We're thrilled to announce that after a year of intensive development, the Starknet Stack is ready and available for everyone to use. That’s right! The most powerful ZK stack is now available to deploy app chains and it won’t cost you a fortune.
Before we talk about why Karnot, we would like to take a quick trip down the memory lane of Starknet app chains.
Why Starknet App Chains?
Starkware has been the age old pioneer in the app chain space. Before Starknet even existed, Starkware offered StarkEx chains to some of the most well known web3 companies today - dYdX, Immutable, Sorare and more. However, the solution was closed source and needed work with Starkware for deployment. So almost a year ago, the Madara effort started to build an open source solution for Starknet App Chains.
Why another stack?
Native account abstraction, Cairo, state diffs, native execution and more!
Key Advantages of the Starknet Stack
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Native Account Abstraction: The Starknet Stack offers account abstraction baked right into the protocol. You don’t need to convince external parties that charge you large amounts of money to get ERC 4337. Every account is a smart wallet out of the box!
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ZK friendly and affordable: Solidity is great but wait till you put your hands on Cairo. It’s similar to Rust, has a strong developer ecosystem, and is much more efficient when it comes to ZK proving
You can do millions of transactions a month with the Starknet Stack without breaking the bank. A lot of other solutions in the market would charge you $100k/mo for the same scale.
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State diffs: Unlike optimistic rollups and some ZK rollups, the Starknet Stack doesn’t need to post every transaction on the base chain. You’ve a perp chain where two users trade a million times? Great, just post the final balances on Ethereum. NOT EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION.
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Unmatched Performance: Starknet has already broken the record of maximum TPS achieved by an L2 (857!). And this is before we’ve Cairo native which will make it even faster. Top that up with Stwo coming next year and your costs will get even lower. The Starknet Stack is designed from first principles and is available today, it’s not a dream that you’ll need to wait for another year.
The Full Stack App Chain Suite
Users who choose to launch with Karnot get
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Madara sequencer with autoscaling
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Voyager explorer
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A white label bridge and faucet with customization
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Transparent pricing
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Seamless upgrades to the latest versions of the stack
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Real-time monitoring
You can read in detail about the offering on our new website.
Why Karnot?
Two simple reasons
1. Core Contributors to the Stack
At Karnot, we’re not just a RaaS company that offers cloud deployments of an open source stack. We do that of course (at production scale), but along with that, the Karnot team is a core contributor to the Starknet Stack (Madara to be precise). We’ve been maintaining Madara for more than a year now and we understand the stack inside out. Fun fact:
Karnot is the first team outside Starkware that has run an E2E version of the Starknet Stack.
Our deep expertise in the underlying tech not only ensures reliability and security but also allows us to offer very user specific customizations on top of the stack.
2. Trusted Across Starknet
Don’t trust us, verify! Karnot is the preferred infra partner in the Starknet Ecosystem. At the time of writing this, Karnot operates as the 2nd largest validator on Starknet, securing over 22M of staked STRK. We’re THE infra solution on Starknet and are aligned with it’s long term success.
Pricing That Scales With You
Karnot is for everyone - from budding startups to large enterprise. Our pricing is simple
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Free Devnet and Testnets
- No blockers for the tinkerers. Get your devnet for free today and start testing.
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Mainnet Plans at $5,000/month
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Designed for growing teams
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High uptime
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Detailed monitoring
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On-call support
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Customization options
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Enterprise Plans
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Tailored solutions with SLAs
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Higher level of customizations
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Deploy your Starknet App Chain today.
Schedule a call with us here.