Executive Briefing · v1.0 · April 2026

Lattice Network.

Post-Quantum Identity & Trust Infrastructure

"Getting into Lattice is the hard part. Once you're in, you're in."

Space Automation Machines LLC
Ron Peterson, Founder

01 — The Problem

The internet's trust layer breaks within the decade.

Shor's algorithm breaks RSA, ECDSA, and ECDH on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer. In 2023, Regev compressed the required gate count by 56×. The timeline shifted from ~25 years to 5–7 years.

5–7 years to cryptographically-relevant quantum compute.

What collapses simultaneously

Every certificate authority (TLS, HTTPS)
Every SSH and code-signing system
Every email signing system (DKIM, S/MIME)
Every package signing (npm, pip, apt)
Every blockchain using ECDSA (BTC, ETH)

02 — Why Migration Alone Fails

New math inside old architecture is still a single point of failure.

Status quo + PQC migration

One CA, better algorithm.

Replace RSA with ML-KEM. Replace ECDSA with ML-DSA. Keep DigiCert, Verisign, Let's Encrypt at the root of trust.

Compromise one CA — by quantum, subpoena, or breach — and global trust collapses. Single point of failure with better math.

Lattice approach

Distributed BFT consensus.

Trust derives from 5-of-7 independent validators across 3 continents — running NIST-standardized post-quantum primitives.

Compromising trust requires simultaneous physical attack on geographically separated nodes. Not a math problem.

03 — The Solution

What Lattice Network is.

A production-deployed, NIST-validated trust infrastructure that replaces the certificate authority with a distributed, post-quantum, Byzantine fault-tolerant validator quorum.

Post-Quantum Crypto: ML-KEM-768 + ML-DSA-87. NIST FIPS 203/204. Validated against NIST ACVTS — 130/130 test cases passed.
BFT Consensus Trust: 5-of-7 quorum across NYC, London, Singapore. Sub-500ms finality. No single root authority. No platform intermediary.
.Lattice Certification: Cryptographic proof that AI products were verified by independent consensus. HTTPS for the AI era — but with revocation in <500ms.

04 — Production Benchmarks

Not slideware.

7

validators
across 3 continents

<500ms

BFT finality (p99)

130/130

NIST ACVTS
test cases validated

99.7%

uptime
60-day production load

Median consensus latency ~250ms. Self-healing failover verified at 160 seconds, no human intervention.

05 — The Parallel Problem

AI products have no verification layer. None.

Any website can claim to be an AI agent. Any code can claim to be safe. There is no HTTPS for the AI era — no cryptographic proof that a product was scanned, by whom, when, and against what threat rules.

A .Lattice product proves:

Scrubbed by the Lattice harness
No malware, injections, or credential harvesting
5-of-7 independent validators agree it's clean
Encrypted with ML-KEM-768 (quantum-safe)
Immutable hash on chain, versioned threat rules

Continuous re-validation. The certification updates as threats evolve.

06 — Economic Model

A franchise of trust.

Operators run validator nodes and earn LAT tokens for honest participation. The network architecturally prevents dishonest sustained behavior — math enforces what policy cannot.

Tier 1 · Product Page: Submit .com URL to harness. Receive .Lattice cert. Tokenize verified product. Free or $9/mo.
Tier 2 · Home Node: Validate other Tier 1 products. Coop hardware. $29/mo lease, ~40–120 LAT/mo. 12 months → Tier 3 eligible.
Tier 3 · Regional Node: Cache + compliance routing. ~500–25,000 LAT/mo. Governance vote. 3-15 metro slots. $149–499/mo.

07 — Validation

External, independent, on the record.

NIST ACVTS: ML-DSA-87 and ML-KEM-768 — 130/130 test cases passed (April 4, 2026). Sessions 718269, 718294, 718304, 718305.
NIST NCCoE CRADA: Active Cooperative Research and Development Agreement on SP 1800-38C (PQC migration guidance). Contributing ACVTS results and production benchmarks.
Provisional Patent: Filed February 26, 2026. 8 claims (3 independent) covering consensus-level rule synchronization. No prior art found across Tezos, Polkadot, or infrastructure automation.
NSF SBIR Phase I: Pitch filed April 15, 2026. If invited: federal-scale adversarial security evaluation and performance characterization.

08 — Current Status · April 2026

Live infrastructure, today.

Live in production

7-validator BFT network — NYC · London · Singapore

LatticeIdentity v3 NFT — Polygon, UUPS-upgradeable

Harness pipeline v1 — 7 threat detector categories

Rasputin rules engine — versioned, hash-anchored

Nightwatch monitoring — auto-failover verified

First user onboarded — end-to-end OAuth → NFT flow

In flight

M44 simulation framework — 50-node load characterization

Pigeon OS display layer — session header + tool cards

Harness v2 — web scraper, FastAPI

Genesis creators program — first 100 .Lattice products

M24 Shannon HTTP service — 40–60% context savings

NSF SBIR review — submitted, awaiting decision

10 — Strategic Position

Why this works, why now.

01 · Federal mandate: NIST FIPS 203/204 finalized August 2024. Federal agencies mandated to migrate by 2030. Lattice is one of few production deployments today that already meets the NIST ACVTS bar.
02 · No incumbent: There is no .Lattice equivalent. As AI agents proliferate, the absence of a verification layer becomes a structural problem regulators and platforms must solve.
03 · Architecture, not algorithm: Competitors swap ECDSA for ML-DSA inside an unchanged CA architecture. Lattice replaces both. The only realistic path to no-single-point-of-failure trust.

The trust layer for the post-quantum, AI-native internet

Lattice Network is live.

And the window to ship the alternative — before quantum capability arrives — is the next 24 months.

Space Automation Machines LLC
Ron Peterson, Founder · April 2026

Patent pending · NIST ACVTS validated · CRADA active