The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on every weekday.
Starknet-based DEX Paradex reversed its blockchain to an earlier block after a database migration error briefly crashed bitcoin’s price to zero.
Also: Starknet goes down, Vitalik Buterin's goals for Ethereum and ETH staking queues cleared.
Downtime can have knock-on effects across decentralized finance and other onchain applications.
Starknet faces its second major outage since the Grinta aupgrade, halting block production for hours amid ongoing investigation.
2025 has been the year that the Layer 2 narrative bifurcated: most new launches have become ghost towns shortly after airdrop farming cycles, while only a small handful of L2s have managed to escape this phenomenon. Rollup ecosystems have matured from pure scaling experiments into distribution networks, while the key to growth is no longer […]
A move from cash or crypto to going fully private takes minutes on average in a less than five-step process, as CoinDesk Research said in its recent Zcash report.
The upgrade reduces costs and latency across Starknet while advancing the network's decentralization roadmap.
Starknet has introduced a new feature that enables Bitcoin holders to stake their assets on its Ethereum-based Layer 2 network. Announced on Sept. 30, the update marks what the team calls the first trustless method of staking BTC beyond its original blockchain. Through the program, participants can delegate tokenized versions of Bitcoin, earn staking rewards, and contribute to Starknet’s […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The Starknet Foundation is offering 100 million STRK in incentives, with a new institutional-grade BTC yield strategy from Re7 to follow.
Starknet, an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) scaling network, has resumed block production after a significant disruption halted activity for more than four hours. In a Sept. 2 update on X, the team announced that “block production is back to normal,” confirming that most RPC providers are operating again while the remaining ones prepare to upgrade. […]
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Block production has resumed on Ethereum Layer 2 Starknet and most RPC providers are operational and nodes are being upgraded.
Starknet’s community ratified SNIP-31 to bring bitcoin staking to the Ethereum Layer 2, allowing to BTC account for up to 25% of staking power.
Perpetual trading DEX Extended has gone live on Starknet, offering more than 50 pairs and up to 100x leverage.
The aim is to provide a Bitcoin DeFi experience using trust assumptions as the next big thing to zero-knowledge proofs until such a time that OP_CAT is adopted
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
StarkWare also outlined three further developments as plans for the Starknet Layer 2 to unify Bitcoin and Ethereum escalate.
Nums, a sequential game built off of Starknet’s technology, is the first layer-3 to settle on the network.
The Ethereum founder praised Railgun after successfully preventing the zkLend attacker from washing $9.5 million in stolen ETH.
ZkLend, a decentralized lending protocol on Starknet, has confirmed an exploit on its platform and urged the attacker to return stolen funds. While the platform has not disclosed the exact amount taken, blockchain security firm Cyvers estimates the loss at approximately $9.5 million. Bounty offer In a Feb. 12 post on X, the lending protocol […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Zero-knowledge technology continues to be a popular method to scale cryptocurrencies while providing quantum-resistant security.
The “SN Stack” enables developers to create blockchains for specific crypto use cases, potentially bringing StarkWare's technology to a variety of chains.
Starknet has launched its staking program for STRK tokens, becoming the first Ethereum layer-2 network to enable staking, according to a Nov. 26 statement shared with CryptoSlate. The program aims to empower token holders to participate in securing the network while earning rewards. In this initial phase, token holders with at least 20,000 STRK can […]
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Starknet has become the first major layer-2 rollup on top of Ethereum to let users earn money by staking their tokens.Anyone who has at least 20,000 STRK tokens (roughly $12,000 at recent prices) can pledge the asset as collateral and earn rewards for validating transactions. Users with less than 20,000 STRK can delegate their tokens to validators to stake on their behalf.
StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout.
Starknet, the Ethereum layer-2 network, has hit a new transaction per second (TPS) milestone that outstrips that of other L2s. On Oct. 29, the project announced on X that its network reached a peak of 857 TPS on the Starknet Mainnet, surpassing its previous high of 503 TPS. The Starknet team later confirmed to CryptoSlate […]
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Starknet’s new TPS record hints at scaling potential for Ethereum but raises key questions about real-world scalability.