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Welcome to the 26th edition of my weekly comprehensive StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here. 👇🏻
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Let’s get into this week’s news! 💪
Protocol & dev tool updates
@apibara_web3 - we released an update including support for EVM-compatible chains, chain-aware document storage, and more improvements to the SDK!
@Pat_Ventuzelo - I'm glad to release a new @fuzzinglabs tool in partnership with @StarkWareLtd ! 🎉 ➡️ Thoth, a @CairoLang /#Starknet bytecode disassembler!
@0xHyoga - I made a small plugin for Vim Ale to support Cairo. It uses the starknet-compile binary for asynchronous linting of Starknet contracts.
New version of starknet-hardhat-plugin (v0.6.2) has been released.
Media highlights
@stark_con - We hope you enjoyed meeting the best and the brightest of our #StarkNet family ✨
@StarknetHouse - Session 7 of @StarknetHouse is now available on our YouTube!
@zkLend - 👩🎓 ZEND University Week 1 #Web3, #Ethereum and the basics quiz is now live!
@defislate - This next podcast we chat with @imrgoyal, a core contributor of @JediSwap and cover the future of StarkNet, its technical capabilities, what he’s most excited about & more!
Ecosystem Highlights
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this building on StarkNet page.
@starksheet - What do you think a web3-native spreadsheet should do? We'll give allowlist place for the best answers
@starksheet - 🌠Finalizing the design of our dynamic on-chain token image
@encodeclub - Delighted to announce the winners of the StarkNet Paris Hackathon by @encodeclub and @activate_build. Here’s a summary & prize winners.
@yagi_fi - A small update from us. Introducing "Third Party Vaults".
@MintSquareNFT - You can now set your own username, profile picture, cover photo, bio and social media links on Mint Square!
@ImperiumWars - Imperium is an NFT game mixing diplomacy, conquest and crypto economics. Here is everything you need to know.
@PxlsWtf - Today we’re launching Pxls. Wtf is that?
@ZKGraph - ZK Social Graph is a Web3, #LensProtocol compatible smart contracts-based social graph for the StarkNet Ecosystem designed to empower creators to own the links between themselves and their community, forming a fully composable, user-owned social graph.
@StorkOracle - Making off-chain data accessible to Web3 has been too costly. So dApps can access only a few assets. Using Validium and Validity Proofs, we're changing the game. Here's our vision for how StarkNet will enable the first truly unlimited Web3 data marketplace.
@Gammax_Exchange ZK Rollups x L2 Scalability. Excited to be partnered with @StarkWareLtd building the future of derivatives trading.
@magnetyfi - 10000 funds were created on testnet. It's time to announce the beta testnet. In a few weeks, the beta testnet will allow you additional options and we have listened to feedback.
@OnlyDust_xyz - In just one month, 2,000 Starklings exercises have already been completed.
@StarkDefi - Well that all happened really quickly… Thank you for your support 🦾 5k Twitter and 8k Discord
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Ecosystem stats
The starknet.js package has exceeded 72k downloads.
Weekly StarkNet stats: last week: 51k txs on Goerli,
7.6k txs on Mainnet. To date: 5.1m txs on Goerli, 202k txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 11k on Goerli, 17k on Mainnet.
Over 560 ETH have been bridged to StarkNet so far (there’s a cap).
SithSwap job offer
SithSwap is looking to hire a Cairo Developer to join their team. This is a part-time or full-time contract position. Apply in their Discord.
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
10-hour video of all StarkNetCC mainstage talks
Heavily discussed StarkNet Improvement Proposals
[SIMP-4] A standard for writing comments in Cairo contracts
[SIMP] String standardization
[SIMP] Connect accounts to dapps
[SIMP] Wallet Multi Chain Support
[SIMP] Starknet Provider JavaScript API
[SIMP] Check Support for Starknet Provider JavaScript API
[informational SIMP] Comments in StarkNet contracts
Useful links & articles
@zkLend - Here's a thread on our debut guests about @BenqiFinance
@MagnetyIntern - Our third presentation episode is about @EmpiricNetwork , one of our most important partners at Magnety.
@Testnet_Digger provides us with a complete list of the StarkNet projects in testnet.
Developer resources
@dolvenlabs - We are happy to announce that we are staring a How to Cairo program we will release weekly tutorials to help you understand how to develop in #Cairo.
@swmansion - Testing StarkNet contracts made easy with Protostar.
@0xNonCents - Recently Cairo 0.9.1 was released. Among the many changes, one addition has gone under the radar and is arguably the greatest contribution to the ecosystem in this release to StarkNet. Let me introduce Uint 384.
@IsilDillig - Want to learn about the Cairo language for ZKPs and how to find bugs in them? Check out our new blog post.
Dates and Events
For the EthCC and StarkNetCC events, you can find wrap-up threads under the section “Media highlights”.
next StarkNet community call July 26th: Full nodes discussion.
Introducing @StarknetHouse - a virtual educational summer program presented by @topology_gg in collaboration with @StarkWareLtd and pioneers in the #StarkNet ecosystem. The program is open to anyone excited about learning to build on StarkNet using #Cairo. Starting June 1st. Check out their research fellows here. Agenda for July.
Encode x StarkNet Online Summer Hackathon: A 3-week hackathon focused on StarkNet. Start Date: Monday, 27th June. Register by: Monday, 4th July.
@zkLend is organizing a StarkNet meetup in HongKong in the summer. Date TBA.
@cheechyuanang - Announcing our link to our very first Cairo Hands on Workshop. Slots are limited for our pilot run and applicants with programming experience will benefit most. July 30th.
@stark_con - StarkCon is a community-driven conference to bring all the “STARKs” under one roof. The first StarkCon will take place alongside Devcon, the official Ethereum builders' conference in Bogota, Colombia; October.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
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Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
Special thanks to odin_free, @0xNurstar and StarkNet_Digger for helping me source some of the information! 🔍
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