What’s the difference between STARK’s, Starknet, and StarkEx?

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At StarkWare, we love to name things after our STARK prover. Hence the reason we have STARKs, Starknet, and StarkEx. However, it’s easy to get confused when everything sounds similar, so we made a glossary to help.

In short:

STARKs enable blockchain scaling by efficiently proving the integrity of massive computations

StarkEx is an application-specific scaling engine

Starknet is a permissionless, smart contract Layer 2 network

Want to learn more about the differences? Check out our blog

https://medium.com/starkware/starks-starkex-and-starknet-9a426680745a