Zero knowledge (ZK) begins and ends with Starknet Eli Ben Sasson @EliBenSasson took zero knowledge from lecture halls to live code, co inventing zkSTARKs in 2018 after years of PCP and FRI research, then co founding StarkWare to productise the math. Uri Kolodny turned that vision into a two hundred person engineering hive, Alessandro Chiesa and Michael Riabzev kept the proofs pure, Turing winners Avi Wigderson and Shafi Goldwasser joined as advisors, the ecosystem grew into thousands of Cairo builders and a Starknet Foundation that funds the frontier. • zkSTARKs, transparent, quantum safe, no trusted setup, polylog verification • Cairo, the first Turing complete zk native language, open source, reused by external teams • StarkEx & Sharp System, one trillion dollar trading volume, over one billion transactions, gas near zero • Stwo prover, released May 2025, nine hundred times cheaper on hash heavy circuits, already proving blocks, AI, and a Bitcoin signet demo • Starknet Mainnet live since 2021, native account abstraction, paymasters, decentralised sequencer and fee market in version 0.14, many thousand active devs monthly Three plus billion proofs served in production, more than any other stack, same verifier code runs on Ethereum, Bitcoin signet, and mobile, research cited by the White House in privacy briefs, Starkware company valued at eight billion, community endorsed by Paradigm, Vitalik, and every major zk podcast, open benchmarks on GitHub keep competitors honest. From Eli’s whiteboard to a global builder army, @StarkWareLtd and @Starknet own the sharpest tech in zero knowledge, the numbers, the people, and the proofs all say we will be winning! Grrrrrrinta mode is on! expect us!!