Starknet

430 reviews, 19% of them positive.19% positive · 430 reviews· Influence factor 98, above 19% of accounts

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Starknet is a ZK-rollup with solid technology—STARK proofs, Cairo language, low fees, and account abstraction—but faces severe community backlash centered on its airdrop distribution. The snapshot criteria excluded active users who lacked ETH balance despite using the network, and dismissive team communication (notably calling community members "e-beggars") fractured trust. Post-TGE, the token price collapsed dramatically, user activity dried up, and the project is widely perceived as having prioritized insiders over genuine supporters, leaving it labeled a "ghost chain" despite its technical merit.

What people say

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“Got what they deserved for calling their community ebeggars”Good tech, but the team made a completely self serving airdrop with bogus requirement s just to favor the insiders and team, and to add salt to the insult they mistreated the community when they asked for answers. a Soon to be dead chain

Cisco | Canft · 1269· 12mo ago · negative11

“Starknet's Fatal Flaw: Elegant Tech, Empty Ecosystem.”I've been deep in the Cairo code, the docs, and the ecosystem since the early days, and I have to be brutally honest—my initial fascination has curdled into a deep, profound skepticism. This isn't just another L2; it's a bet-the-house gamble on a specific technological vision of scaling. And as someone who's watched the L2 wars unfold from the front row, this feels less like an inevitable future and more like a beautiful, over-engineered island that's drifting further from the mainland. Let's dismantle this thing, starting with its foundational premise. **The Core Thesis: The Complexity Bargain** Starknet's entire value proposition is zero-knowledge proofs. They've bet everything on STARKs—the most mathematically complex, computationally intensive form of ZK tech. The promise is unparalleled scalability and privacy. The reality is a nightmare of complexity. Building on Starknet isn't like building on Ethereum. It's not even like building on other EVM-equivalent L2s. It's like learning a whole new programming paradigm with Cairo. The development environment is brittle, the tooling is still maturing, and the cognitive overhead for developers is immense. This isn't a minor hurdle; it's a fundamental barrier to adoption. The ecosystem is a ghost town compared to the hustle of Arbitrum or Optimism. Why? Because developers, for all their love of novelty, ultimately choose the path of least resistance. Starknet is the path of *most* resistance. **The Tokenomics: A Self-Inflicted Wound** The $STRK token launch was a masterclass in how to alienate a community. The massive airdrop was plagued with complaints about unfair eligibility, and the token itself feels like a solution in search of a problem. It's used for gas and governance, but its utility is forced. The value proposition for holding it is thin, and the initial distribution created more ill will than goodwill. In a landscape where developer mindshare is everything, Starknet managed to turn its biggest potential advocates into skeptics overnight. **The Centralization Paradox** Starknet is, in its current form, highly centralized. The sequencer is run by StarkWare. The prover is run by StarkWare. While the roadmap promises decentralization, we've been hearing that promise for years. The delay in releasing a decentralized prover network is a massive red flag. It means the entire system's security and liveness still ultimately rely on a single company. This isn't a protocol; it's a company town with a cryptographic facade. **The Ecosystem Drain** The "walled garden" effect is real. Because Cairo is so different, applications built on Starknet are largely stuck there. Composability with the wider Ethereum ecosystem is clunky and trust-dependent. This isolation might have been a strength in a different world, but in a world where Ethereum is the liquidity center of the universe, it's a critical weakness. Starknet isn't building a neighborhood in Ethereum's city; it's building a separate city with a very complicated bridge. **The Roadmap: A Promise of a Future That Never Arrives** The roadmap is full of lofty goals: recursive proofs, Volition, decentralized provers. But these have been on the roadmap for years. The pace of delivery has been glacial compared to the blistering speed of its competitors. The market is moving fast, and Starknet risks being lapped by simpler, faster, more developer-friendly chains that prioritize execution over perfection. **The Verdict:** Starknet is the most impressive, technically sophisticated dead end in crypto. It's a cathedral built to the god of mathematical purity, but nobody's showing up to pray. The technology is breathtaking, but it's also tragically misaligned with the market's needs. Developers want simplicity and users want cheap transactions; they don't care about the elegance of STARK proofs. It's a bet that the world will value perfection over practicality. And in the messy, fast-moving, ruthlessly pragmatic world of crypto, that's a bet I wouldn't make. It's a beautiful artifact, a testament to human ingenuity, and likely, a future case study in how the best technology doesn't always win. I'm in awe of the engineering, but I'm deeply skeptical of its future.

