Ethereum’s quantum race takes a new turn as zkSync courts banks and Starknet weighs exit
ZkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs says handled 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds each on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. The announcement came five days after Starknet said it is actively considering becoming an independent layer-1 (L1) blockchain, targeting full quantum resistance in… Read the full story on CryptoSlate…
zkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs claims processed 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds each on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. The news follows Starknet's statement five days earlier that it is considering becoming an independent layer-1 blockchain with full quantum resistance as a target. The developments highlight ongoing scaling and quantum-resistance competition among Ethereum layer-2 networks, but neither announcement directly changes ETH supply, demand, or protocol economics, so the near-term trading impact is limited.
