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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Matter Labs says its Airbender Prime prover cleared 99% of 7,200 Ethereum blocks in under 10 seconds each on one GPU. Starknet is weighing its own L1 for 2027. The record shows no fee stream behind either route.
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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 and StarkWare unveiled Shadow Accounts on October 13, 2026, per-app DeFi addresses that users fund from shielded STRK20 balances. Their balances, transactions and positions stay public, so what users gain is a severed link to the main wallet.
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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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StarkWare's challenge drove the estimated compute cost of a quantum-safe Bitcoin spend to $59
Researchers in StarkWare's optimization challenge cut the estimated compute cost of a quantum-safe Bitcoin spend by 82%, to $59. The method covers only coins with hidden public keys, so the 6.04 million BTC with exposed keys stay outside its reach.
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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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Starknet's Stwo prover cuts peak memory by 85% so phones can prove their own transactions
Starknet's Stwo prover cut its peak memory from 13.9 GiB to 2.1 GiB, enough for a smartphone to prove Starknet transactions. Users gain privacy because their data can stay on the handset, while proving whole blocks still scales with workload size.
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Peter Todd takes over the MARA channel that carried more than 9,000 BTC past the public mempool
Peter Todd, co-author of Bitcoin's replace-by-fee standard, now leads MARA's Slipstream, a private channel that moved over 9,000 BTC from vulnerable wallets. With two documented uses on record, both where public relay was risky or failed, the evidence that private routing is becoming a routine miner fee business is still thin.
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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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Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail leaderboard took the resource score for one step of a quantum key recovery from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion by July 26, while the defense side works to fixed dates in 2029 and 2030.
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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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A quantum-resistant bitcoin spend clears mainnet under today's consensus rules
Gizmodo reports that a StarkWare researcher's transaction needed no soft fork. That fact moves post-quantum migration out of the developer debate and into the custody workflow, where somebody has to schedule it and pay for it.
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