Meet the people building QMS.

Alessio Onori is our Lead Site Reliability Engineer.

He brings over seven years of experience managing production infrastructure end to end, with particular expertise in blockchain systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and a postgraduate master’s in cybersecurity from the University of Bologna, as well as a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan.

At Swisscom Blockchain, Alessio built a custom Kubernetes operator and automation tooling for networks including Polkadot, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. He then spent five years at the Web3 Foundation, where he managed production Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, supporting blockchain RPC and validator nodes alongside core platform services.

During that time, he introduced GitOps-based CI/CD practices and reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, strengthened disaster recovery processes, and formalized production-readiness standards across the organization.

Alessio joined QMS Network in June 2026. He leads the infrastructure and observability underpinning the network, from node operations and platform reliability to monitoring and incident response.

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Alessio is also a foodie! His fun fact: “I often choose where to travel next based on what I want to eat.”

In late May we wrote about Q-Day.

Since then: resource estimates for breaking secp256k1 already sit far below older models. Federal PQC deadlines hardened. Regulated finance kept migrating under multi-year plans. Live chains are still early on multi-year retrofits across wallets, validators, bridges, and dormant keys.

The open question is how much runway is left and how hard migration gets on a live network.

QMS is built on the cleaner path: quantum-resistant by design, with useful work that turns quantum hardware into an asset for the network.

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2026: Year One.

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Hard to solve but cheap to check is the whole game for open compute markets.

If finding the answer takes real work, and verifying it is cheap, payment can follow the result instead of the seller’s claim.

That’s the market PoUW (Proof of Useful Work) can actually run on.

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This week, researchers formally showed that a much-discussed quantum algorithm does not work as claimed. Separately, Justin Drake said the Ethereum Foundation is moving L1 away from Poseidon toward SHA or BLAKE:

1️⃣ A proposed quantum shortcut for a hard lattice-related problem does not work.

Earlier this month, Daniel Simon proposed a quantum algorithm that he said could efficiently solve the Dihedral Coset Problem. Because that problem is connected to hard lattice problems through a known mathematical reduction, a working algorithm could have challenged security assumptions behind lattice-based cryptography.

On Aug 15, Aparna Gupte (MIT), Seyoon Ragavan (Google/MIT), and Mark Zhandry (Google/Stanford) posted IACR ePrint 2026/1693.

They show that Simon’s algorithm cannot reliably recover the secret bit it needs. Their result also covers a broader class of related approaches that discard too much information during the computation. The authors released a Lean 4 formalization alongside the paper.

2️⃣ Ethereum’s post-quantum direction is changing, but the implementation is not settled.

On Aug 13, Justin Drake said the Ethereum Foundation is abandoning Poseidon for L1 and pivoting to SHA or BLAKE. In practical terms, EF researchers are moving away from a hash designed for efficient zero-knowledge proofs toward more established conventional hashes.

At ACDE #243 that day, EIP-8355 was presented for possible inclusion in Hegotá. It would give smart contracts a built-in way to verify ML-DSA, a standardized post-quantum signature scheme. The draft and its proposed addition to Hegotá’s official candidate list are still open.

Developers also have not settled how to bring features such as key rotation and alternative signature schemes directly into Ethereum accounts. Frames, proposed in EIP-8141, is the current placeholder being considered for Hegotá. EIP-8130 has been raised as an alternative that could work across existing EVM chains without requiring the same protocol changes.

The direction is becoming clearer, but none of these changes has been finalized or shipped.

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The bigger opportunity in decentralized compute is a market for answers.

A client should be able to post an optimization problem, define a qualifying result and pay whoever finds one, without choosing a provider first.

That is the market QMS is designed to build.

Miners run the solvers. The protocol verifies the work. Payment follows a qualifying solution. The same solver run also gives the miner chances to produce a block.

Useful computation becomes something an open network can price, verify and settle.

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AI has made compute capacity a strategic bottleneck. Microsoft expects its infrastructure to remain constrained through 2026 even as it adds more GPU, CPU and storage capacity.

More supply matters, so does choosing the right work.

QMS is built for optimization jobs where public verification and onchain settlement add value: constrained portfolios, combinatorial auctions and other problems with objective scoring. The buyer gets a result the market can check and settle against.

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Team’s cooking. Looking forward to next week.

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QMS is designed to turn useful optimization into the work that secures the network.

The same solver run can compete for a block and produce a result a client is willing to pay for.

One computation creates two revenue paths and links miner incentives to commercial demand.

