gm fellow STARK enthusiasts! 🐺✨
This is the third edition of your weekly StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here.
Let’s get into this week’s news! 👇
Protocol & dev tool updates
starknet-hardhat-plugin 0.3.11has been released.StarkNet Devnet 0.1.14has been released.Eric Lau has released a Cairo language server - making Cairo code assistance available in any IDE or text editor that supports the Language Server Protocol.
Martín Triay is prototyping an upgrade mechanism for ERC-20s in Cairo.
Token Flow Insights deployed an alpha version of a get_events endpoint for StarkNet.
Jag Lotus released a string manipulation library on StarkNet.
StarkWare announces partnership with ConsenSys audits, ensuring StarkNet contracts are secure and well audited.
Space MMO game Influence open sourced their fixed point math library for Cairo.
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.
Ecosystem
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out the community jobs section.
Deployment of Aave v3 on StarkNet enters Phase I.
Bibliotheca DAO graphs Loot projects so you can see your progress in the Lootverse.
DopeWars releases latest progress update.
Nurstar.eth created a guide to using JediSwap, an upcoming AMM, on testnet.
Serity Finance released “A Primer to Serity - the Future of Synthetic Assets”.
NFT marketplace oasis shipped three features, including a mobile site.
Introducing Zero Knowledge Lottery.
Briq, an NFT building and composition protocol, is announcing alpha v1.0 and more in a big update.
A new Ledger app for StarkNet is in the works.
Realms released their vision (whitepaper) for an ever-expanding Lootverse running on StarkNet.
Space MMO Influence shows off their travel system user interface.
A quick bloom filter implementation by sam_.
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Warp, the Solidity to Cairo transpiler, has some big improvements to come.
StarkNet stats: 70,000 contracts deployed on StarkNet alpha testnet over the past 10 weeks. 🥳
Announcing Starkswap.
Starknet Shamans community discussion highlights
How can I derive BigInt3/EcPoints from an ethereum public key and signature?
How can StarkNet achieve very high throughput?
Decentralization: simplest suggestion.
Check if address has a deployed contract?
Useful links & articles
community member @starkwhale has created L2.news, an L2 news aggregator without filler.
Why are programming languages like Cairo important for modular blockchains? by pseudotheos.
High-level, mathy introduction to zk-STARKs by Ole.
Smart contract bug hunting strategies by Joran Honig.
Developer resources
best practices on Cairo development by @joranhonig.
Perama’s overview of Accounts (Account abstraction) on StarkNet.
Learn to code Cairo dApps with SymbOnStark - step 3 released.
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.
Solidity 101 tutorial; Extracting data from StarkNet by Henri Lieutaud.
Dates and Events
next community call Feb 15th: Presentation by guiltygyoza, roadmap update by StarkNet team.
Announcing the Encode x StarkNet hackathon: from Feb 28th until April.
First ever StarkNet hackathon: April 25-26, Amsterdam.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
Please note that, in order to keep this newsletter at an acceptable length, I am purging the sections “Useful links and articles” and “Developer resources” on a biweekly basis. You can check all of them out in the past updates which you can find here.
Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
Special thanks to odin_free and starkwhale for helping me source some of the information! 🔍