Starknet: Why? Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founder of STARK and ZCash, established StarkWare in January 2018 with the aim of enhancing blockchain scalability and privacy. StarkWare achieves this by leveraging STARK technology, a cryptographic proof system, to deploy and verify zero-knowledge proofs. One notable product of StarkWare is Starknet, a permissionless ZK-rollup solution that enables general computation. Currently operating as a layer 2 network on top of Ethereum, Starknet ensures eventua...

Starknet: Why? Eli Ben-Sasson, the co-founder of STARK and ZCash, established StarkWare in January 2018 with the aim of enhancing blockchain scalability and privacy. StarkWare achieves this by leveraging STARK technology, a cryptographic proof system, to deploy and verify zero-knowledge proofs. One notable product of StarkWare is Starknet, a permissionless ZK-rollup solution that enables general computation. Currently operating as a layer 2 network on top of Ethereum, Starknet ensures eventua...