AI agents in a StarkWare-backed competition reduced quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction costs from $320 to $67, demonstrating practical progress toward post-quantum cryptography.
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An open competition organized by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs achieved an estimated 79% reduction in quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction costs over one week, with the figure dropping from approximately $320 to roughly $67 in GPU compute expenses. AI models led the leaderboard, including systems from Anthropic and OpenAI, by optimizing the brute-force search process that runs on users' hardware before data reaches the blockchain. StarkWare emphasized that the $67 figure is an estimate rather than a market price and clarified that the optimization alone does not make Bitcoin quantum-safe without additional network-level changes.