StarkWare leadership has committed to removing training wheels, aligning with Ethereum’s vision of fully autonomous and decentralized infrastructure

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As Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explained back in 2022, Starknet has now achieved the “Stage 1” decentralization wherein the network functions with a limited oversight or training wheels. Starknet acknowledged that Buterin’s proposed framework was a “gold standard onchain tool for analyzing Ethereum scaling solutions”.

Starknet said in a press release shared with Cointelegraph that it has hit “Stage 1” decentralization, according to a framework Buterin laid out in 2022, which means the network operates with limited oversight or “training wheels.”