StarkWare
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Pioneering STARKs since 2018 for blockchain scale, privacy, and post-quantum security.
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Bitcoin's biggest challenge is scalability. StarkWare has a vision to change that. The concept of STARK scaling for blockchains was first introduced by Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io at a Bitcoin conference in early 2013. It's now time to scale Bitcoin with ZK-STARK, making it more accessible to everyone. The overarching goal: to transform Starknet to be a self-custodial decentralized L2 with full functionality over both Ethereum and Bitcoin. Hear more about the vision:
StarkWare 🥷1,041,840 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Blocksmart is back with a new episode featuring bestselling author and public intellectual Steven Pinker. How does common knowledge shape society, money, and blockchains? And what can AI teach us about the human brain? We dive into it all in the second episode of Blocksmart 👇 0:00 - Intro: Steve Pinker 0:49 - Common knowledge 5:57 - Blockchain & social consensus 9:40 - Blockchain’s social innovations 12:27 - Making blockchain common knowledge 15:13 - Making science popular 21:46 - AI, LLMs & the human brain 28:25 - Quick-fire 31:25 - Parting thoughts
StarkWare 🥷51,158 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
How do you prove something without revealing it? Eli Ben-Sasson meets ZK co-inventor Shafi Goldwasser on Block Smart to explore her Eureka moment, ZK beyond blockchains, and what it could unlock for AI. Chapters: 0:00 Greetings and intro: Shafi Goldwasser 1:22 ZK for non-mathematicians 5:01 How Zero-Knowledge came about 8:53 What did you imagine ZK would be used for? 13:03 Beyond blockchain: where else can ZK go? 14:58 Why ZK fits blockchain? 19:11 The case for trustlessness 20:29 AI meets ZK 24:02 The Eureka moment 27:35 Quick-fire questions 29:40 Parting thoughts
StarkWare 🥷19,551 Aufrufe • vor 25 Tagen
Bitcoin and Ethereum’s quantum threat is getting harder to ignore. In roughly two months, 100+ participants and their AI agents drove down the estimated cost of the arithmetic of a potential quantum attack on elliptic-curve cryptography. Their work is detailed in the new paper, with seven co-authors from StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation. The challenge focused on a calculation that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer would use to recover private keys from exposed public keys. The result: an 86.1% reduction from the challenge’s starting resource score, which combines logical qubits and key computational operations. That score was also over 50% below Google Quantum AI’s reported result for this calculation, although the circuit setups and measurement methods differ. In simple terms, algorithm improvements can reduce the resources needed for an important part of a quantum attack. For StarkWare, this complements our broader work on quantum security in blockchain, from STARK proofs and Starknet’s post-quantum roadmap to our successful quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet. We’re helping measure the threat and build the defenses. Congratulations to our seven co-authors across StarkWare 🥷 and Starknet Foundation: Odin, sam, teddy, Akash, lucqs, robert, and Tarek | Security Engineer, alongside the wider community. Read the paper:
StarkWare 🥷26,204 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Is Peter Van Valkenburgh the most eloquent crypto advocate around? Listen to him on the Blocksmart podcast and make up your own mind. In this episode, Coin Center Executive Director Peter Van Valkenburgh joins Eli Ben-Sasson to discuss the Bank Secrecy Act, whether it actually works, and whether we can achieve more privacy and less surveillance while still ensuring compliance. Peter also shares the brilliant Banana Coin story. Tune in and share your thoughts! Chapters: 0:00 Greetings & guest intro: Peter Van Valkenburgh 1:00 Surveillance, privacy & the Bank Secrecy Act 7:52 Is the Bank Secrecy Act actually preventing crime? 14:26 Privacy and compliance done right 26:04 New tech, ZK & improved privacy 28:35 Digital identity & technological democracy 37:21 The Banana Coin story 45:28 Quick-fire questions 48:00 Parting thoughts
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The first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction on mainnet was quite expensive to execute. But this tx was about proving it could be done, not optimizing it for production yet. The good news is that we could drastically reduce this cost if we see real demand for it.
