StarkWare launches Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Autoresearch Challenge with over $20K in rewards

StarkWare launched a quantum-safe Bitcoin autoresearch challenge offering more than $20,000 in rewards to develop and test cryptographic protections against future quantum attacks. The initiative focuses on automated research into post-quantum signature schemes and their potential integration with Bitcoin. It underscores growing industry concern that sufficiently powerful quantum computers could compromise current Bitcoin key security, while emphasizing that the threat remains prospective rather than immediate.