Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve ...

Quantum computing is moving from physics labs into real hardware, promising to attack problems that overwhelm even the fastest supercomputers. Among the boldest claims is that these machines could ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. 17 years of research has led to Microsoft creating a new ...

For the past six years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces variational quantum computing: the barren plateau.

Performing complex algorithms on quantum computers will eventually require access to tens of thousands of hardware qubits. For most of the technologies being developed, this creates a problem: It’s ...

Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics—but their incredible power also ...

Post-quantum cryptography specialist BTQ Technologies has introduced ‘Bitcoin Quantum,’ a permissionless fork and testnet of ...

The head of global investment research at Coinbase says that quantum computing poses significant risks to Bitcoin's security.

The Old BTC Risk Explained. BTQ Technologies has announced a Bitcoin -like testnet designed to stress-test post-quantum ...

Vitalik Buterin argues Ethereum should remain secure and functional even if core developers “walk away.” Here’s what the ...

Q-Day” may be a years away, but there's an urgent need to get serious about quantum security today, experts have warned.

Quantum computers still look like lab toys: Racks of hardware, error-prone qubits and almost no real-world applications. Yet if you check the roadmaps of major layer-1 blockchains, a new priority now ...