Starknet
Last changed 2026-10-10 · Score recalculated — Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 62 → 84. Problems weighed by who is responsible: concerns that are not fraud −18.4, problems around the subject, caused by others −2.4; legitimacy credit well known and widely used +15, long-running +10, regulated +5; fact-check adjustments (+2) now shown as page reliability, not in the score. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -18.4 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -2.4 |
| Well known and widely used | +15 |
| Long-running | +10 |
| Regulated | +5 |
| Sum | 74 |
Score: 84/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Summary
Starknet is a permissionless ZK-rollup Layer 2 network on Ethereum, developed by Israeli cryptography firm StarkWare Industries. It uses STARK-based validity proofs and the Cairo programming language to scale Ethereum throughput. The project launched its STRK token in February 2024 and reached L2Beat Stage 1 decentralization in May 2025, but has faced significant community criticism over its airdrop eligibility criteria and an early, aggressive token unlock schedule for investors and early contributors.
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Timeline(13 events)
2018
StarkWare Industries founded in Israel by Eli Ben-Sasson, Uri Kolodny, Alessandro Chiesa, and Michael Riabzev.
StarkWare Industries — Wikipedia11 March 2022
StarkWare raises $100 million Series D round at $8 billion valuation, led by Greenoaks and Coatue. Three Arrows Capital and Alameda Research among earlier round investors.
StarkWare Reaches $8B Valuation — CoinDesk16 November 2022
STRK token ERC-20 contract deployed on Ethereum.
Starknet token is deployed on Ethereum — Starknet Official12 November 2023
STRK token bridged to Starknet via the StarkGate protocol.
Starknet 2024 Year in Review — Starknet Official11 January 2024
StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny steps down for family health reasons; co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson takes over as CEO.
StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny Steps Down — CoinDesk20 February 2024
STRK Provisions airdrop distributed to over 1.3 million recipients; STRK launches at approximately $4–$5.30 all-time high. Immediate community backlash over eligibility criteria.
Starknet Airdrop Eligibility Clash Triggers 90% Drop in Users — BeInCrypto22 February 2024
StarkWare announces revised token unlock schedule, reducing April 15 unlock from 13.1% to 0.64% of total supply following community backlash. STRK price jumps 10% on announcement.
Starknet's STRK Jumps After Developer StarkWare Agrees to Delay Token Unlocks — CoinDesk26 November 2024
Starknet Staking Phase 1 goes live on mainnet, becoming the first L2 to introduce staking.
Starknet makes history as first L2 to introduce staking on mainnet — Crypto.news12 February 2025
zkLend, a Starknet-based lending protocol, is exploited for approximately $9.57 million via a decimal precision vulnerability. Funds partially recovered after attacker returns approximately $3.2 million.
Explained: The zkLend Hack (February 2025) — Halborn16 May 2025
L2Beat assigns Starknet Stage 1 decentralization rating, making it the only ZK-rollup to hold that classification. Starknet concurrently surpasses ZKsync Era to become the largest ZK-rollup by TVL.
Starknet hits Stage 1 decentralization, tops ZK-rollups — CoinTelegraphSeptember 2025
Starknet v0.14.0 'Grinta' upgrade goes live, introducing distributed sequencer architecture with three nodes running in consensus rotation — all three operated by StarkWare.
Starknet v0.14.0 set to go live on mainnet Sep. 1 — Crypto.newsDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (7 decisions). 27 of 28 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/31/2026, 5:41:54 PM
last updated: 10/10/2026, 6:50:25 PM
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