Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has released its latest roadmap and said that as Ethereum blob demand steadily rises to significant levels, the project's short-term focus has shifted back to lowering fees.
According to the roadmap, Starknet plans to launch Phase 1 of STRK staking in November this year, which will further advance its decentralization process, unlock new use cases for the STRK token, and expand new business use cases on Starknet. Secondly, Starknet plans to implement “stateless compression” and “squash-pricing” in v0.13.3 in December this year to reduce network fees. Next, Starknet plans to implement "stateful compression" in v0.13.4 in February 2025 to continue to reduce costs, will improve devX by supporting try/catch mode, and introduce L2 gas as a protocol-level resource to encapsulate all L2 native compute, storage, and bandwidth without coupling to L1 resource markets. In addition, Starknet plans to implement 2-second blocks, memory pools and fee markets in v0.14.0 in April 2025, as well as other to-be-determined features.