# wstETH deployment on Starknet **URL:** \ **Category:** Lido Multichain\ **Created:** [January 9, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/wsteth-deployment-on-starknet/6335 "2024-01-09T14:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![BlockworksResearch](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/research.lido.fi/blockworksresearch/32/4777_2.png) [@BlockworksResearch](https://research.lido.fi/u/BlockworksResearch)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://research.lido.fi/t/wsteth-deployment-on-starknet/6335/13 "2024-11-19T20:43:33Z")
### General Thoughts Thank you to all the work from the multiple teams pushing wstETH improvements on Starknet/Lido forward. In general, the more control Lido DAO exercises over the flow of wstETH and stETH to external chains, the better. Historically, we’ve seen similar social checks/balances on wstETH bridging solutions, like optimism’s, and believe that viewing the proposed wstETH improvements through a lens of past precedent may be prudent. While we read the final deployment verification report from Nethermind Security, we feel the following questions would be helpful answering for visibility: ### Questions 1. Who are the actors capable of upgrading/disabling/enabling the bridging solution on the L1 and L2 side? 2. What safety measures are in place in case Lido governance experiences connectivity issues and loses the power to enforce its will? 3. With the recency of LIP 22, which enabled rebasable stETH on L2s from the stable balancer wrapper of wstETH, we find it pertinent to ask why a similar transition from wstETH to stETH was not taken on Starknet? > **Sources** > > > [@LIP-22: stETH on L2](https://research.lido.fi/t/lip-22-steth-on-l2/6855): > > > > TL;DR Propose an architecture framework for the rebasable stETH token on L2 to be used across various Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) networks. The idea is to create a canonical version of stETH on these networks, being wrapped on top of wstETH (sort of ‘wrapped twice’). This approach will streamline the process of moving stETH across Ethereum rollups, making use of the existing wstETH infrastructure and liquidity venues on L2 networks. As a practical example, explore a design of upgrading the wstETH cus… > > > [@wstETH on Optimism: bridging security management](https://research.lido.fi/t/wsteth-on-optimism-bridging-security-management/2427): > > > > Bridging stETH to Optimism Making Lido’s stETH available across L2 has been pronounced as [one of the main Lido’s OKRs for 2022](https://research.lido.fi/t/lido-teams-objectives-and-key-results-for-2022/1570#objectives-1). As part of this work, the Lido dev team is preparing to release a bridging solution for Optimism that aims at providing the benefits of yield-bearing staking tokens to users on Optimism. General bridging solution overview Because of its rebasing nature, bridging stETH adds a whole layer of complexity to the bridging itself, and to the upcoming integrations of the bri… --- _[View the full topic](https://research.lido.fi/t/wsteth-deployment-on-starknet/6335)._