gm fellow STARK enthusiasts! ✨🐺
Welcome to the 13th edition of my weekly comprehensive StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here. 👇🏻
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Protocol & dev tool updates
StarkWare announce collaboration with Web3Auth! Their Auth Network infrastructure provides important support for seamlessly and intuitively onboarding users into both #StarkEx and #StarkNet ecosystems.
New version of starknet-devnet v0.1.21 has been released.
Software Mansion just released Protostar 0.1.0! It's a StarkNet smart contract development toolchain, and it allows testing StarkNet contracts, simplifies compilation & manages dependencies.
Nile 0.6.0 is out! Featuring: nile debug command, plugin support, disable hint validation flag, and more.
starknet.py 0.2.2-alpha was released, which includes support for cairo-lang 0.8.1 and some other minor changes.
znity just built Mostar, a trust-less reflection-based bridge between Starknet and Ethereum using Cairo and Solidity. It works with ERC721 assets and soon will support 1155 & 20 standards.
dsi created a npm package to analyze starknet functions inputs, function outputs, events, transaction calls and blocks into usable objects.
ZigZag Exchange released their StarkNet Oracle code, are recruiting ~15 StarkNet projects to run their oracle as node operators to help with testing.
0xKermo published a contract in Cairo that allows you to use your NFT as collateral and get a loan by auction.
Cairo-Goldmine got updated. Collection of hundreds of useful GitHub repos for Cairo/Starknet. by @865bLl.
Media highlights
Twitter space
Twitter space
The Encode Club x StarkWare hackathon has come to an end - all the details & full list of hackathon winners in this article.
Twitter space: @imrgoyal from @JediSwap and @Swagtimus @guiltygyoza @ybs_eth from @matchbox_dao on a conversation on bringing games on-chain using StarkNet. Notes here.
ZKPad Community Call #6, including notes by Stark Disciple.
Job Board
This newsletter isn’t just the most comprehensive and most read source of StarkNet news, it’s also the perfect place to list your StarkNet job offers.
Open positions
Shard Labs. JavaScript/TypeScript developer for the StarkNet team. Requirements: 2+ years of JavaScript/TypeScript professional experience, strong organizational, communication and English skills. Desirable bonus: Familiarity with Blockchain libraries (web3.js or ether.js), npm packages and JS tools. Apply here.
Argent. Product lead - Argent X. Apply here.
Sandclock. Looking for Solidity devs interested in Cairo to port Sandclock's codebase. Port Sandclock's codebase to Cairo and implement sustainable yield generation strategies. Apply here.
zkLend. Full stack developer to help build out zkLend’s product infrastructure. Apply here.
Magnety, asset management protocol: Cairo developer.
JediSwap, AMM: Contribute in their open Mesh program.
ZkPad, decentralized crypto launchpad and incubator on StarkNet: UX/UI designer to join their fully remote team.
MatchboxDAO, on-chain games incubator: Technical and Product Lead with an understanding of zk rollups (bonus if you know Cairo), to lead a variety of our technical projects and manage teams of developers.
SithSwap, AMM: professional content and documentation (GitBook) writer with in-depth knowledge of the Uniswap V2 and Curve Finance protocol mechanics (their AMM + Curve tokenomics). Contact: Twitter, Telegram, Discord.
Apibara, NFT marketplace: functional engineer to build the best NFT API on Ethereum and StarkNet.
Redline, racing game: Cairo developer to create race contracts, tournament systems, tokens and NFTs - as well as 4 other open roles.
The Ninth, metaverse game: freelance blockchain developer with professional knowledge of blockchain technologies and work experience with Solidity, Cairo or zk snarks. Contact email.
Brine finance, decentralized order-book exchange: community manager who is experienced at executing marketing campaigns, expertly engaging and igniting communities and leading narrative design.
nftJorge: Starknet developer to build and maintain the StarkNet component of our multi-chain marketplace currently in stealth. We are a company building out a decentralised hyper realistic Metaverse with an in-game (and standalone) marketplace. Twitter, Email.
ZKX, derivatives protocol: Senior software developer (Solidity/Cairo) & Head of Growth.
Bibliotheca DAO: experienced Creative director to spearhead Art style across the decentralised Lootverse they are building on StarkNet. Web3 Adventurers can apply by joining the Bibliotheca DAO discord and messaging LordOfAFew.
ZKasino: An innovative non-custodial casino project is seeking to bring in fast learning and enthusiastic Cairo developers to build game contracts. For enquiries, join Matchbox DAO's Discord at: https://discord.gg/7FmkTfGZRP and send a message in the ZKasino chat!
