Library

58 community resources — tools, solutions, theory, and coverage. Author links go to their page here.

Solver toolkits & harnesses

12

Open-source tooling competitors built — GPU nonce search, monitors, and test harnesses.

ecdsafail_gpu_toolkit github.com↗ GPU nonce-search toolkit JI

jieyilong

gpu_toolkit — theory & knobs github.com↗ Tuning notes JI

jieyilong

ecdsafail_skills github.com↗ Agent skills for the challenge JI

jieyilong

ecdsafail_gpu_toolkit (fork) github.com↗ LU

luigy-lemon

overwatch github.com↗ Frontier monitor NE

newjordan

cold-cases github.com↗ Nonce archive NE

newjordan

storm-ecdsa-harness github.com↗ WE

welttowelt

arithmetic-workbench-notes github.com↗ WE

welttowelt

Trail of Bits — the circuits github.com↗ trailmix circuits TR

trailofbits

ecdsafail-tools github.com↗ Dead-gate index finder & utilities BI

BitWonka

ecdsafail-autoresearch-harness github.com↗ Shared autoresearch harness JI

jieyilong

shor_mage github.com↗ CPU confirmation & lever algebra MI

mitchuski

Notable solution branches

10

Published winning / milestone circuits and handoffs.

q1175 repaired-clean github.com↗ Matched Google qubit count JI

jieyilong

q1194 k5 step-frame github.com↗ JI

jieyilong

1216-qubit branch github.com↗ JI

jieyilong

ecadd 1169 low-qubit github.com↗ TE

teddyjfpender

q1168 handoff notes github.com↗ NE

newjordan

submission commit github.com↗ BE

benhuang2025

BitWonka — gist gist.github.com↗ BI

BitWonka

whp-wessel — gist gist.github.com↗ WH

whp-wessel

Gajesh — solution repo github.com↗ GA

Gajesh2007

q1152 trailmix-filter handoff github.com↗ GN

gnuchev

Reference implementation & theory

15

The original circuit, academic constructions, and quantum resource-estimation background.

quantum_ecc_add — reference impl github.com↗ Challenge author’s EC point-add GP

gpsanant

Schrottenloher — EC point addition gitlab.inria.fr↗ Inria / DQI construction

arXiv 2407.07064 arxiv.org↗ Paper

arXiv 2605.23904 arxiv.org↗ Paper

Shor with ~10k atomic qubits arxiv.org↗ arXiv — reconfigurable neutral atoms

eprint.iacr.org/2026/280 eprint.iacr.org↗ IACR ePrint

Sam Jaques — resource estimation sam-jaques.appspot.com↗ Quantum resource estimation

B. Naskręcki — crypto notes bnaskrecki.faculty.wmi.amu.edu.pl↗ Academic

tanujkhattar/zkp_ecc github.com↗ Related EC work

Optimization techniques primer github.com↗ PDF — solver optimization techniques JI

jieyilong

ToB — beating Google’s ZK proof blog.trailofbits.com↗ Blog writeup TR

trailofbits

Shor algorithm notes github.com↗ PDF BE

benhuang2025

TIG — ZK circuit optimization docs.tig.foundation↗ PDF

arXiv 2112.09592 arxiv.org↗ Transcendental lattice

arXiv 2603.28846 arxiv.org↗ Grinding feasibility

Challenge & community

5

The official challenge plus other community trackers.

ecdsafail-challenge (official repo) github.com↗ Benchmark source

ecdsa.fail ecdsa.fail↗ Official site

qfrontier qfrontier.pages.dev↗ Community tracker

quantum-ecdsa tracker quantum-ecdsa.netlify.app↗ Community tracker

QEC conference qec-conference.org↗ Quantum error correction

Coverage & threads

16

Public X threads about the challenge and milestones.

Challenge launch x.com↗ BB

bbuddha_xyz

Beating Google’s circuit x.com↗ BB

bbuddha_xyz

Trail of Bits x.com↗ TR

trailofbits

Progress thread x.com↗ GA

gajesh

nasqret x.com↗ NA

nasqret

odin_free x.com↗ OD

odin_free

BitWonka x.com↗ BI

BitW0nka

Y. LeCun x.com↗ YL

ylecun

D. Sacks x.com↗ DA

davidsacks

gopikannappan x.com↗ GO

gopikannappan

Ryan Li x.com↗ RY

ryanli

elvis · DAIR.ai x.com↗ OM

omarsar0

Deli AutoResearch (open source) x.com↗ VI

victor207755822

zkSecurity x.com↗ ZK

zksecurityXYZ

Paradigm x.com↗ PA

paradigm

gnuchev — 367% ahead of Google linkedin.com↗ GN

gnuchev