AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.

UNCLASSIFIEDAI Agents Are Racing to MakeQuantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—AndWinning An open competition run byStarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen…11IMPORTANCECLOSED1NEWS MEDIA1PIECESOct 1, 2026 04:20blockboard.net

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Market reaction

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+0.15 % before publication
-0.03 % after
$83,605price at publication
13series points

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Has this happened before?

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What could happen next

What the prediction markets currently price as likely. This is context, not a forecast of ours: there is money on it, and that is all we show.

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