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Welcome to the 20th edition of my weekly comprehensive StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here. 👇🏻
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Let’s get into this week’s news! Lots of partnerships and meetups on the plate. 💪
Protocol & dev tool updates
StarkNet Alpha v0.9.0 is now live on testnet! Devs, pay attention: fees are now mandatory. More features: Contract factories are now supported; Introducing contract classes and instances. Soon on mainnet.
@StarkWareLtd announce partnership w/ @Web3Auth. This partnership embodies our teams’ vision of providing secure and easy access to the crypto ecosystem, while providing non-custodial management.
@StarkWareLtd announce a new strategic partnership with @SnapshotLabs. Over the last year, we’ve worked together with Snapshot to bring secure voting to #StarkNet. DAOs deserve L1’s security guarantees with L2’s gas costs.
@StarkWareLtd announce new strategic partnership with @Layerswap. Our shared goal is to provide a range of world-class solutions for onboarding users to web3 and #StarkNet, and encouraging interoperability on a large scale.
@swmansion - We've just released the v0.2.2 and v0.2.3 versions of Protostar.
@OnlyDust_xyz built an extension to interact with your protostar unit tests.
@dimahledba is teasing an NFT reputation system on StarkNet.
@myBraavos - Happy to announce the release of v2.0.0, a new major version with many improvements and a complete UI revamp.
@ivpavici - New version of #starknet-devnet v0.2.3 has been released.
@0xvoyageronline - Beta version of Voyager's new UI is live! Improved UI across homepage, blocks, transactions. Global statistics. Try it out!
Media highlights
@ZK_Daily Twitter space - Topic: The rapid development of the StarkWare Ecosystem. Notes here by @zaiteku_.
StarkNet House Weekly Session 0: "What are zk-STARKs?" By Eli Ben-Sasson
@JediSwap: What are smart contract wallets? What do they unlock? Can they make crypto mainstream? Twitter space.
Avihu Levy - STARK Recursion. Talk at ETH Prague.
Ecosystem Highlights
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@magnetyfi: Alpha version launch on Goerli testnet in two weeks. Here is a short overview to help you understand the protocol's mechanisms.
@ninth_gg: Gameplay teaser; KOMA Reaction Display - Breathing, Moving, Being Attacked and Died. The Ninth also received a grant funded by
@StarkWareLtd to continually develop The Ninth. They also launched Community Quests powered by @crew3xyz for their community. Complete tasks, earn XP and get exclusive rewards.
@BrineFinance: We are bringing up Quests powered by @crew3xyz for the #Brinerd community. On completing each Quest you will earn XP which can get you exclusive NFTs, OG roles, tokens & more.
@influenceth - We are extremely excited to publicly announce our Grantees! Also: The Adalian Creator's Collective launches soon. If you are a developer, Artist, Content Creator, or have some skill/talent that you want to show off, this is for you!
@AdeptusDigital1: And yet another DAO is born. Introducing ADEPTUS DIGITALES. Introducing our first product: The Commercium.
@arcticiumm - Arctic v1.0 is out! Check it out. Arcswap will be on testnet next month.
@SeraphieGame shared some concept art: The Crusader.
@ZKEX_Official is delighted to join the #StarkNet dApp ecosystem. Thank you @StarkWareLtd for the development grant, which will be used to accelerate the launch of our multi-chain DEX.
@altzoneio - We are happy to announce that we are starting beta testing!
@starkswap - The #IronFleet special launch event has arrived! This is an exciting opportunity to earn the coveted early adaptor #pirate Discord role by helping test the new dApp!
@xBankFinance - Our team continues to BUIDL regardless of market conditions! Multiple upgrades going live tomorrow: - Support on ERC4626 standard, StarkNet 0.9.0 and Argent X 0.4.x - Improvement on Dashboard & Market menu performance & UI.
@AstralyXYZ - ZKPad (@ZKPadfi) is now Astraly (@AstralyXYZ). We've decided to change for a name that is more aligned with our branding and long term vision. More information (and testnet) coming soon.
@zkLend - ZKLEND QUESTS WEEK 2 OPENED. Join the hunt now: https://zklend.crew3.xyz. ICYMI: Overall prizes include: testnet spots, #zkLend swag, POAPs and other prizes. Week 1 snapshot taken, top 10 mid season winners have now been chosen.
