Online reports that Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has released its latest roadmap and said that as demand for Ethereum blobs steadily rises to significant levels, the short-term focus of the project has shifted back to reducing costs. According to the roadmap, Starknet plans to launch Phase 1 of STRK Pledge in November this year, which will further advance its decentralization process, unlock new use cases for STRK tokens, and expand new business use cases on Starknet. Secondly, Starknet plans to implement "Stateless compression" and "Squash-pricing" in v0.13.3 in December this year to reduce network costs. Next, Starknet plans to implement "stateful compression" in v0.13.4 in February 2025 to continue to reduce costs. It will improve devX by supporting the try/catch model and introduce L2 gas as a protocol-level resource to encapsulate all L2 native computing, storage and bandwidth without coupling to the L1 resource market. In addition, Starknet plans to implement 2-second blocks, memory pools and fee markets, and other pending features in v0.14.0 in April 2025.