Washington has just reached a historic milestone. The US Department of Commerce announced on May 21, 2026 the award of $2.013 billion to nine quantum computing companies. A massive, strategic and unprecedented investment!
In brief
- The United States plans up to $2 billion in investments in quantum.
- Washington wants to maintain its technological edge against China.
- Q-Day potentially threatens current cryptography, including Bitcoin.
An unprecedented state offensive against China
The US Department of Commerce has just formalized the signing of letters of intent with 9 strategic quantum computing companies. These mobilize a precise envelope of 2.013 billion dollars from the CHIPS and Science Act.
Decryption: under the leadership of the new Trump administration, the State is not content with distributing subsidies. It takes stakes in the capital of these companies.
The giant IBM takes the lion's share with 1 billion dollars to create “Anderon”. It is a foundry of quantum chip based in New York. GlobalFoundries receives $375 million. The other selected companies are each expected to receive approximately $100 million. This is particularly the case of:
- D-Wave Quantum;
- Rigetti Computing;
- Inflection.
As for the startup Diraq, it will be allocated $38 million according to the statement.
The objective is clear: to accelerate the creation of a quantum computer fault tolerant by 2028-2030. A delay already confirmed by certain researchers. This thus guarantees American geopolitical supremacy.
Why is this investment in quantum panicking the cryptosphere?
L'quantum computer uses qubits capable of performing calculations exponentially faster than our current supercomputers. Such power is capable of breaking public key cryptography (like the ECDSA algorithm used by Bitcoin). Which threatens to instantly empty wallets by decoding private keys from public keys visible on the blockchain.
The race against time is therefore on. According to a report from the firm Project Eleven, a machine capable of cracking the encryption of Bitcoin and Ethereum could emerge as early as 2030. Faced with this, the crypto community is pushing for the urgent deployment ofquantum resistant algorithms (PQC).
The winners of this transition will be agile protocols capable of integrating these updates on time. The losers, on the other hand, will be frozen blockchains or dormant wallets, whose private keys will become vulnerable to the first hacker equipped with next generation chips.
In any case, the American initiative proves that the quantum era is no longer a scientific speculation, but a national security priority. To survive, Bitcoin will have to undergo the most critical technological change in its history. To be continued…
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