▲Prover Speed Reopens Settled Crypto Primitives

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 34 · +2 since Oct 11 · ranged 32 to 34

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Why the conviction moved

• Oct 12
  Strengthened +2

  StarkWare's plan to put Starknet on a hash-based chain reopens a major network's choice of settlement layer and cryptography, which was thought to be settled. That fits the pattern of earlier primitive decisions being revisited, although the stated driver here is quantum risk rather than prover benchmarks.

• Oct 9
  Strengthened +2

  EIP-8288 puts the choice of proving instruction set to the network because that choice decides whether phones and laptops can generate post-quantum proofs fast enough. Prover benchmarks are again driving a core Ethereum cryptography decision.

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Source trail

• Supporting · October 12, 2026

  StarkWare weighs moving Starknet off Ethereum to a hash-based, quantum-resistant chain by 2027

  StarkWare's plan to put Starknet on a hash-based chain reopens a major network's choice of settlement layer and cryptography, which was thought to be settled. That fits the pattern of earlier primitive decisions being revisited, although the stated driver here is quantum risk rather than prover benchmarks.

  CryptoSlate

• Supporting · October 9, 2026

  Ethereum Researchers Ask the Network to Pick an Instruction Set for Post-Quantum Proofs Under EIP-8288

  EIP-8288 puts the choice of proving instruction set to the network because that choice decides whether phones and laptops can generate post-quantum proofs fast enough. Prover benchmarks are again driving a core Ethereum cryptography decision.

  Ethereum Research