Pre-Launch Breakdown: @Starknet STRK20s Starknet's privacy arc has been building toward one thing: making any token private, not just Bitcoin. June 9 is when STRK20 opens to every ERC20 on the network. strkBTC already proved the model in production; this turns it on for everything. The flow is three moves: 1/ Deploy. An issuer ships their ERC20 on Starknet with STRK20 and it gains privacy at the protocol level. No separate "privacy version" of the token, no wrapped mixer. 2/ Shield and move. A user shields part of their balance into a private state and transfers freely, amounts, recipients, and activity all hidden. It runs through one shared privacy pool, so the anonymity set deepens as more tokens and users join instead of splintering per asset. 3/ Disclose on your terms. Viewer keys let you open your history to a regulator, auditor, or accountant when you need to, and to no one otherwise. "Private by default, compliant when needed" is the actual architecture, not a tagline. Where it separates from the pack is the placement. Most chains bolt privacy on as a side tool or a standalone coin. Starknet puts it at the asset layer, composable with existing DeFi and settling on Ethereum the whole way through. And the cryptography is published (ePrint 2026/474), not hand-waved. This isn't dark-pool anonymity. There's screening at entry and exit, and a viewer key can surface activity where regulators require it. Starknet is selling institutional-grade privacy, not invisibility. The launch also only matters if issuers actually deploy STRK20 versions and liquidity migrates into the pool, strkBTC was a strong start, but full buy-in within days isn't a given. strkBTC stays the anchor to watch: 1:1 BTC backing, redeemable anytime, stakeable for yield, live today. If a few major tokens follow it into the pool fast, this is the cleanest thing Starknet has shipped all year. Live June 9. Watch it closely.