Starknet Update Roadmap: Short-term focus has shifted to reducing fees

Odaily News Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet released its latest roadmap and said that as Ethereum blob demand has steadily risen 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 in November this year, 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 in December this year to reduce network fees. Next, Starknet plans to continue to reduce fees by implementing "stateful compression" in version v0.13.4 in February 2025. It will improve devX by supporting try/catch mode and introduce L2 gas as a protocol-level resource to encapsulate all L2 native computing, storage, and bandwidth without coupling with the L1 resource market. In addition, Starknet plans to implement 2-second blocks, memory pools, fee markets, and other pending features in version v0.14.0 in April 2025.