Starknet

For the first time, participants in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other blockchain communities can vote onchain without paying gas fees.
According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph, the launch of Snapshot X, a new governance protocol built on Starknet’s rollup technology, will facilitate gasless voting.
The protocol aims to solve the cost and inefficiency of governance by moving away from centralized offchain voting while removing the costs associated with onchain voting.
In a written Q&amp;A with Cointelegraph, Eli Ben-Sasson, the CEO of StarkWare and board member at the Starknet Foundation, stated that this would allow “many DAOs and other entities” to follow suit.
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 “Those with voting rights with DAOs that currently vote onchain need never again be expected to pay gas fees to vote, which has been a very real phenomenon. Sometimes, people have been expected to pay 10-plus dollars just to vote — a real democracy turn-off.”
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<h2 id="how-it-works">How it works&nbsp;</h2>
Snapshot X utilizes Starknet tech and storage proofs to provide gas-fee voting that allows users to prove ownership of assets on one blockchain without moving them.
This process aims to reduce costs, improve security, and facilitate onchain governance on one blockchain while holding assets on another.&nbsp;
According to Jeremy Musighi, Snapshot Labs’ chief operating officer, the protocol features a modular design that offers “customizable, trustless and decentralized voting.”
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<h2 id="the-first-vote-on-starknet-will-be-gasless">The first vote on Starknet will be gasless</h2>
Starting on Sept. 10. the Starknet crypto community will be the first to use Snapshot X to vote on a staking proposal that will impact native Starknet (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/starknet-price-index" rel="" target="_self" text="null" title="https://cointelegraph.com/starknet-price-index">STRK</a>) tokenholders.
STRK holders will decide on the minting mechanism for Starknet staking through a custom interface built on Snapshot X, while the Starknet Governance Hub facilitates the vote.
The <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/starknet-first-staking-vote-mainnet-launch" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">staking vote is set to finish on Sept. 13</a> and will determine new token distribution, creation and allowance of minting modification over time to ensure sustainability and balance.
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<h2 id="latest-starknet-upgrade-parallel-execution">Latest Starknet upgrade: Parallel execution</h2>
On Aug. 28, <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/starknet-parallel-execution-0132-update" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Starknet rolled out upgrade 0.13.2</a>, which introduced parallel execution to enable the simultaneous processing of multiple transactions.
As the first to issue this technology on a layer-2 network on the Ethereum mainnet, Ben-Sasson expects it to become an “industry norm.”
The new tech addresses the limitations of sequential transaction processing, which traditionally results in bottlenecks during high demand for L2 networks.
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Starknet minting vote will be gasless with new governance protocol

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