Starknet launches BTC staking with 0.25 staking power and support for multiple wrapped BTC tokens.
The unstaking period is cut from 21 to 7 days, giving users faster access to funds.
The upgrade passed with 93.6% community support, highlighting strong trust and adoption potential.
Introducing Bitcoin (BTC) staking represents a major joining of Bitcoin’s security with DeFi innovations on Starknet, Ethereum’s Layer-2 scaling solution. Stakeholders will be able to stake and earn network rewards for their BTC in the mainnet that generally launches on September 30.
Bitcoin’s staking power is set at one-quarter in this new setting, which means that Bitcoin contributes 25% of the consensus weight of the network, with the native token of Starknet, STRK, supplying the other 75%. It is a hybrid model to further decentralization and security, and gives a clear voice to BTC in network governance.
Starknet has also expanded accessibility by supporting several wrapped Bitcoin t
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