Hi! I'm Cleiton Augusto, an independent developer from Brazil building CleitonForge - an open-source, neutral benchmarking framework that runs identical quantum circuits across multiple Rust-native backends and compares statevector fidelity.

While building it, I discovered that one simulator silently returns fidelity = 0.0 on QAOA circuits due to a reversed Rz gate sign convention - a bug invisible to standard Quantum Volume benchmarks.

Your sponsorship helps me:

Maintain and expand CleitonForge's backend coverage

Publish independent benchmark reports

Keep the tool free and open source for the quantum community

GitHub: https://github.com/cleitonaugusto/CleitonForge
Preprint: https://zenodo.org/record/21210972