Starknet: A Decentralized ZK-Rollup
Starknet is a permissionless decentralized ZK-Rollup operating as an L2 network over Ethereum. This enables any dApp to achieve unlimited scale for its computation while leveraging Ethereum’s security. Developers can write Starknet contracts and deploy them on the network, and users can send transactions to these contracts (in a similar manner to how this is done on Ethereum).
The Starknet node (called sequencer) is implemented in Python. The Starknet transaction execution environment, called Starknet OS (similar to the Ethereum Virtual Machine), is implemented in Cairo. This optimizes the proving performance of each transaction execution. A Solidity contract deployed on Ethereum connects the Starknet network (L2) to Ethereum (L1).