Bitcoin embraces post quantum future
Two stories published this week, despite the skepticism of Bitcoiners regarding the threat from quantum computing to Bitcoin. They highlighted progress made in upgrading the blockchain as well as protecting the outputs against attack.
StarkWare’s Avihu Levy tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet This protects the public key during a brief time when they are visible in the memory pool.
Onchain shows StarkWSare’s 10,000-satoshi expenditure protected by Levy’s Quantum Safe Bitcoin(QSB) scheme. This system uses a combination of hash-based, one-time-signature and computation searches to tie an approval to a transaction. It’s a good last resort, but each transaction costs $150-200 and takes several hours.
The long-term upgrades that protect each transaction have made significant progress. Blockstream’s researchers conducted a study on August 27. published a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal to upgrade Bitcoin with the SHRINCS signature scheme. The researchers slimmed down a huge, hash based post quantum signature by about 13.23 times — an impressive effort, but the SHRINCS signature is still at least nine times larger than Bitcoin’s existing signatures and comes with a bunch of trade offs.
Jonas Nick of Blockstream Research called itthe first concrete proposal “We need a specific post-quantum scheme for Bitcoin.” He admitted it was “not optimal along every axis” Addition:
“I do think it is a very good trade-off among the options we have now,” He said.
Solana’s validators vote for a reduction in inflation of 1.5% within 2.8 years
Solana validators approved a proposal to double the network’s annual disinflation rate. Over the next six-year period, this will result in a reduction of 18,9 million SOL.
Overall, 60.7% voted in favor of the proposal. Only 25.16 voted against. 7.84% abstained.
The measure, also known as SGP0002, or Double Deinflation will raise Solana’s disinflation from 15% per annum to 30%.
Solana’s 1.5% final inflation rate is now expected in approximately 2.8 to 3.8 years. The previous schedule took roughly 5.7 or so years.
Onchain data presented By The Kobeissi Letter, it was shown that Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions during The increase in July was 13.5% over the previous month. The number of transactions is up by 91%, or about 2 billion.
Trump cost investors $4.7B through crypto ‘schemes’
Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that claims US President Donald Trump “left investors at least an estimated $4.7 billion underwater” since 2022 His family and his own digital assets.
Investors are at risk, according to a new report lost Trump Media’s digital assets treasury has $450m, while the Official Trump memecoin (TRUMP), which he uses, is worth $3.2billion. The president will also launch his non-fungible token trading cards in 2022, with a minimum of $9.3m.
However, USD1 holders who held the stablecoin were happy to have zero losses.
Trump’s crypto-profits are one of many factors that is holding back the passage of CLARITY Act. Democrats want stronger protections against elected officials issuing cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin rally just beginning
BlocksBridge Consulting reported Bitcoin’s recent 23% increase has led to a rally of the currency. outpaced most AI-linked infrastructure stocks.
Three beaten-down Bitcoin mining companies — Canaan, American Bitcoin and Cango — gained between 41% and 67%. CoreWeave gained about 21% while Nebius and IREN both advanced by 15%.
Bitcoin ETFs are also available. minted more than $3.3 billion in AugustThis is the best month ever since October 2025, when it was at its highest point. Outflows on Friday ended a nine day hot streak however.
Wall Street analysts at Bernstein believe we’re about to enter a four-year cycle. Bernstein forecasts Bitcoin to reclaim $125,000 under its base and bull cases scenarios, with a peak of $300,000. top $500,000 that year under its bullish scenario.
Revolut launches euro stablecoin on 3 European markets
Revolut is rolling out EURR, its first stablecoin. to around 2 million customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal.
Later this year, the phased expansion is anticipated to extend to other European Economic Area markets (EEA).
Bridge Building S.A. in Luxembourg is responsible for the issuance of EURR. Bridge Building S.A. owns and operates Bridge Stablecoin Infrastructure Company. Revolut announced that EURR would be integrated in its retail app. The company plans to integrate EURR into multiple blockchain networks, and to allow transfers to external wallets. The initial launch is on the Ethereum blockchain.
The Winners and the Losers
Bitcoin (BTC) has risen 1.1% this week to $78,420. Ethereum (ETH) gained 0.6% and is now trading at $2,469 while XRP (XRP), is down 8.7% at $1.38. CoinMarketCap reports that the market cap total is $2.64 billion.
VeChain’s (VET), with a gain of 18.5% over the previous week, was followed by SPX6900’s (SPX), at 17.3%. Uniswap is on 15.2%.
Aptos (APT), which dropped 16.4% this past week, Stable(STABLE), who fell 14.7%, and Morpho(MORPHO), which declined 13.6%.
Predictions for the Week
Bitcoin bear market ‘over’ as price metric copies 2023 recovery: CryptoQuant CEO
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju has flagged the first positive reading on CryptoQuant’s Bull/Bear Market Cycle Indicator since early October.
“The Bitcoin bear cycle is over,” he wrote.
The indicator is a measure of onchain profitability metrics compared to a 365-day moving average. This includes the Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV), Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL), and spent output profits ratio (SOPR). The Bull/Bear Indicator values above zero indicate bullish phases of the BTC Price Cycle as profits improve.
On February 5, the current cycle bottom was reached. as BTC/USD fell to $60,000The reading -1.244 corresponds to “extreme bear” conditions. On August 26, the Bull/Bear index displayed a reading of 0.042, placing it within its “bull” bracket.
This Week’s FUD
77% Americans consider crypto-based retirement plans to be risky, according to a survey
According to The National Institute on Retirement Security, more than three quarters of Americans consider cryptocurrency as a risky investment in retirement plans.
You can also find out more about the following: survey Find out 77% of Americans consider crypto in workplace retirement plans riskyThe majority of 46% view cryptography as a very risky investment. Meanwhile, 53% are against employers providing it as an alternative.
Greenwald Research carried out the study between Oct. 24, 2025 and Nov. 14, 2020, which included 1,203 Americans 25 years and older. Results were weighted based on age, income, gender, etc.
Crypto in retirement plans: What do Americans think? Source: National Institute of Retirement Security
Real Trump Coins denies launching GOLD token, blames ‘bad actors’
Real Trump Coins are available. denied launching, promoting or authorizing the Trump Digital GOLD token That briefly appeared on its website before it collapsed, accusing the promotion of “third-party bad actors.”
After the denial, Real Trump Coins X account promoted The Solana token was distributed on Saturday, and users were directed to RealTrumpCoins.com where GOLD is also promoted. Later, the X posts have been deleted and now link to a different domain called TrumpCoins.com.
“Trump Coins has not authorized and will not launch, promote, or authorize any digital token,” Real Trump Coins said On Saturday it added that the investigation was being conducted in conjunction with local authorities.
Polygon fixes security vulnerabilities in the latest hard forks
Polygon disclosed several previously private security vulnerabilities that could have disrupted its proof-of-stake networkAfter two hard forks, deploying recent fixes.
A Thursday report said that the vulnerability affected clients of Polygon Bor and Heimdall and was a result of flaws in checkpoint processing and milestone processing. disclosure From the Validators Support Team at Polygon Labs.
Polygon stated that the Austin and Kyoto Hard Forks fixed the issues. These were tested privately before they were activated and made public.
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