@gaetbout - Continuing my journey about compression, I made a POC about integer (felt) packing. I'll keep on working on it and will probably tackle the loading time first. So, here is s/place.
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 StarkNet stats: last week: 142k txs on Goerli,
14k txs on Mainnet. To date: 4.1m txs on Goerli, 171k txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 28k on Goerli, 17.5k on Mainnet.
Over 310 ETH have been bridged to StarkNet so far (there’s a cap).
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
StarkNet Community Call #16: SnapshotX
Notes here by @StarkDisciple.
StarkNet Monthly Update- April, May
Much exciting stuff has happened since my last update; one that is especially worth mentioning is seeing many of you on the STARKATHON in Amsterdam in April (!!!). Crazy event.
Before starting with the regular versions’ update - I want to introduce the new boy in town. We released a new documentation site. Better looking, constantly updating, and open for all of you to comment and contribute. Have you ever wondered how the contract address is calculated? How the state of StarkNet look like? I know I did.
We plan to merge “Hello StarkNet” tutorials to this new documentation soon, as currently, the situation is quite confusing, and it’s not clear where to find the information.
Highly recommend reading the full post for more information about Alpha versions & StarkGate. Alternate twitter thread summarizing the post here.
New StarkNet Improvement Proposals
[SIMP] String standardization
[SIMP] Connect accounts to dapps
[SIMP] Wallet Multi Chain Support
[SIMP] Starknet Provider JavaScript API
[SIMP] Check Support for Starknet Provider JavaScript API
Useful links & articles
@ZkpadAnalytics: The StarkNet Defi landscape - A Thread
@dcfpascal_ - thread on the progress of some of the best builders in the Starknet gaming ecosystem.
@lordOfAFew - How account abstraction and StarkNet enables multicalls, and why I think this is Ethereum's the broadband moment. An article.
Developer resources
@henrlihenrli - Hey Cairo devs, do you remember "Solve to mint", a Cairo puzzle including a physics engine, deployed to StarkNet a few weeks ago by @topology_gg and @matchbox_dao? Tomorrow at 14h CET I'll show you how to solve it, and reuse its code.
@BrineFinance: Cairo 101: Episode 3 - Arrays.
@ChainstackHQ - A StarkNet odyssey part 2: Everything you need to know before you start writing your first line of #Cairo.
@0xZorz - StarkNet Cairo Trivia #2! Why does this function need alloc_locals to compile even though there are no local variables?
@Starknet_Intern - My top 9 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝘀 on GitHub from over 340 Cairo and StarkNet repos.
@pcaversaccio - Check out my curated list of Cairo/StarkNet resources, libraries, tools, and more here.
@Web3zy - Session wallets are the key to unlocking good user experiences while using fully on-chain applications and games. A Thread.
Dates and Events
With DevConnect Amsterdam and the StarkWare hackathon concluded, things are getting a bit more relaxed again.
next StarkNet community call June 21st: 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. Check out their research fellows here.
@contributedao: We're hosting a StarkNet workshop series! The workshop will have 5 chapters: 1. Tools Setup 2. Cairo Basics 3. Cairo Smart Contract 101 4. Cairo Provable Program 5. Cairo Security and the first workshop will be on 8 June 2022.
@encodeclub: Want to pick the brain of a Product Manager & Blockchain Researcher at @StarkWareLtd—Tom Brand (@bbrandtom)? Join us for an AMA on Tuesday, 14th June at 6:30 pm GMT+1 and ask questions directly to Tom! Everyone is welcome!
@NathanVDH0x - Happy to announce the first Brussels StarkNet meetup! Attendance is limited so grab it while it's hot. June 21st.
@cartridge_gg - We're hosting a Starknet Gaming Meetup at @OS_NewYorkCity during http://nft.nyc! Write Cairo, learn about Starknet, play games, and have fun. Space is limited, sign up here.
@matchbox_dao: You are a dev and want to build cool games and gaming-related projects on #StarkNet? Time to join the very first MatchboxDAO hackathon (3rd to 10th of July) before it's too late!
@zkLend is organizing a StarkNet meetup in HongKong in the summer. Date TBA.
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.
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Special thanks to odin_free, @0xNurstar and starkwhale for helping me source some of the information! 🔍
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