The CEO of StarkWare, the developer of StarkNet, recently made some quite interesting remarks in an interview. He stated that a long token lock-up period cannot fundamentally prevent team members or early investors from dumping tokens.

Looking at the background, StarkNet announced its own token STRK along with token allocation and airdrop conditions, but faced criticism that the lock-up period for team and early investors was excessively short, less than two months. The market was concerned that this would increase the risk of large-scale sell-offs.

CEO Eli Ben-Sasson acknowledged that "the STRK airdrop structure is not typical," but countered that "it's just different, not wrong." He emphasized that he personally gave up his university professorship to focus on StarkNet development and has no plans to return to academia.

The reason for setting a short lock-up period was also clear. It was driven by the philosophy that contributions from team members and early investors should be rewarded promptly. The CEO expressed confidence, saying, "Neither I nor any team member would abuse this inappropriately." Ultimately, it appears to be a message requesting trust in the StarkNet project and its team.