BTQ Technologies Corp

BTQ

Market cap $693M

VANCOUVER, BC, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - BTQ Technologies Corp.  ("BTQ" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, today provided its corporate update for the first quarter of 2026, highlighting progress across its four core business lines: QCIM, QPerfect (pending the completion of the acquisition of QPerfect), Quantum Secure Systems & Networks ("QSSN"), and Bitcoin Quantum, alongside capital markets milestones that expanded BTQ's visibility with institutional and thematic investors. Where BTQ Fits BTQ's mandate is to deploy quantum today, not tomorrow.

BTQ provides strategic advisory support and QSSN as core PQC security infrastructure for the iM Bank initiative on the Kaia mainnet, advancing post-quantum migration across global financial infrastructure BTQ has been selected as the core post-quantum cryptography security technology provider for South Korea's first bank-led KRW stablecoin proof-of-concept, delivering its Quantum Secure Stablecoin Settlement Network ("QSSN") for the initiative.  BTQ is providing strategic advisory support and helping coordinate implementation across the partnership with iM Bank and Finger, supporting the integration of post-quantum protections into regulated digital money infrastructure.

Appointment Strengthens BTQ's Quantum Software Leadership as Company Accelerates QPOW Development, Australian Government QCIM Grants, and QPerfect Collaboration in Strasbourg BTQ strengthens its quantum software leadership with the appointment of Dr. Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan as Head of Quantum Algorithm and Applications Research, formalizing a long-standing collaboration and expanding internal leadership for QPoW, one-shot signatures, and related quantum security initiatives.  The appointment supports BTQ's growing global R&D footprint, with Sydney serving as a strategic hub for Asia-Pacific operations, Australian government support for QCIM commercialization, and continued progress toward productization of BTQ's post-quantum cryptography hardware platform.

Co-authored by BTQ Chief Quantum Officer Dr. Gavin K. Brennen, the research introduces a new error-correction framework for permutation-invariant codes—an enabling step toward more reliable quantum systems at scale.

Collaboration targets next-generation protection for payment gateway and VAN systems through hardware-based Korean post-quantum cryptography, with implementation support from Keypair BTQ Technologies has entered into a strategic collaboration with Daou Data, a key affiliate of the broader Daou Kiwoom Group that is widely regarded as its de facto holding company, to advance hardware-rooted post-quantum security for Korea's payment infrastructure. The collaboration also creates a potential pathway into a broader enterprise ecosystem spanning finance, IT, security, HR, content, and commerce.

New research shows the real near-term Bitcoin quantum risk lies in signatures, not mining, reinforcing BTQ's focus on Bitcoin Quantum, QCIM, and quantum-native consensus BTQ published "Kardashev Scale Quantum Computing for Bitcoin Mining", a new arXiv paper by Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers, showing that while Grover's algorithm offers a theoretical shortcut, quantum Bitcoin mining is physically and economically impractical once real-world hardware, error correction, and energy costs are included.  The paper finds that even in a highly favorable scenario, competitive quantum mining would require roughly 10^8 physical qubits and 10^4 MW of power, while at Bitcoin's January 2025 mainnet difficulty the requirements rise to about 10^23 qubits and 10^25 watts, approaching the energy output of a star.

BTQ Technologies has appointed Dr. Ro Cammarota to its U.S. team to help accelerate the development, commercialization, and strategic partnerships for QCIM, the Company's post-quantum semiconductor platform.  Dr. Cammarota brings more than 20 years of experience in cryptography, privacy, and advanced chip design, including senior roles at Intel Labs, Qualcomm and the U.S. Department of Defense, where he led major research programs and hardware security initiatives.

VANCOUVER, BC, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - BTQ Technologies Corp.  ("BTQ" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, today provided its full-year 2025 corporate update, highlighting progress across its four core business lines: QCIM, QPerfect, Quantum Secure Systems & Networks ("QSSN"), and Bitcoin Quantum, alongside capital markets milestones that expanded BTQ's visibility with institutional and thematic investors. Where BTQ Fits BTQ's mandate is to deploy quantum today, not tomorrow.

VANCOUVER, BC, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - BTQ Technologies Corp.  ("BTQ" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, is pleased to announce that it will hold a shareholder call on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. EST to discuss its 2025 financial results and provide a general corporate update.

The Bitcoin Quantum testnet provides developers, miners, and researchers with a live environment to evaluate how quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions function First working implementation of BIP 360: Bitcoin Quantum testnet v0.3.0 delivers the first functional implementation of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal ("BIP") 360 (Pay-to-Merkle-Root), the quantum-resistant output type merged into Bitcoin's official BIP repository earlier this year, while Bitcoin Core has made no progress toward implementation.  Taproot's quantum vulnerability addressed: BIP 360's P2MR output type preserves the scripting capabilities that power Lightning, BitVM, and Ark while eliminating the key-path spend that exposes public keys to quantum attack via Shor's algorithm.