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Decentralized compute already contains several distinct markets.

> Akash leases general-purpose cloud resources.
> Render coordinates distributed GPU rendering.
> ionet offers on-demand decentralized GPU clusters.
> Filecoin and Arweave focus on storage.

QMS is designed around optimization results. Its miners run randomized solvers as part of consensus. In the target model, the same run can create a block opportunity and earn a client payment for a qualifying solution.

It puts commercial demand directly inside the miner economy.

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Two post-quantum updates came out last week, and they highlight two very different parts of the migration.

Blockstream ran experimental SLH-DSA code on a Jade Plus, Trezor Safe 3, Ledger Nano Gen5/S+ and BitBox02 Nova. All four produced signatures. The average time was ~52 seconds on Jade and 120 seconds on Ledger.

That shows existing hardware wallets can generate hash-based post-quantum signatures. It does not mean the implementations are ready for real funds. Key management, wallet integration, firmware verification and performance still need work.

The same day, EIP-8384 was submitted as a proposed draft through an open GitHub pull request.

Ethereum currently selects sync committee aggregators by hashing a BLS signature. This works because BLS signatures are unique, so validators cannot keep generating new signatures until one gets selected.

leanSig, the hash-based scheme being developed for Ethereum’s post-quantum consensus work, allows multiple valid signatures for the same message. A validator could exploit that by trying different signatures until it selects itself.

EIP-8384 proposes choosing aggregators deterministically from beacon state instead. If adopted, the change would require a consensus hard fork.

Generating a post-quantum signature is only part of the job. The harder task is finding every place where the protocol relied on properties of the old signature scheme.

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Ethereum's Post-Quantum Migration Will Take a Decade. QMS Starts With Two Layers Settled

Ethereum is the most detailed chain in the industry on post-quantum migration — a dedicated team, around ten client teams building to spec, a $20M three-year formal verification effort, and a target of ~2029 just for the core protocol, before anything above it moves.

The reason isn't the algorithms. Those are standardized. The years go into everything a chain doesn't control — wallets, custody, bridges, tooling. And the replacement signatures are 30x bigger: BLS is 96 bytes; leanXMSS is 3,112. BLS aggregation has no post-quantum equivalent, so it has to be rebuilt from proofs. That's a protocol fork before a single account has moved.

This article covers:
→ The four places elliptic-curve cryptography sits on a chain — and why a hard fork only reaches half of them
→ Why post-quantum signatures are 30x bigger, and what that costs
→ Ethereum's four post-quantum hard forks in sequence, and the $20M verification running alongside
→ What QMS chose differently — consensus with no signatures, finality post-quantum from launch, and a defined recovery path for accounts nobody upgrades

QMS builds two of its three layers, and both ship post-quantum from day one. Execution keeps Ethereum's signature scheme, so every wallet and tool works today. Ethereum is doing the harder version of this work because it has an installed base worth protecting — QMS aims at that same position, with the cryptography already settled underneath.

Read the full piece here: https://qms.finance/news/ethereums-post-quantum-migration-will-take-a-decade-qms-starts-with-two-layers-settled

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Before QMS produces its first block, prove you were here.

We're building a Layer 1 for the post-quantum era.

The Quantum Early Access Pass is now live.

Claim yours for beta testnet access and share it on X: https://qms.finance/#waitlist

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You do NOT need to connect a wallet to claim your Quantum Early Access Pass.

Please use only the official QMS link and stay safe.

1,500 of you have claimed a Quantum Early Access Pass.

We see you. Thank you for showing up this early.

You got the card. Stay tuned for a special Discord role.

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Claimed a Quantum Early Access Pass but still not sure what QMS actually is? That’s understandable.

We're building a blockchain for the quantum era, with a quantum-resistant core and a mining system designed to solve real-world problems.

The next posts are the perfect place to start getting to know QMS -

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If you read one thing, read this.

It is the map of the design: useful-work mining, consensus and finality post-quantum from day one, and Ethereum-compatible execution so existing wallets work.

This is the “what are the miners actually doing” piece.

A client would post a planning job, such as which trucks take which stops, which assets sit in a book, lock a reward, and say what a good answer looks like. Then miners search, and every solution that clears that bar gets paid.

The usual question is why this matters if Ethereum is already doing post-quantum work.

This is what you need to know.

If you joined the QMS waitlist before this week, your Quantum Early Access Pass is ready to claim.

Hit "X Connect" on the waitlist page and get yours.

Just one click, you don't have to fill in the form again, and no wallet is required.

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