Bitcoin and Ethereum’s quantum threat is getting harder to ignore. In roughly two months, 100+ participants and their AI agents drove down the estimated cost of the arithmetic of a potential quantum attack on elliptic-curve cryptography. Their work is detailed in the new paper, with seven co-authors from StarkWare... and the Starknet Foundation. The challenge focused on a calculation that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer would use to recover private keys from exposed public keys. The result: an 86.1% reduction from the challenge’s starting resource score, which combines logical qubits and key computational operations. That score was also over 50% below Google Quantum AI’s reported result for this calculation, although the circuit setups and measurement methods differ. In simple terms, algorithm improvements can reduce the resources needed for an important part of a quantum attack. For StarkWare, this complements our broader work on quantum security in blockchain, from STARK proofs and Starknet’s post-quantum roadmap to our successful quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet. We’re helping measure the threat and build the defenses. Congratulations to our seven co-authors across StarkWare 🥷 and Starknet Foundation: Odin, sam, teddy, Akash, lucqs, robert, and Tarek | Security Engineer, alongside the wider community. Read the paper:show more

so we are officially quantum researchers

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Read how StarkWare and Starknet Foundation contributors helped measure the quantum threat:

genuinely appreciate that the paper itself is this careful about scope — "not a full-Shor success estimate," explicit caveats about accounting conventions differing from Google's benchmark. as someone whose timeline assumptions actually depend on numbers like this, I'd rather have researchers under-claim than over-claim, and this is a good example of doing that right even while the headline treatment oversimplifies it.

also huge kudos to @bbuddha_xyz for starting this and spearheading this effort.

They all work for Sam

This was a fun one, let's do it again? 👀

thats really cool gg guys!

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Worth flagging the 86.1% figure is an estimated resource score (logical qubits times operations) from crowdsourced circuit optimization, not a hardware run or a change to Shor's asymptotic advantage. The paper itself notes the circuit setups and measurement methods differ from Google's March result, so "over 50% below Google" and "apples to apples improvement" are two different claims worth separating. What the number does move is harvest now decrypt later math: any optimization that shrinks the resource estimate for the ECDLP step shortens the runway before an exposed public key becomes a real liability, regardless of whether it beats Google's specific benchmark.

Starknet already measuring the threat and building the defenses. Clean work.

quantum threat to crypto is getting way too real now crazy to see progress happening this fast

but don't worry, Starknet will be post-quantum secure long before that threat becomes a reality

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86.1% off the starting score in two months is the part worth sitting with. "Years away" ages badly when 100+ agents can compress the arithmetic that fast. The threat model now moves as quick as the defense research.

86.1% in two months is the part worth sitting with, because that estimate has only ever moved one direction. Meanwhile BIP-360 is still a draft and roughly a quarter of all BTC sits in address types that expose the public key, which is the ratio that decides the damage.

BlastGG!

kings! so proud

just the beginning

amazing team! time to go post quantum!

that’s really cool!!

just build starknet

Keep building 👷‍♂️

Works perfect . Post Quantum safe.

in another 5 years we will look back to this day and realize how important it is to find a way to prevent this quantum crisis happens

Quantum safe

Banger 🔥🔥

Big work from the StarkWare and Starknet teams. Quantum readiness will be a long-term infrastructure challenge, so early research like this matters.

86% lower resource costs is a serious shift. It shows the quantum threat is moving through better algorithms, not just better hardware.

86 percent is wild fast

Quantum specialists

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