions, and a hardened network stack designed to resist denial-of-service attacks. The team said it completed a full end-to-end rehearsal on a global pre-production mainnet spanning the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. Quantus also said it deployed multi-region bootnodes and dedicated RPC nodes through infrastructure-as-code, reduced indexer memory usage from above 90% to about 26%, launched its registration page, revamped its website, added multi-account support for Keystone hardware wallets, and released CLI v2.1.3 and miner v4.0.2. A Quantum & Privacy Day event with NEAR is set for Oct. 8 in Singapore during Token2049.