Paradigm's Kryptos CTF launches 10 Kryptos-like cryptography puzzles (live…

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Paradigm's Kryptos CTF launches 10 Kryptos-like cryptography puzzles (live 2026-06-12), offering $1,000 to the first solver of each puzzle and $10,000 total. Dan Robinson says the firm “acquired the secret” to the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture and used that solution to build the challenge; details and entry at paradigm.xyz/kryptos-ctf.

To go with Kryptos, we launched a challenge with ten brand-new Kryptos-like puzzles.

The first solver of each puzzle gets a $1,000 prize.

paradigm.xyz/kryptos-ctf

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Kryptos CTF: 10 Puzzles, $10,000 in Prizes

Paradigm's Kryptos CTF is live: 10 new cryptography puzzles of increasing difficulty, with $10,000 across 10 prize pools. Enter now.
paradigm.xyz

Dan Robinson (@danrobinson)

We love puzzles, so we acquired the secret to one of the most notorious puzzles in cryptographic history.

Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an encrypted message on it. The final 97 characters of it have never been solved.

Here's what we're doing with the solution.

— https://nitter.net/danrobinson/status/2065434123356012589#m