Transitioning to a standalone Layer 1 would require Starknet to maintain its own network security backed by the market capitalization of STRK, which stood at $580.24 million on October 15, 2026

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.