ChainCatcher news, Starknet announced that although the STRK staking program will take place on November 26, the STRK staking contract will be deployed on the mainnet 30 hours to 2 days in advance.It stated that to become a validator, one must hold at least 20,000 STRK tokens and run a full node, and both validators and delegators will be subject to a 21-day unbonding lock-up period.

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.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Vitalik has just deposited 2.09 million STRK into Binance, worth $799,000.Vitalik received these tokens over the past 5 months, and the holding value has decreased by $714,000 compared to the initial value of $1.51 million. He still holds 15,862 STRK, worth $6,000.

ChainCatcher message, Starknet ecosystem DeFi yield aggregator STRKFarm.xyz posted on X stating that it is committed to becoming a profitable DeFi project aimed at developing and fully supporting its community. In light of this goal, the team has decided to implement fees.Looking ahead, STRKFarm will charge a 10% performance fee on each harvest of the Sensei strategies (such as STRK Sensei and USDC Sensei). The user experience on the application will remain unchanged, and the displayed APY is after all fees are deducted.As always, the team will maintain transparency regarding the measures taken. These fees will also be displayed in the user interface.

ChainCatcher news, according to the community governance page, the Starknet community has voted to approve the proposal to launch the STRK token staking program. Starting from the fourth quarter of this year, any address holding more than 20,000 STRK will be able to stake STRK on the Starknet network.Previous news, the governance proposal to activate the STRK staking feature on Starknet has opened for voting, which will end in 2 days. STRK holders will vote on the minting mechanism and the protocol for modifying the parameters of the minting mechanism.

ChainCatcher message, the governance proposal to activate STRK staking on Starknet is open for voting, which will end in 2 days. STRK holders will vote on the minting mechanism and the protocol to modify the minting mechanism parameters.

According to ChainCatcher news, Arkham monitoring shows that the liquidator of Three Arrows Capital, Teneo, transferred 1.12 million ARB tokens to Binance in the past 12 hours, worth approximately $581,300; at the same time, it transferred 2.07 million STRK tokens to a Wintermute OTC address, worth approximately $855,800. The total of these two transfers is about $1,437,100.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham data, 9 minutes ago, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred 2,097,152 STRK, worth about 850,000 USD, to an address created yesterday.

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham monitoring, Vitalik Buterin (address starting with 0x22) unlocked 1.268 million STRK from the Starknet LockedTokenGrant contract at 13:15, worth approximately $470,000. This address currently holds a total of 2.113 million STRK, worth approximately $781,000.

ChainCatcher news, Token Unlocks data shows that next week, tokens such as APT, SAND, ARB, STRK are expected to have significant unlocks, including:Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 11.31 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 12, accounting for 2.40% of the current circulation, valued at about 65 million USD.The Sandbox (SAND) will unlock approximately 205.6 million tokens at 4:00 PM Beijing time on August 14, accounting for 9% of the current circulation, valued at about 54.5 million USD.Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock approximately 92.65 million tokens at 9:00 PM Beijing time on August 16, accounting for 2.77% of the current circulation, valued at about 53.4 million USD.Starknet (STRK) will unlock approximately 64 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 15, accounting for 3.95% of the current circulation, valued at about 24.5 million USD.ApeCoin (APE) will unlock approximately 15.6 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 17, accounting for 2.31% of the current circulation, valued at about 9.6 million USD.CYBER (CYBER) will unlock approximately 1.99 million tokens at 8:00 PM Beijing time on August 14, accounting for 8.54% of the current circulation, valued at about 6 million USD.Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 14.89 million tokens at 3:00 PM Beijing time on August 18, accounting for 0.82% of the current circulation, valued at about 4.6 million USD.Render (RENDER) will unlock approximately 760,000 tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 15, accounting for 0.19% of the current circulation, valued at about 3.7 million USD.Astar (ASTR) will unlock approximately 9.72 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 17, accounting for 0.14% of the current circulation, valued at about 570,000 USD.Nym (NYM) will unlock approximately 2.84 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 16, accounting for 0.36% of the current circulation, valued at about 290,000 USD.Euler (EUL) will unlock approximately 47,400 tokens at 5:57 AM Beijing time on August 16, accounting for 0.25% of the current circulation, valued at about 210,000 USD.Forta (FORT) will unlock approximately 50,000 tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on August 18, accounting for 0.01% of the current circulation, valued at about 6,500 USD.

