StarkWare

So, I think next week, what I will be looking for the most is, my highest conviction spot i'll give a few actually i think um you want to go um i think i think something is i think something that's kind of like under discussed actually right now is starkware um starkware is an interesting one because right now people are super concerned with the quantum stuff um and if they're able to break like the current existing ways that a lot of these coins have cryptocurrency.

Obviously, it would affect a ton of other things also.

But Starkware is one of the coins, one of the co-founders of Starkware is also one of the co-founders of Zcash.

And they're like one of the most technically sound teams in crypto they're currently like an l2 on eve but they have the privacy narrative they have like the quantum resistant um narrative and they're also like pro they have like the programmability narrative which there's not really a project that's combined those all those things together um and so the chart is like really beat down because as we know all the l2s got crushed um, last cycle.

But right now it's like starting to turn a little bit.

And I, I know there's nobody holding fucking Starkware that I can tell you.

I'm

going to be honest with you.

Hey everybody, it's the Quantum Bitcoin Countdown.

Peter Rizzo, the Bitcoin historian once again with my co-host, head of media at StarkWare, Nathan Jeffay.

Today's episode, Hodling in the Age of Quantum.

We're gonna be talking about where theory meets the reality of the very devices that are helping secure millions and billions of individual users' Bitcoin secure chips, evaluations, the technology stack at the heart of self-custody with one of the foremost experts in the field.

Is that state-of-the-art good enough? Uh, I hope so, but I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, the regular people are...

You know, this is what we've been talking about a lot at StarkWare, as well as we think about the quantum threat.

That's what Avihu was talking about.

So, you know, I'm...

After Zcash, I co-founded another project called Starkware, which has post-quantum cryptography, higher scale, stuff like that.

And even that is probably not the end state of all of Satoshi's vision.

Because Satoshi, from the white paper, the Bitcoin white paper, he said that Bitcoin was built so that any two parties can transact with no trusted intermediary.

The price of building a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction has plunged nearly 80% in one single week after developers and AI models competed to optimize the code behind it.

According to Starkware, which ran the competition alongside UConn Research and Eigenlabs, the estimated cost of constructing such a transaction fell from about $320 per transaction to roughly $67 in GPU compute.

The figure comes from the dashboard of the QuantumSafe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge, an open contest launched to see just how far outside solvers could push the number down.

The first QuantumSafe Bitcoin transaction was mined on Mainnet last month, a construction Starkware developed to protect coins without requiring a network-wide fork.

That initial transaction took roughly 3,100 GPU hours and cost $320 to build.

For the love of God, one week of open competition cut most of that away.

Solvers made dramatic progress.

One core benchmark jumped from 146 million verified candidates per second to over 820 million on a standard RTX 4090 with 62 improvements promoted across two tracks.

AI just made a potential quantum defense technique about five times cheaper, by the way.

Starkware says AI-assisted coding reduced the estimated compute costs of creating a special quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction from roughly $320 to $66.

Participants in optimization competition increased the underlying search process from around 146 million attempts per second to 881 million.

This method could potentially allow some Bitcoin hodlers to move coins using hash-based protection without Bitcoin protocol upgrades.

So even the simple one, you have something like one of the smoking gun is kind of like Opcat, which is this very simple soft fork that a lot of people wanted.

Starkware people and these other things.

It's 13 lines of code.

It was in the original client.