History
The road to the compute of the future
Four decades from a physicist's thought experiment to a market in the making.
1980 — 1994 · The idea
A new kind of machine
Richard Feynman argued that to simulate nature you need a computer that obeys quantum mechanics. A decade later, Shor's algorithm showed such a machine could break problems classical computers never could — turning a thought experiment into a race.
2019 · Proof it works
Beyond classical
Google ran a computation on a 53-qubit processor that the fastest supercomputers couldn't practically match. The NISQ era began: real quantum hardware, noisy but useful, available to researchers worldwide.
2025 — Today · The market forms
Compute you can rent
IBM, IonQ, Rigetti, IQM and others sell quantum time by the shot and the minute over the cloud. Pharma and finance are running their first real workloads — but there's no benchmark price, no way to hedge, no market structure.
2027 — 2035 · The future
The compute of the future
As fault-tolerant machines arrive, quantum advantage reaches drug discovery, materials, cryptography and risk modeling — and the first quantum-internet links begin connecting these machines into a secure, distributed network. Compute becomes a tradable commodity, and the world needs an index to price it. That's what we're building.
A technology this important deserves a market.
Quantum compute will reshape medicine, materials, finance and security. We give it the financial layer to grow.