Quick thoughts:
- Moody is a valuable core contributor to Starknet and his words should be heard loud and clear. I am listening intently.
- We made mistakes in the past and we will surely make mistakes in the future. That’s the nature of being trailblazers. We actively try to learn and fix the mistakes. Some fixes require a lot of internal thinking and processing, as well as listening. To give context - whatever you think of Provisions, it’s pros and cons, it was the largest such event ever, and it took many many months of many people, smart and dilligent, to execute. It was also executed flawlessly. So, whatever happens in the future will also involve a lot of thinking and consultation, followed by many man months of building and shipping. This is stuff you don’t see from the outside, but it is taking place.
- Our vision has never wavered. We believe that Free Society means Integrity should never be assumed but rather demonstrated publicly, to all. With all due respect to speculation, fun, and memecoins, our mission is to build the Integrity Web to support Free Society at a global scale.
- Just as Bitcion is the Mother of all Blockchains, so Starknet is the Mother of all Validity Tech. And like Bitcoin and Ethereum, we are courageous enough to chart a new path, picking the very best technology, the only one that will reach global scale (10K TPS, 100K TPS, and more) safely and without compromising blockchain principles in ways that so many of our competitors now do.
- We care deeply about end users. It’s all about end users. Developers are important only to the extent they are the ones building for the end users. Starknet will be the best Integrity Web for safe mass usage, the one that your Mom and Dad will use.
- To set expectations, things will take time. Even if we could role back the clock and do a completely different Provisions event, one that all would agree is perfect on all fronts, we would still face the reality that Starknet is completely new infrastructure (a better one). Everything - from native account abstraction to the Cairo programming language - is new and better. But being new, it’ll take time for the UX and DevX to match that found on older toolchains. THAT’S FINE. We’re running a marathon, not a sprint. We are building for global adoption, and it won’t come overnight. So, which ensuring early adopters and users feel proud and welcome, which is definitely something I’d like to achieve, we’ll still be working diligently for a very long time to achieve our vision - that Integrity should be never assumed but rather exhibited publicly.
- I want to end where I started: Huge respect for Moody and all the other amazing Builders out there. Huge respect for our early testers and believers. We are constantly listening and working to improve things, and improving UX, DevX and User narrative is top priority.