PlayOasis: NFT marketplace where our clients offer and list nfts with near zero gas fees. We are looking for a software engineer to work on frontend, backend and smart contracts. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: Coding knowledge and experience is required. Contact email.
Yuki Labs are hiring Senior Frontend Engineers (React Typescript) and Product Designers to help Ethereum and Layer 2 teams ship outstanding user experiences.
Ecosystem Highlights
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this building on StarkNet page.
Realms, briq, oasis & StarkWare announce the “L2 Wonder building competition” with 48k $LORDS & 1.6 ETH in prizes.
briq is compatible with magicavoxel! You can build your Wonder, download the .vox file then import it in briq.
Realms provides further info about how they record their storytelling and game actions on-chain.
MatchboxDAO incubated game project (N)Ogame v0.1 got deployed on StarkNet Goerli and is accessible via Voyager. Details & specs here. by ametel01.
briq alpha 1.7 is out. A lot of bugfixes and improvements, & introducing NFT descriptions! Give a description to your NFT when minting it and it will appear on NFT marketplaces like @PlayOasisXYZ and @MintSquareNFT.
@alkarin_ started to implement saddlefinance contracts with Cairo.
CurveZero, a fixed-rate loan protocol built on StarkNet, won 1st place at the Encode Hackathon.
ZKX is pleased to announce that they have received a grant from StarkWare! They’re excited to continue the journey, and build the first permissionless protocol for derivatives on #StarkNet.
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Ecosystem stats
1,589 new smart contracts have been deployed on StarkNet in March. This number 2x’d month over month from November until now.
There are more than 270k Argent X wallets on the #StarkNet testnet.
Weekly StarkNet stats (will update once they’re out - few hours from now): 340k txs on Goerli, 3.9k txs on Mainnet. To date: 2.9m txs on Goerli, 81.9k txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 37.5k on Goerli, 2.1k on Mainnet.
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
StarkNet Community Call #12 - How to decentralize StarkNet
Useful links & articles
Argent research thread - why zkRollups are the future. Another Argent thread explaining StarkNet.
StarkNet Project Deep Dive Thread #3 - MatchboxDAO, by Nurstar.eth
Dialectic_CH drops a high quality article about on-chain gaming.
New video on Ethereum Scaling, the Modular Vision, the "Holographic World Computer", ZK/Optimistic Roll-ups, Roll-up cost model, and more. Including isometric diagram of how L2/roll-ups integrate with a modular Ethereum, by jordanmmck.
Developer resources
@trevis_dev shares an introduction to the “debug” command in Nile.
Massive compilation of resources shared at the Encode Club Hackathon by Anthony Beaumont.
Francesco Ceccon: now is the best time to prepare for next week's StarkNet workshop and hackathon. Here's a list of his favourite StarkNet tools and libraries.
The official Repo of the StarkNet Bootcamp, taking place later this month at DevConnect Amsterdam, is almost ready on GitHub. Prepared with love by
Dates and Events
StarkWare’s Henri Lieutaud breaks down “the Starkening” - a thread of all StarkWare related events in Amsterdam. Come by and Henri might hand you some StarkWare swag!
next community call April 26th: Live AMA / presentations from the Amsterdam Starkathon.
StarkWare is a sponsor for Layer 2 Amsterdam: April 19th-20th.
Magicdust.gg workshop at DevConnect: From Zero to Cairo in 5 hours, April 20th.
Lightshift StarkNet bootcamp in Amsterdam: April 20th-21st.
StarkNet’s Ohad Barta will be talking at How to Dex, April 21st.
Ariel Elperin from StarkWare will be a speaker at The Secureum TrustX, a first-of-its-kind Ethereum security event in collaboration with EFDevconnect, in Amsterdam, April 21st-22nd.
First ever StarkNet hackathon: April 25-26, Amsterdam. Registrations now open. 0xjanek and jniset from Argent, as well as guiltygyoza, imrgoyal from JediSwap and Francesco Ceccon will be there, mentoring hackers and sharing their input! Addition: Meet the Magnety team in Amsterdam.
Ohad Barta will be the first speaker at L2Beat’s L2 conference in Amsterdam. Ohad's lecture will cover how L2s in general, and StarkNet in particular, create a new paradigm when developing dApps for blockchains.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
You can check out all of the past updates here.
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Special thanks to odin_free and starkwhale for helping me source some of the information! 🔍
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