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Welcome to the 17th edition of my weekly comprehensive StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here. 👇🏻
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Protocol & dev tool updates
Update on my horizontally scaled decentralized DB. Been iterating on the design here. - @liamzebedee.
Heads up, devs! StarkNet fees are upon us! StarkNet Alpha was launched on Mainnet without a transaction fee. In version 0.8.0, fees are included but not enforced. Starting with version 0.9.0, fees will be enforced.
0.9.0 getting ready to ship. - @Starknet_Intern.
StarkNet Wallet @myBraavos upgraded the version of their wallet with new features, which is now available on both Chrome and Firefox stores.
Media highlights
@matchbox_dao held another great technical workshop for devs, where they talked about some OnChain <> Machine Learning mechanisms.
Twitter spaces notes from @JediSwap and @magnetyfi. Great call, and some insights on what Magnety are trying to build.
@0xEduard, Founder of the innovative Derivatives protocol @zkxprotocol, took part in a very insightful Twitter Space about Web 3.0 held by @BiIndia. Notes here.
The StarkNet Launchpad @ZKPadfi held their #9 weekly community call where they talked about the upcoming testnet.
Twitter space: Building in a bear market - Nurstar <> Jane from zkLend.
For anyone who's built or building a #DAO check it out! Emma from @zkLend hosted @JediSwap on their Podcast Zend & Friends 'The Rise Of The DAOs. Read about whats it's like to be a community driven project built from the ground up and the struggles encountered along the way.
@LootRealms release the first Episode of "The Jangle", a YT video that shares the main relevant things and news going on in this StarkNet powered Metaverse.
@zkxprotocol: Announcing our first AMA with @ZK_Daily. Tune in to hear the founders of @zkxprotocol, @zkLend, @myBraavos, and @starkswap discuss why they chose to #BUIDL on #StarkNet - May 25th.
#StarkNet is quickly emerging with an extremely strong gaming ecosystem - but what about its future applied to #DeFi? Listen to the Co-Founder Brian as he speaks with @BrineFinance on our latest #AMA. Builder-to-Builder: get an inside glimpse.
Ecosystem Highlights
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this building on StarkNet page.
@yagi_fi has recently integrated with our testnet lending vault. - @xBankFinance.
@ninth_gg: One-time signing key feature will be applied in our game. The dev team is engaging in internal tests of this feature right now. // Article - The Ninth: Introduction. // The Ninth First Arena Gameplay.
@MintSquareNFT are excited to announce the brand new redesign with new features.
@AgeOfEykar impressive performance test - that's ~665964 triangles drawn by your GPU at every single frame. // Goodbye perlin noise, welcome 2d simplex noise! Already in production on http://eykar.org, we are making good progress on its cairo implementation.
@PlayRedline is an On-chain Game with a DAO Budling on Starknet. An intro & observation thread by @crypto_gurkha.
Here is a python version of @matchbox_dao’s Solve2Mint challenge. This will help you save time while checking if a given solution is valid or not - by @elliot_yagami.
Here are some procedural generated worlds and their mesmerizing animations - Exoworld by @Exothium.
@influenceth: Our first community governance vote is now live. Find out more here.
@lordOfAFew has been working on implementing a ERC1155 from/to tokens AMM on @LootRealms, a multiplayer OnChain Game building on StarkNet.
Read about ‘Genesis’, a Minecraft-like game incubated by @matchbox_dao with an on-chain Terrain Generation Algorithm.
@ZigZagExchange just launched a huge UX improvement: custom layouts. You can now customise the trading interface by simply opening your wallet and selecting a layout that you like!
@deadlydotgames, an NFT collection on Ethereum, have decided to use StarkNet for their game(s).
@altzoneio, a 3D Smart Contract designing project has received a grant from
@StarkWareLtd to keep on building revolutionizing visible and interactive smart contracts!
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Ecosystem stats
5820 unique smart contracts have been deployed on the #StarkNet testnet in total (16/05/2022). We're getting close to an average of 350 unique smart contracts deployed each week.
Weekly record, Monthly record - total 30K downloads of starknet.js.
Weekly StarkNet stats: last week: 197k txs on Goerli,
19k txs on Mainnet. To date: 3.7m txs on Goerli, 128k txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 28k on Goerli, 12k on Mainnet.
You can now see volume and TVL stats about the StarkNet Ecosystem on the @l2beatcom website. StarkNet is making its first steps climbing up the TVL rankings.
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
Cairolang Wishlist
During the Amsterdam Hackathon we put up a “wishlist” board and here is what the respondents said:
SHA256 + KECCAK builtin
Package Manager
Storing arrays/long strings/native strings
Create separate error message json and “in contract” error message json for easier debugging
Indexed events for specific contract types
Switch statement
Elliptic Curve Library
Typed arrays
Methods for structs
Defined and open process for adding hints
Enums
Deduce type on assignment from function return
Miami StarkNet Hackathon Winners announced
Congrats to the "PLAY 2 HELP" team for winning the #StarkNet prize on @activate_build hackathon! PLAY 2 HELP: GameFi infra on StarkNet to help developers tokenize games.
Also, congrats to @espejelomar and @haycarlitos for winning a StarkNet ecosystem prize on @activate_build hackathon, Miami! NumCairo is a library for numeric operations on arrays in Cairo, a foundation for ML.
Useful links & articles
StarkNet Tutorial Thread #2 - StarkGate Alpha by @0xNurstar.
Starknet and how to scale Ethereum, part 1. A thread by @ZkpadAnalytics.
@briqNFT CoFounder @sylvechv shares some thoughts and considerations about some L3+ OffChain stuff ultimately proved OnChain.
Developer resources
Cairo-Goldmine got updated. Hundreds of useful GitHub repos #Cairo #Starknet getting more and more quality builders - by @865bLl.
Need a Python library for #StarkNet? Here you go.
Cairo 101 : Learn Cairo the Easiest Way | Lesson 1 : An Intro by @BrineFinance.
We're excited to share a tutorial on how to read #StarkNet directly from #UE5 @StarkWareLtd's StarkNet is ideal for making games. As game developers we'd even say it's easier in many ways + more secure than having "web2" servers - by @PlayRedline.
Massive thread compilation of StarkNet dev tools by @Starknet_Intern.
Dates and Events
With DevConnect Amsterdam and the StarkWare hackathon concluded, things are getting a bit more relaxed again.
next community call May 24th: Presenting get-starknet by Braavos, roadmap update.
Announcing @avihu28 as a speaker at this year's @EthPrague event, 10-12 June 2022.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
You can check out all of the past updates here.
None of the content of this newsletter is financial advice. Always do your own research.
Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
Special thanks to odin_free, @0xNurstar and starkwhale for helping me source some of the information! 🔍
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