The only true randomness is quantum
Every number comes from a quantum measurement, with uncloneable states, unguessable results, and unfakable proof of quantumness.
- samples
- 6,000
- seed_manifest
- 0x8f3a…d41c
- merkle_root
- 0x2b7e…9a05
- audited
- 2,000 of 6,000
- xeb_score
- 0.12
- extractor
- toeplitz
Steal the seed, steal the secret
Software randomness starts from a seed, and the same seed always gives the same sequence. A quantum circuit changes if you try to intercept it, and an extracted output cannot be predicted even by the quantum observer.
Where an unprovable outcome is a liability
Regulators, holders and auditors all ask how the number was produced.
How do we know the draw was not run twice?
Circuits are generated on demand and committed within seconds, leaving no room for recomputation.
Who chose the seed, and when?
The network, the buyers and the extractor each provide a challenge, so quantum circuits are made on the spot.
Where did this entropy come from?
An immutable timeline with auditable circuit samples lets anyone prove a genuine QPU crunched the numbers.
Who decided which accounts received which entropy?
Precommitted inventory and ordering, with individual challenges, ensure each buyer gets what they paid for.
How a number gets certified
Samples are committed before the audit set is chosen, so a result cannot be picked to suit whoever ran it.
The construction was published in Nature in 2025 and demonstrated by a JPMorganChase-led team with Quantinuum, Argonne, Oak Ridge and UT Austin on a 56-qubit trapped-ion processor. QVRF implements it as a service.
Quantum hardware runs the circuits and returns raw samples. The outcome arrives from a physical process, so nobody could predict it in advance, ourselves included.
Every raw sample is hashed into a Merkle tree and the root is published. From this moment the set is fixed and nothing can be swapped out.
Only now is a subset chosen at random, re-simulated exactly on classical hardware, and scored by cross-entropy benchmarking.
A Toeplitz extractor condenses the audited samples into near-uniform bits. Your challenge draws one committed sample, and it can be drawn only once.
Quantum Echoes, the first quantum forged token
An open edition by Quip Network, and the first QFT: a token forged from quantum randomness. Its artwork comes from QVRF output, with the seed committed before any of the images exist.
What you can independently check
Three approaches differ in what a buyer can check for themselves after delivery.
What is live, and what is next
Common questions
A pseudorandom number is decided the moment its seed is, and a classical noise source is unpredictable only because its state is hard to track. In a quantum measurement there is no value waiting to be found in advance.
Certification adds a timing threshold that rules out classical simulation, and a cross-entropy audit over a subset chosen only after the results were committed. A statistical test alone can do neither.
You can check it without trusting us. Every output ships with its full transcript, and re-running those checks is the certification.
The challenge chain uses hashes and public randomness beacons, so no elliptic-curve key exists anywhere in the pipeline. A proof that Shor's algorithm eventually forges has no place in a product sold as quantum-proof.
A standard VRF derives its output from a private key, so its unpredictability rests on that key staying secret and on elliptic curves staying hard. QVRF derives its output from a physical measurement, and hands you the evidence to check it.
Quantum execution, commitment and the audit pipeline run today. On-chain verification and trustee distribution are still in development, so Quip currently operates both the oracle and the trustee.
The network's second subnet. Quantum hardware on the network produces randomness as proof-of-useful-work, and QVRF packages that output with its evidence attached.