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This publication reinforces the steady, incremental progress in quantum hardware, which keeps the long-term risk to crypto assets on the radar. However, the crypto market is currently preoccupied with macro headwinds (BTC -2.02%, Fear & Greed 34), so this event will likely be ignored by price action. The real significance lies in accelerating R&D for post-quantum cryptography within the blockchain ecosystem.

A programmable photonic quantum processor, Jiuzhang 4.0, incorporating 1,024 high-efficiency squeezed states into a hybrid spatial–temporal encoded 8,176-mode circuit, was published in Nature.