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Protocol & dev tool updates
@MaksDemitraszek - We got contract profiler merged - It is going to be included in the next Protostar release
@StarkscanCo - ✨Pre-release StarkNet is live! Check the new `DEPLOY_ACCOUNT` on 0.10.1 before it's released to StarkNet
@0xvoyageronline - The local version of Voyager got a major upgrade!
Media highlights
@zklend - ICYMI: Ep 2 of ZEND&FRIENDS #AMA Series 03 #StarkNet Educatooors recap is now live! - Recap about @EmpiricNetwork AMA
@starknetvietnam - StarkNet Ecosystem Deep Dive: Introducing Argent X
@zklend - Pleased to share Co-Founder @bfu_fubrian has been featured in a @techinasia piece penned by @terenceleejx - diving into the #TradFi x #DeFi synergies and opportunities
@ZKEX_Official - Hashstack x ZKEX Is Multichain Needed in Defi? - AMA with @ZKEX_Official and @0xHashstack
@0xNurstar - Shill Me Your Fundamentals Ep.2 - With Choby & UniqGoyal from JediSwap - Recording Youtube video
@zklend - 🌟Didn't catch us at #TOKEN2049 ? Dw, we've just published @bfu_fubrian's top 6 highlights from a PACKED week - Featuring: Top picks, #StarkNet in SG and behind the scenes pics
@compass_mining - How STARKS Could Transform Bitcoin - podcast with @GuthL
@0xHashstack - Triality x Hashstack - Twitter space to learn more about Triality's approach to sharing knowledge on the Web3
@StarkVietnam - Welcoming Remarks & Introduction Speech | Eli Ben-Sasson & guiltygyoza - STARKVietnam 2022
@0xNurstar - Shill Me Your Fundamentals Ep.3 - With Matteo & Nik from Astraly - Recording Youtube video
@StarkNetAfrica - STARK Devs Bi-weekly Calls #2: Recap Of Web3Lagos
@0xNurstar - Shill Me Your Fundamentals Ep.4, "Road to Lisbon" Special Edition - with @sam_jdc from Journal du Coin and StarkNet CC organizer
Ecosystem Highlights
@SithSwap - We are very pleased to report that our stableswap #AMM successfully passed its @CairoLang audit from @nethermindeth - finding 0 critical or high severity issues, read the full report here
@zklend - 👀 ICYMI - we kicked off our "Zender of the Month" campaign last week
@TheCommercium - We're happy to announce the launch of the Commercium on #StarkNet testnet - The DEX aggregator Commercium, formerly called Adeptus Digitales, is now live in testnet
@influenceth - A work-in-progress of the in-client view your asteroids resource distribution UI
@MintSquareNFT - Auction (Sell to the highest bidder) is now launched on @MintSquareNFT
@mySwapxyz - We recently experienced a surge in TVL on #mySwap↗️ - mySwap remains the most used dApp on the StarkNet mainnet
@zklend - DID YOU SEE? 900+ Zenders in our community call yesterday!
