Starknet in Motion: Building, Shipping, Bitcoining, decentralizing, Non-Stop

Building, shipping, onboarding, decentralizing, Bitcoining...

Starknet_OG

May 15, 2025

The Starknet ecosystem is literally on fire. Building, shipping, onboarding, decentralizing, Bitcoining...

Honestly, I feel lucky to spend most of my crypto time (aka most of my life) working for this ecosystem

Here’s a glimpse of what’s been shipped in the last two months alone, and why there’s no second-best L2.

1⃣ New use cases

@focustree_app launched their new wallet on Mainnet, onboarding nearly 250k users on Starknet in just ~3 weeks. And it cost them
less than 1 ETH to do so. Focus Tree proved it: Starknet is the perfect home for consumer apps.
A major Perp DEX, @extendedapp, has started migrating from StarkEx to Starknet L2, finally unlocking the Starknet ecosystem with a top-tier Perp DEX (featuring community vaults, 50+ assets across crypto and TradFi, and an ongoing campaign for users).
The Argent card is live, letting users spend their Starknet assets on real-world purchases, anywhere, anytime. There is no need for a bank anymore if you don’t want one.
A new stablecoin is now available on Starknet, thanks to @vesuxyz and @relend_network.
@RemusDEX, an orderbook-based spot DEX, launched on Mainnet.
@colonizxyz, a Twitter x Patreon-style platform, is now available on Starknet.
A new yield farming protocol is launching next Monday.

Several games have also gone live on Mainnet:

Eternum, the most addictive and ambitious fully onchain game, only possible on Starknet
Ponziland, a GameFi project
Blobarena, a Pokémon-style game with real-world universe
Pistols, a 1v1 dueling game
Metacube, a Minecraft-style minigame
Crimson Fate, a rogue-like game

Speaking of gaming, @cartridge_gg keeps shipping innovations to improve the gaming UX stack:

Social login and EVM wallet compatibility are now live on the Cartridge Controller
Cartridge Credits launched to simplify onboarding via unified cross-chain balances
Cartridge Arcade is also live, the hub for Dojo-powered games and player activity

On top of all of that:

Scalable and privacy-focused dApps are now possible thanks to Starknet x Noir
AI agents are going bananas thanks to @kasarLabs and @daydreamsagents shipping

And much more projects and use cases are coming.

2️⃣ Bitcoin Use Cases

Moving from Bitcoin to Starknet, and back, is now easier than ever.

Xverse cross-chain swaps are live, letting users move BTC from Bitcoin to STRK on Starknet. The full Xverse wallet integration is on the way.
Garden, an intents-based bridge, integrated Starknet, enabling BTC transfers from 6 chains to Starknet.
Atomiq now supports cross-chain swaps from BTC on Bitcoin to wBTC on Starknet.

In terms of Bitcoin use cases on Starknet:

Lend your wBTC on Nostra and Vesu to earn ~7% APR.
Pay in the real world via Lightning Network, and directly from Starknet using the @myBraavos mobile wallet
Tip STRK directly on Nostr
Privately fund Cashu wallets from Starknet
Bitcoin staking is coming to Starknet in Q3 2025
Lombard is also coming, and it’s bringing massive BTC liquidity to Starknet

3️⃣ Appchains

The SN Stack officially launched in January 2025, and 3 appchains are already building on top:

StarkPay, an all-in-one payments infra
Agent Forge, an AI marketplace chain
ofc @tradeparadex, the Starknet appchain OG, building a Perp DEX (much more now) and shipping nonstop for over a year.

On top of that, the L3 building block is now fully available for buildors, and @karnotxyz can even provide full chain abstraction for appchain projects when needed.

4️⃣ Decentralization

Starknet is now the first pure ZK Rollup to reach Stage 1
Staking V2 (phase 2/4) is live on Testnet and launching on Mainnet in June.
Speaking of staking,Binance now supports STRK staking.

5⃣ Stack

In terms of stack, the ecosystem never slows down when it comes to optimization. Thanks to Starknet v0.13.5, Starknet is now the most efficient Rollup on the market.

Most cost efficient Rollup, but also one of the fastest, with ~1,000 TPS capacity (and much more are coming).

6⃣ Metrics

Thanks to all of that, Starknet's adoption metrics are in up-only mode.

StarkEx (permisionned version of Starknet) crossed 1 billion transactions.

5 million account contracts reached on Starknet.

Lending/borrowing on @vesuxyz hitting ATH after ATH.

Yearly ATH in active users on Starknet.

Starknet is now the #1 ZK Rollup by TVS (Total Value Secured, previously TVL) and user activity.

7️⃣ What’s Coming

Obviously not an exhaustive list (just the tip of the iceberg):

EVM wallet compatibility via @rosettanetstark
More social login options from @cartridge_gg Controller (currently only Discord)
@hyperlane integration + bridges launch
Custom bridges for Bitcoin and Solana assets onboarding on Starknet
Bitcoin staking on Starknet
LBTC (Lombard) integration into the broader Starknet ecosystem
@extendedapp migrating to Starknet L2
STRK staking: phase 2 and phase 3
IBC integration
2 MAJOR interoperability projects integrating Starknet