StarkWare
StarkWare brings scalability and privacy to blockchains with zero-knowledge STARK proofs. It is a permissionless, decent...
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What they do
Problem
Blockchains like Ethereum face scalability and privacy limitations that constrain transaction throughput and cost while needing to maintain L1 security.
Solution
StarkWare provides a permissionless decentralized ZK-rollup L2 that generates STARK proofs off-chain and verifies them on-chain to scale Ethereum securely.
Who it's for
Blockchain developers and decentralized applications that need scalable, secure Ethereum transactions.
Founders
Eli Ben-Sasson
Alessandro Chiesa
Uri Kolodny
Michael Riabzev
Company timeline
- Founded2018
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