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 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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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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