According to online reports, Starknet, an Ethereum ZK-Rollup expansion solution, announced that it has entered the "Stage 1" decentralization stage. According to the framework proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2022, this phase means that the network has established a security committee and a validation system, significantly reducing external interference. Starknet added that the framework is a "gold standard on-chain tool for analyzing Ethereum extended solutions" and said this stage was achieved through changes such as creating security committees and avoiding censorship mechanisms. Eli Ben-Sasson, CEO of StarkWare, said that the next step will be to advance the "Stage 2" goal of complete decentralization and achieve full community autonomy for the network. According to L2beat, only three small Layer2 projects have reached this stage.