On the official site of Corn (@cornkry), this note covers StarkWare, Bitcoin.
Question on the chart
How much longer can Bitcoin extend its current run when quantum concerns sit in the background? The latest mainnet development from StarkWare offers one data point on that question.
StarkWare announced on August 26 that a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction cleared in block 964199. The move used Avihu Levy's QSB method, built on hash-based locks and off-chain signature grinding. Engineer Tomer Giladi turned the April 2026 research into an actual on-chain spend. No consensus rules changed, and the transaction stayed nonstandard so it needed direct routing through MARA Slipstream.
Price action context
Bitcoin sat at $78,714 on CoinGecko Sunday morning, up 1.4 percent. The move followed several green candles across the prior sessions. Ethereum traded at $2,466.39 with a 1.3 percent gain while SOL reached $106.34 after a 2.5 percent advance. The majors kept the broader market from chopping sideways.
Traders watching the streak now have fresh information. The QSB transaction spent 10,000 satoshis and paid a 5,179 satoshi fee. It showed that coins whose public keys remain unpublished can move under hash-based protection. CEO Eli Ben-Sasson called the work a passion project that demonstrates Bitcoin holdings face no built-in expiration.
Longevity angle
The transaction does not make Bitcoin quantum-safe across the network. It cannot protect addresses that already published their public keys, and the off-chain costs run several hundred dollars. Still, the successful print supplies one more signal that Bitcoin can adapt before any future soft fork arrives.
That adaptation story lines up with the chart's recent behavior. BTC has avoided large red candles while alts like XRP at $1.40 and DOGE at $0.085385 added modest gains. The market continues to price in gradual progress rather than sudden breaks.
What the method actually delivered
Levy's approach replaces elliptic-curve assumptions with hash-based security designed to resist Shor's algorithm. The first live run confirms the technique works on mainnet without forcing a network upgrade. Limits remain clear: only new addresses with hidden keys benefit, and the process stays expensive and nonstandard for now.
Weekend takeaway
Bitcoin's price held its ground into Sunday while the quantum-safe milestone landed. The chart keeps printing higher closes, and the new transaction gives one concrete example that protection options exist. Whether that extends the streak further depends on how the market digests the limits and the costs that still sit in front of wider use.