Last Month at QRL - July 2022

Another developer joins QRL to work on project Zond with more to come! The Hackathon registration is open for everyone of all skill levels to build on the QRL. Make sure you don’t miss out on our talk about QRL, Geometry Labs, and NIST Working in parallel to create post-quantum resistant cryptographic algorithms.

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2nd August 2022

Highlights

Hackathon Registration is now Open

We’re pleased to announce that our QRL Hackathon 2022 registration form is now open on our new events page.

The QRL Hackathon 2022 will be a great place for developers, artists, writers, or anyone else alike to come together for an intimate multi-day event with direct team interaction and to be part of the future of post-quantum resistant blockchain ecosystems. Alongside the Hackathon itself, we’ll be launching PoS/Smart contracts in addition and announcing a grant program.

As part of the Hackathon event, we’ll also be hosting an exclusive fireside chat, holding a number of lightning talks throughout each day, providing QRL swag, rewards, and you’ll get a chance to have your very own proof-of-attendance coin (limited run).

There will be two phases, the first being an online Idea & Team Building phase which will take place soon, with second phase being the Hackathon Event in Amsterdam. Stay tuned for more details to come.

If you’re interested, be sure to register for the QRL Hackathon 2022 today for updates and maybe a little extra surprise if a QRL address is provided.

Bringing more developers on board

Last month we welcomed Prajjawal Khandelwal to the development side working as a Software Development Engineer on QRL’s upcoming Proof-of-Stake/EVM compatibility upgrade - otherwise known as project Zond. If you haven’t already, be sure to read the blog.

He marks the first of many developers who will be onboarded to help speed up these development efforts. Look forward to many more commits and pull-requests coming to the QRL blockchain foundation.

Community Initiatives

Quickly setup nodes with QRL Cannon

QRL nodes can now be launched from the cloud without the need for technical knowledge. Simply follow the instructions at qrlcannon.net, and with a nominal fee (in QRL), launch nodes to help the network and become a part of the QRL network today!

This initiative was undertaken by K.G. Yıldırım (also known as runforest from our QRL Discord). Be sure to check the QRL Cannon website, or read the guest post on it.

Advocacy

QRL, Geometry Labs, & NIST Working in Parallel to Create Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

Mitchell Krawiec-Thayer and Brandon Goodell from Geometry Labs sits down with QRL’s very own Ryan Malinowski and Michael Strike to discuss NIST and post-quantum cryptography. This includes lattice-algebra, the latest techniques for efficient post-quantum finance blog series, Sef-fountain architectures, and several other topics.

Following last weeks YouTube episode with the team from Geometry Labs, we’ll be hosting an upcoming AMA with Geometry Labs. Drop any questions you have big or small on the series that you’d like us to answer here

Quantum News Updates

JPMorgan hires scientist Charles Lim to help protect financial system from quantum-supremacy threat

On 2022-07-28: JPMorgan Chase has hired a quantum-computing expert to be the bank's global head for quantum communications and cryptography, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. - cnbc

This is inline with other efforts from the US Government and Google to warn us about the impending quantum threat. Centralized finance will be ready, decentralized finance will be ready with QRL.

Continued Progress at Google AI Quantum: QVM, Cirq 1.0, Surface Code Scaling, and More Sycamore Qubits

On 2022-07-23: Google held its Quantum Summer Symposium last week and described a number of new developments that shows they are continuing to progress in their quantum developments. - quantumcomputingreport

Researchers find the missing photonic link to enable an all-silicon quantum internet

On 2022-07-13: Researchers at Simon Fraser University have made a crucial breakthrough in the development of quantum technology.

Their research, published in Nature today, describes their observations of more than 150,000 silicon "T center" photon-spin qubits, an important milestone that unlocks immediate opportunities to construct massively scalable quantum computers and the quantum internet that will connect them. - physorg

Changelog

theQRL/go-libp2p-qrl

Updated go-qrllib version

[d16e8] Updated go-qrllib version

Migration from qrllib to go-qrllib

[d650c] Migration from qrllib to go-qrllib

theQRL/go-qrllib

Added more unit tests for Dilithium

[ceda7] Added more unit tests for Dilithium

Added functions for Dilithium Wallet + Unit Tests + Refactoring

[807ca] Added functions for Dilithium Wallet + Unit Tests + Refactoring

Updated signature type and address format for both xmss and dilithium

[83b13] Updated signature type and address format for both xmss and dilithium

Fix: SignatureType calculation in descriptor

[f9670] Fix: SignatureType calculation in descriptor

Added Dilithium address support with Unit Tests

[4bb87] Added Dilithium address support with Unit Tests

QVM compatible XMSS Address format

[7c71e] QVM compatible XMSS Address format

Fix: Replacing math/rand to crypto/rand

[7279d] Fix: Replacing math/rand to crypto/rand

Replaced hard coded value to constant value

[a0a47] Replaced hard coded value to constant value

Simplified XMSS Verify, added IsValidXMSSAddress function + Unit Tests

[a0de4] Simplified XMSS Verify, added IsValidXMSSAddress function + Unit Tests

Code cleanup

[4c3de] Code cleanup

Added GetExtendedSeed, GetHexSeed, GetMnemonic functions + Unit Tests

[26c16] Added GetExtendedSeed, GetHexSeed, GetMnemonic functions + Unit Tests

Added Unit Tests for MnemonicToBin and BinToMnemonic

[75fdf] Added Unit Tests for MnemonicToBin and BinToMnemonic

Added BinToMnemonic and MnemonicToBin functions

[da117] Added BinToMnemonic and MnemonicToBin functions

Added NewXMSSFromHeight function

[5811d] Added NewXMSSFromHeight function

Go implementation of Dilithium with Unit Tests

[75c30] Go implementation of Dilithium with Unit Tests

Changed function names

[2039e] Changed function names

Go Implementation of XMSS Fast with Unit Test

[8af76] Added go.mod
[c3a90] Go Implementation of XMSS Fast with Unit Test

theQRL/qrllib

Fixed: Dilithium extract_message & extract_signature

[5b7e5] Fixed: Dilithium extract_message & extract_signature
[0a902] Fix Go & Python Unit Tests
[df580] Fix: Python Unit Tests
[7e062] Pin to a specific (working) node version in CI build_emscripten job
[3bba5] Merge pull request #1 from jplomas/master Pin to a specific (working) node version in CI build_emscripten job