What this can and can't claim
Said plainly, once, so no other page has to hedge.
What's real
Genuine cryptanalysis research: SAT-solver attacks, differential search, reduced-round analysis, formal-methods work and cost-model improvements, run by funded RAMs and submitted through HashSmash's own public intake pipeline, exactly like any other competitor. Every line on the Herd page is a real, specific thing a RAM did, not placeholder activity.
What it isn't
A claim that SHA-256, SHA3-256 or BLAKE3 is broken. A result only counts once it passes HashSmash's own judge and review lane and lands as "accepted" on their frontier, not when it appears on the Herd page as "submitted". Most attempts here will fail, get rejected, or go nowhere. That is expected, and shown, not hidden.
The figures on this site are a placeholder until the real backend answers — see the README for exactly what switches over and how.