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Overview

StarkWare solves the two most pressing problems of permissionless blockchains: scalability and privacy.

We develop StarkEx, a STARK-based scalability engine, currently deployed on Ethereum Mainnet.

StarkWare’s cryptographic proofs are zero-knowledge, succinct, transparent and post-quantum secure.

Founded2018
FoundersEli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Uri Kolodny, Michael Riabzev
Team42
FundingRaised $36M in equity, and a $4M grant from the Ethereum Foundation

About

StarkWare was founded by Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Uri Kolodny, and Michael Riabzev. Eli was a professor of CS at Technion for many years. Together with Dr. Michael Riabzev, his former doctoral student, Eli co-invented STARKs. Eli is also a Founding Scientist of Zcash. Alessandro Chiesa is a professor of CS at UC Berkeley, and he too is a Founding Scientist of Zcash.

StarkWare was founded with a mission to productize the ZK-STARK proof system and has recruited a strong team of mathematicians, engineers, product and business people to do that.

StarkEx Features

A Layer-2 scalability engine based on STARK technology.
Massive throughput. We’ve demonstrated throughput of 10K self-custodial trades per seconds, over 2000X improvement on Ethereum’s Layer-1 capacity.
StarkEx batches transactions off-chain, proves their validity and sends this proof on-chain for verification. The bulk of the computational work is done off-chain, where resources are plentiful. The on-chain verifier does exponentially less computational work, without adding trust assumptions.
Deployed on Mainnet: DeversiFi.
Coming soon: Immutable (developers of the blockchain-based game Gods Unchained), dYdX and ParaSwap.