Secrets cut into pieces.
A key is split between many guardians. One piece on its own tells you nothing, so no single theft is enough.
Known as secret sharingA new kind of digital money. Our aim: it keeps working through blackouts, broken maths and quantum computers.
Read the researchThe bet is that certain puzzles are too hard to ever solve. If that bet is lost, every lock opens at once. We think money deserves a stronger foundation.
When the power fails, your money shouldn't. We're designing it so value can be kept and handed on without a working grid, then settled once the lights come back.
Most crypto is safe only while some puzzles stay hard. We're building on methods whose safety doesn't depend on any puzzle at all.
Quantum computers threaten the locks that guard today's money. We're designing locks that were never puzzles, so there is nothing for them to break.
Instead of one secret that a fast enough machine could crack, trust is shared between many independent guardians. The plan: as long as fewer than a third of them cheat, the record stays true.
None of these are new. Each one stays safe however powerful computers become. The work is fitting them together into money people can use.
A key is split between many guardians. One piece on its own tells you nothing, so no single theft is enough.
Known as secret sharingA code that is used a single time and then thrown away. No computer, today or ever, can break it.
Known as the one-time padEvery guardian keeps the same record and checks the others. The honest ones outvote anyone who cheats.
Known as Byzantine agreementKeys sent on single particles of light. Anyone who listens in disturbs them, and can be detected.
Known as quantum key distributionThis is a mission, worked out in the open. The hard questions are being asked and tested in public on the Pangle forum, and some of them may turn out to have no answer.
Nothing is for sale. There is no coin, no token and nothing to buy. If anyone offers you one in this name, it isn't us.