Starknet Price Prediction: 2025, 2030, 2040

Starknet (STRK) Price Check: Big Unlock Looms, Can V0.14.0 Step In?

Like a lot of altcoins, Starknet’s [STRK] token is really struggling as May 2025 gets going. Right now, it’s stuck bouncing between $0.13 and $0.15, miles below the $3.66 it hit back in February 2024 not long after hitting the market. Sure, the last day saw the usual little price jumps you expect in crypto, but the past week shows the real pain – the token dropped more than 15%. With over 3.1 billion STRK now floating around, its total market value is somewhere in the $400 million to $420 million zone.

Looking at the charts heading into May, STRK’s situation seems dicey. Important trend lines (moving averages) on the daily and four-hour views scream downtrend; the price just can't manage to stay above the 50-day and 200-day marks. The fact that the 200-day MA keeps pointing down really drives home how weak things are. The Relative Strength Index (RSI), which some sources put around 47.94, is kind of in the middle – not showing extreme buying or selling right this second. But since the price recently hit rock bottom near $0.1086 USDT, there aren't really any known safety nets (support levels) below where it is now. Earlier ideas that buyers might show up around $0.40-$0.50 got blown away by the nasty price drop.

Maybe the biggest headache for STRK this month is the huge chunk of tokens set to unlock on May 15th. After people freaked out about the original plan for early backers and investors getting their tokens, StarkWare switched to letting them out more slowly. That meant 64 million STRK (0.64% of all tokens) unlocked each month from April 2024 to March 2025. But things changed on April 15th, 2025; the monthly unlock doubled to 1.27% of the total supply, and that pace is supposed to last until March 2027. So, come May 15th, roughly 127-128 million new STRK tokens are about to hit the open market. That dump is worth about 4.4% of the current market value, making traders very nervous about potential sell-offs. This planned flood of new supply is a major worry for how STRK will do this month.

Trying to push back against this supply problem are some key upgrades to the network. Starknet Version 0.14.0 should hit the test network this month, aiming for a full launch on the main network in June 2025. This update is supposed to make the network way faster and better to use. Big improvements include super-fast 2-second block times (cutting down waiting), adding a waiting area for transactions (mempool) and a system for fees, plus spreading out the transaction ordering process (distributed sequencer). There are also whispers about bringing in the quicker "Stwo" prover, built with Polygon Labs, to help lower transaction fees. On top of that, Staking Phase 2, which lets people lock up tokens to help secure the network and make it more decentralized, is planned for the second quarter of 2025. Tech upgrades don't always pump the price right away, but getting these done right could build real belief in Starknet's underlying tech over time.

You can get more clues by looking at the money locked up in the Starknet system (Total Value Locked, or TVL). DefiLlama says it's around $115 million now, way down from over $250 million back in 2024. That earlier high was mostly because of the hype around the STRK token launch and a program called "DeFi Spring" that gave away millions of STRK. The TVL shrinking since then probably happened because the whole market slumped and the buzz from those free tokens wore off. How the community feels is still touchy; huge backlash after the first airdrop and token release plans led to people calling it unfair to insiders (even coining "#scamnet") and really hurt trust. StarkWare did change the release schedule, but winning back real faith from users and builders, especially when people think there isn't much real activity, is still a big job.

Where STRK's price goes is still very much tied to Ethereum [ETH], the main network it uses, and whatever the rest of the crypto market is doing. Lately, STRK hasn't been keeping up with ETH's performance. So, for STRK to have any real comeback in May, the whole market probably needs to pick up, particularly ETH itself.

Predictions for STRK's price in May 2025 are all over the place, showing the tug-of-war between the upcoming token unlock and excitement about the new upgrade. CoinCodex thinks it could bounce back from April's lows, guessing an average price of $0.281217 for May, somewhere in a wide $0.139629 to $0.472036 range, and even sees it possibly hitting $0.455795 by early June. Changelly, however, expects a quieter average price around $0.1721. Other sites like CoinLore and Gov.Capital mostly show daily guesses staying between $0.12 and $0.15 in May. Data roundups like Botsfolio show experts have wildly different targets for 2025, from as low as $0.33 (from AMBCrypto) to $1.14 (Coincodex), with some super optimistic $5-$10 calls seen on Binance Square (though those are for the whole year, not just May). Binance's own user poll shows this confusion, leaning a bit negative based on the technical charts.

Basically, May 2025 looks like a make-or-break month for Starknet's STRK. The market has to somehow handle a much bigger load of tokens hitting mid-month, which is a clear risk from the supply side. At the same time, buzz about the v0.14.0 upgrade reaching the test stage could give people something positive to focus on, showing Starknet is serious about improving. How these opposite pressures play out, heavily swayed by the general crypto mood and what ETH does, will likely decide STRK's path this month.