#strk24小时上涨约20%
Up 90% in a week, up 40% in a day—and now it’s saying it isn’t secure enough 🦖
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Starknet’s native token, STRK, rose about 90% in a week and another 40% in 24 hours, with its price climbing to around $0.10 and its market cap reaching about $768 million. For the first time in a year, it broke into the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap. And it all started with a short post published on October 8 by StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson 📈
There was just one sentence in the post, but it was reposted again and again: “We are actively considering becoming an independent Layer 1 chain.” The goal is to make Starknet the first fully quantum-resistant network, with 2027 as the target date ⚠️
Why would a coin that just surged come out and say that the foundations beneath it aren’t secure enough? That’s what makes this rally truly worth paying attention to.
Starknet is currently a Layer 2 on Ethereum, and it inherits its security from Ethereum. Transaction data, state commitments, and finality all depend on Ethereum’s consensus and settlement layers. The upside is that Starknet doesn’t have to build its own validator system from scratch. The trade-off is that it doesn’t get to decide the pace of security upgrades.
Ben-Sasson put the issue plainly: a Layer 2 can only be as quantum-resistant as its underlying layer. Ethereum must complete its transition to quantum resistance as soon as possible; otherwise, there’s little a Layer 2 can do on its own.
The timeline is indeed getting tighter. A study published in March this year by Google Quantum AI estimated that breaking 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography would take only about 1,200 logical qubits—a figure well below earlier expectations. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to phase out ECDSA signatures by 2030 and ban them entirely by 2035. The Ethereum Foundation’s roadmap calls for quantum upgrades to the execution, consensus, and data layers to be completed by December 2029, progressing through a hard fork every 7.2 months on average.
Starknet wants to capitalize on that window. Its proof system, STARK, is based on hash functions, and there are currently no known quantum polynomial-time attack algorithms against it. Native account abstraction at the account layer means the signature algorithm can be changed without a network-wide hard fork. In August this year, the mainnet ran an experiment in which a contract account signed with Falcon-512 transferred real assets. The address stayed the same, and the fee was about 6 cents.
My take: that 90% rally isn’t a bet on the technology—it’s pricing in the race against time. The market is betting on one thing: whoever turns quantum resistance from a paper concept into a working mainnet first will get a ticket to the next big narrative. But there’s a cost. Becoming a Layer 1 means running your own validators, bearing the burden of consensus security, and dealing with every vulnerability yourself. The bill for that path will come due before 2027 🔐
Do you think quantum resistance is the next real-world need, or just another story being spun in this cycle? Let’s talk in the comments.
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Up 90% in a week, up 40% in a day—and now it’s saying it isn’t secure enough 🦖
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Starknet’s native token, STRK, rose about 90% in a week and another 40% in 24 hours, with its price climbing to around $0.10 and its market cap reaching about $768 million. For the first time in a year, it broke into the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap. And it all started with a short post published on October 8 by StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson 📈
There was just one sentence in the post, but it was reposted again and again: “We are actively considering becoming an independent Layer 1 chain.” The goal is to make Starknet the first fully quantum-resistant network, with 2027 as the target date ⚠️
Why would a coin that just surged come out and say that the foundations beneath it aren’t secure enough? That’s what makes this rally truly worth paying attention to.
Starknet is currently a Layer 2 on Ethereum, and it inherits its security from Ethereum. Transaction data, state commitments, and finality all depend on Ethereum’s consensus and settlement layers. The upside is that Starknet doesn’t have to build its own validator system from scratch. The trade-off is that it doesn’t get to decide the pace of security upgrades.
Ben-Sasson put the issue plainly: a Layer 2 can only be as quantum-resistant as its underlying layer. Ethereum must complete its transition to quantum resistance as soon as possible; otherwise, there’s little a Layer 2 can do on its own.
The timeline is indeed getting tighter. A study published in March this year by Google Quantum AI estimated that breaking 256-bit elliptic-curve cryptography would take only about 1,200 logical qubits—a figure well below earlier expectations. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to phase out ECDSA signatures by 2030 and ban them entirely by 2035. The Ethereum Foundation’s roadmap calls for quantum upgrades to the execution, consensus, and data layers to be completed by December 2029, progressing through a hard fork every 7.2 months on average.
Starknet wants to capitalize on that window. Its proof system, STARK, is based on hash functions, and there are currently no known quantum polynomial-time attack algorithms against it. Native account abstraction at the account layer means the signature algorithm can be changed without a network-wide hard fork. In August this year, the mainnet ran an experiment in which a contract account signed with Falcon-512 transferred real assets. The address stayed the same, and the fee was about 6 cents.
My take: that 90% rally isn’t a bet on the technology—it’s pricing in the race against time. The market is betting on one thing: whoever turns quantum resistance from a paper concept into a working mainnet first will get a ticket to the next big narrative. But there’s a cost. Becoming a Layer 1 means running your own validators, bearing the burden of consensus security, and dealing with every vulnerability yourself. The bill for that path will come due before 2027 🔐
Do you think quantum resistance is the next real-world need, or just another story being spun in this cycle? Let’s talk in the comments.
Tap the profile picture to watch the livestream.
Every day, we bring you the latest crypto market trends—not just what’s happening, but the logic and opportunities behind it 👀🚀