Jieyi Long and over 100 participants collaborated on an open challenge to optimize quantum circuits for point-addition on secp256k1, the elliptic curve used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. The effort produced a circuit with a Q x T score 50% lower than Google Quantum AI's March 2026 result, addressing the potential threat of Shor's algorithm being used to compromise ECDSA private keys. The initiative demonstrated the effectiveness of the Open Autoresearch paradigm, combining human researchers and AI agents in a public leaderboard-based optimization framework.