Starkware Lianchuang responded to the STRK unlocking controversy: The team will focus on promoting network development for a long time, and delaying the lock-up period is not the right approach.

In an interview with Decrypt, Starkware co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson highlighted Starknet's roadmap and explained why he believes it will unlock a large number of investors and early contributor shares in the early stages of STRK's release. Will cause harm to the community. Ben-Sasson said that the structure of the Starknet airdrop is indeed different from the traditional model, and the team has a slightly different view on things, which he believes is a strength of Starkware rather than a disadvantage. The team believes that what users care about is whether developers in the Starkware or Starknet ecosystem will still be on the Starknet network and continue to drive the development of the network in three months or a year. Here he can guarantee that the only focus of Starkware's 150 employees and its growing team is driving Starknet forward. To do this well, Eli turned down very attractive positions in academia. As for concerns that investors may rush to sell STRK tokens in April, thereby affecting the price of STRK, Ben-Sasson emphasized that extending the token lock-up period will not prevent this from happening, and this concern may also occur a year later. occur. Starkware made this decision based on the belief that these individuals were duly rewarded for their contributions and that there were no instances of individuals or teams inappropriately exploiting the airdrop structure. When focusing on long-term development, unnecessarily delaying the lock-up period is not the right approach.