Starknet is “actively considering becoming an L1,” the network said in a post on X on Thursday. The move would let Starknet become “the first fully quantum-resistant network,” according to the post, which set 2027 as the target.
Starknet is currently a layer-2 network that publishes its state data to Ethereum as blobs, according to its own post-quantum roadmap.
Ben-Sasson Frames the Question
Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, put the idea to his followers minutes earlier. He asked whether “Starknet becoming an L1 for post-quantum agility” is a good idea or a bad one.
He pointed to two pressures. The first is the quantum threat, which he said “may be MUCH closer than we think.” The second is AI, which he said is “becoming more powerful than we can process.” Together, he wrote, they call for “bunker mode.”
Ben-Sasson listed three requirements for a chain to be future-proofed: the right cryptography, crypto agility and becoming an L1. He said the post connects to a talk he gave at Token2049 on Thursday.
The Existing Quantum Roadmap
StarkWare published a three-phase post-quantum roadmap for Starknet on June 30. The first phase replaces Pedersen hashing with BLAKE2 across the state, chain environment and consensus layers, and plans consensus signatures built on post-quantum schemes such as Falcon-512. The second phase covers migrating existing contracts.
The third phase covers two dependencies on Ethereum, the bridge’s messaging layer and blob data availability. StarkWare said in the roadmap that those “will be resolved as Ethereum’s migration progresses.” The roadmap did not mention becoming an L1.
The roadmap also said that all protocol-level changes to Starknet are subject to approval through its governance process. Neither Thursday post said whether or when a decision on the L1 idea would be taken.
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