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 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, 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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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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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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