@myBraavos - More than 1250 #braavosians joined us on our first AMA ever🙏 to discuss the benefits of the Smart Contract Based Wallets
@influenceth - TestNet Phase 3 is coming - Here is an overview of what to expect
@argentHQ - We’re hiring! from product to design, engineering to ecosystem and community - More details about it here
@aspectdotco - Offers made and received are now available on your @aspectdotco profile page
@influenceth - Test-to-Earn Phase 3 is the culmination of 18+ months of development on @influenceth and will be fully on @StarkWareLtd 's #starknet - Here are the upcoming features
@MintSquareNFT - Bulk buying is live ✅ - Now you can mix & match and buy multiple NFTs from top collections on StarkNet
@matchbox_dao - Thanks to all participants, it has been two tough two weeks but you killed it 🔥 - Matchbox announces the end of its hackathon
@10KSwap - UI revision is now live on mainnet - Six notable improvements
@ZKGraph - StarkMeet - first @zkGraph based application development is in progress
@dolvenlabs - We are thrilled to announce⚡️ulgac.stark#3018⚡️as the winner of Cairo Kings Arena #1
@AgeOfEykar - Eykar map is now fully accessible to touch screens
@FrensLands - Working on an upscaled version of biomes to give more details when you zoom in. More decorations, more possibilities, more more more…
@imperiumwars - The different steps to create an @ImperiumWars card
@PxlsWtf - rtwrk #11 is PFP - You can see all the steps that led to this result here
@starkboard - We are happy to announce that Starkboard team will be present at @StarknetCC in Lisbon
@earlystarkers - We will airdrop between 0001.stark to 1234.stark according to your Star numbers💫 - Early STARKers announces a StarkNet.ID domains airdrop for the holders of its NFTs
@Carbonable_io - In addition to having open-sourced our solution and deployed our first #Starknet contract, we have taken another step towards transparency and are currently attaching and publishing the source code directly to the new @StarkscanCo explorer
@LootRealms - The dev team building the Realms gaming ecosystem have made over 2,400 commits this year - More info in this thread
@Starknet_id - Happy to announce that @Starknet_id will issue a #Starknet proof of attendance SBT for the next @StarknetCC conference in Lisbon
Ecosystem stats
@starkboard - ✨weekly review N2✨ - All StarkNet mainnet evolution metrics condensed
@Orbiter_Finance - The TOP 10 dapps ranked by 'All Users' on StarkNet - 1. @mySwapxyz 9,781 - 2. @MintSquareNFT 9,596 - 3. @aspectdotco 8,635 - 4. @Orbiter_Finance 4,287 - 5. @10KSwap 2,494 - 6. @GoL2io 811 - 7. @almanacNFT 209
Weekly StarkNet stats - last week: 291K txs on Goerli, 20K txs on Mainnet. To date: 7.7M on Goerli, 426K txs on Mainnet. Contracts deployed last week: 13.6K on Goerli / 4.3K on Mainnet
StarkNet Community & Shamans Highlights
StarkNet Workshop #5: Running StarkNet indexers
Community Plugin Account
Account abstraction opens a completely new design space for accounts.
This project is a community effort lead by Argent, Cartridge 1 and Ledger 2, to explore the possibility to make accounts more flexible and modular by defining a plugin account architecture which lets users compose functionalities they want to enable when creating their account. The proposed architecture also aims to make the account extendable by letting users add or remove functionalities after the account has been created.
The idea of modular smart-contracts is not new and several architectures have been proposed for Ethereum [Argent smart-wallet, Diamond Pattern]. However, it is the first time that this is applied to accounts directly by leveraging account abstraction.
Heavily discussed StarkNet Improvement Proposals
A felt based ERC-20 token
Community Plugin Account
Universal Deployer Contract proposal
Regenesis state migration - Current suggestion
Remove ABI from contract deployment request and `get_code` response?
Contract interface naming conventions
Proposal to improve multicall, allowing to chain transactions
Proposal for a standard L2->L1 bridge, for tokens minted on StarkNet
[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
@StarkNetAfrica - Today we will be taking a detailed look into @EmpiricNetwork, the first live oracle on #StarkNet and currently, the ecosystem's leading provider of reliable data feeds - detailed presentation thread of @EmpiricNetwork
@Cointelegraph - Attack of the zkEVMs! Crypto’s 10x moment - Who will win the race between Polygon, zkSync, Scroll and StarkWare?