amircrypto82 · 1331· 1y ago · negative11

“technologies only on paper”I love the Ethereum ecosystem and of course I have experience using Starknet. And my impressions are negative and they started with the fact that this network requires separate Bravos or Argent wallets (now Ready). The question arises for the team - why the hell do you need separate wallets for EVM compatible L2? Did you really want to attract users to your network? This is probably one of the key mistakes of the team. The second point is the speed of transactions. Once I transferred Stark tokens to a friend's wallet. It was a simple transfer from wallet to wallet. Do you know how long it lasted? 8 hours!!! Are you serious??? This is when there are a couple of dozen active users left in the network and there was no load on the network. Technologies!!! Yes, you can talk about them as much as you want, in practice they simply do not exist. Several months ago there was a touch with this network when registering in Paradex. So I still have not figured out how to import the Argent (Ready) wallet into the mobile application. This is a quest that I just gave up doing. It's just awful!

Kirill · 1473· 1y ago · negative11

“Overhyped and Underwhelming”Starknet promised big things with zk tech, but the reality hasn’t matched the hype. High fees before TGE, confusing campaigns, and a chain that now feels mostly inactive. Hard to see real value for users at this point.

dream · 1285· 1y ago · negative11

“The fall of starknet and waste of time”Starknet started with immense promises, positioning itself as a groundbreaking zk rollup L2 with huge potential to scale ethereum. Unfortunately, the project squandered its momentum with poor handling of its airdrop, questionable tokenomics, and an alarming disconnect from its community. Early supporters felt ignored, many were alienated by dismissive comments from the team, and the token has collapsed in value, leaving trust severely damaged. What could have been a flagship L2 has instead become a cautionary tale of how not to manage community and token launches. Really utterly disappointed with them. All is lost and gone..

bluelotus99.base.eth 🍀💫 · 1311· 1y ago · negative11

“Hit the glassful”Starknet сегодня выглядит самых слабым проектом среди L2-решений. Ожидание - супер топ проект, супер технология, популярность, революция. Реальность - выпуск токена и слив в стакан самой командой. Цена тока только падает. Больше для blockchain не делается ничего. Собственный язык Cairo. Нахуя а главное зачем. Компаниям надо нанимать дополнительных разработчиков и платить им еще больше денег и ради чего. После airdrop Starknet стал объектом насмешек из-за высокомерного общения с сообществом и нежелания прислушиваться к критике, а на фоне конкурентов arbitrum и optimism starknet выглядит как говно. Короче Starknet это технологии ради технологий. Команда мошенников

S.K.I.F.E · 1229· 12mo ago · negative14

“Early days”It still feels early—some apps are a bit rough—but the tech is solid. Watching the ecosystem grow has been exciting. If you believe in Ethereum’s future, Starknet is worth keeping an eye on.

DUZΔN · 1213· 1y ago7

“Projects should take a hard look at Starknet, and not follow that path. In crypto, community is everything.”

Parzival · 1326· 1y ago · negative12

“quite a bitter experience using their chain”I won't be verbose. Everything has already been written about this project.. I don't use this!

Maggs17 · 1298· 1y ago · negative11

“Ethereum's efficient scalability”Starknet can process large numbers of transactions efficiently..this solution is quite promising to overcome Ethereum's scalability challenges

Mixagrip · 1181· 1y ago8

“EN BÜYÜK OE”Ben hayatımda bunlar kadar güzel dolandırıcılık yapan bir proje daha görmedim. Teknolojisi şuyu buyu umurumda değil abi topluluğa önem vermeyen projeler ölmeye mahkumdur.

Dante · 1292· 1y ago · negative13

“Trash”They build something for nothing. No use it. Just a propaganda.

CEWO · 1218· 1y ago · negative13

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