Starknet Opens Vote on Independent L1 for Quantum Security
The proposal would reduce Starknet's reliance on Ethereum's upgrade timeline, but the vote only authorizes further proposals and polls, not a confirmed migration.
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The proposal would reduce Starknet's reliance on Ethereum's upgrade timeline, but the vote only authorizes further proposals and polls, not a confirmed migration.
The rival strategies put Ethereum’s December 2029 quantum-resistance target against Starknet’s 2027 goal, while zkSync pairs prover development with a push into regulated finance.
OffMarket keeps orders on Polymarket at the same prices, but adds a privacy layer as scrutiny of prediction-market activity grows.
Disposable addresses funded privately from the STRK20 pool could give Starknet users a way to separate DeFi activity from their usual onchain identity.
The feature targets a core privacy gap in public DeFi while keeping links to users’ main wallets confidential.
The potential 2027 shift would give Starknet direct control of security and settlement, while STRK’s rally faces a token unlock that could release up to 127M tokens.
The gain is unrealized, so the position remains exposed to a reversal in STRK before it is closed.
The rebound came without fresh leverage, ETF outflows persisted across BTC and ETH products, and Starknet's STRK led the altcoin recovery on a 33% rally tied to a 2027 quantum-resistance push.
The incident exposes a deeper lending risk: an oracle can price collateral accurately enough on paper while thin markets make liquidation losses unavoidable.
Starknet's strkBTC launch puts the tradeoff in focus: shielding BTC can mean accepting new trust assumptions in wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems.
Large venture raises failed to prevent deep losses, exposing a gap between launch valuations and the demand needed to sustain them.
The plan would retire remaining elliptic-curve dependencies, add Falcon-512 signatures, and ship migration tooling for live contracts, positioning Starknet ahead of peers still hashing out quantum…
Ready Card, a self-custodial crypto card and wallet project built around USDC spending and onchain yield, told users…
Two competing visions are surfacing in parallel: pERC-20 keeps token transfers private while preserving supply transparency, and Starknet's STRK20 pushes confidentiality into DeFi itself.
Starknet has rolled out a zero-knowledge privacy layer covering ERC20 token balances and transfers, marking one of the…
Santiment's latest GitHub activity rankings for crypto Layer 2 networks put Aztec at the #1 spot, with Starknet and…
Silent Payments advances on Bitcoin's base layer without adding trust, but shielded balances and auditable disclosure live elsewhere — strkBTC ships that gap, wrapped in a federation, bridge, and…
strkBTC is a Starknet-native BTC wrapper — the privacy layer runs on the L2, not on Bitcoin itself, so bitcoin stays on its base chain while shielded balances live elsewhere.