gm fellow STARK enthusiasts! 🐺✨
This is the first weekly summary of everything that is going on with the StarkNet protocol & ecosystem. Buckle up, lots of things to dive into - let’s get right into it!🧵👇
Protocol updates
starknet-hardhat-plugin 0.3.9has been released.StarkNet Alpha 0.7.0has been released; bringing proxies, events and block number/block timestamp calls.starknet-devnet 0.1.13has been released.Oiler Network has developed a StarkNet Storage Verifier.
Nethermind announces
Alpha 0.7of their Voyager Block Explorer with the integrated Argent X wallet on Goerli.Nethermind announces first major release of Warp, the Solidity to Cairo transpiler supporting composability. 🥳
Governance
There is an on-going discussion around the Polaris Prover License on StarkNet’s discussion board, StarkNet Shamans. Since StarkNet will be community-governed, you should take this opportunity to voice your opinion and contribute to the discussion.
Ecosystem
DopeWars, a DAO-governed game, released a roadmap update.
Briqs, an NFT building and composition protocol, launched in alpha and can be tested using the Argent X wallet that can be found here. After that, follow these steps.
There's a community effort to port Aave v3 to Starknet.
MakerDAO is looking into supporting direct minting of DAI on StarkNet rollups.
SoRare, the Fantasy Football NFT game, will likely be the first StarkEx instance to be ported to Layer 3, as hinted at by Louis.
Tennis superstar Serena Williams has joined SoRare as board advisor.
Space MMO game Influence is inching towards its “Exploitation” release, which will launch on StarkNet.
Zorro, a proof-of-personhood protocol on StarkNet, just published their landing page and whitepaper.
guiltygyoza is experimenting with 3D graphics and physics simulations on StarkNet.
Lyra and StarkWare announce $10,000 Cairo Developer Grant.
Introducing Snapshot X - the most widely used voting framework for DAOs is coming to StarkNet, with unique features thanks to Storage Proofs.
Aave to integrate Snapshot X into their governance processes.
Lords, an extension to the Loot project, is developing an NFT marketplace on StarkNet.
DEX ZigZag exchange has successfully deployed their permissionless markets upgrade, allowing anyone to list, trade and provide liquidity for any ERC-20 token.
Serity, a synthetic assets protocol, is building on StarkNet.
JediSwap will be the first permissionless AMM on StarkNet.
Game of Blocks, a play to earn game of strategy and conquest, is being developed on StarkNet and announced their litepaper.
Yagi Finance seeks to be the infrastructure for StarkNet yield.
MySwap is another AMM set to launch on StarkNet.
Argent X already has over 10k users. 🎉
starknet.js has crossed 4.5k downloads. 🎉
StarkNet is now tracked on L2Beat. 🎉
List of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
So you want to try some dApps on StarkNet? Follow this very accessible tutorial 👇
Community call #6: Presenting Zorro protocol
Starknet Shamans community discussion highlights
Useful links & articles
Fractal Scaling: from L2 to L3
The rise of L2 native dApps
Provable vs. Composable Computation or why Cairo will supersede Solidity
StarkNet community call schedule
How to use StarkWare layer 2 by Bankless
Developer resources
Awesome StarkNet: A curated list of awesome StarkNet resources, libraries, tools and more. (Highly recommended!)
Aggregated common Cairo functions for use in a Python package.
Want to build on StarkNet and learn Cairo? Here’s a boilerplate repo to get you up and running.
Dates and Events
next community call: February 1st; Presentation of Warp by Nethermind, roadmap update by StarkNet team.
First ever StarkNet hackathon: April 25-26, Amsterdam
StarkNet Summit: TBD
Online workshops are on the way. 👀
Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
Special thanks to odin_free for helping me source some of the information! 🔍