StarkWare Co-Founder: Starknet will soon become the first network to settle on both Bitcoin and Ethereum

Odaily Planet Daily News StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson published an article on the X platform to explain the next stage of Starknet's goals. He said that Starknet is about to become the first network to settle on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. If OP_CAT is delayed or not adopted, it plans to take alternative paths, including BitVM, ColliderScript, operations simulated by Taproot, and trust-minimized side chains. In addition, the new STARK prover Stwo is scheduled to be launched on the Starknet and StarkEx system mainnets in the second quarter of 2025, and is expected to provide faster client proofs for games, DeFi, etc., which is expected to be 940 times faster than the current prover. Eli Ben-Sasson also said that Starknet is working to optimize its execution environment through Cairo-Native, which will transition from virtual machine-based simulation to native execution, thereby significantly improving processing speed and resource efficiency. Currently, the first phase of STRK staking has exceeded 160 million, and more than 60,000 STRK holders have participated in it, which is an important step in Starknet's decentralization journey. In the future, efforts will continue to make the core components of the Starknet stack fully open source, including the next-generation sequencer. We are currently building and contributing frameworks for developers to create cross-gaming and DeFi AI agents. In addition, the goal for 2025 also includes launching more than 30 dApps on Starknet.