The Starknet community has officially approved the v0.14.0 upgrade proposal, which is scheduled to be officially deployed to the mainnet on September 1, 2025. This version will introduce a number of key features: including multi-sequencer architecture and Tendermint consensus mechanism, sub-second transaction "pre-confirmation" function to improve user experience, and improved fee marketplace based on EIP-1559.
On June 18, the Starknet community released v0.13.2 and summer roadmap updates: v0.13.2 is expected to be launched in August, which aims to reduce block time without increasing L1 costs, with the goal of reducing transaction confirmation time to an average of about 2 seconds; v0.13.3 will be launched from October to November, and the mandatory content of this version is Cairo-native, emphasizing that faster execution will further shorten the confirmation time; v0.14.0 will be launched from Janua...
On May 29, Starknet announced that application recursion was originally planned to be proposed in the Starknet v.14.0 upgrade, but due to the progress in all aspects faster than expected, application recursion will be included in the v0.13.2 upgrade, and the v0.13.2 upgrade also includes transaction parallelization.
The Starknet Foundation has announced that as part of its new Catalyst initiative, it will distribute approximately $25.20 million worth of Starknet tokens to 21 of the best projects in the ecosystem. Diego Oliva, CEO of the Starknet Foundation, said the project has chosen to reward the top user-facing protocols based on multiple factors, weighted by both the Starknet Foundation and independent third parties. The grant program aims to accelerate Starknet's zero-knowledge-based rollup...
Web3 and artificial intelligence company Giza plan to introduce AI agents to Starknet, such as optimizing returns and reallocating portfolios. RençKorzay, co-founder of Giza, said that AI agents will be deployed on Starknet by the end of June, and other chains will also be deployed one after another. Agents can take over four activities. The first is income aggregation - find "the place with the highest returns and deposit funds into different income channels." In future versions, AI agents wil...
Starknet Eco-AMM Protocol Ekubo posted on the X platform that the token EKUBO has been officially launched, and the total supply is divided into 3 parts at the time of release: 1/3 to the user, 1/3 to the team, and 1/3 to be sold by DAO as ETH/STRK/USDC within 2 months starting from May 23rd through TWAMM. No equity, no low float, high FDV games, simple enough to post half a tweet, and open to all eligible people.
Starknet said in a post on the X platform that Starknet provides users and developers with an ultra-low cost (less than $0.02 on average) and a fast environment.