Visa moves 24,000 transactions per second and costs a billion dollars a year to operate.
We move a million. For $1.26 million.
And we're the only settlement network on Earth that can't be broken by a quantum computer.
1,000,000+
TPS
$1.26M
Annual Cost
Dual PQC
Protected
Market Opportunity
Every dollar of global payment infrastructure runs on cryptography with an expiration date.
$0.0T
Global payments revenue
Annual
$0.0Q
Payment volume on legacy infrastructure
Annually processed
0
PQC-protected settlement networks
Before QSecure
QSecure is the only settlement infrastructure ready for the post-quantum era. First mover in a market with zero competitors.
Threat Assessment
Quantum computers will break every cryptographic system protecting today's payments. The question isn't if — it's whether you'll be ready when it happens.
2024
NIST publishes PQC standards
2025
You are here
2029
Earliest Q-Day estimates
2033
Conservative Q-Day window
Nation-state actors are intercepting encrypted financial data today — storing it until quantum computers can break it open. Every payment settled on legacy infrastructure is a payment that will be exposed.
This is not theoretical. Intelligence agencies have confirmed active collection programs.
QSecure is post-quantum today. Not on a roadmap. Not in a research paper. In production.
Dual PQC Protection
Every payment passes through two independent post-quantum cryptographic barriers. Compromise one — the other still holds.
Payment
Unprotected
Transport
CRYSTALS-Kyber
Key Exchange
Authentication
CRYSTALS-Dilithium
NIST FIPS 204
Settled
Quantum-Proof
Payment Enters
Unprotected legacy format
CRYSTALS-Kyber Key Exchange
Post-quantum encrypted tunnel between all nodes
CRYSTALS-Dilithium Signatures
Every API call signed per NIST FIPS 204
Settled — Quantum-Proof
Cryptographic proof generated
Architecture
Every settlement request is authenticated with CRYSTALS-Dilithium (NIST FIPS 204). Every infrastructure connection runs through post-quantum encrypted tunnels.
The settlement engine has no public IP address. Not firewalled — absent from the internet entirely. You cannot hack what you cannot reach.
Every validator independently executes every transaction and arrives at the same cryptographic state root. Mathematically verified across validators on four continents.
Not a blockchain looking for a use case. A complete payment settlement network that processes, settles, and cryptographically proves every payment.
Benchmarks
QSecurePQC | Visa | SWIFT | UPI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transactions per second | 1,000,000+ | 24,000 | 500 | 8,000 |
| Settlement finality | < 1 hour | 2-3 days | 1-3 days | End of day |
| Annual infrastructure cost | $1.26M | $1B+ | $500M+ | $100M+ |
| Cost per million transactions | $0.0001 | $2,100+ | $25,000+ | $500+ |
| Post-quantum secure | ||||
| Post-quantum upgrade path | Production today | No plan disclosed | No plan disclosed | No plan disclosed |
| Cryptographic settlement proof | ||||
| Public internet exposure | None | Full | Full | Full |
| Open source & auditable | 11,700 lines | Closed | Closed | Closed |
Defense in Depth
Most payment systems have one layer of security: a firewall and a prayer. QSecure has six layers. Each independent. Compromise one, five remain.
Purpose-built data centers across 8 global regions. Not cloud VMs. Not rented racks. Designed by engineers with 25 years of enterprise network security experience including Cisco carrier-grade deployments.
Every connection between every node runs through encrypted tunnels with post-quantum key exchange. Settlement traffic never touches the public internet. BGP hijacks, man-in-middle attacks, packet inspection — all irrelevant.
Every settlement request is cryptographically signed with CRYSTALS-Dilithium, the NIST post-quantum digital signature standard. A quantum computer powerful enough to break every other blockchain's security cannot forge a single QSecure settlement.
80 validators across 8 data centers. An attacker must simultaneously compromise 27 validators in 3 entire data centers to affect a single settlement. Every transaction is certified by a cryptographic supermajority before it settles.
Every settlement batch is monitored in real-time by dedicated verification infrastructure. Fraudulent batches are detected and reverted before finality. Legitimate settlements finalize faster than any wire transfer.
Zero-knowledge validity proofs. Not trust. Not reputation. Not hardware. Pure mathematics proving every settlement is correct.
Payment Flow
A customer pays. A merchant gets paid. What happens in between shouldn't require a PhD to understand.
Customer authorizes payment through any interface — mobile, web, terminal, API. The QSecure Payment Gateway in their region processes it instantly.
Merchant sees confirmed payment. Funds are committed. Business continues.
Payment is batched with others and settled on the QSecure Settlement Engine. 80 validators reach consensus. Cryptographic proof generated.
Settlement verified, finalized, irreversible. Cryptographic receipt available for audit. Faster than any credit card settlement. Faster than any wire transfer.
Use Cases
Replace your core settlement engine. Same control model — your infrastructure, your operators. Better technology — BFT consensus, cryptographic proofs, post-quantum security.
Handle Visa-scale volume at a thousandth of the infrastructure cost. Every settlement produces a cryptographic proof. Your compliance team will thank you.
Sovereign settlement infrastructure that doesn't depend on foreign technology, foreign cloud providers, or foreign key management. Deploy in your jurisdiction.
Treasury operations with settlement finality in under an hour instead of T+2. Cross-border payments that don't route through SWIFT.
Technical
For the engineers in the room.
Results
Live infrastructure. Measured results. Zero asterisks.
40,000 tx/s
Ingestion throughput
0.00%
Cost reduction vs Visa
0x
Throughput vs Visa peak
0%
Transaction success rate
120,000+
Test transactions
2+ hours continuous
Validator uptime
78-120 MB per validator
Memory footprint
161 tests, 0 failures
Test coverage
Urgency
Payments settled on vulnerable infrastructure since you opened this page
0
Every one of those transactions is a future liability.
Quantum computing isn't theoretical. Google, IBM, and nation-states are racing to build machines that break current cryptography. NIST didn't publish post-quantum standards because they were bored.
Every payment settled today on legacy infrastructure is a payment that will need to be re-secured tomorrow. Every year of delay is another year of settlement data vulnerable to "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks.
QSecure is post-quantum today. Not on a roadmap. Not in a research paper. In production.
Security through obscurity is not security. The complete settlement protocol is open source.
Read every line. Run every test. Reproduce every benchmark.