The Starknet community of the Ethereum layer 2 network overwhelmingly backed a proposal to review a plan to transition to an independent layer 1, The Block reported on Wednesday.

The report said that in a seven-day Snapshot vote that closed on Wednesday morning, more than 93.5 percent of voting power supported the proposal. About 2,800 wallets took part in the vote.

StarkWare, Starknet's developer, did not vote and left the decision to the community. StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation will further study the transition plan based on the result. STRK holders would have to vote again for an actual transition.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (엘리 벤사손) said, "We will start work on the white paper before the weekend and release a draft in early November." He added, "The Starknet community has decided to step up and solve the biggest security challenge in crypto history." He also said, "AI agents are accelerating the quantum threat in ways many people did not anticipate."

Starknet was developed based on hash-based cryptography. StarkWare said quantum-resistant signatures can be applied to accounts without changing the protocol. The problem is that because Starknet is a layer 2, its security depends on Ethereum.

Ben-Sasson said, "Ethereum's target of 2029 is too late, and schedules tend to slip." He said Starknet set 2027 as its target date for achieving quantum resistance.

The Starknet Foundation said it will keep STRK as the base token and will not issue a new token, whichever path it chooses. It will also continue to operate the bridge linking Ethereum and Starknet.