StarkWare, the parent company of StarkNet, was established in 2018 and is headquartered in Israel. It specializes in the field of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) with over a decade of research and engineering experience. In 2018, the StarkWare technical team was the first to propose the use of STARK (Scalable Transparent Arguments of Knowledge) proofs to address the scalability challenges of Ethereum, unlocking large-scale scalability.