Crypto users want onchain privacy.
Starknet makes it one-click: shield, transfer, and swap privately from your wallet, with the lowest privacy fees on the market.
And now’s the perfect time to try it: Shield Rush Week 1 is live, with day 2 ending in 6h.
https://t.co/egG26531tm
Private @USDC features are now live on Starknet.
Users can shield or unshield USDC by @circle at any time, send it privately, and use it in DeFi without exposing balances, amounts, or counterparties on the public ledger.
Powered by STRK20 🧵
Just in: a marketplace for Perp DEX points & leveraged Perp exposure is now live.
Every cycle, DeFi invents new ways to price the future.
This is the latest one, built by ArcX, and starting on Extended.
1/ JUST IN: practical privacy at real scale is now live.
1-click privacy, low-cost privacy, private DeFi…
For all assets, now live on Starknet 🧵
https://t.co/1nmJn76tHP
7/ A new gaming project is now live on Starknet.
Gaffer, a fantasy football game, built by a StarkWare team member.
And what timing, with the World Cup kicking off this week.
Take a few minutes to seriously contemplate what the ecosystem shipped in only 5 months.
Among the biggest updates:
> Brought STRK to Solana manlets
> Finished integrating LayerZero bridging technology, as well as Stargate Finance
> Open-sourced S-two, making it possible to verify proofs on EVM, while greatly improving efficiency with recursive circuit proving (a big unlock for privacy, ZK-threads, in-protocol proof verification, and client-side proving)
> Launched StarkZap v1, then v2: a TypeScript SDK allowing anyone, from Web2 to Web3 builders, to bring their apps onchain on Starknet and integrate DeFi use cases while abstracting away blockchain complexity. Already 6,000 builders have tried it, and privacy is coming soon
> Partnered with EY to bring our stack and privacy to institutional players
> Introduced the strkBTC plan and vision: the first Bitcoin-backed asset designed to be productive, with compliant privacy features built in
> Presented STRK20s, Starknet’s privacy pool, allowing ERC20s on Starknet to be encrypted, and released its technical paper
> Launched Shinobi, the protocol upgrade enabling in-protocol proof verification on Starknet, the last missing piece for native privacy on Starknet
> Provided a concrete solution to Bitcoin’s quantum-computing problem
> Helped Share Internet raise a seed round to build better financial infrastructure in Africa, powered by Starknet
> Launched strkBTC on Mainnet and prepared the upcoming full launch of STRK20 on June 9
> Released the multi-collateral feature on Extended, allowing traders to trade perps using USDC, XVS, USDT, wBTC, and ETH as collateral across crypto and TradFi assets
> Got native USDC on Starknet integrated into Binance deposits and withdrawals
And the intern in me can already tease that:
> A solution to Bitcoin’s quantum-computing problem with strkBTC will be announced
> More broadly, the roadmap to make Starknet fully post-quantum secure end-to-end will be announced (spoiler: most of the hard work is already done)
> STRK20s will likely go bananas, with the launch on 9th June and the Privacy SDK to be released soon after
> And much more
40% of the year is already done.
The ecosystem has shipped a lot, but there’s still much more to come in the remaining 60%.
Lock in. Seriously.
PSE (@PrivacyEthereum) recently conducted user research into private transfers.
The research surfaced the core problem clearly: privacy works technically, but it still isn’t practical enough for how crypto is actually used.
🧵