Starknet: Truly Stitching Together the Best of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Zcash!

When we talk about the future of blockchain, the past decade or so has really just been repeating the same “impossible trinity” curse:

If you want security, you have to sacrifice speed; if you want privacy, you have to sacrifice auditability; if you want scalability, you have to sacrifice decentralization.

Bitcoin gave us the hardest security and decentralization, but can only process 7 transactions per day;
Ethereum gave us smart contracts and an ecosystem, but during peak times, gas fees become suffocatingly expensive;
Zcash gave us true privacy, but is always living under the “compliance shadow” and “performance anxiety.”

@Starknet is doing something unprecedented:

It doesn’t want to pick sides anymore, but instead welds the core advantages of all three onto a single chain in one go.

1. Using Bitcoin’s “hardest consensus” as the foundation

Starknet didn’t invent a new PoW or PoS consensus, but directly anchors its settlement layer on Bitcoin and Ethereum:

• With the Bitcoin-secured Data Availability solution going live in Q3 2025, Starknet’s state root can be directly anchored to the Bitcoin chain, using $2.1 billion worth of PoW as the ultimate guarantee;

• At the same time, it retains Ethereum as a backup settlement layer—double insurance.

This means:

Even if Ethereum goes to zero tomorrow, Starknet’s assets and state can still be forcefully exited on Bitcoin, with security directly on par with Bitcoin itself.

No other Layer2 dares to make such a bold claim.

2. Using Ethereum’s “ecosystem and compliance” as a springboard

Starknet is still a legitimate Ethereum L2; all contracts, accounts, and RPC are 100% compatible with Ethereum.

Developers don’t need to learn a new language, switch wallets, or re-pull liquidity.

The contracts you use today on Uniswap, Aave, and OpenSea can be moved to Starknet tomorrow without modification, and gas fees are slashed by 100-500x.

This is the real solution to “scalability”: not starting from scratch, but directly compressing the existing $1 trillion ecosystem.

3. Using Zcash’s “zero-knowledge privacy” as the standard

Starknet is currently the only Layer2 to deliver zk-SNARKs as native, general-purpose, and composable privacy.

• You can deploy a fully homomorphic encrypted DEX on Starknet, where others can only see total transaction volume and liquidity depth—not what you bought or who you sold to;

• You can use zk identity proofs like “I am over 18,” “I am outside the EU,” “I am not sanctioned by US OFAC,” without revealing any real information;

• All these privacy features aren’t “optional plugins,” but are natively supported in Cairo v2 and fully isomorphic with transparent accounts.

This isn’t just “supporting privacy”—it makes privacy the default option.

4. Speed and user experience: It’s not just “usable”—it’s “unbelievably good”

November 2025 live data:

• TPS stable at 3,000+, peaks at 12,000+ (in shared sequencer table mode)

• Final confirmation time 400-800ms (faster than Solana)

• Per transaction cost $0.0003-$0.001

• Account Abstraction natively built-in: social recovery, batch transactions, gasless sponsorship, Session Key, Paymaster—all included

• Wallet experience is “smoother than Alipay”—you barely feel like you’re using blockchain at all

5. The technical base truly “integrating all three”

There are only two words to this underlying cryptographic puzzle: STARK

• STARK is currently the only zero-knowledge proof system that doesn’t require trusted setup (SNARKs all need CRS, PlonK/Groth16 can’t avoid it)

• STARK’s proof size and verification cost scale almost linearly with computation, making it naturally fit for recursion, parallelism, and infinite scaling

• Starknet’s unique Cairo language takes “proof is execution” to the extreme: write code once, and you get both execution and proof

This creates the wildest scenario:

The same Cairo code can achieve Ethereum-level security on Ethereum, Bitcoin-level finality on Bitcoin, Zcash-level privacy locally, and centralized exchange-level speed on your phone.

For the past ten years, we’ve been asking the same question:

“Can we have it all?”

Starknet’s answer:

Yes, and right now.

It didn’t invent new consensus, didn’t create new tokenomics, and didn’t shout slogans to “kill Ethereum.”

It simply welded together Bitcoin’s security, Ethereum’s ecosystem, and Zcash’s privacy with the hardest cryptography, then slashed gas fees to jaw-dropping lows.

This time, we truly don’t have to make trade-offs.

Starknet isn’t joining the Layer2 war;

It’s ending the war.