Origin Quantum, a Chinese company with ties to the central government, has launched the Origin Wukong-180, a fourth-generation superconducting quantum computer. The system offers a free trial available to users around the world through the company’s cloud platform, and as reported by local media China Daily, Origin Quantum is also offering free computing time to researchers and scientists at academic institutions who submit eligible projects.
Wukong-180 is equipped with a superconducting chip 180 Physical Qubit (The basic processing unit of a quantum computer). The company’s new quantum computer operates with an error rate of less than 1% for both individual operations and operations between pairs of qubits, according to data on the company’s website. This is an important indicator of reliability. This is because fewer errors per operation allow the system to perform more complex calculations before the results become unreliable.
chip Also includes 251 coupled qubitscoordinates the interaction between computational qubits, but does not provide direct computational power.
Meanwhile, according to the technical journal The Qubit Report, Wukong-180 will operate within the NISQ (Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Computing) regime, which is the current stage of global quantum development.
In this area, quantum computers have advantages over classical systems in performing certain calculations. However, fault-tolerant error correction is not yet built in. (a mechanism that allows millions of operations to be chained together without accumulated errors invalidating the results).
Without this capability, current NISQ systems cannot maintain the deep quantum circuitry needed to attack cryptographic algorithms such as the Elliptic Curve Scheme (ECDSA) that protects Bitcoin signatures.
Origin Quantum advances quantum development
According to China Daily, the previous generation 72-qubit Wukong was launched and recorded in January 2024. Approximately 50 million remote accesses from over 160 countries and over 900,000 global tasks completed.
According to the media, in 2025, Origin Quantum completed the export and commercial sale of China’s first domestically developed quantum power. The company says Wukong-180 more than doubles the capacity of its predecessor chips, making it one of the first publicly accessible superconducting systems in the cloud with more than 100 qubits, along with platforms from IBM, Google Quantum AI, and Rigetti Computing.
Additionally, the company released Origin Pilot, its quantum computing operating system, for free public download last February.
Quantum Advances and Bitcoin’s “Q-day” Horizon
While Wukong-180 is not a direct threat to the cryptography that protects Bitcoin, its development is framed within the context of the continued advancement of quantum hardware and the respective launches of large-scale systems. It’s a sign that the industry is maturing..
In this context, researchers from Google, Cloudflare, and Harvard University are positioning “Q-day” (the moment when quantum computers could potentially breach classical cryptography). By 2030as reported by CriptoNoticias. However, these studies and estimates have been refuted by experts such as Adam Back.
Thus, while the post-quantum debate faces a variety of actors, the advances that Origin Quantum offers, such as homegrown systems with over 100 qubits, cloud accessibility, and progressive improvements in fidelity, will form a new piece in the quantum race, regardless of when the inflection point occurs.
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