Stacks founder Muneeb Ali said quantum fears are already slowing institutional investment in Bitcoin, and the network needs a credible roadmap for security upgrades to restore confidence. He warned Bitcoin could face a riskier period if developers make no meaningful progress toward quantum-resistant security by 2028, and pointed to 2030, citing NIST guidance, as a transition target that AI advances could bring forward to 2029. Ali argued that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer would more likely come from a major research laboratory than from an unknown attacker, and that a hit on Bitcoin would affect the whole crypto industry. In September, StarkWare reported a 79% cut in the estimated computing cost of preparing an experimental quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction, though only in benchmark tests. StarkWare calls this a last-resort measure and still advocates a protocol-level upgrade.
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| Sector | Layer 1 |
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