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title: Carback, Richard
description: Postquant Labs' Colton Dillion and Rick Carback on open source quantum compute markets, proof of useful work, and securing crypto against Q-Day.
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# [Carback, Richard](https://www.entangledthings.com/guests/carback-richard)

 Written by [Ahren Thielker](https://www.entangledthings.com/guests/author/ahren-thielker) | Sep 29, 2026, 7:57:00 PM

**Co-Founder and CTO**

Cryptographer and serial entrepreneur. Co-founder of XX Network, former Chief Scientist at Lexumo, and Departmental Founder of Cyber at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories. Two decades in privacy, voting, and quantum-resistant systems.

Quip Network hub: links.quip.network  
Quantum Doomsday Clock: quantumdoomclock.com

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