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BTQ Technologies Reports Quantum-Safe Milestones and Q1 2027 Silicon Timeline
BTQ Technologies Corp announced key milestones across its quantum-safe portfolio during its first quarter 2026 earnings call, including sending final design files for its QSIM chip to manufacturing partner ICTK with tape-out scheduled for August 2026 and first silicon samples expected in Q1 2027. The QSIM product achieved a record-low footprint of less than 100,000 logic gate equivalents for core post-quantum algorithms, four times smaller than the nearest open-source side-channel protected PQC engine. The company's QSSN was selected as the core post-quantum security infrastructure for Korea's first bank-led Korean Won stablecoin pilot, and its Denel pilot processed thousands of transactions with a 100% success rate and 0% fallback rate. Bitcoin Quantum, the quantum-safe Bitcoin fork, is on track for a mid-2026 mainnet launch with over 350,000 blocks mined and more than 150 open-source contributors. BTQ reported $12 million in liquidity and noted regulatory tailwinds from the upcoming CNSA 2.0 standard and EU Cyber Resilience Act, while acknowledging uncertainty around mass commercialization timelines and potential dilution from its base shelf.