2/ Today, trillions of dollars in value move onchain with full transparency. BTC, ETH, stablecoins, and more are entering DeFi, yet balances, counterparties, and activity remain visible to anyone watching. That’s a massive bottleneck to real blockchain adoption.

3/ This is exactly what STRK20 is built to fix. STRK20 is a privacy capability applied to ERC-20s on Starknet at the protocol level, enabling: - shielded balances - private transfers - clean transitions between private and public states - private DeFi

4/ Any team can add this capability to an ERC-20 by simply deploying on Starknet. It creates a fully composable environment instead of pushing users into isolated private silos. This is what we call transaction-layer privacy: private ownership, public execution.

5/ Simply put, with STRK20, users can: - shield assets - hold private balances - transfer privately - use DeFi anonymously - unshield when needed All within the same asset, the same pool, without fragmentation.

6/ Because privacy alone is not enough, STRK20 goes live from day 1 with: - anonymous swaps on @EkuboProtocol - anonymous staking for BTC and STRK And the ecosystem is already exploring more DeFi use cases on top of it.

7/ STRK20 is also compliance-first by design. Disclosure can happen selectively to auditors, regulators, or accountants only when legally required. Users and institutions get privacy by default, plus a real audit path when needed.

8/ And the opportunity is truly massive. Over the last year, privacy has emerged as one of the clearest unmet needs in crypto. STRK20 unlocks: - private BTC and BTCFi - private stablecoin payments - private ETH - and much more beyond that At scale, and with great UX.