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I’m 23. I’m from France. I own 400 shares of IonQ . I’m writing that upfront because it matters for what comes next. I’m not a fund manager. I’m not paid to post. Whether the stock goes up or down tomorrow, my life doesn’t change. I’m a master’s student in international business who got pulled into the quantum world a year ago and hasn’t been able to look away since. What started as curiosity turned into something else. A year of reading, asking questions, getting things wrong, being corrected by people who knew more, and trying again. The physics didn’t come naturally. Neither did the financial side. But piece by piece, conversation by conversation, it started to connect. And I’ve been wrong along the way. More than once. The community has corrected me, caught names I misspelled, flagged claims I couldn’t fully source. That’s not a weakness of doing this publicly it’s the point. Working in the open means your mistakes are visible, and that’s exactly what keeps the work honest. The real craft was never about one acquisition. It was about connecting them. Oxford Ionics. SkyWater. Capella Space. Vector Atomic. Lightsynq. Qubitekk. ID Quantique. Skyloom. Seed Innovations. Nine deals in roughly twelve months, and each one reshapes a different layer computing, manufacturing, networking, sensing, space, security, software. That’s before you count the hires behind them, the integration team under Petrina Zaraszczak, the European expansion through Lorenzo Roversi in the Nordics, Marco Pistoia in Rome with the €1B Italian commitment, Darren Strange in Oxford. Before the university partnerships Cambridge and the Cavendish Lab, the OxCam corridor, the AstraZeneca BioVentureHub in Gothenburg, MTSU’s QRISE Center in Tennessee. Before the government layer SHIELD IDIQ, Golden Dome, Katie Arrington as CIO, the GDIT partnership, Robert Cardillo at IonQ Federal. Each piece is a story. Together they tell something bigger. And somewhere along the way, a community formed. The IonQers. Multilingual, scattered across time zones, reading the same filings, catching each other’s mistakes, crediting each other’s findings. Some of my closest conversations this past year have been with people whose real names I don’t know. Content in English, Japanese.. because the quantum ecosystem isn’t a single-language story, and the people trying to follow it deserve to read it in their own language. I want to be transparent about why I do this. It’s not for money. 400 shares wouldn’t change that calculation either way. I do it to help the community understand what’s actually happening to make the information accessible. Quantum is hard. The filings are dense. The physics is intimidating. Most people who could benefit from following this story give up after two paragraphs of jargon. That’s the gap I try to close. That’s why I write the deep dives. That’s why I make short videos breaking down the technology in simple terms. Not for followers. For readers who want to actually understand. Because this ecosystem shouldn’t require a PhD to follow. And when people message me asking why the stock is up or down on a given day I don’t have that answer, and more importantly, that’s not what I’m here for. Price action is noise. The ecosystem is the signal. I’d rather explain why an acquisition matters than guess where the candle closes. I also write this from a European seat, watching a mostly American story with European fingerprints all over it Oxford in the UK, Pistoia in Italy, QuantumBasel in Switzerland, Roversi and the Nordic corridor, Cambridge’s Cavendish Lab. France is not yet a node on this map. Maybe that changes. Either way, writing from here means I see the European side of the ecosystem with a different kind of attention than someone based in Maryland or California would. Two things keep me going. First, the medical side. 1/2 $IONQ

$IONQ Lloyd's spent a full day on quantum. Almost none of it was about insurance. The LMA is the body that speaks for the 59 managing agents and members' agents at Lloyd's, and it drafts the model policy wordings this market underwrites on. On Wednesday 8 July it ran six sessions. Read the running order: Technical keynote. Encryption. Regulation. Business and legal. Then, and only then, policy wordings and claims. Its own topic list included "harvest now, decrypt later" and the evolving UK and EU regulatory landscape for cyber resilience. IonQ sat on the encryption panel, alongside Kroll and Marsh. Catherine Simondi represented it as Senior Manager, Quantum Networking. Their own slide is honest about what QKD is: suited to high-assurance, niche environments. Not a universal replacement for cryptography. That niche is exactly what IonQ's ID Quantique sells into. #IonQ #Quantum #PostQuantum

$IONQ "We’ve got enormous talent at the federal level but we have to move with it.” Fed Chair Kevin Warsh

$IONQ In the 1970s Jane Goodall observed chimpanzee warfare. Organised, lethal, inter-group. Bonobos, our other closest living relative, socialise peacefully between communities. The press release calls it "one of the most enduring questions in behavioral ecology." Today the Jane Goodall Institute USA and @FormationQ_ launched a two-year programme to attack it, applying @IonQ_Inc trapped-ion quantum computing. Their title: "Ecology of War and Peace: Using Quantum-Enhanced Agent-Based Modelling to Explain Contrasting Intergroup Behaviour in Chimpanzees and Bonobos." At the centre is B3GET, for Behaviour, Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Tradeoffs. Virtual primates live, move, forage, reproduce and interact across artificial landscapes. Vary the food distribution, the home range size, the group cohesion rules, and watch cooperation or conflict emerge over time. The researchers' hypothesis is ecological: how food is spread across the landscape, how far each species must range, and the moment-to-moment decision to travel alone or in a group. Hybrid quantum-classical methods are there to explore that space and improve the calibration of the model. The team: Dr Lilian Pintea, VP Conservation Science at JGI, Principal Investigator. Dr Kristin N. Crouse, University of Minnesota, who built B3GET. Co-Investigator and full-time research lead. Dr Michael L. Wilson, Co-Investigator, PI of the Gombe Research Consortium, 25 years on the Gombe project. Research infrastructure from the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. And the part that is not about chimpanzees: The project also looks at how chimpanzee behaviour connects to habitat and mortality. That feeds habitat protection and population modelling. Conservation strategy, not just science. Now the part you only see if you have been reading me since February. This is the third one. 3 Feb 2026. Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Quantum Technologies Accelerated Alignment. Two years. A £1,675,000 FormationQ gift including IonQ quantum computing resources. 11 May 2026. The King's Foundation, with Space Syntax. Harmonious Urban Growth. Three years, on IonQ systems. 14 Jul 2026. The Jane Goodall Institute USA. Two years. Three institutions. Five months. One operator. One hardware platform. @NadaHosking line from February still explains the whole thing: "Quantum's bottleneck isn't science, it's the ecosystem." My read, not a fact: FormationQ functions as a distribution channel. A physics lab, a royal foundation, and 65 years of Gombe records, each landing on IonQ hardware on a multi-year commitment. It launched on World Chimpanzee Day, the 66th anniversary of Jane Goodall's arrival at Gombe. Dr Pintea: "This programme is one of the last that Jane and I worked on together." #IonQ #Quantum

