1/ Bitcoin staking is fully live on Starknet Mainnet 🧡
BTC is now part of Starknet’s staking mechanism, letting Bitcoiners secure the network and earn rewards alongside STRK stakers.
A historic moment for Bitcoin and Starknet 🧵
3/ For Starknet, the benefits are massive.
Bitcoin adds strong economic security at a lower cost, as its holders typically prioritize safety and long-term stability over chasing high yields.
Fresh capital, deeper liquidity and new DeFi use cases then flow onto the network.
4/ This in turn boosts STRK’s utility, as it is Starknet’s core asset:
- Default token for gas and staking
- Governance token
- Main DeFi collateral
Next up: a fee-burn (ETA TBD) aimed at reducing supply as usage scales.
@endurfi 8/ And the extra STRK issuance from BTC staking? Ultra-minimal.
Suppose there are 600 million STRK staked: with BTC and STRK staking combined, total inflation stays near 1%.
If 1.2 billion STRK (x2 more than now) were staked, inflation would be about 1.38%.
@endurfi 9/ So what exactly went live?
- BTC holds 25% of consensus weight (STRK = 75%).
- BTC staking is delegation-only; if a Bitcoiner wants to run its own validator, they must first stake at least 20k STRK.
- Unstaking for both BTC & STRK is just 7 days
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