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Welcome to the 32nd edition of my weekly comprehensive StarkNet summary. The previous update can be found here. 👇🏻
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Protocol & dev tool updates
@StarkWareLtd - A new exciting collaboration with @InfStones. InfStones' API services will make it easy for developers in the StarkNet community to create and scale Web3 products.
@milancermak - Cairo v0.10.0 fixes the two big vulnerabilities in the language: no more implicit imports of public functions and no more storage_var clashing.
@FuzzingLabs - Thoth 0.2.0 is out! Feature: Decompiler. Goal: Help analysis of @CairoLang bytecode by generating Cairo like pseudo-code. You can now decompile the bytecode of published contracts on StarkNet really easily.
@swmansionxyz - We've just released the 0.0.4 version of starknet-jvm with improvements to the account interface, better provider error handling, and more!
@dimahledba - Thanks to @duganist we know have the validation of p2pkh transactions in Khepri, the Bitcoin node implementation in @CairoLang.
@OpenZeppelin - The latest release of OpenZeppelin Contracts for Cairo (v0.3.2) is now available! Highlights: added IAccessControl interface; new ERC20Burnable preset.
New version of starknet.py (v.0.4.7-alpha) has been released.
New version of starknet-hardhat-plugin (v0.6.5) has been released.
Media highlights
@nostrafinance - Here's the transcript of our first ever Nostra Discord AMA on @viamirror
@barretodavid - At StarkWare we have created a newsletter to share with the community once every two weeks, the best and newest resources to master STARKs, Cairo and StarkNet.
@StarkDefi - Introducing StarkDefi - AMA
@zkxprotocol - August was action-packed for ZKX ⚡️ 🎙 Talks 📒 Blogs 🔈 AMAs 🎪 Events Here’s a recap
@0xNurstar - I'm proud to invite you to the Presentation Episode of "Shill Me Your Fundamentals", a Show series that explores the fundamentals-driven Marketing strategies among SN projects 🔎📊🔍 Opening Guest: @GuthL
@zkLend - 🌟ICYMI:ZEND&FRIENDS #AMA Series 2: Multichain Lending second episode recap is now live
@davidengel79 - Just finished my first gaming conference, Gamescom, representing @StarkWareLtd with @HaymanLiron. What a trip. Learned a few things along the way too
@notcentralised - An awesome @StarkWareLtd session in the land down under on #zkrollups #starknet and more (surprise guest at the end thank you @ukolodny), awesome talks from @NumbersDeFi @MsSusannah1 @0xZorz @A5farmer
Ecosystem Highlights
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@EmpiricNetwork - Excited to announce that Empiric Network has ported over the @compoundfinance and @coinbase Open Oracle standard to StarkNet! Learn more 🧵
@nostrafinance - Nostra is delighted to welcome @EmpiricNetwork to #LaFamiglia 🌹
@nostrafinance - New to Nostra? Get up to speed with last week’s recap
@AstralyXYZ - The @influenceth Test-to-Earn campaign is live on Astraly🔥
@Myria - Myria has partnered with @StarkWareLtd to create our ZK STARKs-based Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution
@StarkDefi - You know the drill by now See you on the other side citizens of StarkDefi
@NoGameStarknet - There is an element of rarity defined by the “planet type”. Here are the distribution weights for each one of the planet types
@Starknet_id - StarkNet ID 2.0 is live. Be the first to register your domain name.
@AgeOfEykar - Announcing a new strategic partnership with @Starknet_id
@ImperiumWars - An exciting new strategic partnership with @Starknet_id
@mySwapxyz - We are very excited to launch the new #mySwap analytics feature
@LootRealms - We present two fine things to you this day! The first, an illustration, combining Loot & Realms, marking the one year anniversary of @lootproject. The second, a tease of our upcoming partnership with @matchbox_dao to drive the development of games in the Loot ecosystem.
@StarknetOdyssey - Your home accross the Stars. #Starknet @matchbox_dao
@0xmarcello - I guess you heard about starknet, but have you actually heard starknet? @ETHWarsaw got u covered. In collaboration with @beeinger @kacperkozi. Generating the sounds takes ~30 seconds. This project won the ETHWarsaw StarkWare bounty.
@StarkDefi - Another Week, Another Milestone Thank you for your support
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Ecosystem stats
@Orbiter_Finance - 🛸#L2Data #RollupData 🚩The TOP 5 rollups with the most New Accounts in 7 days
@Testnet_Digger - Which native #StarkNet protocols have the largest communities?
The starknet.js package has exceeded 126k downloads.
Weekly StarkNet stats: last week: 236k txs on Goerli,
19k txs on Mainnet. To date: 6.2m txs on Goerli, 289k txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 37k on Goerli, 4.1k on Mainnet. (outdated, will update ASAP)
Over 996 ETH have been bridged to StarkNet so far (there’s a cap).
