Starknet just told the market it wants out of the quantum waiting game.
STRK jumped about 33% today after the network said it is considering becoming a standalone layer-1 blockchain to reach full quantum resistance by 2027, according to CoinDesk.
The crypto part matters more than the price move. Starknet is built on STARK proofs, which are hash-based cryptography. That family is believed to survive a quantum computer running Shor's algorithm, the same algorithm that could break ECDSA, the signature scheme behind Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses.
And the threat is narrower than the headlines make it sound. A quantum machine would not crack a random wallet. It would threaten addresses whose public keys are already exposed: spent outputs, reused addresses, old pay-to-pubkey coins. Surviving it means moving funds to fresh, quantum-safe addresses before that day comes. That controlled migration is exactly what Justin Drake's bunker-mode proposal this week was about.
Coinbase cryptographer Yehuda Lindell pushed back, calling the panic FUD and saying there is no evidence the elliptic-curve assumptions behind Bitcoin and Ethereum are broken.
Read Starknet's move for what it is: positioning. The hash-based proofs were already the asset. Now they are being packaged as the moat.
$BTC $ETH $STRK
STRK jumped about 33% today after the network said it is considering becoming a standalone layer-1 blockchain to reach full quantum resistance by 2027, according to CoinDesk.
The crypto part matters more than the price move. Starknet is built on STARK proofs, which are hash-based cryptography. That family is believed to survive a quantum computer running Shor's algorithm, the same algorithm that could break ECDSA, the signature scheme behind Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses.
And the threat is narrower than the headlines make it sound. A quantum machine would not crack a random wallet. It would threaten addresses whose public keys are already exposed: spent outputs, reused addresses, old pay-to-pubkey coins. Surviving it means moving funds to fresh, quantum-safe addresses before that day comes. That controlled migration is exactly what Justin Drake's bunker-mode proposal this week was about.
Coinbase cryptographer Yehuda Lindell pushed back, calling the panic FUD and saying there is no evidence the elliptic-curve assumptions behind Bitcoin and Ethereum are broken.
Read Starknet's move for what it is: positioning. The hash-based proofs were already the asset. Now they are being packaged as the moat.
$BTC $ETH $STRK