No Fork Required: Bitcoin’s First Quantum-Safe Transaction Just Happened

Bitcoin Magazine No Fork Required: Bitcoin’s First Quantum-Safe Transaction Just Happened Should fund managers dealing in Bitcoin be worried about the threat of quantum computing?  The short answer is yes — but there’s time to prepare and solutions are already being found.

One of them? Post-quantum Bitcoin transactions on the mainnet. And the first one happened this week thanks to the Starknet Foundation.  JUST IN: The first post-quantum resistant Bitcoin transaction was mined today."It required no soft forks. It required no hard forks.

It required no core protocol upgrades.

And it's live today." pic.twitter.com/YyZbHhm8HI— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) August 27, 2026 Speaking at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong on Thursday, Damian Chen, VP of growth at the Starknet Foundation, demonstrated how funds vulnerable to future quantum attacks can be secured without requiring a network-wide fork, thanks to the company’s latest solution.  “This is a monumental moment,” Chen said.