Ben-Sasson’s 2022: In May 2022, StarkWare’s estimated value was $8 billion, an increase from $2 billion six months earlier, echoing the implementation of its ecosystems which range from digital asset trading solutions to NFT minting and deployment. In November, StarkNet Token started to be deployed on the Ethereum mainnet, although the tokens have not yet been offered for sale and won’t be until further notice. The tokens are held by StarkWare shareholders, employees and independent partner software developers. In November, Ben-Sasson’s company announced the open-sourcing of Cairo 1.0, the language for creating STARK-provable programs for general computation. Cairo is the tool that powers StarkEx, which scales applications on the Ethereum Mainnet and the native smart contract language for StarkNet, a permissionless decentralized Validity-Rollup (often referred to as zk-Rollups). The platform is an L2 network built over Ethereum, enabling any DApp to achieve unlimited scale for its computation. Ben-Sasson had a fruitful 2022, with StarkNet announcing that 123 projects were built on the chain, while StarkWare saw a total of around 365,330 new wallets being created and used for multiple purposes.