Starknet updates roadmap: short-term focus has shifted to reducing expenses

Starknet, the Ethereum Layer 2 network, has released its latest roadmap and said that with Ethereum blob demand steadily rising to significant levels, the project's short-term focus has shifted back to reducing fees.
According to the roadmap, Starknet plans to launch the first phase of STRK staking in November this year, which will further advance its decentralization process, unlock new use cases for STRK tokens, and expand new business use cases on Starknet. Secondly, Starknet plans to implement "stateless compression" and "squash-pricing" in v0.13.3 this December to reduce network fees. Next, Starknet plans to implement "stateful compression" in v0.13.4 in February 2025 to continue reducing fees, will improve devX by supporting the try/catch pattern, and introduce L2 gas as a protocol-level resource to encapsulate all L2 native compute, storage, and bandwidth without coupling to the L1 resource market. Additionally, Starknet plans to implement 2-second blocks, memory pools, and fee markets, as well as other pending features in v0.14.0 in April 2025.