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StarkWare debuted a three-phase roadmap to make Starknet quantum-ready within months, according to the company.
STRK20 went live on Starknet, bringing private ERC20 transfers and balances with targeted disclosure mechanisms for regulators.
Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli derived a 15-bit elliptic curve key on a publicly accessible quantum computer, Project Eleven said.
StarkWare is cutting staff and restructuring under two units as CEO Eli Ben-Sasson says the firm is "simply too big" to move fast.
Starknet is developing the STRK20 framework to enable privacy-focused stablecoins and other assets with built-in confidentiality.
Starknet plans to launch strkBTC, a bitcoin-based asset that enables shielded balances and transfers while preserving DeFi composability.
The integration allows institutions to conduct confidential payments, treasury management, and DeFi transactions on public blockchains.
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.