Starknet opened a seven-day nonbinding vote on October 15 asking STRK holders to back research into becoming a quantum-resistant Layer 1. A yes buys developer time and further votes, so the cost lands before any design exists.
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Justin Drake's plan to move coins to fresh addresses meets objections from wallet and scaling builders
Ethereum researcher Justin Drake says ECDSA could break in the worst case within months and wants coins moved to fresh addresses. Of six other people Cointelegraph quotes, one shares his alarm, two dispute the evidence and three question the remedy.
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Starknet's builders weigh a standalone L1 to get ahead of Ethereum's quantum timetable
Starknet's builders are weighing a standalone L1 aimed at a quantum-resistant network in 2027, Bankless reported. StarkWare's June 30 roadmap had no L1 option, and its third phase depends on Ethereum.
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Starknet says it is actively considering leaving Ethereum to become its own L1, with 2027 as its target for full quantum resistance. STRK rose about 20% to $0.073, Decrypt reported, so holders are already paying for an exit that is still only under discussion.
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STRK has more than quadrupled in 30 days as Starknet floats a Layer 1 shift that still needs governance approval
Starknet's STRK token gained about 322% in 30 days to October 12 on a proposal to leave Ethereum, while its DeFi total value locked rose 5% to 7%. The market cap now sits at several times that locked value.
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Alloc Init published a 56-page design for Zcash-style private Bitcoin transfers that needs no change to Bitcoin's consensus rules. Deposits and withdrawals await a second paper, so who holds the pooled BTC is still an open question.
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The construction runs inside today's Script limits, so no soft fork was needed. The cost of quantum defence moves instead onto the individual holder, at $75 to $150 per transaction.
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Maxime Desalle gave back a Zcash grant and published the case against the Dev Fund. Paradigm's Matt Huang defended it, and the only dated decisions in the record belong to the November 5 NU7 upgrade.
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Crowdsourced AI agents cut one step of a Bitcoin quantum attack by 86 per cent in about two months
Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail contest drove a point-addition resource score from 10.75 billion down to 1.496 billion. Neither IonQ nor Google has built the machine, and the end-to-end attack estimates that matter are still theirs.
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