The fact that mathematics, as conceived by human logic, is compatible with the laws of physics and able to describe the external reality with unbelievable precision is a not-trivial surprising evidence that should not be taken for granted.

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The sound of Algorand consensus is hypnotic! @nullun this is sick!

⚛️ On September 28, NIST’s FIPS 206 team published a new plan for FN-DSA, the standard built on Falcon. It is a proposal they want feedback on. It is the first plan that makes Falcon a function you can test. Back in 2024, NIST finalized two post-quantum signatures. - ML-DSA (FIPS 204, Dilithium) is lattice-based. - SLH-DSA (FIPS 205, SPHINCS+) is hash-based ➤ Falcon was selected in 2022 and assigned FIPS 206. That document is still a draft. ML-DSA is what most deployments are shipping. Hash-based signatures are more conservative but comes with many drawbacks. Ethereum and Bitcoin are leaning towards that way. Falcon is the compact lattice scheme. A Falcon-512 signature is 666 bytes. That is why Algorand has chosen Falcon since 2022, for state proofs and now for accounts. And Solana is leaning towards Falcon for latency optimization. The delay for the standardization comes from the sampler, not the lattice. Falcon samples a discrete Gaussian with arithmetic defined over the reals, implemented in floating point. Floating Point Arithmetic (IEEE-754) does not give you one result once the computation leaves exact dyadic operations. The same key, message, and seed can produce two valid signatures. There is then no known-answer test an implementation can match, because there is no single answer. A sampler that is slightly wrong still verifies. The proof requires the implemented distribution to stay close to an ideal discrete Gaussian. If it drifts, the signatures remain valid and the bias leaks the private key. End-to-end test vectors miss it. ⚠️ In short, Floating Point Arithmetic is a nightmare when it comes to sending rockets to the moon, it's even worse for cryptography. A paper was recently published aiming at fixing these issues with fixed-point implementation. Fixed-point stores each fractional value as an integer with a fixed number of bits, so every implementation rounds the same way. NIST wants one signing procedure, specified tightly enough that two correct implementations produce the same signature. So they just announced they'd update their draft for standardization following this paper (groups.google.com/a/list.nis…) That publishes nothing yet. But it removes the reason FN-DSA could not be validated. ML-DSA remains the default where the standard is already final. The discussion about Post Quantum migration for Crypto was not so simple, we might have a new option soon, which could trigger even more discussions...

1/ We found a full collision for the Poseidon1 Collision Prize instance and submitted it on July 31. Two different messages, identical 16-word output after all 28 rounds, verified on the Initiative's official implementation. The technical breakdown and full story ⬇️

Algorand's Head of Developer Engagement & Integrations, @JorrinB, recently delivered a talk during @APIWorld Watch Jorrin present: The Next API Economy: When AI Agents Become Your Customers

No one believes it. DeepSeek V4 Flash IQ2_M (92 GB) debut on a mid range mobile phone with 12 GB of RAM at 1 tok/s and many other models... You can run every model: Gemma 26B, Qwen 3, 3.6 at 7-8 tok/s... Someone runs 397B on the phone...

Falcon: same great flavor, now with 0% floating point arithmetic! pqshield.com/falcon-without-…

Debt Algorand Standard Application is a personal side project, a complete tokenization framework for fixed income contracts, awarded the 2nd place in the @ActusResearch competition. It demonstrates how @Algorand can be a foundational infrastructure for capital markets.

An entire industry exists because five parties keep five copies of the same bond and never quite agree on it. D-ASA, which won 2nd place in the 2026 ACTUS competition, runs ACTUS debt contracts on the AVM, so the terms, the registry, and the payment record sit in one deterministic machine. Read the full breakdown below 👇

"Now Lean, particularly in Navier-Stokes papers, is being used as a time-stamp, a way to claim your theorem before having to write it up properly in an explainable way." A sentence that would have been treated as the ravings of a madman just ~1 year ago. blog.computationalcomplexity…

I just had a moment of clarity by recognizing that The Matrix already called _them_ "the Agents"...

Can’t make this up…the MacBook is using its webcam to look at its screen in a mirror to improve AMD Radeon chip support in Omarchy.

Thank you @demishassabis !

Algorand is the hottest Post Quantum network 🌶️

Congrats to @conio and @EnelGroup as the Ebitts platform now moves from a successful pilot to market launch in Italy. Powered by Algorand, Ebitts lets customers buy tokenized renewable energy capacity from Italian solar and wind farms and benefit from the energy produced, without having to install anything at home.

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Absolute masterpiece