StarkWare CEO Calls for Technical Focus Over 'Alignment' in the Ethereum Ecosystem

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Release Time: 06/21/2026 13:12:33

Summary

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson commented on Ethereum ecosystem news, urging a focus on technical merit over alignment. He noted that StarkWare has been working on a post-quantum ZK-STARK system for Ethereum since 2019/2020. Technical choices such as STARKs, zkVM, and Cairo were once viewed as misaligned but are now widely adopted. Ben-Sasson remains neutral on controversies surrounding the Ethereum Foundation and is open to deeper collaboration if the community embraces this approach.

Eli Ben-Sasson (@EliBenSasson) stated that, as CEO of StarkWare, an Ethereum L2 scaling solution, he maintains a neutral stance toward the recent controversies surrounding the Ethereum Foundation—neither criticizing nor blindly defending it. He reflected on StarkWare’s journey since 2019/2020 in developing post-quantum secure ZK-STARK systems for Ethereum, noting that their technical choices in STARKs, zkVM, Cairo, Native Account Abstraction, and Bitcoin scaling were once considered misaligned with Ethereum. Today, however, these innovations have been adopted by multiple teams. He called for the future Ethereum ecosystem to prioritize technology and capability over alignment, and expressed his willingness to deepen collaboration with Ethereum if this shift occurs.

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