ChainCatcher news, Token Unlocks data shows that next week, tokens such as CYBER, STRK, ARB will experience a one-time unlock, releasing a total value of over $170 million. Among them:-CYBER (CYBER) will unlock approximately 886,000 tokens at 10:00 AM Beijing time on July 15, accounting for 3.81% of the current circulation, valued at about $3.7 million;-Optimism (OP) will unlock approximately 10 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on July 15, accounting for 0.89% of the current circulation, valued at about $17 million;-Starknet (STRK) will unlock approximately 64 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on July 15, accounting for 4.92% of the current circulation, valued at about $35.6 million;-Render (RNDR) will unlock approximately 760,000 tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on July 16, accounting for 0.19% of the current circulation, valued at about $4.7 million;-Axie Infinity (AXS) will unlock approximately 2.45 million tokens at 9:10 PM Beijing time on July 16, accounting for 1.66% of the current circulation, valued at about $13.4 million;-Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock approximately 92.65 million tokens at 9:00 PM Beijing time on July 16, accounting for 2.87% of the current circulation, valued at about $65 million;-ApeCoin (APE) will unlock approximately 15.6 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on July 17, accounting for 2.31% of the current circulation, valued at about $11.3 million;-Manta Network (MANTA) will unlock approximately 6.67 million tokens at 5:30 PM Beijing time on July 18, accounting for 1.97% of the current circulation, valued at about $5.7 million;-Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock approximately 54.38 million tokens at 6:00 PM Beijing time on July 19, accounting for 7.05% of the current circulation, valued at about $10.1 million;-Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 14.89 million tokens at 3:00 PM Beijing time on July 21, accounting for 0.87% of the current circulation, valued at about $5.9 million.

ChainCatcher news, StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben Sasson shared his personal views on the Starknet Provisions airdrop plan in a blog post.Starknet is a validity rollup that scales Ethereum through the STARKs cryptographic protocol. On February 14, 2024, the Starknet Foundation announced the first round of the Provisions plan, allocating up to 700 million STRK tokens, with a claim period ending on June 20, during which 500 million tokens were claimed. Eli emphasized that while there may be inaccuracies in the allocation method, there is still a commitment to distribute tokens to those who genuinely care about and support Starknet's long-term vision. There are still 400 million STRK tokens to be allocated in the future, and he hopes to hear more thoughts from people inside and outside the ecosystem regarding the token distribution mechanism.

ChainCatcher news, the Starknet Foundation announced on social media that it will allocate an additional 50 million STRK for the DeFi Spring 2.0 program, bringing the total budget for the program to 90 million STRK.

ChainCatcher news, according to Spot On Chain monitoring, wallet 0x09903 (possibly the Starknet team) deposited 2.6 million STRK (approximately 2.42 million USD) to Wintermute Trading OTC 6 hours ago.It is reported that this wallet obtained 149.5 million STRK (approximately 530 million USD) from the StarkNet: Token Distributor contract 1 year and 2 months ago.In addition, last month this wallet took similar actions, transferring 7.475 million STRK (approximately 8.729 million USD) over the past three months.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, 10 hours ago Amber Group deposited 1.2 million STRK to Binance, worth 1.13 million USD.STRK has dropped 17% in the past seven days, currently priced at 0.9219 USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the Starknet Foundation announced that as part of its new Catalyst program, it will distribute approximately $25.2 million worth of Starknet tokens to the 21 most outstanding projects in the ecosystem.Diego Oliva, CEO of the Starknet Foundation, stated that the project has chosen to reward the top user-facing protocols based on multiple factors, the weight of which is assessed jointly by the Starknet Foundation and independent third parties. This funding program aims to accelerate innovation in Starknet's Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution based on zero-knowledge rollup technology. The funding will be divided into two categories, separating advanced projects from emerging projects on the network.The top six projects eligible for funding include the token launch platform Ekubo, the DeFi protocol AVNU with gasless transactions, the on-chain strategy game Influence, the on-chain gaming world Realms, the upcoming DeFi protocol Nostra for crypto super applications, and the decentralized perpetual futures exchange ZKX.

ChainCatcher news, CoinList stated on social media that the average FDV of DYM, STRK, ARB, and W at the time of listing was $14.7 billion, which is an average premium of 13.3 times compared to the private placement market valuation.It is reported that the top 5 tokens launched by CoinList this year were sold to retail investors at an average premium of only 1.04 times, while the average premium for VCs in the earlier rounds was also 1.04 times, with no one-time unlock and a shorter release period.