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This breakthrough demonstrates that Bitcoin can achieve quantum resistance without requiring a protocol-altering soft fork, challenging prevailing assumptions about network upgrades. By leveraging hash functions and signature grinding to move assets into secure storage, StarkWare offers a viable path to mitigating Shor's algorithm threats while preserving the existing blockchain ruleset. The successful mainnet transaction validates this off-chain computational approach as a practical defense mechanism for current cryptocurrency holdings.
No Bitcoin soft fork needed for quantum resistance, StarkWare says

The first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction was mined on mainnet August 26, 2026, allowing holders to securely store and transfer coins, even against quantum computing threats, without altering Bitcoin’s rules.
On August 26, 2026, Avihu Levy’s Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method transitioned from research to reality with the first quantum-safe transaction mined on the mainnet. The transaction demonstrates a functional solution for protecting Bitcoin holdings against future quantum computing threats before such computers widely exist, allowing coin holders to move assets into quantum-resistant storage. “People have long assumed that…
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