Starknet Announces Entry into Phase 4: Introducing Privacy Breakthroughs and Bitcoin Interconnectivity

Odaily News StarkWare announced that Starknet has officially entered its fourth phase, with the goal of achieving a faster, more decentralized, and more private network, while strengthening its connection to Bitcoin. Highlights of this phase include the STRK20 framework supporting ERC20 privacy features and the strkBTC asset convertible to native Bitcoin, providing private transaction options. Additionally, Starknet v0.15.0 will introduce decentralized block validation, and Staking v3 and v4 will progressively achieve full network decentralization.

Furthermore, Starknet is advancing Bitcoin's OP_CAT upgrade to enable trustless settlement and researching more Bitcoin bridging solutions, such as BitVM and ColliderVM, to drive the development of Bitcoin DeFi on Starknet. Simultaneously, the S-two verifier will further optimize client proof verification and promote network scaling and privacy protection. Starknet is also committed to achieving comprehensive quantum security, preparing the blockchain and Bitcoin for the post-quantum computing era.