PANews reported on May 16 that according to Cointelegraph, Ethereum ZK-Rollup expansion solution Starknet announced that it has entered the "Stage 1" decentralization stage. According to the framework proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2022, this stage means that the network has established a security committee and a validity proof system, which greatly reduces external intervention. Starknet added that the framework is a "gold standard on-chain tool for analyzing Ethereum expansion solutions" and said that this stage was achieved through changes such as creating a security committee and avoiding censorship mechanisms. StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said that the next step will be to advance the goal of "Stage 2" full decentralization and achieve complete community autonomy of the network. According to L2beat, only three small Layer2 projects have reached this stage.