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GaiaFTCL vQbit Quantum VM — Release 1.0.0 (Sovereign‑M8)

Released: 2026‑06‑01 · Platform: macOS 26+ on Apple Silicon (arm64) · Channel: GaiaFTCL federation mesh

A post‑quantum‑native quantum‑mathematical computational substrate for the Mac. Download, mount, run.

Download

→ https://gaiaftcl.com
Direct download https://gaiaftcl.com/downloads/GaiaFTCL-latest.dmg
Versioned https://gaiaftcl.com/downloads/GaiaFTCL-vQbit-Quantum-VM.dmg
File GaiaFTCL-vQbit-Quantum-VM.dmg · 118 MB (123,404,374 bytes)
SHA‑256 e15551ce29e56e4a38c51081045f3271e68e284557185fb3b68a41ba90972011
Manifest https://gaiaftcl.com/downloads/version.json

Served from a 9‑cell federation mesh behind a valid Let's Encrypt certificate. The download, the documentation wiki, and the Python integration layer are the only public surfaces — there is no third‑party telemetry and no account requirement.

Verify before you run

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/GaiaFTCL.dmg
curl -s https://gaiaftcl.com/downloads/GaiaFTCL-latest.dmg.sha256
# the two values must match exactly

Install

  1. Open GaiaFTCL-vQbit-Quantum-VM.dmg and drag GaiaFTCL to Applications.
  2. On first launch, right‑click the app → Open to clear Gatekeeper.
  3. The vQbit VM boots the substrate and the C⁴ rail comes online.

What is the vQbit Quantum VM?

GaiaFTCL is a quantum‑mathematical computational substrate that runs natively on Apple Silicon. It is not a simulator wrapper or a cloud client — the substrate executes locally on your machine.

  • The vQbit is the substrate's inter‑node communication primitive — the unit of measurement and exchange across the M⁸ manifold (M⁸ = S⁴ × C⁴).
  • Franklin is the substrate's operator and the cell's single public interface. Every operation is composed through Franklin's surface; nothing reaches past it into internals.
  • Sealed, witnessed operation. Substrate outcomes are written to append‑only, witness‑bearing tables — each row carries a canonical witness, a SHA‑256 witness hash, and a five‑context federation cosignature quintet — so any consumer can verify an outcome without trusting the producer.

Highlights in 1.0.0

  • Sovereign‑M8 build — the full app bundles the VQbitVM measurement engine, the Franklin consciousness service, and the embedded NATS bus. One app, one entry point, no external daemons to manage.
  • Quantum algorithm rail (QC‑001 … QC‑021) — the substrate's measurement‑composition operations, documented in the Quantum Algorithm Catalog.
  • GAMP‑5 qualified — IQ/OQ/PQ qualification with a full passing test suite. See Sovereign‑M8 Qualification.
  • Python integration layer — interface industry libraries (numpy, pandas, scikit‑learn, biopython, RDKit, ASE, pymatgen, ROOT) with the substrate through Franklin's surface. Distributed via the mesh: https://gaiaftcl.com/python/

Documentation

The full Franklin cell wiki ships with this release at https://gaiaftcl.com (download hero + left‑nav wiki):

Post‑Quantum by default

This release is post‑quantum‑native. The substrate's founder receiving addresses are not legacy ECDSA keys with a PQ promise bolted on later — they are derived from ML‑DSA‑87 (Dilithium, NIST FIPS‑204) commitments and enforced at the substrate layer:

Purpose Address Scheme
BTC mining proceeds bc1qhpmqfds6j0zcjv4xgznuyvlq72gslxjh6up5uq bech32 P2WPKH committed to an ML‑DSA‑87 public key
EURC deposits → QFOT eurcpq1z67yald4m6g9398z4hecqmyusg8zdqwq877u5hastng6msn4ln6tq5ef37a ML‑DSA‑87 post‑quantum bridge
QFOT issuer (mesh) qfot1zrxg9cq5fk6r5vccug7f9y48vhr6kajv6thtfhjvyxkfdkecn9tnq7t5dks ML‑DSA‑87, mesh‑only

No custodial exchange addresses. No exposed secp256k1 receiving keys. The wallet story is documented and reproducible against the substrate itself in Wallet — Post‑Quantum Proof.

A clear call to PQ Day

PQ Day is the day you stop shipping cryptography that a quantum computer will read.

The transition is no longer theoretical. In 2024 NIST finalized the first post‑quantum standards — ML‑KEM (FIPS‑203), ML‑DSA (FIPS‑204), and SLH‑DSA (FIPS‑205) — and national guidance (NSA CNSA 2.0) now sets concrete deadlines for retiring RSA and elliptic‑curve cryptography. The threat does not wait for a cryptographically‑relevant quantum computer to exist: under harvest‑now, decrypt‑later, traffic and keys captured today are decrypted the moment the hardware arrives. Anything you sign or encrypt with classical schemes now has a shelf life.

GaiaFTCL ships PQ‑safe today. Its operator wallets, its receiving addresses, and its witness chain are built on ML‑DSA‑87 — the high‑assurance Dilithium parameter set — not as a future migration but as the default state of the substrate.

What PQ Day asks of you:

  1. Inventory every place you rely on RSA/ECDSA/ECDH — keys, certificates, signatures, wallets, firmware.
  2. Prioritize anything with a long confidentiality lifetime or long‑lived signing authority. Those are the harvest‑now targets.
  3. Migrate to NIST PQC (ML‑KEM for key establishment, ML‑DSA/SLH‑DSA for signatures), hybrid where you must, pure‑PQ where you can.
  4. Verify that what you ship can be checked by anyone — sealed, witnessed, and post‑quantum, the way the GaiaFTCL substrate does it.

Download the vQbit Quantum VM, read Wallet — Post‑Quantum Proof, and make today your PQ Day.

→ https://gaiaftcl.com

GaiaFTCL vQbit Quantum VM 1.0.0 (Sovereign‑M8) · served from the GaiaFTCL federation cell mesh · macOS · Apple Silicon · post‑quantum native.

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