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Welcome to the 18th edition of my weekly comprehensive StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here. 👇🏻
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Protocol & dev tool updates
@Immutable: Announcing our next chapter: @Immutable’s cross-rollup liquidity solution across multiple L2/L3 zk-rollups, bringing to the next billion players of web3 games, with StarkNet. Scalable. Composable. Secure. Welcome to #L222 and #L323.
@swmansion have released Protostar v0.2.1 with A LOT of new features! `deploy` command; configuration profiles; start_prank` for remote contracts; updated cairo-lang to version 0.8.2.1; fixed exit codes.
New version of starknet-hardhat-plugin v0.5.5 has been released.
@Immutable is working on a secure and robust L1 Ethereum <-> L2 #StarkNet NFT Bridge. Interested in their design? They want your feedback!
@udayj shares an idea for a self-custodial vault - feedback welcome.
StarkNet full node Juno fully syncs the state against mainnet for the first time - making steady progress towards their Alpha.
Sign-in With StarkWare is now live and starting today. Users can now log-in to any Web 2 application using their StarkNet accounts - demo here. By @Web3Auth.
quark blockchain - A decentralized horizontally-scaled state machine that can transfer 1,000,000 unique tokens on Uniswap in a single atomic transaction - by @liamzebedee.
Media highlights
Recording of @matchbox_dao workshop about tools that aim at providing game devs with dynamic on-chain music.
@ZKPadfi, the launchpad platform buidling on StarkNet, held its community call #10. Main topic = Wen Testnet?
All about ZK/Validity rollups - Twitter space hosted by @imrgoyal with ZK gigabrains @EliBenSasson (@StarkWareLtd) and @_bfarmer (@0xPolygonZero) with @madhavanmalolan
Twitter Space about abstraction with guest @Drspacemn from @StarkWareLtd, hosted by @Web3Auth.
Bankless: Immutable Live Reveal: Scaling NFTs to a Billion Players with L2/L3.
Ecosystem Highlights
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this building on StarkNet page.
StarkGate now supports the DAI stablecoin! Check it out on the bridge website.
@ninth_gg shares first details of their arena gameplay, and now supports both @myBraavos and @argentHQ wallets.
NFT focused collective @arcticiumm introduces Arcswap, OTC-like asset swaps for NFTs, where you can trade your non fungibles for other ones.
An MMORPG called Seraphie has decided to build on StarkNet instead of Avalanche.
briq alpha 1.10 is out! You can now see how many briqs will be placed when using SHIFT+click.
Major product release on @MintSquareNFT. You can now mint & view Audio, Video & 3D NFTs on Mint Square! Mint your multimedia NFTs. View 3D NFTs from @briqNFT. View activities & offers received.
NEW BRAND ANNOUNCEMENT: @playoasisXYZ is now @aspectdotco! As there are many other projects in the crypto space named Oasis, they have decided to create a new and unique identity.
@ZKPadfi, A Technical Deep Dive. In this article, you'll explore how ZkPad α works under the hood.
@SithSwap is pleased to announce working with @nethermindeth on a full audit of our #Cairo#AMM codebase. A critical milestone bringing us closer to deliver an innovative and advanced stableswap design.
@topology_gg's Isaac Alpha has blown through over 10,000+ @yagi_fi executions - @p_e.
Quantitative hedge fund for NFTs @BlackpoolHQ are announcing a partnership with one of the most anticipated galaxy faring MMOs - @influenceth.
@LootRealms: Another step on the low fidelity to high fidelity roadmap - rendering Realms in Unreal Engine 5.
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Ecosystem stats
Argent X (@argentHQ) is currently the most popular wallet to interact with #StarkNet. Key Metrics (27/05/2022) : - 3.5M transactions - 462K wallets created.
Weekly record, Monthly record - total 30K downloads of starknet.js.
Weekly StarkNet stats: last week: 250k txs on Goerli,
20k txs on Mainnet. To date: 3.9m txs on Goerli, 148k txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 19k on Goerli, 12k on Mainnet.
Over 250 ETH have been bridged to StarkNet so far (there’s a cap).
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
Canonized Post Processing
Tl;dr - The StarkNet Operating System (OS) may benefit from long-range computations that are applied to prior blocks. This post explains the basic concept and gives a few examples.
Examples of useful CPP:
Econometrics
Non-linear statistics, like median tx size, median fee, etc. (linear statistics, like average, can be computed without CPP, chunk by chunk), this could be used for the following
Fee Mechanism design - long-range statistics could feed into fee mechanism to enforce better estimation
Data availability
Daily state-diff, perhaps even using lossless compression
Daily volition/validium state diff, for users who are happy with daily use of Validium but at the end of each day wish to have data committed onchain
StarkNet Community Call #15
Notes here, by @StarkDisciple.
Useful links & articles
Scalability of Ethereum: Overview of Rollups & Deepening of the StarkNet Ecosystem - by @cleminso & @nono01022.
StarkNet France have translated several StarkWare articles into French.
The StarkNet on-chain gaming landscape - StarkNet is becoming an Eldorado for on-chain games - Thread by @ZkpadAnalytics.
@zkRollupsXYZ: Five Quick Questions for zkLend - We asked @zkLend a few quick questions about what they are building, who is behind the project, and what they have in store for the future.
@0xNurstar: StarkNet Project Deep Dive Thread #5 - @Immutable's Mega Cross-Layer structure
@0xAlec: A thread on StarkNet’s Cairo language, and why STARKs are the key to unlocking blockchain scalability.
@pseudotheos: Layer 3 is a paradigm shift in blockchain scaling. Here's what you need to know.
Developer resources
@CairoLang dev problem: How do you ensure code isolation while allowing functions to interact nicely with data structures without passing dozens of parameters? Use implicit parameters to build an OOP-like design pattern - by @dimahledba.
@Starknet_Intern is excited to share a bunch of resources to help you devs develop on #Starknet and more generally in Cairo. Massive Cairo tutorial thread.
@Matteo_Mer shares how he did his first steps into the Cairo and StarkNet ecosystem.
@BrineFinance: We just uploaded the Lesson 2 which will help you understand Builtins, Variables and Conditions in Cairo.
@0xZorz: No experience with Cairo or StarkNet? No problem. Here's a Step by Step Tutorial on Deploying your NFT project on #StarkNet.
@uF4No: StarkNet is great but the learning curve in @CairoLang is super steep and it can can be very overwhelming at first. This is everything you need to know before you start writing your first line of Cairo.
@matchbox_dao: Want to build on Starknet? (you should!) Starting with Cairo? (we feel you!) Here are tips from the winners of the #StarkNet hackathon to inspire your learning journey.
Dates and Events
With DevConnect Amsterdam and the StarkWare hackathon concluded, things are getting a bit more relaxed again.
next community call June 6th: Open for presentation, roadmap update.
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.
@OhadBarta Product Manager & Researcher @StarkWareLtd is speaking at #BOS22! Ohad will share insights into brand new oracle use cases that could be enabled by leveraging Layer 2 ZK Rollups. More info here.
Announcing @avihu28 as a speaker at this year's @EthPrague event, 10-12 June 2022.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
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