@elistark
Some hate hearing this: StarkWare was first:
* First company to incorporate in order to solve blockchain scalability using validity proofs (Dec 2017).
* First to embrace zkSTARKs -- transparent, work over any field, post-quantum secure.
* First to say zkSTARKs are better scaling tech than the alternative -- number-theoretic based elliptic curve crytpo based SNARKs
* First to show in production that STARKs solve scalability of blockchain
* First to use in production a zk friendly Turing complete VM (best -- Cairo)
* First L2 to have 100% native account abstraction
* First to have sound and complete proofs which it trusts, with no additional security training wheels (committees, TEEs, whatnot)
* First to have native L2 staking
* First to decentralize.
First and best.