This month on Starknet. 1️⃣ Bitcoin privacy is now possible on Starknet - The Starknet community approved both the strkBTC bridge architecture and its initial signer set, validating the design, trade-offs, and roadmap toward more trust-minimized BTCFi. - Following this approval, strkBTC officially hit the market, a new Bitcoin wrapper on Starknet, with built-in compliant privacy. - Among the first users case available today: Shield and unshield strkBTC directly from Xverse and Ready interfaces - Transfer privately inside Starknet’s privacy pool - Bridge Bitcoin to strkBTC on Starknet through Atomiq Labs and GardenFi - Stake and liquid stake strkBTC through Endur - Provide liquidity on Ekubo - Trade it on avnu and Ekubo - Lend and borrow it on Vesu - Next steps: anonymous swap on avnu & Ekubo, and the full launch of STRK20s on June 9, bringing privacy to all ERC-20 assets, not only Bitcoin. 2️⃣ Starknet is getting ready for the post-quantum era Post-quantum resistance is becoming one of the most important long-term topics in crypto, and Starknet is one of the best-positioned ecosystems: - Starknet is powered by STARK proofs, a proving system already considered post-quantum secure. - It also has native account abstraction, making it easier for users to migrate to post-quantum secure wallets (1 click/tx migration) - Even better: post-quantum wallets are already live on Starknet Mainnet today. - The remaining pieces would require around 4 to 6 months of engineering work to bring Starknet fully to end-to-end post-quantum resistance. 3️⃣ The ecosystem keeps shipping - Xverse had a strong month, improving access to Starknet through Due’s Bank Transfer integration, integrating Vesu’s USDC markets directly inside the wallet, and becoming the first wallet on Starknet to support strkBTC shielding on mobile. - Ready launched Ready Rewards, allowing users to earn points through swaps and Ready Metal card spending, while also making Ethereum yield opportunities accessible directly from the wallet, starting with USD Prime by Morpho and SteakHouse. - Extended keeps accelerating with Multi-Asset Collateral, allowing traders to use wBTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, and XVS as collateral. The team also shipped email signup, improved onboarding, migrated data feeds to RedStone Live, and launched SpaceX Pre-IPO trading with up to 3x leverage. - Privily released its SDK, launched its MCP Plugin & Skill for Claude Code, and shipped Disperse Mode, allowing users to send payments to up to 20 recipients in one transaction. - Native USDC deposits and withdrawals to and from Starknet are also now live on Binance. - 2 new projects launched on Mainnet: 0dAMM, the first PropAMM on Starknet, now live through avnu & Stark Lens by Aegis, a Bubblemaps-like tool to track token holders and supply movements on Starknet - And one last alpha: SuperVega is coming very soon to Mainnet, providing users with a new way to trade markets. 4️⃣ The numbers keep improving - Extended surpassed $25M in total cumulative revenue. - Starkzap, the SDK allowing builders to integrate Starknet DeFi use cases while abstracting away blockchain complexity, crossed 6,000 downloads. - STRK staking crossed 1.3B STRK staked, representing around 22% of the circulating supply. - The Starknet Foundation also opened a new delegation round, with up to 1.7B STRK in voting power available for active community members who want to participate in governance. We’re definitely getting there.(StarkWare 🥷)