New Starknet version offers ‘unprecedented increase in capacity,’ co-founder says
Starknet, the zero-knowledge rollup solution from Starkware, is readying a major upgrade. According to the company, thanks to the update, throughput — or transactions-per-second (TPS) — is expected to surpass not only Ethereum mainnet, but also all other existing layer-2s. The version 12 upgrade, currently on testnet, is set to resolve a bottleneck of the current alpha deployment of Starknet — its sequencer. In Ethereum’s rollup-centric scaling roadmap, there are two main varieties: Optimistic and zk (or validity) rollups. Sequencers are common to both, but in the case of zk-rollups they process transactions before sending them to a prover, which generates the validity proofs that are passed on to Ethereum mainnet and underpin the rollup’s security. Starkware President Eli Ben-Sasson likens the upgrade to that of an air intake pipe for an engine that turned out to be too narrow, preventing Starknet’s prized prover from performing at full capacity . “The core innovation, the core...