THE QUANTUM INTELLIGENCER

MALIBU, 30 SEPTEMBER — The long migration of signatures has a new claimant to permanence. The Crypto Company this day opened the private beta of Frame, its quantum-resistant Layer 1 blockchain, with more than seven million test transactions already signed under ML-DSA-87, the highest security level of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's post-quantum digital signature standard. Frame is built quantum-resistant from genesis; its wallets, the company states, are designed so that they should not need to be migrated, whereas chains founded before the standard may be obliged to move their users to new addresses as quantum computers advance. The network is designed for settlement in under two seconds and for the moving of value across chains without a third-party bridge; transactions, in turn, are designed not to wait in a public queue, so that front-running finds no opening. The private beta comprises post-quantum transactions, the Frame Wallet, Frame Names and a decentralised exchange, with a mainnet and cross-chain unified liquidity reserved for later phases. Certain particulars merit the permanent record. The Crypto Company trades on the OTC market under the symbol CRCW, and its operating history reaches back to 2017. The signature standard at issue, FIPS 204, rests upon CRYSTALS-Dilithium. Entry to the private beta proceeds by waitlist at frame.community, with invitations issued as places become available; Frame's community is also to be found on Telegram and Discord, linked from the site. The road beyond the beta names a mainnet, unified cross-chain liquidity, and the opening of the network to independent builders. The company's own caution deserves note as well: testnet results may not reflect mainnet performance, and a mainnet may not arrive on the expected schedule, or at all. The archivist keeps such qualifications beside the ledger's larger figures, for they are part of the same entry. The company's officers speak of the work in the settled tones of those who believe the ledger will prove them right. "Frame's testnet going live is a real milestone, and I am excited about how far the team has come and what Frame is going to be," said Ron Levy, Chief Executive Officer of TCC. "It is amazing to watch transactions flowing on-chain and see people lighting up when they experience for themselves what this platform really unlocks." Sean Docherty, Chief Blockchain Officer, put the design intention in the same confident form: "We set out to build a Layer 1 that is quantum-resistant from genesis, and now we have one, designed for settlement in under two seconds. That combination lets people and agents move across chains without waiting, and without worrying about tomorrow's threats." The archivist sets both statements beside the company's own forward-looking caution, where they belong; enthusiasm is datum, not guarantee. The ledger for this day holds one figure, and the archivist sets it down as such. Frame's testnet had, at the time of release, successfully processed more than seven million quantum-resistant test transactions, each signed under ML-DSA-87, the highest security level of the NIST standard FIPS 204. That is the whole numerical record. It does not count users, for a private beta may hold many transactions and few hands. It does not measure security, for a signature's strength is not established by volume of traffic. It does not promise mainnet performance, for the company's own caution states that testnet results may not reflect mainnet performance. What the figure records, and only what it records, is that seven million transactions were run and signed under the new standard. The archivist's census ends there, as all honest censuses must. —Dr. Octavia Blythe Dispatch from The Prepared E0