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This is the 5th 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-devnet v0.1.16has been released.New major version of
starknet-hardhat-pluginv0.4.0has been released.Transaction data conversion is now visible in Nethermind’s block explorer Voyager.
Safe Cairo with specific arithmetic/bitwise ops, uint/int8 all the way up to uint/int256 by Dom Henderson.
A xoroshiro128** pseudorandom number generator implementation in Cairo released by cermak.eth.
A generic cairo library for integer types released by Jamie Gabbay.
Solidity to Cairo transpiler Warp teases v2.0 with incredible efficiency gains.
EthDenver talks
The rise of L2 Native dApps by Louis Guthmann
The State of Decentralization in Web3 - Panel feat. Julia Szyndzielorz, Brian Trunzo, Louis Guthmann, Thessy Mehrain
Ecosystem
Want to build on StarkNet? Check out this new building on StarkNet page.
Introducing Bitmapbox - a 2D block-building game and protocol.
NFT marketplace Oasis releases monster update featuring profile pages, NFT asset pages, historical data, infinite scrolling, and IPFS for all minted NFTs through their site.
Announcing the launch of xBank, the premier decentralized non-custodial liquidity market protocol built on StarkNet.
Over 100K transactions were already initiated on AMM mySwap since launch.
7032/8000 Realms are now staked. The StarkNet spin-off of Loot has entered epoch 10 with 88% of all Realms aboard the Galleon for the Journey to StarkNet.
ZigZag Exchange’s alpha version of Mammoth pool has been deployed on Goerli's testnet on StarkNet. The first Balancer AMM on StarkNet allows anyone to list pairs while creating pools with custom token combinations in a permissionless manner.
Neo Tokyo releases research report on DopeWars (PDF warning!).
Mallows, a “bring your own algorithm” NFT project, is now live on StarkNet L2 public beta, alongside a detailed litepaper about their transition. Try out Starkle, a version of the Wordle game featuring words related to StarkWare & Ethereum.
You can now buy and sell Briqs on the mintsquareNFT marketplace, representing the first integration between two NFT projects on StarkNet.
Continually updated list of projects building on StarkNet. 🏗️
Weekly StarkNet stats: 208k txs on Goerli, 5k txs on Mainnet. To date: 741k txs on Goerli, / 35k txs Mainnet.
StarkNet Community Call #8 - guiltygyoza
Useful links & articles
Past week
zkDaily’s StarkWare ecosystem chart.
Prateek’s mega-thread on StarkNet; Twitter follower list of StarkNet builders & projects.
A short thread on scalability, transaction prices, and what to expect for the future of fees on StarkNet by Henri Lieutaud.
pseudotheos releases article “Exploring Zero Knowledge: StarkWare”.
Exploring StarkNet’s testnet dApps by Nurstar.eth.
StarkNet block explorer Voyager.
Track how much value is secured by different smart contract languages, now including Cairo, with this dashboard by DefiLlama.
Track how much StarkNet pays for Ethereum’s security with this dashboard by L2fees.info.
This week
Interpreting StarkNet transactions by Harry Scholes
A twitter thread summary of the STARK 101 workshop at EthDenver, held by Henri Lieutaud, summarized by Simão.
What's Danksharding and crList, and why are they so groundbreaking? Thread on Ethereum protocol upgrades and how they relate to rollups by pseudotheos.
odin-free.eth’s thread on 25 projects you can try on StarkNet today:
Developer resources
Last week
sam releases fullstack-starknet, which aims to onramp existing devs to a little bit of everything.
SymbOnStark releases site to visualize your progress in Henri Lieutaud’s Cairo tutorial. Requires Argent wallet login.
0xMarcello shares a Protip for Cairo devs.
A thread on Warp, and how to convert your Solidity code into Cairo by 0xevolve.eth.
This week
The Cairo jupyter kernel is now hosted via Binder. Learn, iterate and fail fast new ideas on cairo, without setting up locally by Ankit Chiplunkar.
Want to write a STARK prover? This classic exercise comes with video lectures (10 minutes each and python code) - STARK 101 by StarkWare.
StarkNet ByteSized Video #2 - Account Contracts by StarkWare
Dates and Events
next community call March 1st: Presentation by zkLend, roadmap update by StarkNet team.
Encode x StarkNet hackathon: Feb 28th until April.
Ethereum Scaling with StarkNet - Twitter space moderated by JediSwap, featuring @gakonst @GuthL @imrgoyal @jniset @Swagtimus @guiltygyoza @tarrenceva, Feb 24th.
Warp Away! From Solidity to Cairo - with Greg Vardy. Feb 24th.
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. Thus they are divided into the sections “past week” and “this week”. You can check out all of the past updates 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! 🔍