Starknet (Privacy arc) 🥷 (@Starknet): This month on Starknet.

This month on Starknet. 1️⃣ Starknet’s privacy arc is moving from thesis to product > In addition to strkBTC, Starknet is now preparing the launch of STRK20s, a new privacy capability that gives any ERC-20 confidential balances and private transfers, with compliance built in from day one > To better understand the architecture and core ideas behind it, you can read the newly released STRK20s Technical Paper > Both strkBTC and STRK20s are expected to launch at the end of April 2️⃣ Starkzap is becoming a complete money toolkit for builders > StarkWare released Starkzap v2, adding five new DeFi modules to the SDK: bridging with best execution, swaps with best execution, DCA, lending and borrowing, and confidential transfers and payments > To showcase its power, we plugged Starknet yield directly into the Jupiter app on Solana > If you want to start experimenting with it, there is currently a $4.5k Starkzap bounty program, split between builders ($3k) and content creators ($1.5k) > More than 1,800 people are already using Starkzap 3️⃣ The Starknet stack keeps improving at full speed > StarkWare introduced recursive circuit proving with S-two, a major optimization that cuts proving latency from around 1 minute to 3 seconds, makes proving possible on a common laptop, and produces smaller, cheaper proofs > For teams interested in going deeper, StarkWare released the S-two whitepaper, offering a formal description of the system along with a soundness and security analysis > Starknet also published its Technical Infrastructure Roadmap for 2026, structured around three pillars: execution, decentralization, and economics 4️⃣ The ecosystem keeps shipping > Extended listed 5 new equities markets, 2 new commodities markets, 1 new forex market, and 2 new crypto markets > ArcX is getting ready to launch a new product built around a Pendle-like mechanism for perp DEXs, and the waitlist is already open > Troves launched YOLO Vault, a new vault using a value-averaging strategy to DCA into Bitcoin, with a similar STRK vault already in preparation > Users can now use Ledger, the leading hardware wallet, on Starknet via Xverse > Paradex launched DIME, its utility token, its first RWA perp market, released the private alpha of its first dated options, and introduced a 0.0075% retail taker fee on spot and perps, ending its previous zero-fee model > 4 new projects are now live on mainnet: Everyday App, Armored MMA, Nums, and Yield Stark 5️⃣ The numbers keep improving > Starknet is already generating around $62M in annual app revenue, and at peak that number reached $146M > Dojo Game Jam VIII closed with 31 submissions, meaning 31 new teams are building games on Starknet > Starknet is now the leading L2 in developer activity > Stablecoin growth on Starknet now places the network among the top 2 fastest-growing chains in the Ethereum ecosystem > Starknet is also now a top 2 rollup by TVL/TVS ratio > EUTBL is up 60% over the past month alone on Starknet > More than 1M fully onchain Beast battles have taken place in Savage Summit > More than $40M in real-world payments have already been processed by Ready through its card product Can't stop, won't stop.