PANews reported on February 27 that Starknet announced its decentralized roadmap for 2025, with the goal of becoming the first fully decentralized Layer 2 (L2) to massively scale Ethereum. The plan focuses on staking mechanisms, decentralized operations, and governance independence.
Staking: Starknet launched the first phase of staking (Staking v1) in November 2024. Currently, more than 170 million STRKs have been staked by 63,000 delegators and 106 validators. Staking v2 to v4 will be launched in stages in 2025, and eventually validators will be fully responsible for network security and block verification.
Decentralized operation: Starknet will gradually migrate from the existing architecture to the fully open source Apollo sorter and Stwo prover, and plans to launch the distributed consensus layer of the mainnet by the end of 2025. Validators will participate in block voting to achieve decentralized operation.
Governance Independence: The Starknet Security Council will further promote the decentralized governance of core contracts while enhancing the network’s censorship resistance.
At the same time, Starknet’s latest version v0.13.4 has been launched on the testnet, bringing optimizations such as state compression, fixed L2 gas prices, and Cairo-native performance improvements, and is scheduled to be launched on the mainnet between March 17 and 24. The future version v0.14.0 will also introduce features such as 2-second block time, more efficient sequencers, and improved fee markets.
