According to Foresight News, according to the on-chain data shared by Starknet core developer antiyro, at around 16:00 Beijing time on January 30, a transaction in block 524884 of the Starknet network used STRK to pay for gas fees. Foresight News has also found that several other transactions used STRK to pay for gas fees.
As previously reported by Foresight News, the Starknet v0.13 upgrade went live on the Starknet mainnet on January 10. The v0.13.0 upgrade significantly reduces costs through more efficient transactions and also takes care of the technical preparations for paying fees with STRK.