Ben-Sasson’s 2023: At the beginning of 2023, the company’s exchange, StarkEx, declared $749 billion in cumulative trading, $497 million of total value locked, a total of 309 million transactions across all deployments and 93 million NFTs minted. Ben-Sasson’s solutions indicate a promising 2023, starting with new features that will be added to Cairo 1.0 to make it safer and more accessible for developers to write StarkNet contracts. In particular, a package manager and a proper development framework for testing and deployment will be added with the aim of making writing contracts on StarkNet very straightforward. After its launch in 2021, StarkNet focused on functionality, while its new roadmap touts improvements surrounding performance and scalability, with higher transactions per second being indicated for 2023. Significant upgrades are expected across the StarkWare solutions, particularly in building L3 networks with hyper-scaling, app-specific requirements, and privacy, which Ben-Sasson appears to be particularly proud of. More collaboration with the Ethereum community is expected in 2023 through the StarkWare Sessions, a series of events held kicking off at the end of January that aim to build the future for both ecosystems.