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StarkNet’s ecosystem exploded to ~193 user-facing projects by Nov 2024, a 168% year‑over‑year rise driven by grants, infrastructure work and a gaming boom; the network is pressing decentralization (17...
Starknet’s prover — the software that generates cryptographic proofs for blocks — is now open-source (S-two/Stwo) and integrated into SHARP, enabling independent operators, validators, and even client...
Anyone can run a Starknet prover in principle: Starknet’s roadmap and docs state provers are permissionless and the SN Stack, SHARP and open-source prover code make running provers feasible for commun...
StarkWare developed the SHARP (Shared Prover) system and describes it as central infrastructure that aggregates and recursively combines proofs to reduce on‑chain verification costs . StarkWare and St...
Starknet does not appear in the provided sources as the original creator or sole owner of SHARP; SHARP (the Shared Proving framework) is described as a StarkWare technology that is used by Starknet an...
Owning a prover implementation does not by itself free you from reliance on Starknet’s shared proving infrastructure (SHARP): Starknet currently uses SHARP to aggregate and submit proofs on-chain and ...
Starknet has moved its proving stack to an open-source, high-performance S-two prover that the project and StarkWare say enables independent operators and even client‑side devices (phones, laptops) to...
A “zk-prover key” (ZPK) on Starknet functions as the proving-side cryptographic material used to generate STARK validity proofs that attest to the correctness of off‑chain computations before they are...
Starknet’s ZK-powered approach centers on ZK-STARK proofs and an evolving open-source prover/sequencer stack that the project says will enable high throughput, low fees and eventual decentralization —...
Institutional and enterprise capital is flowing into Starknet primarily around Bitcoin-native finance (BTCFi) and institutional-grade settlement — notably Bitcoin staking, BTC‑denominated yield produc...
Top-tier investors including Greenoaks, Coatue, Founders Fund, DCVC, Wing (and historically Alameda) backed StarkWare/StarkNet because they view StarkNet as a leading Ethereum Layer‑2 scaling technolo...
Starknet attracts builders and investors because it is a ZK-rollup Layer‑2 using STARK proofs that promises high throughput, low costs, native account abstraction and staged decentralization — and it ...
Starknet is positioning itself as a leading zk-rollup L2 with rapid ecosystem growth (193 projects by Nov 2024, +168% year-over-year) and a multi-stage decentralization and staking roadmap that had >1...
Multiple prominent venture-capital and institutional investors have publicly backed StarkNet / StarkWare across several rounds: Series B and D backers include Paradigm, Sequoia, Greenoaks, Coatue, Tig...