Compare Stacks and Starknet on TVL, fees, revenue and activity to understand how these projects stack up.
$84.44M
Stacks is a Bitcoin Layer‑2 secured by Proof‑of‑Transfer where miners commit BTC to mint STX and anchor blocks to Bitcoin every 10–15 minutes. Clarity smart contracts enable DeFi with Bitcoin finality, and the sBTC proposal aims to bring a two‑way peg for native BTC on chain. The Nakamoto upgrade scheduled for 2025 will reduce block times to five seconds and add probabilistic Bitcoin finality.
Starknet is a STARK‑based validity rollup where smart contracts are written in Cairo and executed off‑chain, with succinct proofs verified on Ethereum. The 2024 Madara sequencer supports parallel execution, and the ‘Quantum Leap’ upgrade reduced L1 calldata by 30 %. STRK token launched in February 2025, enabling slot auctions for sequencer decentralization roadmap.