Starknet’s Upgrade: Finally, Faster? 🚀

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So, apparently Starknet – you know, the Layer-2 thing everyone keeps talking about – has approved an upgrade. They say it’s “game-changing.” Honestly, everything is “game-changing” these days isn’t it? Like that avocado toast I had this morning. Game-changing. Anyway, it involves multiple sequencers doing the whole block generation thing, which apparently makes it, like, more resilient and scalable. Which is good. I think. 🤷‍♀️

Faster Transactions and New Fee Market (Maybe?)

They’re promising faster transactions AND a pre-confirmation system. Milliseconds, they say. Milliseconds! As if I’ve got nothing but milliseconds to spare. Still, it sounds marginally less frustrating than waiting forever for something to go through. And bless their hearts, they’re trying to make fees make sense with an EIP-1559 inspired mechanism. It’s going to be a minimum of 3 gFRI which, frankly, is still a price tag I need to sit down and contemplate with a large glass of something bubbly. 🥂

Oh, and brace yourselves. They’re warning about a 15-minute outage. 15 minutes! My entire life happens in 15-minute increments. What if I miss a crucial TikTok? The horror! 😱

Roadmap Toward Decentralization (Eventually…)

Apparently, this v0.14.0 thing is just *step one*. Shocking, I know. They have a grand plan to gradually decentralize everything – sequencers, provers, the whole shebang. The long-term vision is a fully decentralized system. Which sounds…ambitious. And possibly never-ending. But hey, one can dream. Just hoping it all actually works before I’m, you know, collecting a pension.👵

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2025-08-19 10:04