8. And the closer. Where is this in 2 to 3 years? "We'll have hardware that... can run certainly millions of operations on at least hundreds of qubits, logically." Then the conversation flips: "the types of questions you'll be asking will not be so much, what should we do to prepare, and more, okay, how are we using this stuff now." Plus a brand new obsession: "manufacturability cost... an entire industry and ecosystem around the hardware." Hundreds of logical qubits. Millions of operations. And a supply chain. That last one is the tell. When a company starts worrying about manufacturability, it has stopped doing science and started running a factory. #IonQ #Quantum

7. Two curves, arriving at the same time. Dr Krysta Svore: "We have both the convergence of AI and quantum computing coming together, which has the promise to unlock much better models that can be trained from data coming from a quantum computer." And at the same moment: "we're at this transition point moving from... noisy qubits to... logical qubits to a fault tolerant system." So the machines become reliable exactly as AI learns to use what they produce. My read, not a fact: that overlap matters more than either curve on its own. #IonQ #Quantum #NVIDIA

$IONQ Read how @TheEconomist itself pitched this session. It "addresses key questions for organisations evaluating investment, risk exposure or competitive positioning." Not physicists. Investors, risk officers, strategists. Commercialising Quantum Global Insight Hour, 30 June, supported by @IonQ_Inc. So listen to how IonQ's SVP Global R&D Mihir Bhaskar defines "advantage" in that room. Not physics for its own sake: "Having some sort of advantage for real problems that customers would bring to us, on some combination of cost to the solution, time to solution, or energy of that solution." And where it wins biggest: "in this fault tolerant era where... we're actually correcting the errors... so that we can run much longer computations." Cost. Time. Energy. That is a procurement checklist, not a physics paper. And it sets the tone for everything else said on that stage. 7 more clips below. Reupload of what I posted earlier, gathered in one thread. 🔽 #IonQ #Quantum #EconQuantum

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$IONQ Kenya's Special Envoy on Technology just visited @IDQuantique lab in Geneva. Ambassador Philip Thigo advises the President of Kenya on technology. In 2023 the UN Secretary-General appointed him to his High-Level Advisory Board on AI. He met Grégoire Ribordy, co-founder of ID Quantique, and Catherine Simondi, Senior Marketing Director at @IonQ_Inc . ID Quantique is IonQ's Geneva subsidiary. His takeaway, in his own words: "As these technologies move closer to commercial use (est by 2029), governments and businesses need to start preparing for the security implications now." Note the date. At Davos in January, Ribordy warned that quantum computers land in 2029, that harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks are already happening, and that the migration takes ten years. And what Thigo takes home is a national agenda: digital public infrastructure, financial systems, critical services, cross-border data flows. IonQ's security business is not pitching IT departments. It is briefing heads of state. #IonQ #Quantum

One last thing I try not to forget No ticker trades in a vacuum. Behind every red screen there’s a whole world: geopolitics, macro, global tensions. Markets price that world first, and the company second. Geopolitics sets the mood. Fundamentals set the destination.

Common shares. No options, no leverage, no margin. Fundamentals and time. Lower risk, slower, boring by design. The strategy is the easy part. The hard part is not panicking when the dip you waited for finally shows up. We’re all human

$IONQ Everyone waited months for the dip. Here it is: $82 in October, under $40 this week. And suddenly it’s treated like a different company than it was a week ago 😊 It isn’t. Q1 revenue up 755%. $470M in RPO. The fundamentals have never been stronger. #IonQ #Quantum

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$IONQ Quantum Weekly | Jul 6–12 IonQ took a seat at the White House. And NSF published a national quantum architecture: sensing, networking and computing in one system. IonQ has exactly that platform, and the infrastructure under it. 🔬 NSF's Project Triad: sensing + networking + computing, in concert 🏛️ IonQ on the White House panel, beside IBM and Boeing 🌱 Syngenta's P&L walks into IonQ's European hub 👥 Hiring like a hyperscaler 🇰🇷 Korea: IonQ sells the computer, IDQ sells the lock 🏙️ Chattanooga: the institute, and what sits underneath ⚡ The EPB story: a 1935 utility became a quantum city 🎙️ Tom Harty: he turned down $130M 🔽 #IonQ #Quantum