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According to official news, the Starknet mainnet will undergo a scheduled upgrade starting at 17:10 (UTC+8), with an expected downtime of about 12 minutes.Starknet stated that this upgrade is part of Starknet's move towards further decentralization, which will transfer the block hash calculation of Starknet blocks to decentralized Apollo nodes.

According to The Block, Starknet is developing a new privacy feature aimed at enabling teams to issue protected stablecoins and other assets while maintaining compliance.This feature is called the STRK20 framework, developed by StarkWare, and is expected to be deployed on Starknet later this year.The framework is designed to provide token-level privacy protection for assets issued on Starknet, keeping transactions and balances confidential while being compatible with decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. According to the team, Starknet's solution is expected to support ERC-20 tokens—the standard used by most fungible assets on Ethereum.

The Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet, developed by StarkWare, announced the launch of a new type of asset based on Bitcoin, strkBTC, which supports balance shielding and private transfers while maintaining full composability in decentralized finance applications.It is reported that strkBTC allows Bitcoin holders to interact on Starknet DeFi while keeping transaction amounts and counterparties private. The system will deterministically issue strkBTC based on verifiable Bitcoin deposits, avoiding arbitrary control during the issuance process.

According to the official blog, Starknet has announced the launch of a new type of wrapped asset, strkBTC, aimed at providing optional privacy protection features for Bitcoin. strkBTC is an asset issued on Starknet that can be exchanged bi-directionally for native Bitcoin, designed to address the financial privacy leakage issues caused by the transparency of the Bitcoin ledger.strkBTC supports two modes: in "non-shielded mode," it operates as a standard ERC-20 token, with balances and transfers publicly verifiable; in "shielded mode," asset balances and transaction details will be hidden. This privacy mechanism is designed based on pragmatism, defaulting to confidentiality for the public, but supporting compliance audits through a Viewing Key to ensure it can operate in regulated environments. With strkBTC, users can participate in DeFi collateralization or settlement without exposing their positions and strategies. Starknet states that strkBTC will be officially launched soon and will gradually expand its privacy features in the future.

StarkWare posted on the X platform that the zero-knowledge privacy protocol Nightfall developed by Ernst & Young has been deployed on Starknet.

StarkNet announced that its native token STRK has been launched on Solana through the NEAR Intents cross-chain solution, allowing users to receive STRK directly in their Solana wallets without the need for traditional bridging processes.NEAR Intents utilizes a solver execution model, where users only need to specify the outcome, and the execution process is handled automatically in the background. STRK will be traded on the Solana DEX Jupiter, with Meteora serving as the primary liquidity venue. Notably, this collaboration comes after the official Solana account mocked Starknet for having only 8 daily active users.

Solana's Head of Growth for Asia Pacific, Yaoyao, posted on the X platform that before joining Solana, in 2023, they attended a Starknet event and tried to discuss expansion plans for the Asia Pacific region with the team. During a conversation with a Starknet executive, the executive displayed arrogance, stating that Yaoyao's inquiry about the reasons and ways to join the company was very rude.Yaoyao mentioned that they were still working at Bybit at the time and were also undergoing interviews with Solana, and this experience ultimately led to their decision to join Solana. Yaoyao also stated that the ecosystem is defined by people, and if one does not stand with the community, there will be no support.

The official Solana account posted on the X platform, stating that the Starknet token STRK has been launched on the Solana network through Near.

Regarding Solana's mockery of Starknet with "only 8 daily active users and just 10 daily transactions," and Starknet's subsequent response, "Who told this little brother Solana the data?" He Yi responded on social media, stating: "Take a deep breath and relax, we are all friends, and harmony is precious."He Yi also added "peanuts, sunflower seeds, and mineral water," calling for the outside world to view the related discussions with a more relaxed mindset, avoiding excessive controversy due to on-chain data comparisons.

The official Solana X account stated, "Starknet currently has only 8 daily active users and a daily transaction volume of just 10, yet its market capitalization still reaches 1 billion dollars, with a fully diluted valuation (FDV) as high as 15 billion dollars."

The Ethereum L2 network Starknet released an analysis report on the short-term mainnet outage that occurred this Monday, stating that the cause of the incident was the inconsistency between the execution layer (blockifier) and the proof layer: under specific cross-function calls and rollback combinations, the execution layer incorrectly recorded a state write that had been rolled back, leading to abnormal transaction execution. The related transactions did not receive L1 finality confirmation. This incident triggered a block reorganization, with approximately 18 minutes of on-chain activity being rolled back.This is the second major interruption since 2025, following a September incident where a sequencer vulnerability caused an outage of over 5 hours and rolled back about 1 hour of on-chain activity.

According to official news, Starknet has resumed online operations and is fully operational.Transactions submitted between 9:24 AM and 9:42 AM UTC may not have been processed correctly. A retrospective report will be released later, which will include a complete timeline of events, root cause analysis, and long-term preventive measures.

Starknet posted on the X platform that Starknet is currently experiencing downtime, and the team is actively investigating the issue and working hard to restore all functions as soon as possible.

Ethereum L2 network Starknet announced on platform X that the latest version v0.14.1 will be deployed to the Starknet mainnet in a few hours. As part of this upgrade, the Starknet network is expected to undergo a brief maintenance downtime around 08:30 UTC (16:30 Beijing time), during which transactions on the mainnet will not be processed.It is reported that this version will support faster block closures during low activity periods and will deploy the BLAKE hash function (SNIP-34).

According to the official announcement, Circle's native USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) have officially launched on Starknet.

According to Arkham data, at 16:46, 35 million STRK (worth approximately 4.8 million USD) was transferred from Starknet to L1 StarkGate STRK Bridge.

According to Coinmarketcap data, the performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization is as follows, with the top five gainers: Starknet (STRK) up 34.28%, current price $0.2509; MYX Finance (MYX) up 24.62%, current price $3.15; AB (AB) up 14.55%, current price $0.007732; Zcash (ZEC) up 7.23%, current price $630.05; Telcoin (TEL) up 6.23%, current price $0.006581. The top five losers: Canton (CC) down 8.47%, current price $0.1035; Decred (DCR) down 8.27%, current price $32.18; Uniswap (UNI) down 6.87%, current price $7.04; Celestia (TIA) down 6.86%, current price $0.7615; Monero (XMR) down 6.44%, current price $380.01.