A vault for what survives the break.
TRELYAN is a post-quantum inscription protocol on Algorand. 1,024 numbered Vault Cells — non-fungible Algorand Standard Assets — each carrying the technical ability to inscribe one artifact — its hash written once on-chain under a Falcon-1024 signature, a NIST-selected (2022) lattice scheme designated FN-DSA, with NIST's FIPS 206 (FN-DSA) still in development and not yet published, verified on-chain by Algorand's native falcon_verify opcode during transaction execution, for the world after Q-Day.
A protocol with four moving parts.
TRELYAN is not a token launch with a story bolted on. It is a four-component structure whose properties compose into the one the project's name carries: integrity that survives the cryptographic break — anchored on a chain that verifies post-quantum signatures on-chain.
Algorand
Pure Proof-of-Stake under cryptographic sortition. 2.8-second deterministic finality. The Falcon-1024 verification opcode falcon_verify is native to the AVM, exposed to smart contracts since AVM v12 (consensus v41, go-algorand v4.3.0) — making Algorand one of the few major Layer-1s to put post-quantum signature verification within reach of on-chain contracts rather than behind a wrapper.
Falcon-1024
NIST-selected in 2022; designated FN-DSA. NIST's FIPS 206 is in development and not yet published; the published post-quantum standards are FIPS 203, 204, and 205 (August 2024). Lattice hash-and-sign over NTRU lattices in the Gentry-Peikert-Vaikuntanathan framework, sampled by the fast-Fourier sampler over ℤq[x] / (xn+1). Security is EUF-CMA in the (quantum) random-oracle model, resting on the NTRU key-recovery and NTRU-SIS assumptions — structured-lattice problems, with no clean worst-case GapSVP reduction; the deterministic-compressed signatures are ≈1,222 B (≤1,423 B) — small enough to verify on-chain.
1,024 Vault Cells
Each Cell is a non-fungible Algorand Standard Asset whose only substantive right is to inscribe one artifact (payload ≤ 4 KB) — its hash written once on-chain and bound to the Cell by a Falcon-1024 signature, the artifact itself stored off-chain (IPFS/Arweave) and tamper-evident against that hash. Three lifecycle states — Sealed → Inscribed → Released — enforced in the contract, not by policy.
Swiss Stiftung
The foundation forms under the Swiss Civil Code, articles 80 to 89-bis, registered in Zug. Swiss counsel is under evaluation; no firm is yet formally engaged. Founder personal capital is zero by deliberate design. The discipline is in writing before the protocol exists.
Integrity is an engineering claim, not a marketing one.
A digital signature whose verifying key can be inverted by an unknown future quantum computer is not a signature in any meaningful sense; it is a deferred forgery. A non-fungible token whose authenticity depends on the discrete-logarithm assumption is one Shor execution away from indistinguishability from its own counterfeit. The work of making these problems solved problems has already been done — by NIST, in the published post-quantum standards FIPS 203, 204, and 205, with FIPS 206 (FN-DSA / Falcon) forthcoming, and by the academic cryptography community over the two decades that produced them. The deployment is what is missing.
TRELYAN is the deployment — on Algorand, one of the few major Layer-1s where the verification primitives required to make the substitution complete are already live on-chain.
In the founder's own words.
Three short films. The problem the world is not yet pricing in; the protocol built to answer it; and an open invitation to the cryptographers, funders, and builders who think some records should outlast us all.