what a week to publish this paper has been a live demo of what open, multiplayer research collectives can achieve together. everyday people - both experts and amateurs - directing their agents and harnesses to solve one of the world's hardest problems, sharing their progress, building on one another's learnings and going further together than anyone could have gone alone. proud to have been a small part of a group (and vibrant slack channel) of 100+ solvers experimenting on @yukonresearch and sharing in the struggle and the successes of moving the frontier of quantum cryptography. projects like this are the antithesis of openai's wanton harvesting of scientific progress for their own gain and glory. its what open, scientific progress SHOULD look like. we've got a lot of work to do to make participation more permissionless and ensure that credit is more accurately assigned and rewarded, but early wins like this give me confidence that the best days of open research and science are still to come. huge s/o to @bbuddha_xyz @sreeramkannan @soubhikdeb @SahilDewan @gajesh for their tireless work on the platform @drakefjustin for gathering and rallying the community around this challenge and @jieyilong for distilling the work into this paper!