Starknet announced on October 8, 2026 that it is actively considering transitioning from an Ethereum layer-2 scaling network to an independent layer-1 blockchain

Base blockchains that settle transactions on their own network, such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, competing on security, throughput, decentralization, and developer ecosystems.

Approaches to processing more transactions without sacrificing security or decentralization, spanning rollups, sharding, data compression, and faster consensus designs.