Starknet update roadmap: The project's short-term focus has shifted to reducing costs

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has released its latest roadmap, indicating that as the demand for Ethereum blobs steadily rises to significant levels, the project's short-term focus has shifted back to reducing fees.

According to the roadmap, Starknet plans to launch Phase 1 of STRK staking this November, which will further advance its decentralization process, unlock new use cases for STRK tokens, and expand new business use cases on Starknet. Secondly, Starknet plans to implement "Stateless compression" and "squash-pricing" in version v0.13.3 this December to reduce network fees. Next, Starknet aims to achieve "Stateful compression" in version v0.13.4 in February 2025 to continue lowering fees, which will improve devX by supporting try/catch patterns and introduce L2 gas as a protocol-level resource to encapsulate all L2 native computation, storage, and bandwidth without coupling to the L1 resource market.

Additionally, Starknet plans to implement 2-second blocks, a memory pool with a fee market, and other pending features in version v0.14.0 in April 2025.