StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation established a joint working group following the October 22, 2026 vote to evaluate the technical requirements, trade-offs, and architecture of operating Starknet as a standalone blockchain.

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Phase launched its Layer 1 blockchain network

Phase is an EVM-compatible base blockchain designed to serve as infrastructure for an artificial intelligence agent economy.

STRK will remain the native cryptocurrency for Starknet without any plans to introduce a replacement token under the proposed Layer 1 structure.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated that the joint working group began drafting a whitepaper on the proposed transition, aiming to release a draft for public review in November 2026.

In a non-binding Snapshot governance poll that closed October 22, 2026, drawing 3,236 votes representing approximately 489 million STRK, 93.52% supported researching Starknet's transition from Ethereum Layer 2 to an independent Layer 1 blockchain, 4.57% voted against, 1.91% neutral.

The upcoming November whitepaper will examine technical requirements for consensus, data availability, validator responsibilities, and validator economic security without relying on Ethereum's base layer.

Alexander Zahnd stepped down as CEO of layer-1 blockchain Zilliqa at his own request on October 27, 2026, with no successor named

Loopscale is a fixed-rate credit and vault platform built on the Solana blockchain

Dawn runs its financing structure through a Loopscale-powered vault on the Solana blockchain

Akash Network passed Governance Proposal #346 on its Cosmos-based akashnet-2 chain with approximately 98% approval to migrate the network from Cosmos to Solana

Research findings cited by Crypto Briefing on Akash Network's migration to Solana state that transitioning to Solana allows Akash Network to access Solana's liquidity and active user base

Akash Network plans to retire its sovereign Cosmos blockchain entirely during its migration to Solana, with no option to reverse the move back to Cosmos

Akash Network selected Solana in part due to Solana's concentration of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) projects

The Solana blockchain network initially utilized the QUIC transport protocol by default

Initia halted its Layer 1 blockchain and interwoven rollups on October 23, 2026, following an unauthorized minting incident

Initia operates an interwoven rollup network built on the Cosmos SDK that supports both MoveVM and Ethereum Virtual Machine execution environments

The Alpenglow upgrade on the Solana mainnet reduced transaction finality latency from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds

The Alpenglow upgrade removed validator consensus vote transactions from being recorded as on-chain transactions on Solana

The Alpenglow upgrade increased Solana's consensus fault tolerance from 33% to 40%

Solana activated its Alpenglow consensus upgrade on mainnet-beta on October 21, 2026, replacing TowerBFT at slot 459,653,000