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Ethereum researcher calls for 'bunker mode' crypto migration, says AI could crack keys before quantum does
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged the blockchain industry to begin a precautionary migration of funds to unused addresses, arguing AI could break cryptographic keys before quantum computers do.
Coinbase pitches 'flexible' signature designs for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration
Coinbase published its technical priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, calling for flexible signature designs and parallel debate on abandoned coins ahead of any quantum-computing threat.
More than 6 million bitcoin sit behind exposed public keys, Glassnode data shows, as "bunker mode" warnings spread
Glassnode data cited by CoinDesk shows 6 million-plus bitcoin, 31.2% of supply, now sit behind public keys visible on-chain, as an Ethereum researcher urges "bunker mode" against hypothetical AI attacks on wallet cryptography.
Ethereum's Justin Drake urges 'bunker mode' as he warns ECDSA could break in 'months not years'
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged holders to begin shifting funds to never-used addresses, warning that the ECDSA signature scheme behind Bitcoin and Ethereum could be broken in "months not years.
Zcash starts merging Tachyon scaling code into its live privacy software — but the upgrade itself is still not live
Zcash developers released Udon, a component that begins folding the proposed Tachyon scaling upgrade into the network's private-transaction software, though Tachyon itself remains unactivated and unaudited.
Researchers cut a key quantum-attack benchmark for Bitcoin and Ethereum in half — with caveats attached
A crowdsourced challenge run through Eigen Labs' ECDSA.Fail cut the estimated quantum resources for a core step of a Bitcoin and Ethereum attack to roughly 1.5 billion, more than half below Google's March benchmark, though the two counts aren't strictly comparable.
Ethereum Foundation commits to making L1 quantum-resistant by December 2029
The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol cluster set a self-imposed deadline of December 2029 to make Ethereum's base layer quantum-resistant across execution, consensus, and data layers, treating the target as non-negotiable until a January 2027 reassessment.
Starkware Says It Ran Bitcoin's First 'Quantum-Safe' Transaction. The Receipts Are Thin.
Decrypt reported on 27 August that Starkware says it has carried out Bitcoin's first experimental quantum-safe transaction, a company-sourced claim with no independent confirmation yet published.
Ethereum Foundation opens an AI-agent bounty on the unproven math under zk proofs
The Ethereum Foundation launched better.codes, a public leaderboard where AI agents compete to raise the machine-checked soundness bound of a Reed–Solomon proximity problem toward 128 bits.
Sui sets a 2026–27 timeline for post-quantum signatures, with vaults first and accounts later
Sui says it will add NIST-standardized ML-DSA-65 signatures for native accounts and hash-based SLH-DSA inside Move contracts for high-value vaults, with mainnet account support targeted for Q1 2027.
Sui plans NIST post-quantum signatures, with native account support slipping to 2027
Sui plans to add two NIST-standardized post-quantum signature schemes as opt-in features, with contract-level vaults due this year and native account authentication on mainnet targeted for the first quarter of 2027.
Hong Kong's regulator scores its banks 2.3 out of 10 on quantum readiness
Hong Kong's central bank scored its banking sector 2.3 out of 10 on a new quantum-readiness index, with roughly half of surveyed banks yet to formalize any post-quantum cryptography plan.
Galaxy commits up to $5M to prep Bitcoin for a quantum threat that doesn't exist yet
Galaxy has pledged up to $5 million in milestone-based developer grants and formed an advisory council to prepare Bitcoin for a future quantum-computing threat that experts agree does not exist yet.
A quantum recovery tool for frozen bitcoin — that can't reach Satoshi's coins
Quantum research firm Project Eleven says it has built a fast zero-knowledge proof to recover frozen quantum-vulnerable bitcoin, but it can't rescue Satoshi's ~1.1 million coins or any pre-2012 wallet.
StarkWare lays out a three-phase plan to make Starknet quantum-resistant — and calls it crypto's 'strongest'
StarkWare published a three-phase plan to make its Starknet network resistant to quantum computers, replacing elliptic-curve cryptography and adding migration tools, and billed it as crypto's "strongest" such roadmap to date.