@zksparkofficial - The Blockchain Trilemma and The Case for zk-Rollups
@TheCommercium - Why Liquidity Aggregation Should be a Public Good
@martriay - here's the slides from my Account Abstraction talk yesterday at @EFDevcon - to learn more about how EOAs can be completely replaced by account contracts, as it's the case in StarkNet
@zklend - Centralized lenders like Celsius and Voyager have proven hugely problematic, but DeFi also has issues - @bfu_fubrian of @zkLend makes the case for a hybrid approach
@lightcoin - Excited to share "Validity Rollups on Bitcoin" - Read the full report here
@Gammax_Exchange - What’s the best way to scale blockchains? Layer 3’s may be the scaling solution we've been waiting for - an explaining thread about L3
@matchbox_dao - How to Make On-Chain Gaming Competitive: 'Odyssey and Interoperability' [Part 3]
@zkxprotocol - L2 Wars: The Competition for Top Layer-Two Scaling Solutions on Ethereum
@Cointelegraph - Decentralized exchange Uniswap v3 gets ‘Warp’ed’ onto StarkNet
@Wielocipiet - A thread about one of the @nostrafinance products - Nostra Money Market
@nostrafinance - Nostra Docs 05: Introduction to Interest Rates 🧵
@CFarmeur - Tu as 5 minutes pour tout savoir sur StarkNet ? C’est maintenant ! - An explanation thread of StarkNet in French
Developer resources
@StarkWareLtd - Want to start writing your #StarkNet contract? These StarkNet ByteSized short videos will help you take your first steps
@trangnv_ - linear-regression-starknet - @trangnv is working on a Machine Learning Model on StarkNet
@StarkWareLtd - The latest StarkNet Edu Newsletter is out! All the updates and resources a #StarkNet builder needs to have
@StarkscanCo - Verify your Cairo contracts like @Carbonable_io in under 1 minute, using our CLI tool
@StarkNetAfrica - Here is a compilation of the best resources to get you started with Cairo👇👇
@door_labs - Door Labs is officially launching a multi-community brand "StarkSpace" - StarkSpace's goal is to build dev & business communities of #StarkNet
@StarkVietnam - Cairo 1.0 Workshop | Lucas Levy - STARKVietnam 2022
@StarkVietnam - Written in the STARKs - Future for StarkNet builders | Tomasz Stanczak - STARKVietnam 2022
@StarkVietnam - Cario Mummies - Cairo demo with Triality | Mikey Geisinger - STARKVietnam 2022
@StarkVietnam - Eval(Building.on(StarkNet)) | guiltygyoza - STARKVietnam 2022
@StarkVietnam - Inclusivity in StarkNet | Giwook Han - STARKVietnam 2022
@StarkVietnam - Our plan in Malaysia & Quadratic funding in Cairo | CheeChuyuan & Carlos - STARKVietnam 2022
@encodeclub - Introduction to Cairo [Video + Resources] - Encode x StarkNet Autumn Hackathon
@encodeclub - How to build a dApp in Cairo [Video + Slides] - Encode x StarkNet Autumn Hackathon
@encodeclub - NFTs on StarkNet [Video + Slides] - Encode x StarkNet Autumn Hackathon
Dates and Events
@Gammax_Exchange - Join us w/ @zkLend co-founder @bfu_fubrian and builder @jane0mac to learn more about their L2 money-market protocol built on #StarkNet - @Gammax_Exchange podcast with the founders of @zklend - Date : Tue, Oct. 18th 11PM UTC
@bogazicichain - We’re proud to announce that we’re organizing the first official @StarkWareLtd Workshop as our first event of this year - Register for the free workshop here - Date : Wednesday 19 Oct 18:30 UTC
@apibara_web3 - Next Thursday join us for a Starknet React workshop! Learn how to get started building web dapps for #StarkNet with #ReactJS and what to expect in future releases - Date : Thursday 20 Oct 16:00 UTC
@StarkWareLtd - Cairo Bootcamp Korea is on its way - Date : Oct 24th
@StarkWareLtd - Want to learn Cairo? Here's your chance! - To participate in the Encode Cairo Bootcamp, click here - Date : Oct 24th - during 5 weeks
@StarkNetAfrica - We are introducing Cairo Online Classes where developers in Africa will assist you in learning the basics of Cairo - Date : classes will start on October 30th
@StarknetCC - The 2nd edition of StarkNetCC will be held in the heart of Lisbon 🇵🇹 - To buy your tickets, click here - Date : Oct 31st & Nov 1st
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.
Thank you for reading, and see you next week. ⏳
Special thanks to odin_free & @0xNurstar for helping me source some of the information; and thank you to StarkNet_Digger for editing!
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