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StarkNet roundup #2

Weekly summary of all things StarkNet

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Jan 30, 2022
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gm fellow STARK enthusiasts! 🐺✨

This is the second edition of your weekly StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here.

Let’s get into this week’s news! 👇

Protocol updates

  • starknet-hardhat-plugin 0.3.10 has been released.

  • StarkNet Alpha 0.7.0 has launched on mainnet, one week after the release on testnet; bringing proxies, events and block number/block timestamp calls.

  • StarkWare has partnered with OppenZeppelin. OpenZeppelin will provide audit and secure development resources for StarkNet.

  • OpenZeppelin Nile has implemented a scripting API to compile, manage deployments & accounts, and is working on plugins.

  • StarkWare has partnered with ABDK. ABDK will audit StarkNet smart contracts and Cairo code.

  • @niubob created a Cairo implementation of NIST P-256, enabling the provability of Apple Enclave signature on StarkNet.

  • first iteration of an Account Contract supporting multicalls in Cairo.

  • Jonathan LEI is creating starknet.rs, a complete Rust library in StarkNet.

  • New code completion feature in Eric Lau’s Cairo Visual Studio Code extension for StarkNet - lets you quickly import libraries such as OpenZeppelin Cairo Contracts.

  • An extension of Starknet's L1-L2 bridge for ERC-20 in Vyper by tsenami.

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.

Media Highlight: discussion with the four leaders in rollups: Arbitrum, ZK Sync, Starkware, Optimism ft. @EliBenSasson

Twitter avatar for @hosseeb
Haseeb Qureshi @hosseeb
L2s are the future of Ethereum, but each L2 has a different vision of that future. Join @naval and I next week for a discussion with the four leaders in rollups: @sgoldfed, @gluk64, @EliBenSasson, @karl_dot_tech (Arbitrum, ZK Sync, Starkware, Optimism) https://t.co/99y1Lv2tHA
5:47 PM ∙ Jan 21, 2022
2,064Likes393Retweets

Ecosystem

  • Want to build on StarkNet? Check out the community jobs section.

  • DopeWars, a DAO-governed game, has released vehicles for their game; as well as their first Podcast episode on their origins.

  • Briqs, an NFT building and composition protocol, has showcased some community creations.

  • Space MMO game Influence has held a Twitter space with two NASA engineers.

  • Users of oasis, a newly announced NFT marketplace on StarkNet, have minted over 3,000 NFTs on testnet only 5 days after launch.

  • Following Lyra and StarkWare’s $10,000 Cairo Developer Grant, two developers fulfilled the criteria and implemented a Black Scholes library in Cairo on StarkNet. Entry 1, Entry 2.

  • StarkWare has awarded a grant to JediSwap to build and grow new DeFi applications.

  • starknet.js has crossed 5k downloads, with more downloads in a single week than even at the start of mainnet. 🎉

  • Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️

  • DEX ZigZag has released their vision, laying out their plans for StarkNet and highlighting the unique capabilities they gain by deploying on it.

    Twitter avatar for @ZigZagExchange
    ZigZag Exchange @ZigZagExchange
    ⚡ZigZag's vision⚡ 1/ ZigZag has come a long way in the short span that we've been running, our team is highly enthusiastic about the future. Please take your time to read this and understand our vision. It lays out our plans for StarkNet and zkSync 2.0's release👇
    6:08 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
    589Likes164Retweets

Starknet Shamans community discussion highlights

  • Truly implicit arguments

  • Support for strings of indeterminate length

  • Accounting on StarkNet for DEXs

  • Gas metering in Cairo / bytecode

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

  • Fees in StarkNet Alpha

  • How to use StarkWare layer 2 by Bankless

  • zk rollup directory

  • community member @starkwhale has created L2.news, an L2 news aggregator without filler.

  • StarkNet and the future of Ethereum Scaling by ameya

Developer resources

  • StarkNet Shamans

  • StarkNet Discord

  • Cairo 101

  • 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.

  • best practices on Cairo development by @joranhonig

  • Perama’s overview of Accounts (Account abstraction) on StarkNet

  • Learn to code Cairo dApps with SymbOnStark

  • going all-in starkware, a compilation of resources by Natalia

  • Cairo deep dive: Under-constrained computation, a new kind of bug by Joran Honig

  • community member Crypto Benkei is documenting their learning process of StarkNet and Cairo.

  • tips for reference types in Cairo by MikeN

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! 🔍

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