StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson mentioned on Oct. 8 that independence would let Starknet management safety migrations quite than look ahead to Ethereum or Bitcoin. Starknet’s said 2027 goal is for full quantum resistance; it’s not a specified L1 launch date.
What Independence Would Change
Underneath Starknet’s present protocol design, cryptographic proofs of transaction execution are despatched to Ethereum for verification, alongside knowledge that lets the community’s state be reconstructed. An impartial Layer 1 would as an alternative rely by itself consensus for settlement safety.
That may change a central assumption in StarkWare’s June 30 quantum-readiness roadmap. Its last section ties bridge messaging and Ethereum blob knowledge availability—the mechanism used to publish Starknet’s state knowledge—to Ethereum’s personal cryptographic migration. The roadmap warns that eradicating the Ethereum-facing bridge features earlier than that migration would break the bridge.
For customers transferring property again to Ethereum, the dependency is concrete. The present StarkGate withdrawal course of requires the withdrawal block to be confirmed and a state replace submitted to Ethereum earlier than funds may be launched there.
For $STRK holders, charge fee, staking and governance are already token features, quite than advantages contingent on turning into an L1. StarkWare’s roadmap says all protocol-level adjustments require approval by means of Starknet governance, whereas the token documentation says main operating-system updates require token-holder approval.
