Quantum computers will break the encryption protecting banks, blockchains, and nearly every digital transaction on earth. The standard fix makes signatures 20x to 750x larger and destroys performance. SILMARILS delivers quantum-secure authentication in just 160 bytes.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03230
Authors: Chen Feng, Hassan Khodaiemehr, Khadijeh Bagheri, Dariia Porechna
EternaX Labs: https://eternax.ai

0:00 Intro
1:45 The core idea of SILMARILS (Prof. Chen Feng)
2:45 The real technical problem (Hassan Khodaiemehr)
3:45 The breakthrough insight in the construction (Khadijeh Bagheri)
4:45 What "designated verifier" actually means
5:45 Information-theoretic security vs. computational
6:45 Why 160 bytes changes infrastructure economics
7:45 Applications beyond blockchain: MPC, IoT, AI agents, settlement
9:15 Two-party vs. three-party mode
10:15 Quantum random oracle model: why classical proofs break
11:30 SILMARILS and blockchain without making blockchain the whole story
12:15 The biggest misunderstandings
13:15 What the world should take away from this paper
14:00 From paper to protocol: the EternaX architecture