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Our new prover Stwo just blew our mind 🔥 Here's a demo by Shahar Papini and Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io of our next-gen prover, Stwo, and its groundbreaking performance: proving 620,000 hashes per second using an M3 laptop! This is x1000 better than our current prover, Stone, and is the fastest in the market 💨 Stwo will be in production in early 2025, meaning that all Starknet-powered chains will be much faster to prove and more cost-effective! Tech Specs: We measured throughput for proving invocations of the Poseidon2 hash over M31 field on a MacPro M3 machine. Deep dive into Stwo here:
StarkWare 🥷175,096 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Shipping season never ends 🥷 1⃣ StarkWare executed the first ever quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction The first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction in history was executed and mined on Bitcoin Mainnet using Avihu Levy’s QSB design. > QSB allows Bitcoin holders to move funds into a quantum-safe setup today, without changing the Bitcoin protocol or requiring a fork. > The transaction proved that the design can already work on Bitcoin Mainnet. > While QSB is not intended as Bitcoin’s optimal long-term post-quantum solution, it provides holders with a last-resort protection mechanism without waiting for protocol-level consensus. > The milestone builds on years of quantum-security research from StarkWare and the Starknet ecosystem. 2⃣ More builders than ever are shipping privacy primitives StarkWare launched the STRK20 Private Sprint to accelerate the development of privacy applications on Starknet. > Over 200 builders are now working on more than 170 projects spanning AI, trading, DeFi strategies, gaming, and more. > The sprint was extended by one week, with builders able to join until September 7, and anyone can join. > StarkWare also open-sourced PriPay, a private payroll system enabling recurring or one-time salary payments that remain hidden from block explorers while preserving an onchain audit trail. 3⃣ Starknet revenue is going back into the ecosystem For the first time, StarkWare delegated 25M STRK generated from Starknet sequencer revenue back into the ecosystem. > The 25M STRK is being used to strengthen projects and operators contributing to Starknet through delegation. > Round 3 of the StarkWare Delegation Program was also executed, with selected validators receiving between 5M and 20M STRK each. > The new structure comes with higher expectations around validator performance, reliability, testing, and active ecosystem participation. 4⃣ The ecosystem keeps shipping > Realms is building an L3 on top of Starknet for Blitz and Eternum, targeting significantly lower costs and better UX. > SuperVega launched its public beta, enabling one-tap options trading on BTC, ETH, ZEC, and STRK, with end-of-year expiries now available. > Extended added 22 new RWA markets during August, launched Chase Orders, and unveiled its vision to become a regulated, globally distributed onchain trading platform, starting with the EU. > Offmarket launched private Polymarket trading on Starknet. > Chance launched an intent verification layer for AI agents, with settlement proofs anchored on Starknet and native escrow wallets. > Omnisea integrated Starknet as the first non-EVM chain supported by its LayerZero-powered bridge. > Gaffer launched a new season of its fantasy football app. > VeilX went live on testnet, enabling anonymous swaps between regulated ERC-3643 assets through an Ekubo extension. > Erebus is building a private trading layer where AI agents can negotiate and trade privately. 5⃣ The numbers keep improving > 1.5B STRK are now staked on Starknet, representing ~22% of the circulating supply > 10M STRK are now being staked privately through Endur > Starknet apps generated $40M in revenue over the past year > Starknet revenue is up 1,200% YoY, with Starknet now operating profitably > Nearly 200 builders are currently shipping new privacy primitives Can’t stop, won’t stop.
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Quantum computers: the “NEVER” case. At StarkWare, we’re preparing for Q-Day because we believe quantum computers pose a real threat. But we want to explore every side of the debate. So Eli Ben-Sasson | Starknet.io sat down with leading quantum skeptic Gil Kalai. Enjoy the discussion 🔽 0:00 Greetings and introduction 0:46 The good old university days 2:30 Will we ever see quantum computers? 4:47 What is “noise” in quantum computing? 6:16 Why is noise such a major problem? 8:37 Can quantum computers overcome it? 10:44 Why does Gil believe quantum computers cannot be built? 15:02 Can error-correcting codes solve the noise problem? 18:30 Should Bitcoin and crypto prepare for quantum computers? 20:25 How to explore quantum computing research 24:57 AI for mathematics 28:52 Gil and Eli get philosophical (!) 31:12 Quick-fire questions 35:56 Parting words
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