@StarkNetEco - In only 6 months, the StarkNet Ecosystem Dashboard has seen a terrific growth: 23k+ Monthly visits; 10k+ Twitter followers; 100~ projects listed; 23+ jobs published; Translated in 9 languages.
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
StarkNet Workshop #2: Diving into Cairo
EIP-4844 cost related research
Question about EIP-4844 and the impact it will have on transactions in starknet. Has anybody run through the numbers? I am trying to do research on it, if somebody has pointers please let me know, I will try to make this data public if I make progress I imagine this will be useful to the whole community.
How StarkWare/starknet intends to use the blob if at all?
This research will be aimed to get an estimate of the storage cost improvements for transactions.
- by user bowlofchilli
Heavily discussed StarkNet Improvement Proposals
A felt based ERC-20 token
Proposal for a standard L2->L1 bridge, for tokens minted on StarkNet
Universal Deployer Contract proposal
[SIMP-4] A standard for writing comments in Cairo contracts
[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
[informational SIMP] Comments in StarkNet contracts
Useful links & articles
@Starknet_Intern - The collaboration with the pioneering StarkNet-native oracle @EmpiricNetwork is an important step for building infrastructure for a new generation of #StarkNet protocols! What's new and why? Here's the thread.
@zkLend - A thread 🧵: 1/13 *Drumroll*...The chads at @EmpiricNetwork will be our guest on ZEND&FRIENDS #AMA this week!
@Testnet_Digger - Today's presentation is about @influenceth , which just launched its second incentivized #testnet!
@zkxprotocol - So, in this thread, we’re going to demystify ‘ZK-Rollups’, the tech behind @zkxprotocol 🧵
@Astralytica - On-chain identity 🆔 What is it? What's the current state of adoption? What are the use cases? What the future might hold? A thread 🧵
@dimahledba - Documentation is coming. #Bitcoin and #STARK proofs in action.
@scottpiriou - So I recently realized a lot of people don’t know about Snapshot X, aka « The Future of Democracy ». Simple thread to get everyone up to speed because y’all need to know what’s coming.
Developer resources
@ctrl_c3 - Been working on putting together some security guidelines for Cairo smart contracts which you can find here.
@0xpedro_eth - Cairo v0.10.0 release looking sweet. Some of the new language features include:
@0xNeiro - If you are curious about StarkNet and its unique programming language Cairo, I aggregated this small list of resources you can check at anytime.
@nostrafinance - Have you ever FELT a programming language? You will now: Nostra Devs 02 – FELT in Cairo
@Starknet_Intern - Looking for an easy way to write a #StarkNet contract? StarkNet ByteSized is a series of short videos covering contract writing in StarkNet - From simple deployments to L1-L2 communication.
@0xdarlington - Last week on my series titled "Journey through Cairo", we explored setting up a development environment with Protostar, and ArgentX. Today we'll journey through Starklings in a bid to understand Cairo's basic fundamentals.
@StarknetBurner - The easiest way to use @StarknetBurner is to use it from get-starknet or starknet-react/core . We have put a an example of the integration in
Dates and Events
@StarkMonsterz - Don’t miss our next Twitter space, with a special guest: @GuthL. We’ll discuss the future and the place of NFTs on StarkNet! Sept 5th.
next StarkNet community call September 6th: Presentation by Frens Lands, roadmap updates
@zkLend - hosting another Episode of "Zend&Friends" next Tuesday, this time featuring the Dev Onboarders from @OnlyDust_xyz, Sept 6th.
@StarkWareLtd - London StarkNet meetup Fractal Scaling with StarkNet: From Mandelbrot to Recursive Proofs and Back with @0xGreg_ - @nethermindeth's CTO. Thu, 8 September 2022, details in the tweet.
@DelendumV - We are excited to host an online panel with @EliBenSasson (@StarkWareLtd), @cryptodavidw (@o1_labs), @cwgoes (@anomanetwork), @captain8299 (@VeridiseInc), and @PlatonicMorgan (@orbisproject ) on Sept 8th at 9am PT.
@Gammax_Exchange - We are excited to announce the launch of our new podcast #DeFined Join us here on Twitter – Thurs, Sept. 8 at 9am PT to listen to @mottylen, co-founders of @myBraavos . He'll give us deeper insights into their founding story and their path to onboard the next wave of Web3 users.
@stark_con - StarkCon is a community-driven conference to bring all the “STARKs” under one roof. The first StarkCon will take place alongside Devcon, the official Ethereum builders' conference in Bogota, Colombia; October.
StarkNet Summit: TBD
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Special thanks to odin_free, @0xNurstar and StarkNet_Digger for helping me source some of the information! 🔍
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