STRK Jumps 55% on Talk of Breaking Free From Ethereum

Starknet’s token surged 55.69 percent in a single day, topping 0.1022 dollars and reaching its highest price since 2026. Market cap climbed to roughly 758 million dollars while 24-hour trading volume exceeded 550 million.

The spark came from comments by StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson about turning Starknet into its own Layer-1 chain. An independent network could roll out quantum-resistant security by 2027 instead of waiting for Ethereum’s timeline, which targets full resistance only by the end of 2029.

No formal proposal or governance vote exists yet, but traders clearly liked the idea: daily volume nearly matched the token’s entire market cap, signaling unusually intense buying pressure.

Based on information from cryptonews.net