What is Starknet? Starknet is a Validity Rollup Layer 2. It provides high throughput, low gas costs, and retains Ethereum Layer 1 levels of security Given a sudoku puzzle, verifying a solution is easier than solving from scratch. If our goal is to convince people of the statement “this puzzle has been solved”, we can save a lot of computation by having one person compute a solution and then propagate it for others to verify. In this strategy, each computation of a solution becomes a one-time event which does not require replication by society. In a similar vein, Starknet scales Ethereum by replacing heavy L1 computation with lighter (hence cheaper!) L1 verification using STARK proofs computed off-chain. What is an application chain? In fact, Cosmos and Polkadot proposed and promoted this concept as early as 2016, and the newly launched Starknet Application has once again attracted widespread attention in the industry due to its technical advantages and new features such as customizability and decentralization. For developers, the release of the open source project Starknet Foundry and the Cairo writing language ecosystem will also bring an easy-to-learn and more efficient development experience. Decentralized Network Architecture

The Starknet network will move to a more decentralized model: At present, full nodes do not communicate with each other, instead each node relies on periodic queries to the Sequencer through a centralized feeder gateway. In a less centralized model, full nodes will be part of a peer-to-peer network that does not require a connection between each of them and the Sequencer. This change goes beyond the connectivity of the network. Let us illustrate this with two examples. First, the Sequencer will sign its blocks to alleviate some trust assumptions and prepare for a vote-based BFT protocol with many voters. Second, data propagation will take on a more distributed flavor, with nodes helping each other to sync on the state and complete their local view. Starknet application chain and its technical advantages Simply put, Starknet Appchain is an application blockchain specifically designed to meet the needs of a specific application. Key advantages include customizability, high throughput, and decentralization, and can enable new features not yet available on the Starknet public chain. It is said that the first Starknet Appchain will also launch closed testing on the mainnet soon. This move by Starknet is in line with the development trend of Layer 2 modular networks. Ecosystems such as Optimism, Polygon, zkSync and Arbitrum all have their own application chains. Although the underlying architecture is different, they all reflect the general advantages of application chains: no congestion on the public chain, and more free features. High throughput The release also mentioned that after on-chain applications launch customized Starknet application chains, projects do not need to be congested on the public Starknet and can provide users with higher throughput and better user experience. Compared to Ethereum, Starknet itself only requires a sequencer to perform computations off-chain. To reduce the amount of data, the prover generates ZK-STARK proofs for transactions. Finally, validators verify the correctness of the proof on-chain, and finally bundle multiple Layer 2 transactions into a single transaction on Ethereum (called a rollup). As a result, Starknet reduces on-chain execution and storage costs, resulting in lower gas fees and higher throughput.

Decentralization StarkNet, which attaches great importance to decentralization, also makes its Appchain decentralized. The Starknet Technology Stack allows any application to deploy its own Starknet Appchain in a permissionless manner, and allows developers to leverage Starknet Stack technology to build customized Starknet instances for applications. Diego Oliva, CEO of the Starknet Foundation, said the decentralized stack makes the network more secure, resilient, transparent, scalable and innovative. And there are no single points of failure, no reliance on a single entity, no "black boxes" and no more builders. With on-chain gaming and autonomous worlds, Starknet not only improves the status quo of gaming; It's shaping the future of gameplay, asset ownership, and community building. Companies such as eth_worm and Guiltygyoza are pioneering in the field of on-chain gaming and technological innovation. Teams like Realms, Topology, Influence, Briq, Cartridge, and Madara are building on Starknet, free from EVM limitations.

What is Starknet? Starknet is a Validity Rollup Layer 2. It provides high throughput, low gas costs, and retains Ethereum Layer 1 levels of security Given a sudoku puzzle, verifying a solution is easier than solving from scratch. If our goal is to convince people of the statement “this puzzle has been solved”, we can save a lot of computation by having one person compute a solution and then propagate it for others to verify. In this strategy, each computation of a solution becomes a one-time event which does not require replication by society. In a similar vein, Starknet scales Ethereum by replacing heavy L1 computation with lighter (hence cheaper!) L1 verification using STARK proofs computed off-chain. What is an application chain? In fact, Cosmos and Polkadot proposed and promoted this concept as early as 2016, and the newly launched Starknet Application has once again attracted widespread attention in the industry due to its technical advantages and new features such as customizability and decentralization. For developers, the release of the open source project Starknet Foundry and the Cairo writing language ecosystem will also bring an easy-to-learn and more efficient development experience. Decentralized Network Architecture

The Starknet network will move to a more decentralized model: At present, full nodes do not communicate with each other, instead each node relies on periodic queries to the Sequencer through a centralized feeder gateway. In a less centralized model, full nodes will be part of a peer-to-peer network that does not require a connection between each of them and the Sequencer. This change goes beyond the connectivity of the network. Let us illustrate this with two examples. First, the Sequencer will sign its blocks to alleviate some trust assumptions and prepare for a vote-based BFT protocol with many voters. Second, data propagation will take on a more distributed flavor, with nodes helping each other to sync on the state and complete their local view. Starknet application chain and its technical advantages Simply put, Starknet Appchain is an application blockchain specifically designed to meet the needs of a specific application. Key advantages include customizability, high throughput, and decentralization, and can enable new features not yet available on the Starknet public chain. It is said that the first Starknet Appchain will also launch closed testing on the mainnet soon. This move by Starknet is in line with the development trend of Layer 2 modular networks. Ecosystems such as Optimism, Polygon, zkSync and Arbitrum all have their own application chains. Although the underlying architecture is different, they all reflect the general advantages of application chains: no congestion on the public chain, and more free features. High throughput The release also mentioned that after on-chain applications launch customized Starknet application chains, projects do not need to be congested on the public Starknet and can provide users with higher throughput and better user experience. Compared to Ethereum, Starknet itself only requires a sequencer to perform computations off-chain. To reduce the amount of data, the prover generates ZK-STARK proofs for transactions. Finally, validators verify the correctness of the proof on-chain, and finally bundle multiple Layer 2 transactions into a single transaction on Ethereum (called a rollup). As a result, Starknet reduces on-chain execution and storage costs, resulting in lower gas fees and higher throughput.

Decentralization StarkNet, which attaches great importance to decentralization, also makes its Appchain decentralized. The Starknet Technology Stack allows any application to deploy its own Starknet Appchain in a permissionless manner, and allows developers to leverage Starknet Stack technology to build customized Starknet instances for applications. Diego Oliva, CEO of the Starknet Foundation, said the decentralized stack makes the network more secure, resilient, transparent, scalable and innovative. And there are no single points of failure, no reliance on a single entity, no "black boxes" and no more builders. With on-chain gaming and autonomous worlds, Starknet not only improves the status quo of gaming; It's shaping the future of gameplay, asset ownership, and community building. Companies such as eth_worm and Guiltygyoza are pioneering in the field of on-chain gaming and technological innovation. Teams like Realms, Topology, Influence, Briq, Cartridge, and Madara are building on Starknet, free from EVM limitations.