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StarkNet roundup #3

Weekly summary of all things StarkNet

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Feb 6, 2022
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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 0.3.11 has been released.

  • StarkNet Devnet 0.1.14 has 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.

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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.

  • StarkNet and the future of Ethereum Scaling by ameya.

  • 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! 🔍

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